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.
You receive approximately 35 % of royalties on retail
sales of trade paperback books.
Not exact matches
While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in
sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent
of paperbacks and
trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).
According to Tracy, most
of the
paperback sales are in
trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.
There have many years where they account for 43 %
of all mass market
paperback and
trade sales.
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.
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.
The fewer e-book stores that exist, the less
sales the format generates, which is resulting in a resurgence
of trade paperback and hardcover
sales at the expense
of e-books.
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».
Publisher John Wiley & Sons released its digital
sales figures for several areas
of its professional &
trade paperback divisions this week and the numbers could speak volumes about the reading habits and the buying habits
of consumers for both digital and print.
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.
And the
sales numbers for the
trade paperback versions
of the two along with my other books also went up noticably.
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.
Book publishing
sales actually went up overall a little bit, including up for
trade paperbacks, which is part
of the economic recovery
of the last few years.
Maybe they don't want it to be too convenient for the monthly subscription fee, lest it cannibalize
sales of digital comics on comiXology or
trade paperback collection, but in our opinion, making comics easier to read benefits everyone in the long run.
The reality though is that such a royalty is only likely to be paid on less than 15 percent
of trade home
sales and in some cases, particularly with
paperbacks, less than 5 percent
of trade home
sales.»
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.)
The report you link to says that
sales of hardcover and
trade paperbacks are up 2 % in the first half
of 2014.
Fresh off impressive all - time high
sales of $ 90.3 M in February (which made them the highest - grossing format, ahead
of hardcovers and
trade paperbacks), e-book
sales settled down to a more reasonably robust $ 69.0 M for March
of 2011.
They've willingly sacrificed the
sales of mmpb and
trade paperbacks in order to try to save hardcovers.
I would love for our single issue
sales to be higher (and I'm hoping more
of our collection readers will get impatient and subscribe at their local comic shops) but right now our
trade paperback sales are strong enough that we can continue to push forward.
E-books, which have roughly doubled or tripled in
sales each
of the past several years, not only blew past mass - market
paperback sales, not only passed adult hardcover
sales, but have now overtaken adult
trade paperback sales to become the largest single category
of book
sales in February.
Now you can make sure that the
sales ranks you check will be all for
trade paperbacks, or all for Kindle Books, or even all for audiobooks — with a total
of 17 possible choices in the U.S. and 11 elsewhere.
The May 2011 e-book
sales stats bring with them the announcement that, so far in 2011, e-books are the # 2 format, behind only adult
trade paperbacks, and ahead
of both adult hardcovers and adult mass - market
paperbacks.