Sentences with phrase «sales than the traditional publishers»

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Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

Traditional publishers E-book sales are down but indie sales are up by more than that decline.

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

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.

None of the work is more complicated than tracking submissions, rejections, synopses, agents, publishers, and sales over the months and years that writers on the traditional path have to do.

The lawsuit alleges Apple and the book publishers employed an «agency model» in which publishers set their own e-book prices, rather than the traditional wholesale model in which publishers set a retail price and retailers set their own sales price.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

None of the major publishers that I know of sell Amazon as a «deep discount» account where authors would get a much lower royalty rate than a traditional sale.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

Traditional publishers will often look at sales on your previous books, and first books fail more often than they succeed.

Oh, btw, I'm making that on books I couldn't get a traditional publisher to touch and I'm glad since my royalty rates are more than double what I'd have gotten from them and the press I'm published through doesn't rely on the hand - wavium of BookScan for reporting sales.

They can price their books lower than many traditional publishers would allow, which may actually improve both sales and royalties, and also allows them to reach a wider audience.

You can't go lower than 99 cents, and if you price it lower than $ 2.99 — 65 % of the sale price goes to Amazon — which is still a lot better than you got from your traditional publisher.

I looked at it — if I sold less than 1000 books than I would make more going with a traditional publisher (because most publisher do a $ 5000 advance — that rarely is surpassed in the following 5 years of book sales, at 8 % the list price).

With traditional publishers sticking more than ever to higher prices for their recent debuts, it seems that with few exceptions nearly all of the Big Five's ebook sales are going to their longer tenured authors.

At the Digital Book World conference in January 2017, Nielsen presented 2016 data from more than 30 traditional US publishers showing a fall in eBook sales from 2015 to 2016 and hardback unit sales overtaking eBooks for the first time since 2012.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

The higher prices mean traditional publishers, which agree individual deals with Amazon, will be netting considerably more for German business on a per - sale basis than they do in the US and UK, although at much lower volume.

Cities: Skylines has already managed to deliver better than expected sales for Paradox Interactive and its success will probably mean that the long - term support delivered by Colossal Order will solve some of the current problems and will expand the mechanics in interesting ways via DLC, using the traditional model employed by the publisher for other titles like Europa Universalis IV or Crusader Kings II.