Sentences with phrase «track ebook sales»

Last week I looked at the complex set of spreadsheets I use to track my ebook sales and gave a whoop of delight: I had just sold my two - millionth book, something I would never in my wildest dreams have considered possible just over four years ago, particularly as the vast majority of those sales were achieved through self - publishing.

He starts by pointing out that our inability to adequately track ebook sales (especially self - published ones) is part of the reason that print might seem to be gaining: «Even if the major trade publishers are selling fewer ebooks,» he writes, «it doesn't follow that the overall digital book market must be shrinking.

There are various systems that track ebook sales.

In the US and UK book markets, one of the loudest debates of the moment has to do with the inability to fully track ebook sales and a perceived resurgence of print.

To be fair, the inability to accurately track eBook sales isn't Nielsen't fault.

Gary McLaren presents 7 Tools for Tracking Ebook Sales posted at Publish Your Own Ebooks, saying, «Hi Joel, wasn't completely sure whether this was better under this category, Selling your Books, or under Ebooks.

Each quarter, AuthorEarnings.com tracks ebook sales on Amazon, and each quarter, the

Each quarter, AuthorEarnings.com tracks ebook sales on Amazon, and each quarter, the figures show the same trend.

Today the two lads talk about a new report that tracks eBook sales for the first six months of 2013 and how the overall landscape has remained flat.

Amazon Bestseller Lists - Amazon tracks ebook sales and print book sales in real time, but is not transparent about how they report sales to other outlets.

- Amazon tracks ebook sales and print book sales in real time, but is not transparent about how they report sales to other outlets.

It is only tracking ebook sales on amazon.

Not exact matches

Curious if there's a reason you keep track of your eBook sales here, but not your income from various affiliates?

The official iOS app for NovelRank.com users enables authors and marketers to track and compare the Amazon sales rank statistics for printed books and Kindle ebooks across several Amazon country sites.

Pull all of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle, price, ISBN, eBook ISBN, eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked.)

The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.

With print sales falling by 10 % last year, and book purchasing as a whole down 4 %, ebook sales were reported to have grown, according to Nielsen's tracking of book purchases, up 20 % in the UK in 2013, with 80m ebooks bought by UK consumers, to a value of # 300m.

The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >

New authors will find it difficult to get a revenue system, but authors who have a strong track record of ebook sales will have no problem.

Most bookstore chains have their own ereader device and their own bookstore; but some companies like Smashwords, BookBaby, and Lulu offer «distribution» - which means they'll send your ebook out to all the online retailers and keep track of sales for you.

Specific, in - depth nuts - and - bolts guides include The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook by M.J. Carlson, Excel for Writers by M. L. Humphrey (walks through how to create spreadsheets that track time spent writing, page production, year - to - year metrics, and keep track of your works), Excel for Self - Publishers by M. L. Humphrey (amazingly useful for indie authors, how to track ads and effectiveness, revenue by sales channel, keywords, amazon reports, and more), and The Author's Guide to Vellum by Chuck Heintzelman (an incredible new app for producing print and eBooks; I'm a total convert myself).

As eBooks have exploded on to the marketplace, royalty statements have become more complicated, book sales statistics harder to track and, in some cases, people have begun to question as to whether or not Nielsen Bookscan can stay relevant in today's digital age.

So Bowker is unable to track 90 % or so of all ebook sales... which means almost no ebook sales actually show up on Bookscan.

Pull all of your book data into one place: title, subtitle, price, ISBN, eBook ISBN, eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.MyIdentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked by Nielsen Bookscan.)

Most Indie ebooks (and keep in mind, we are talking ebooks, not print, all the way through here) are sold without the ISBN that traditionally has been used to track sales.

That means they are responsible for (including contracting for) cover design, distribution, marketing, ISBNs, layout, ebook conversion, audiobook production, front matter, back matter, ARCs, reviews, tracking sales, tracking expenses versus income to ensure profit, tracking and reporting sales tax, etc. (Oh, yeah, sales tax.

Information on specific sales data is about e-readers and ebooks is often hard to come by, especially from self - published authors who may not have their books listed with some of the major book tracking companies.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the eBook retailers, may well be worth the cost.

What are some of the best tools for keeping track of various sales and reports once your ebooks are up on a variety of vendors» sites?

With the app, you'll be able to track Amazon sales rank statistics on both printed books and Kindle ebooks.

NovelRank enables authors and marketers to track and compare the Amazon sales rank statistics for printed books and Kindle Edition ebooks across several Amazon country sites.

With the acquisition of BookIr, a leading analytics platform that tracks the sales of nearly four million books to provide information to professionals in every aspect of the publishing industry, Vook is poised to offer unheard of tools to authors who use its ebook creation and distribution service.

The service excels at their sales tracking software and has just unveiled the ability to track downloads on eBooks that you flag as free.

Obviously, a system that directly tracks the sale of each ebook (like the ISBN) is much more accurate, as long as all books sold have such a tracker.

With your fan base, you track record with Ebook sales and your experience and dedication, you will be able to transition easily.

PubSoft's publisher dashboard currently offers far too many features to identify, but highlights include a publisher - branded interface for the growing number of readers who are seeking out publisher websites for information on their favorite authors, a branded ebook store where their readers can purchase titles, real - time data on tracking book sales and royalties, and more.

eReaderIQ has plenty of competition from other Internet tools for tracking prices for Kindle titles, including Kindle Nation Daily's own eBook Tracker, which enables you to see a graph of a Kindle title's sales rank and price over the past year.

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I have been tracking a basket of eBooks for the last three months and noting their sales rank once a week along with the sales per week.

As eBooks become more and more a part of our industry, tracking their sales and downloads will only work with ISBNs.

Since 95 % of indie authors today depend on ebooks for 95 % of their profits (statistics fictional but true) I don't need to keep track of brick and mortar sales.

Kobo has always been the «Meh, I guess since it's there...» choice, Smashwords is behind the times, Google Play is developmentally challenged (I've never seen someone make loading an eBook so unnecessarily complicated nor have the worst sales tracking from a company that invented Google Analytics...), and iBooks is awesome but you need either a Mac or an aggregate to get onboard.

But a report released last week from the site Author Earnings, which tracks downloads on Amazon (which accounts for about 75 % of all ebook sales), shows just how big self - publishing within the US ebook market has grown.

As you can tell from Nielsen's graph above (which tracks sales of titles with ISBNs), the flattening of ebook sales started happening back in 2013.

Vook is now offering a free ebook sales tracking service called Author Control, apparently capable of tracking your sales across 28 different retail channels.

We are delighted to hear back not only from authors but smaller publishers, that KWL makes it easy for them to get their eBooks into Kobo's catalog as well as track their global sales live, so they can focus on what authors and publishers really want to do — create great books.

Reaching those shelves still won't be easy for everyone, but B&N's new initiative will benefit indie authors who have sold enough eBook copies to demonstrate an established sales track record.

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

I'm unsure how «transcending genre» earns much in audience in the fast - tracking ebook industry where genre appears to rule sales no matter how good or bad the writing.