You can concentrate on promoting your books on one media type, depending on your target market, but you have to make use of the other one from time to time too to
really increase your book sales.
Not exact matches
If the
increase in non-AMZ revenue doesn't come close to making up for the lost
sales in AMZ, then it's not
really a valid argument, other than lessening your reliance on AMZ (which I agree is a sound long term goal) and also being able to get into Bookbub (since they wont feature a
book in Kindle Select.)
Through no one's fault,
really, the presentation thus takes on an air of glass - half - full cheer, a bit like the messages from the UK's Publishers Association this morning, announcing that «
sales of physical
books from publishers
increased for the first time in four years,» while the actual
increase is 0.4 percent or «# 2,760 billion in 2015 from # 2,748 billion in 2014.»
Frankly, when the
sales of my
book started to
really increase, I was dumbfounded.
JR: This
book really came out at a prime time for internet
sales to
increase, as the economy
really started it's downturn around 2007.
It turned out that pirated copies had the interesting habit of
increasing sales of an authors other
books and wasn't
really a serious issue simply because Baen made the
books cheap and easy to buy.
Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self - pub and partner pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and
really helped open up online
book - selling; B) Amazon has
increased international publishing by expanding into numerous countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big English markets, English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-
book retail industry into a much larger, fast - growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale
sales, etc..
Do they
really believe that a plateau in ebook
sales would mean an
increase (or even stabilization) in paper
book sales?
This should make sense since my account managers (all the different ones I saw)
really wanted to open me a Livret A. I guess that this was to
increase the diversity on their
sales books.