A good review can make all the difference
regarding ebook sales.
Excuse my colloquial language, this post is meant to make sense in the great post uploaded by the one and only David G, who has spent every ounce of intelligence collecting available information
regarding eBook sales in different stores and compile it in such a comprehensible way you and I can digest and write home about.
Amazon won't say how many ebooks they sell at a given price point, but they do reveal some interesting statistics
regarding ebook sales.
Do you have any «data» specifically
regarding ebook sales worldwide to support that claim, besides the data that is only collected in the US?
Not exact matches
It seeks answers to a wide range of questions, including indie author income, number and length of books published, formats (
ebook, print, audio or foreign), best marketing tools, retailers that result in highest
sales, and the authors» goals with
regard to indie publishing.
Yes, they wonder about the pittance publishers are throwing them with
regards to
ebook royalties (or wonder how well those
sales are recorded.)
@Neil except so far Google is way back in the «
sales oriented» part of that proposition
regarding ebooks.
Amazon never releases any
sales figures
regarding its Kindle devices or Kindle
ebooks.
Your point about the biggest thirty day
sales period for
ebooks got me wondering, have you any information
regards what might be considered busy periods for
ebook sales throughout the year?
Nick Daws presents Kindle
Ebook Descriptions — Amazon Changes the Rules (Again) posted at Nick Daws» Writing Blog, saying, «Amazon have recently tightened up the rules
regarding how descriptions on Kindle e-book
sales pages can be formatted.
I have been calling and email KDP CS for over a month, and today I got an email back
regarding my 11 + pages of data, graphs, KDP dashboard snapshots, and ongoing requests to show me ONE case where an
ebook in a giveaway affected my
sales rank.
Although David can not confirm the accuracy of this data or whatsoever
regarding the actual unit
sales, his closest assumption is 25 % of self - publishers garner
eBook market share in the US.
Orna Ross founded The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) for indies and professionals of diverse background who work with indies; Hugh Howey provides
sales data in his author earnings report, engages himself with other self - publishing gurus to clarify the current state of
eBook sales, and reach out to his fans and fellow authors on his website; Joanna Penn shares her insightful advice
regarding self - publishing and encourage indie authors to speak up and share their success.
Ebooks from traditional publishers are paid for borrows at the same rate they would get for a
sale, while the Kindle Select Fund for self - published authors operates without
regard for price, so, for example, an author with a $ 0.99
ebook gets the same per borrow as an author with a book priced at $ 4.99.