He added the traditional
print book market remains «hugely popular» and the figures suggest print and digital books will co-exist in the future.
Not exact matches
If you have absolutely no
marketing funnel, no website, no social media presence, there is the very real possibility that even if you do everything right and get a beautifully made ebook and
print book with an amazing story in a popular genre that people would really enjoy, your
book will still
remain undiscovered.
However, bookshops actually gained share in the
print market, and
remain ahead of online sales for children's
books, impulse buys and the gift
market.
The lack of comprehensive ebook sales tracking in Canada makes it difficult to speculate on the effect ebooks are having on
print books, but BookNet Canada's
market research indicates that the Canadian ebook
market remained steady in Q1, at 17 % of
book purchases.
It
remains true that many bookstores will not order
print on demand
books, so again here you run into the absolute necessity to understand who your
books are for, where they will buy them, and then creating just the right
book for your
market.
The usual factors to explain why
books remain print - bound include the preference of many for the «feel» of a
book (and the ease of flipping through pages); the fact that e-
books are usually only best read on a large monitor (on a desktop), making them less portable than a
print version; the lack of content in e-
books; and the lack of a
market and established distribution methods, a point made earlier on SLAW through a posting by John Davis.