I have three books for
sale as paperbacks.
A powerful essay of 1926, Jesus and the Word (Scribners, 1934), has more recently won large
sales as a paperback.
Not exact matches
Formatting your book for
paperback is just
as easy
as the process for Kindle formatting and will double your monthly
sales.
The value you use for total revenue would have to take account of the loses in hardcover (and
paperback)
sales as well.
I may devote a week next summer to meeting with store managers and buyers in order to learn how they deal with author - entrepreneurs — and, perhaps, to discuss new possibilities, such
as establishing that all
paperback sales of my work will be handled by bookstores.
Bookstores all over the world are seeing a resurgence of hardcover and
paperback sales,
as the novelty of e-books have clearly waned.
My
paperbacks run between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99 and that's with making them
as inexpensive
as possible (meaning I don't make much from each
sale).
Since ants are a big part of this book, there should be good
sales potential in elementary schools and libraries, many of which have ant farms, especially if you publish it in a
paperback edition
as well
as hardcover.
That one book usually counts for half to a third of monthly
sales as an e-book and
paperback.
Fictionwise sold 1.5 million e-books in 2008, and Pendergrast said the average
sale is the same
as the cost of a market - price
paperback book, ranging from $ 8 to $ 15.
After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in at this point) what started to become clear
as electronic books exploded in
sales was that readers were buying electronic books in place of mass market
paperbacks, the pocket - sized books that sold around $ 7.99.
It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade
paperback sales,
as publishers» once feared, though mass market
paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.
As a good example of spotting anomalies and opportunities, Gallagher pulled up a list of the top 12 publishers of commercial romance
paperbacks by point - of -
sale data showing average
paperback prices and
sales volume.
There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways for self - published authors to get their books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their books and hoping they get put on the shelves (
as opposed to being sold in the 25 - cent
paperback sale).
The New York Times just put out an article citing the decline of eBook
sales as the simple fact that it had climbed too high for too long and it is stabilizing along with the fact that traditional
paperbacks are growing in popularity.
Hardcover
sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost
as much
as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and
paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.
The
sale is for ebooks only, but De Novo is available in
paperback as well, from Amazon.
But
as time passes it has perturbed me more and more that so few of those
sales are for the
paperback versions of my books available through Amazon's Createspace.
Mike has been actively involved in trade book publishing since his first job
as a
sales clerk in the brand new
paperback department of Brentano's Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in 1962.
Bix box retailers such
as Walmart, which accounts for a double digit percentage of all mass market
paperback sales, are also not included in the Census Bureau report.
As for print
sales in German, the market is more or less stable, we don't see a massive line of growth or a dip... there is no particular movement, except publishers tell us there is some impact in the
paperback market due to ebooks.
That includes
sales of single issues at comic shops and newsstands,
as well
as book channel
sales of trade
paperbacks, or collected volumes of comics.
That meant less market penetration and less
sales, and the mass market $ 8.99
paperback sales dropped dramatically
as customers just started to say no to more price increases.
One thing I would say for the people thinking of the eBook and whether to go «only eBook» or not is While my
sales haven't been «stellar» I've actually sold almost
as many
paperback copies
as I have for eBooks and people have really enjoyed having the «real thing» in their hands.
This leaves us mostly with
paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in
paperback sales during a recession
as dramatic, but that may just be me).
Mass market
paperback sales have declined significantly over the years, with loss of non-bookshop
sales outlets, but hardcover
sales have risen dramatically
as the price differential has fallen.
Same principle
as applies to
sales of used
paperbacks, I suppose.
You get a higher percentage royalty on your Kindle book
sales,
as high
as 70 % on books priced over $ 2.99, but Kindle books are usually priced lower than
paperback and other formats.
Emma Donoghue continues on a high with impressive
sales for January of 2,578 for Room,
as does Emma Hannigan's
paperback edition of Poolbeg published, Miss Conceived (though at a much lower level).
2011 was not a great year for print book
sales, with all 5 categories of print book
sales down from the year before, with mass - market
paperbacks predictably getting hammered the hardest,
as they are the most likely to be replaced by e-book
sales.
[50] In the overall US market,
paperback book
sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5 % of
sales as of mid-2010, up from 3 % a year before.
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...),
as much or more
as he would make on a $ 14.95
paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg named The End of Power
as the first title to be read in his new book club, Nielsen BookScan reported that global print
sales in the stores from which it collates data exceeded 3000
paperback copies in a week.
If you're willing to give up the above for a potentially higher
sales volume, then here are the five main services at your disposal, for free, to get your book onto Amazon.com
as an ebook or
paperback.
I didn't think print was worth it for years, but
as soon
as I started offering
paperback copies of my ebooks through CreateSpace, I noticed that they made up 10 % of my
sales.
Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing
as much detail on breaking down print book
sales (hardcovers, trade
paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book
sales «plunged» in June, with trade
paperback sales down a whopping 64 %, adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market
paperbacks down 22 %.
The second book in the Time Out of Time series, The Telling Stone, will be available for
sale in
paperback as of May 10, 2016.
There are over 50 books on
sale, and even some
paperbacks and audio books
as well.
Two,
as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped eBook
sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all * eBook prices at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would not have dropped in concert with the
paperback price.
This is not unusual
as mass market
paperback sales have been declined for the last twenty years.
This year is the first time the eBook is competing with the
paperback on equal terms from the start, and it's definitely the first time we can expect to see any comparable numbers between Kindle book
sales and the print medium
as a whole.
As has already been pointed out to you, trade
paperback fiction (the larger
paperbacks,)
sales are up.
2) Since most hardcover books are published a year later
as trade
paperbacks, are you counting
sales of both per book?
While e-book
sales have been leveling off
as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market
paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a
paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)
Of note, e-book
sales for October were more than 2 / 3rds
as much (67.6 %)
as mass market
paperback sales ($ 40.7 M compared to $ 60.2 M).
But either way would get those
paperbacks up
as ebook options — extra attention and
sales for you
as an author never hurts
The cost to print your book (based on format choices you've made such
as hardcover or
paperback, black - and - white or premium color, page count, etc.) will be deducted from the $ 7.05 wholesale price, and you will be paid what is left over
as your publisher earnings on that
sale.
Well, what if I told you that, in March 2010 (the latest month data is available), total e-book
sales were over 53 %
as much
as total mass - market
paperback sales.
People have said that mass - market
paperback sales are the most susceptible to being replaced by e-book
sales, since they are generally fiction novels that people read once and then discard or donate —
as opposed to hardcovers that people like to display on their bookshelves.
The numbers are bearing that out,
as e-book
sales, which just last year were below mass - market
paperback, are now nearly triple.