Sentences with phrase «trade ebooks sold»

Average prices of trade ebooks sold by the defending publishers increased by 18.6 percent at Amazon and by 19.9 percent at Barnes & Noble through the transition to agency.

The truth is that, regardless of which publishing path an author chooses, some genres of trade ebooks sell vastly better than others, period.

Not exact matches

A consumer can buy the same product wherever eBooks are sold — again with a direct analogy to the print book trade.

If you only plan to sell ebooks of your children's titles, and you only plan to distribute to trade ebook sites, then you don't need ISBNs.

Not having the rights to sell / trade / gift eBooks is one of my primary grips too.

All that being said, it frustrates me that once I'm done with an eBook I can't give it to a friend or sell / trade it.

The titillating trilogy sold more than 30 million copies between March and June, with sales evenly divided between the trade paperback and ebook editions.

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.

That's not quite the case with today's ebooks — though changes to the way used ebooks are traded and sold might someday endow those circuits and data with the romance of old - fashioned books.

The company has been figuring out how to launch its business in other countries since early on when it expanded to the U.S. And Kobo has inked deals with the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores, and its equivalent in the UK to have indie bookshops sell its devices and ebooks.

GSB publishes ebooks and trade paperbacks that are sold online and hand sold to small bookstores.

Digital Book World contributing author Jeremy Greenfield also predicts that «trade publishers will sell and acquire assets to «verticalize» their businesses» and that publishers will seek out new revenue streams, in addition to ebooks.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

For trade fiction, we are probably around 65 % — 75 % ebook right now in terms of units sold.

We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the average reader will choose ebook.

You don't make any money on a resale (at least not traditional ones), and it's possible your eBook could just be traded around until it's sold for mere pennies.

There are some trade - offs (again, see below), but your ebook needs to be in a format that can be sold and read as widely as possible to enjoy success.

A publishing community, founded by readers to support writers, GSB publishes ebooks and trade paperbacks that are sold online and hand sold to small bookstores.

With the combination of tablets and digital content sold, U.S. trade publishers see 7.2 % increase of their print and eBook export sales of 2011.

That includes all hardcovers, trade paperbacks, mass market paperbacks, and audiobooks they sell as well, but ebooks make up the majority.

After all there is no reason why using Paypal or some other selling tool, an author could conceivably sell ebooks directly to readers and maybe even turn a small trade by doing so.

My books have sold thousands of ebook copies and dozens of trade paperbacks (and I actually make more per ebook than from a hard copy).

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.

«Finally, publishers are putting up front huge amounts of money for trade books and on the back end the game is changing from shipping 100,000 units at $ 15 net (which we count as income) to now shipping 75,000 and selling ebooks one at a time at net $ 10 with no up front payments.»

A sold - out limited edition will be available from Cemetery Dance Publications this year, BUT — ebook and trade paperback editions will be published in October (of course) from Haverhill House Publishing!

But with respect to the agency discount, Amazon demands that all non-Big-Six trade publishers sell it their ebook and physical book wares under the old trade discount model, which requires only that Amazon buy inventory at roughly 50 % off the publisher's suggested list price (the discounts vary by publisher and can run as high as 55 %) and is silent on pricing — allowing Amazon to discount as steeply as it wishes to win over customers.

Think: is it a good trade to give away the difficulties of designing, marketing, and selling your ebook to indie - writers who are well - experienced in the matter?

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

That's how self published science fiction writers have managed to compete heads - up with the major trades, and there are a dozens of self published science fiction writers who are earning a very good living selling a mix of 99 cent and $ 2.99 ebooks.

He was also against other jack - of - all - trades, master - of - none devices like phones, and famously claimed that «people don't read anymore» as his rationale never to sell ebooks.

They fear that physical bookstores, frightened by those advanced ebook sales, won't stock these books at all and thus they won't sell many to the bookstore trade.