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Unfortunately, the hush - hush nature that all book retailers and publishers have about sales figures can mean that the public doesn't have full... [Read more...]

Unfortunately, the hush - hush nature that all book retailers and publishers have about sales figures can mean that the public doesn't have full transparency about the process.

The average book distributed by a traditional publisher pays about $.70 for each sale to the writer.

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

E-books now account for about 20 percent of book sales, according to the Association of American Publishers.

They are choosy about the authors they sign, so at the time I did feel honored that they chose to work with m. Because I paid a pretty hefty up - front fee, it never even occured to me that the publisher would then keep the majority of the money from my book sales.

Traditional book publishers have long expressed concerns about Amazon's huge dominance of book sales.

I like what you say about blaming the author for lack of sales even when the publisher can't define what that «better book» might be.

The Anonymous Blogger works in the sales department of a major trade book publisher, and is writing a series of articles about sales in specific genres.

If you are a publisher or author with a book that's perfect for summer reading — for adults OR kids — now is the time to make sure that your Amazon page is ready to go and you have a marketing and sales plan to get the word out about your book over the summer.

But shouldn't the piles of stories AND the author's admissions about the book's speculative content prompt the publisher to pull this book from sale?

Once your book has steady sales, is climbing the bestseller ranks, is getting new and valuable reviews, then you can think about going with Lightning Source — although if it's good enough to be in bookstores, and your sales are strong enough, a publisher will come to you, making it a mute point.

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

In July, the Association of American Publishers reported that for the first five months of 2010, eBooks accounted for 8.5 percent of a trade book sales, up from about 3 percent for all of 2009.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with this if they're transparent about their operations — and not trying to deceive you about the type of deal you're getting — realize that such publishers may have less motivation to acquire books that have a good sales outlook; they may accept nearly any book where the author is willing to subsidize its publication.

Overview of the Dutch book market (2015) Sales: 498.5 million euros Copies sold: 39 million Publishers: 1,110 (online: 320) New releases: 54,210 Book retailers: 1,354 stores (online retailers: 192) Overview of the Flemish book market (2015): Sales: 195.7 million euros Copies sold: 15.21 million Publishers (2014): 100 New releases (2014): 27,700 titles Available titles (2014): 105,000 titles Sources and further information: Flemish Publishers Association: http://www.boekenvak.be/voor-uitgevers/vlaamse-uitgeversvereniging Dutch Publishers Association: http://www.nuv.nl/english About the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendabook market (2015) Sales: 498.5 million euros Copies sold: 39 million Publishers: 1,110 (online: 320) New releases: 54,210 Book retailers: 1,354 stores (online retailers: 192) Overview of the Flemish book market (2015): Sales: 195.7 million euros Copies sold: 15.21 million Publishers (2014): 100 New releases (2014): 27,700 titles Available titles (2014): 105,000 titles Sources and further information: Flemish Publishers Association: http://www.boekenvak.be/voor-uitgevers/vlaamse-uitgeversvereniging Dutch Publishers Association: http://www.nuv.nl/english About the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendaBook retailers: 1,354 stores (online retailers: 192) Overview of the Flemish book market (2015): Sales: 195.7 million euros Copies sold: 15.21 million Publishers (2014): 100 New releases (2014): 27,700 titles Available titles (2014): 105,000 titles Sources and further information: Flemish Publishers Association: http://www.boekenvak.be/voor-uitgevers/vlaamse-uitgeversvereniging Dutch Publishers Association: http://www.nuv.nl/english About the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendabook market (2015): Sales: 195.7 million euros Copies sold: 15.21 million Publishers (2014): 100 New releases (2014): 27,700 titles Available titles (2014): 105,000 titles Sources and further information: Flemish Publishers Association: http://www.boekenvak.be/voor-uitgevers/vlaamse-uitgeversvereniging Dutch Publishers Association: http://www.nuv.nl/english About the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendaBook Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendaBook Fair is the international publishing industry's biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and around 10,000 accredited journalists (including 2,000 bloggers) in attendance.

Traditional publishers complain about this, but honestly don't care much because they are moving from a nasty returns system in paper books that allowed a 4 % profit to a new system that gives them upwards of 40 % profit margins in electronic sales.

And the only successes I could brag about at the time were the sales of a music book to Simon & Schuster, and some children's books to a medium - sized publisher called Peachtree.

With «The Lion's Gate,» the book that we were talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a sales force and all that.

You'll find more information about distribution and wholesale services with organizations like Independent Book Publishers Association IBPA, or The Association of Publishers for Special Sales.

