Perhaps one concern is if you ordinarily receive a much higher royalty for e-book
sales than paperback sales.
Not exact matches
It's only $ 2 less
than the
paperback, and he is killing me in
paperback sales)... And he claims to be non-violent... Ha!
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.
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith is also on
sale (by the looks of it, $ 9.40 for the
paperback which is more
than 40 % off!)
Meanwhile
paperback sales have increased by 8.9 % giving further credence that people are switching back to print in greater numbers
than originally thought.
Looking at
sales by format, trade
paperbacks — the format that holds adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain in unit
sales over 2015, which is slightly less
than 2015 (5 %).
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than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.
I got a lot more per book in royalties
than that from New York on a
paperback sale.
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.
More
than likely they would be happy with 3,000 copies, a decent
paperback sale, and some overseas
sales bought in the contract, with e-book
sales, to make the author's advance back.
The titillating trilogy sold more
than 30 million copies between March and June, with
sales evenly divided between the trade
paperback and ebook editions.
Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger
than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover
sales.
So far, the
paperback sales aren't great in any way compared to the digital
sales (maybe 1 - 2 a month if any), even though I would have assumed Middle Grade readers still read more real books
than digital (but maybe times are changing here, too).
You claimed the
paperback edition of your book, which has a significantly higher
sales rank
than the Kindle edition.
A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook
sales for the Kindle were more
than doubling hardcover and then
paperback sales on the site.
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.»
The BookStats study shows that hardcover
sales rose 6 % last year; trade
paperbacks dropped less
than 1 %.
Amazon, a company that was founded on selling books, is now selling more Kindle Books
than paperback books, according to Amazon's fourth quarter
sales announcement, which indicated Amazon's
sales increased 36 % to $ 12.95 billion in Q4.
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.»
Ebooks are now THE dominant
sales format for adult fiction; bigger
than hardcover, bigger
than paperback.
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.
[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.
And, besides, even at 17.5 % of gross, an author's e-book take is still better
than their hardcover take, let alone the measly 8 % they get from
paperback sales.
In raw dollar amounts, that's more
than three times what I'd get from a mainstream publisher for each
paperback sale.
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.»
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).
The royalties I'm getting on my
paperback sales are much smaller
than my ebook royalties, too.
Also interesting: while e-books more
than doubled from last January's
sales numbers, mass market
paperbacks -LRB--30.9 %), trade
paperbacks -LRB--19.7 %), and hardcovers -LRB--11.3 %) all suffered double - digit percentage point drops from last year.
In fact, one client fired me after one month; he had sold more of his
paperback book
than ever, but it wasn't enough — even though I increased his
sales by 1500 %!
Less
than 45 % of their Amazon income is coming from hardcover and
paperback sales.
«So this milestone has come even sooner
than we expected - and it's on top of continued growth in
paperback sales.»
On
Sale Now: Lighter
than a
paperback, the latest Kindle Paperwhite reads like paper.
One other interesting note: the Publisher's Weekly press release noted that
sales of adult mass - market
paperbacks «all but died,» coming in at only $ 20.8 M, less
than half the figure from the previous year.
This means that combined digital content and Nook device
sales are now shrinking faster
than traditional hardcover and
paperback sales.
Sales of hardback and paperback novels are falling faster than sales of fiction e-books are rising,» Nielsen said.&r
Sales of hardback and
paperback novels are falling faster
than sales of fiction e-books are rising,» Nielsen said.&r
sales of fiction e-books are rising,» Nielsen said.»
However, because the average selling price of an e-book is less
than # 3, compared to # 5.50 for a
paperback, the value of e-book
sales in 2014 will be only 32 % of the fiction total.