Of those 350,000 titles in Smashwords were 100,000
romance titles sold, or ten?
With 89 % of
the romance titles sold being ebooks, and with more than 50 % of the authors who wrote those books being self - published, Author Earnings has concluded that around 67 % of the sales happening on Amazon are not being watched or counted by the industry.
Not exact matches
Over the course of her dynamic career she has
sold over seven hundred
titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction,
romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.
Golden Heart Award winners in seven categories (contemporary series
romance, contemporary single -
title romance, historical
romance, inspirational
romance, paranormal
romance, romantic suspense gain and young adult
romance) gain exposure that often results in
selling their manuscripts.
50,000
titles have been removed in the last 24 hours, some of them are written by best
selling romance authors.
At All
Romance, genre seems more important (my 2 erotica
titles are
selling far better there than the rom.
Viz recently raised the prices on their digital manga, but the Google Play store is offering a price break on three
titles for this week only: Every volume of One Piece (the best -
selling manga in Japan), Demon Love Spell (a
romance / comedy fantasy about a shrine maiden who accidentally seals a sexy demon and has to team up with him to fight monsters), and Case Closed (a detective series) is only $ 5.99, a buck off list.
But more importantly, well crafted
romance titles that speak to a broad audience of readers also
sells, as evidenced by imprints like Carina Press (Harlequin) and Ellora's Cave being digital - first pioneers while still maintaining standards of authorship.
While Coker can give some explanation on the Smashwords site —
romance is the top -
selling genre there and the majority of those
titles are written by women — that is certainly not the case with iBooks or Amazon.
It was refreshing to see a
romance title that doesn't have to rely on the pure smut to
sell copies.
Over the course of her dynamic career she has
sold over seven hundred
titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction,
romance, mystery, and young adult fiction.
Whether they penned the highest - grossing traditionally published
title of the decade or wrote yet another alien love triangle
romance and
sold four self - published copies, Amazon takes its cut of every
title, just like all... [Read more...]
50,000
titles have been removed in the last 24 hours, some of them are written by best
selling romance... [Read more...]
Whether they penned the highest - grossing traditionally published
title of the decade or wrote yet another alien love triangle
romance and
sold four self - published copies, Amazon takes its cut of every
title, just like all book retailers.
Of all the ebooks
sold on Amazon last year, 45 % of them were
romance, which includes either purchases or full - reads of Kindle Unlimited
titles.
That tells us that traditional publishers are
selling print
titles, but they're not
selling romance.
Romance titles are priced low, usually around four or five dollars, which makes it easier to
sell a lot of them.
The well - organized site has a new releases page, a section for children's
titles, as well as
romance, and also
sells calendars, crafts and gourmet cuisine.
With the exception how
romance usually benefits from the sweet deals, Lindsay further explains how authors have put their first few books in a series on a heavy discount when those
titles are normally priced at $ 2.99 or $ 4.99 if
sold individually.
As a rule of thumb, books that you might be embarrassed to be seen reading in public, such as erotic
romance or comics, tend to
sell better as digital
titles.
Anybody who wanders into Sam's Club and picks up a hardbound book in their large book section, grabs a
romance title at a supermarket, or even people buying and
selling real, physical used copies of books on amazon itself is not counted in this.
Carolyn Brown's first five cowboy / country music single
title mass market
romances have
sold over 65,000 copies All Austin Lanier wants is to
sell her inherited watermelon farm, slip on her stilettos and run back to corporate America.
In 2016, 156 million
romance titles were
sold online, and 96 % of those sales were ebooks.
For those who might think ebooks are all about
Romance, general adult nonfiction is popular in public libraries, rivaling best -
selling fiction among the
titles offered.
Point being, erotica and
romance are such highly competitive categories that, to appear on an Author Earnings report, any individual
title has to be
selling far and away more copies than a
title in a less competitive category.
But I've
sold over 70,000 copies of erotica and
romance titles year to date (around 45,000 on Amazon US).
Another is my
title Y in the
romance / contemporary subcategory with a rank of 12,087, also having no bestseller category appearance (where it would have to have a store rank of 415 or better to appear), but still
selling 361 copies in the Amazon US store this month.
Considering the low price entries $ 0.99 - $ 3.99 and their length averages varies between 15 and 65 pages, it should come no surprise that several
titles sell well being listed as # 5,441, # 7,019, and # 10,973 in the
Romance genre.
Data Guy discovered that while traditionally published
romances sell well in their first month, they tend to drop off significantly in later months, especially when compared to self - published
titles.
In my experience as a
romance author, series
sell better than single
titles.
Helena has published seven fiction
titles, including The English Heart, a best -
selling Nordic
romance, which won an Awesome Indies badge on publication.
In terms of collaboration
titles, Yokai x
Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been more successful than Pokemon Conquest and has
sold in more than 500,000 units in Japan to date.