Sentences with phrase «paperback sales only»

In fact, e-books are a relatively recent phenomenon: Amazon reported the Kindle overtaking hardcover books only in July, 2010, and they will overtake paperback sales only later this year.

Not exact matches

It's only $ 2 less than the paperback, and he is killing me in paperback sales)... And he claims to be non-violent... Ha!

Not only have ebook sales passed hardback sales at Amazon, now they've passed paperbacks.

According to Nielsen's survey, ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit sales for the first six months of the year, while hardcovers made up 25 percent and paperback 42 percent of sales.

Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.

I've said for a long time that everything flows from ebook sales — audiobook sales, paperback sales, foreign rights deals, agents, print - only deals — all the «markers of success» that authors often seek.

The sale is for ebooks only, but De Novo is available in paperback as well, from Amazon.

For a mass - market paperback book with a minimum first printing of 25,000 copies, an average return rate of 50 %, an average $ 6.50 cover price, and an average 6 % royalty rate, an author would earn only $ 4,875 on the sales of that book — and 15 % ($ 731.25) of that sum would go directly to the author's agent, leaving the author with a gross (before taxes) profit of $ 4,143.75.

I chose to self pub my non fiction title in both Kindle ebook and paperback, and have been surprised to find only 20 % of my sales are ebook.

And mass market paperback sales were only $ 123.3 million for the first quarter for the same group.

Which just leaves the hard financial argument: publishers are slashing advances, and yet still only pay a very small royalty on each sale to authors — a couple of dollars tops on a $ 10 paperback, often far less.

One thing I would say for the people thinking of the eBook and whether to go «only eBook» or not is While my sales haven't been «stellar» I've actually sold almost as many paperback copies as I have for eBooks and people have really enjoyed having the «real thing» in their hands.

I was informed in October — my book launched in August and I signed in March 2012 — that I would only make $ 1.56 on my UK sales... and that I had sold 22 paperbacks 8 ebooks.

Who knows how many hands a hardback or paperback may pass through with only the first - sale copy generating revenue for the author?

The reality though is that such a royalty is only likely to be paid on less than 15 percent of trade home sales and in some cases, particularly with paperbacks, less than 5 percent of trade home sales.»

The AAP now only sporadicly reports print book sales figures, but based on percentages, mass - market paperback sales in August were about $ 34.9 M, well under half of e-book sales.

Fairly brutal numbers across the board, with only a slight (2.1 %) increase in young adult hardcover, flat adult trade paper sales, and decreases in the other categories, including a dramatic 54.3 % decrease in mass - market paperback sales.

Even more impressive, e-book sales not only surpassed, but thoroughly trounced both adult mass - market paperback sales ($ 39.0 M) and hardcover sales ($ 49.1 M) for the first time ever.

E-books, which have roughly doubled or tripled in sales each of the past several years, not only blew past mass - market paperback sales, not only passed adult hardcover sales, but have now overtaken adult trade paperback sales to become the largest single category of book sales in February.

The May 2011 e-book sales stats bring with them the announcement that, so far in 2011, e-books are the # 2 format, behind only adult trade paperbacks, and ahead of both adult hardcovers and adult mass - market paperbacks.

It's with that last imprint group that he started his Fiona Griffiths series of books in the States, only to find that while ebook sales were robust, the hardback and paperback numbers weren't materializing.

One other interesting note: the Publisher's Weekly press release noted that sales of adult mass - market paperbacks «all but died,» coming in at only $ 20.8 M, less than half the figure from the previous year.

However, because the average selling price of an e-book is less than # 3, compared to # 5.50 for a paperback, the value of e-book sales in 2014 will be only 32 % of the fiction total.