Sentences with phrase «sales of paperback books»

On the other side of the coin, sales of paperback books were down 30 % year - over-year, and sales of adult hardcover books dropped to $ 49.1 million in January 2011 from $ 55.4 million during January 2010.

Amazon's CEO is predicting that ebooks won't start outselling all printed books for a while — saying ebooks won't even surpass the sales of paperback books until the summer of 2011.

If you're relying on the sale of paperback books to get reviews to show up on your product page, first you need several people to read those books.

Not exact matches

Make your shop known for something - a specific category (or two) of books, having some first editions for sale, all paperbacks a dollar and all hardcovers two bucks, and / or a swap program.

His latest book is The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real - Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business now in a new revised paperback edition.

Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason for the vast volume of religious paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.

And a bit of good news: My publisher just put everything on sale so you can grab my first book «Jesus Feminist «for just $ 3.99 ebook edition or $ 9.41 in the paperback.

Today, any sale of used paperback books will include at least one of these.

A best - selling novel that's sure to appeal to book clubs and two short story collections by Southern masters of the form top the list of new paperbacks on sale today:

According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books, eBook sales made up 23 % of unit sales for the first six months of 2014, while hardcover's accounted for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.

Four years after that ereader went to market, digtal books topped sales of paperbacks for the first time — and nobody was taking notes in their ebook margins.

Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available for sale.

Moreover there are some books that are just available in electronic format and not in print or many a times the release of printed versions are delayed in order to maximize the sales of paperback editions.

The hardcover and board book formats also had sales gains in the year, but sales of mass market paperbacks and physical audiobooks both had declines in 2016.

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.

In fact, it is possible to publish your book in paperback and have it available for sale on hundreds of websites entirely without spending a dime.

Latest Numbers: E-Books up, Paperbacks DownDigital Book WorldChildren's e-book sales are up 252 % in the first half of 2012 versus the same period last year — a surge thought to be fueled by the stupendous success of The Hunger Games — according to...

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.

Since book sales for hardcovers and paperbacks still outsell eBooks, it's important not to put all of your eggs in one basket.

Even allowing for the effects of Border's, across all three formats — ebooks, hardcover print, and paperback print — children's and YA books just seemed to have had a far better year for sales in 2012.

People still bought books in droves and the sales of hardcover / paperback sales rose by 3.3 % in 2016.

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).

According to a new report by Nielsen paperback sales accounted for 42 % of all book sales, followed by hardcovers with 25 % and finally eBooks with a paltry 23 %.

Stick To Books With Multiple Formats Most people don't read ebooks so having a paperback (and / or audio) significantly increases the chance of a sale.

For a mass - market paperback book with a minimum first printing of 25,000 copies, an average return rate of 50 %, an average $ 6.50 cover price, and an average 6 % royalty rate, an author would earn only $ 4,875 on the sales of that book — and 15 % ($ 731.25) of that sum would go directly to the author's agent, leaving the author with a gross (before taxes) profit of $ 4,143.75.

Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.

You claimed the paperback edition of your book, which has a significantly higher sales rank than the Kindle edition.

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, reported in 2011 that sales of its digital books had surpassed hardcovers and paperbacks.

Yet I note also that the paperback version of her more recent «Bloodfever» is rated 2,006 in books sales on 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.

But there's time to devour at least one more book, perhaps one of these three paperbacks, on sale today:

Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected - and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales.»

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.

Digital sales, direct convention book sales and trade paperback sales pay some of that invested money back to me in the long run, but right now Skullkickers is still not in the «black».

They also say you need to study carefully the details of each company's contracts; some charge very high markups for printing hardcover and paperback books, offer a lower share of the sales or make it difficult and expensive to leave a self - publishing company if you become dissatisfied.

Without real - time sales rank tracking through NovelRank, authors are left guessing if there was a positive effect from the book's coverage, not knowing where to spend their time and resources in the continued promotion of their paperback, hardcover, or audio book.

A comprehensive survey released last month by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group revealed that while the publishing industry had expanded over all, publishers» mass - market paperback sales had fallen 14 percent since 2008.

Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected — and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales.»

Nearly one - third of all book sales are paperbacks.

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).

While trade paperbacks still lead the industry in sales, it does seem inevitable that at some point, eBooks will make up the vast majority of book sales while physical books will fill a niche role.

You can publish a paperback with an ISBN for distribution, a non-ISBN paperback version to sell specifically on Lulu and your author site, an ebook for sale on all platforms, a dust jacket hardcover you can sell either through distribution with an ISBN or solely on Lulu depending on demand for hardcover, and on top of all of this, you can always create a unique version to sell by hand at an event, perhaps featuring a special foreword, bonus chapter, or teaser for another book still in the works.

According to Amazon, e-books are now outselling hardcover books in its Web store, and company CEO Jeff Bezos has predicted that sales of digital books will outpace those of paperback books within a year.

When using third - party retailers for your books (both e-book or paperback), the retailer handles the sales tax issue (ever notice how the price of an e-book changes a little at checkout?

Six months later, sales of Kindle books surpassed that of paperbacks.

When someone clicks one of my ads and then pays for the Kindle book or paperback, I see their respective prices in the «Total Sales» column for that specific ad.

Since bumping up my participation in author collaboration, I've noticed higher book sales on Amazon of both the paperback and ebook versions of The Five Warriors.