Sentences with phrase «percentage from their ebook sales»

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Authors typically are paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %) of the sale from their ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless of the number of books sold.

In the U.S., ebooks as a percentage of book sales increased from about 1 % in 2008 to 3 % in 2009 to 8 % in 2010 to 20 % in 2011.

If you've written an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

With the average sales tax percentage that a U.S. customer pays reaching 9.64 % in 2010 according to a finding published by Vertex, Inc., and considering that residents in some areas of the country pay an astounding 13.73 %, the savings over the holiday on a device that ranges in price from $ 134 for an e-reader to over $ 500 for a tablet can more than cover a few ebooks.

Apropos of the question of how much Amazon is getting from sales of ebooks based on publisher (something Steve Zacharius suggested self - publishers should worry about, because as long as traditional publishers are Amazon's cash cow, they might do something mean to us and cut our percentages), I did my own mini-analysis of the top 50 bestselling ebooks on Amazon.

Jackie said: «Apropos of the question of how much Amazon is getting from sales of ebooks based on publisher (something Steve Zacharius suggested self - publishers should worry about, because as long as traditional publishers are Amazon's cash cow, they might do something mean to us and cut our percentages), I did my own mini-analysis of the top 50 bestselling ebooks on Amazon.

In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy, print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of sales, given the prevalence of print over digital in that demographic; at the same time, ebook sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing numbers from the first go - round — made ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.

«I anticipate that we'll see the percentage of ebook sales climb from 20 - 30 % of the business to almost 50 %.»

-LSB-...] If you want to sell an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

[TIM: Here are my personal stats — the percentage of total sales from ebooks for each of my books, limited to their first year on - sale:

Though, I guess, my oddness is still intact as my ebooks have 25 % of my sales so far and the percentage is only going up from month to month.

Ebooks as a percentage of overall trade book sales in the US should hit 45 %, up from what I'm estimating will... Continue reading →

«But the web traffic and ebook sales from last year's Lion review showed me that, at the very least, my audience is still growing in absolute numbers even as it may be shrinking as a percentage of the whole,» he wrote.