So having come to the conclusion that this self - publishing business was going to be a lot harder than I had thought, I submitted my novel to a boutique digital publisher that does very well in my genre, thinking about how nice it would be for someone else to worry about book sales and visibility.

«We are working with Brazilian publishers and closing sales agreements with retailers, as well as a large chain of bookstores to distribute the eBook readers,» said Humphrey, which was excited about the digital book market in Brazil, «In over 5 years, 50 % of digital books will be in Brazil «bet.

At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical book was about 70 % of the sales price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.

As the study showed, digital book sales for about one - third of the ebooks publishers now make up double digit revenue, and the sales of ebooks in many categories are continuing to grow.

The publishing industry has spent the past few weeks reeling from the insights provided by DBW and AuthorEarnings into what book sales data actually feels like for the rights holders involved, if not actually providing meaning discussion and furthering conversations about how accurate comparative sales data can help authors and publishers.

They all get the same promotion so sales won't be affected one way or the other and the vast (vast) majority of readers not only don't care about the publisher they don't even * know * who publishes the book.

Starting in 2008, e-books sales accounted for just 2 per cent of the US book retail market but rose steeply to about 10 per cent last year, said Mark Tanner, Google eBooks representative in Australia, who like Mr Neil and others, is forging links between his company and local publishers.

About Random House Publisher Services Random House Publisher Services, a division of Random House Inc., is the book industry's leading provider of sales and distribution services to premium third - party publishers.

Yesterday the The New York Times had a fascinating piece about how ebook sales, contra Aggregation Theory, are actually declining even as publishers and book stores are thriving on the back of print: 1

At the annual press conference on June 9th 2015, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association presented economic data and key statistics about the German book market in 2014, which, despite a slight decrease in overall sales, remained stable and even showed a few bright spots.

Note Hachette author Douglas Preston to the WSJ on the morality of taking 100 % of the ebook sales: «My publisher gave me a very large advance for the book they are about to publish.

About three to six months prior to publication, a traditional publisher will make sales calls at major accounts and pitch upcoming books.

If I'm successful in getting enough sales, an agent or publisher will snap me up and they can worry about producing the print book.

They now account for about 20 % of all book sales reported by publishers.

-- Indie publisher puts up another book or two, sales remain about the same.

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It's all about platforms and promotion Trade publishers, i.e., those who publish books for sale through retail channels like Barnes & Noble, Borders.com, or Amazon.com, view an author's platform as important as the contents of the proposed book or the author's qualifications for writing a book.

So translation rights, I mean, the thing about selling translation rights today, and I'm sure you know this, is that you often deal with the foreign publisher, they translate the book, they give you $ 500, and you never hear from them again; you never get any sales figures, you never build an audience in that country.

Since Ms. Sporkin works for the big publishers who live and die by the sales of their high - ticket paper books, that response is about what one would respect, right?

Putting this in perspective, the annual value of the US trade book market (based on sales by the 300 members of the American Publishers Association) is about US$ 5 billion.

Now, I had never placed the book there; I had no information about foreign rights from my former publisher with a delightful email or letter saying that rights had been sold to France, Belgium, Germany or anything connected with the UK — in fact, I never got a dime from the publisher for any foreign right sales (typically an author would get 50 %)... but golly, here my book was with a new cover, the same title and yes, my name was clearly on the cover and available in those countries.

Responding to a question about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, said they are worried that lending will result in reduced sales.

Only in very recent years have publishers begun offering, in some cases, author dashboards that display sales figures and other information about how their books are faring in the marketplace.

Outline — As part of a marketing proposal, agents and publishers often need an outline that provides colleagues or sales staff information about your book and its trajectory.

So using that sales history, every trad publisher in NYC rushes about bringing out Historical vampire books...

I will be honest, I've been waiting for some publisher to start backing out of library programs using the same argument they have about not allowing e-book lending — that allowing someone to walk into a library and borrow a book is costing the publisher sales.

Statements like Nick's tells me he's only looking at digital books and sales as they apply to legacy publishers and not the whole industry of digital publishing, which started about 15 years ago.

As part of Nielsen's inaugural Romance Book Summit at the Romance Writers of America conference, a panel of publishers talks about globalization, sales, and diversity challenges.

It's no surprise to me that some traditional publishers think this way — they have long cared more about sales that reader satisfaction and relied for too long (forever) on being the only source of books while selling the idea that they have some mysterious and unknowable skill — and 90 % of books fail anyway donchaknow?