Not exact matches
Publisher / line Year (or projected year)
of release Which
book it is
of yours / for that publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per
book (if any) Standard royalty
percentage (for regular
print sales AND for ebook
sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year
of release (if known)
While magazines can't be a large
percentage of Indigo's
print sales, that trend suggests that
book sales may have decreased by even less than 4.6 %.
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.
It's estimated that Amazon holds 65 %
of all new online
print and digital
sales in the U.S. and that
percentage is expected to go up as Barnes & Noble (their second biggest competitor) changes their business model which will now focus less on
books.
E-books only make up a small
percentage of the total
sales in the publishing world so, you're definitely going to — you're missing out on
sales if you don't have a
print book available.
As
of 2012, online retailers, not brick - and - mortar stores, were responsible for nearly half
of print book sales, a
percentage that is steadily growing.
Upload your own
books to Aerio and choose from their inventory
of 14 million
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percentage of each
sale made through your site.
That being said, I also think that ebooks and conventional
printed books not only co-exist beautifully, but will continue to do so quite amicably — even as ebooks continue to slowly increase as a
percentage of overall
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.
Keep in mind that (a) not all
printed books currently make sense as e-
books (children's
books, cookbooks, picture
books, etc.), (b) not all
books that do make sense have been released in e-book format yet, and (c) that e-
books generally sell for less than
printed books, so 8 %
of revenue would mean a higher
percentage of unit
sales.
While it's true that the
percentage increases for e-books have been very impressive, they had started from such a small fraction
of print book sales that they still paled in comparison.
If ebook
sales continue to increase as a
percentage of overall
book sales, and if
print continues to decline as a format, and especially if brick - and - mortar bookstore closers continue or accelerate, it'll become increasingly difficult for publishers to hold on to their best authors.