While the AAP frustratingly has become more stingy with
its print book sales figures, they did provide percentages that I used to estimate print book sales for the month (fortunately, I keep a spreadsheet with each month's figures going back to last year).
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.
Not exact matches
As Publishers Weekly puts it, «the 2014
figures are further evidence that
print books are selling better than they have since
sales of e-
books exploded in 2010.»
Sales figures from the end of last year show that while they don't dominate the marketplace as they once did,
print books are showing a good amount of resiliency during the precipitous rise of eBooks... Continue Reading →
When using major POD providers, your
book is automatically available and for
sale through important channels on demand; when paying for an offset
print run, you then have the challenge of
figuring out your distribution methods, and you'll bear the responsibility of fulfilling orders — unless your printer offers additional services and can handle it for you.
Sales and marketing expenses are
figured into the cost of these
printed books.
The Association of American Publishers released its US
book sales figures for February 2011 and it looks like 2011 will be the year the trade
book business has to finally confront serious declines in its core
print business.
Ebooks are great for everybody except authors because there is no control over the real
sales figures And this situation goes on forever since there is no out of
print for a digital
book.
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian
Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.&ra
Book Market do not include ebook
sales, nor online
sales of
print books, so the overall
book market may be healthier than reflected.&ra
book market may be healthier than reflected.»
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian
Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their fut
Book Market do not include ebook
sales, nor online
sales of
print books, so the overall
book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their fut
book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their future.
Whether you are an aspiring self publisher or the CEO of a major publishing house, a freelance designer or
sales person, this
book provides you with the insight, background, statistics,
figures, and examples to help you make sense of the business, economic, and marketing concerns of epublishing on its own and in context with
print publishing.
While many have predicted that
print and / or digital have seen their glory days already, the
sales figures from Lulu appear to prove that one version's
sales actually stimulate the growth of the other and that the more successful authors are the ones whose
books are available in both formats.
It could be argued that digital reading has sparked a renewed global interest in
books as a whole; these
sales figures this week were for
print sales in time for Christmas gift giving, meaning
books are enjoying a renewed status as gift items.
The story, which was based on
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers, implied that much of the hype around e-
books had evaporated — with
sales falling by 10 % in the first half of this year — while good old
printed books were doing better than everyone expected.
«First, these
figures don't look at
sales of
print books, which will still be a major part of the earnings from a Big five publisher.
Amazon, which does not divulge exact
sales figures for the Kindle or e-
books, said that for every 100
print books it has sold since April 1, it has sold 105 e-
books.
Amazon said the
figures included
sales of
printed books, which did not have Kindle editions, but excluded free ebooks.
The
figure is down on last year partly because
book sales tend to tail off after the first year; but also because a certain e-retailer increased the price of the
print book (and it's profit margin) by # 4 from # 6.49 to # 10.49, which noticeably depressed
sales.
The
figure the company puts on the
sales are 114 Kindle
books to every 100
print books sold.The Kindle was introduced to the UK in... Read more
The writer presents us with
figures and numbers how eBooks
sales records have surpassed the
printed books in many areas.
The same
book was the second most popular political biography of 2014, according to Dymocks»
print sales figures, behind Julia Gillard's My Story.
KDP Paperback royalties will be at 60 % which is
figured on the list price of your
book, minus
printing costs for
sales in the US, Europe, and Japan.
KDP Paperback royalties will be at 60 % which is
figured on the list price of your
book, minus
printing costs for
sales in the US, Europe,
PublishersMarketplace notes that «Bookscan
figures for 2007 tracked
sales of approximately 581,000 copies for Seinfeld's
book through mid-December; Running Press says The Sneaky Chef currently has approximately 190,000 copies in
print.»
All the
print -
book figures have been drawn from BookNet Canada's national English - language
book sales tracking system, BNC SalesData, using the year - over-year
sales from a fixed panel of 665 retail locations from across the country.