Not exact matches
Better yet, you can now get your
paperback copy here,
which went on
sale last week.
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!)
I didn't mention a blog post I wrote there earlier in the month, titled EBook
Sales Pass
Paperbacks,
which is reprinted below.
Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my
paperback and hardcover books,
which means that I don't have a stock of books available for
sale.
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 %).
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).
Since ants are a big part of this book, there should be good
sales potential in elementary schools and libraries, many of
which have ant farms, especially if you publish it in a
paperback edition as well as hardcover.
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.
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.
You claimed the
paperback edition of your book,
which has a significantly higher
sales rank than the Kindle edition.
Bix box retailers such as Walmart,
which accounts for a double digit percentage of all mass market
paperback sales, are also not included in the Census Bureau report.
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.
Which just leaves the hard financial argument: publishers are slashing advances, and yet still only pay a very small royalty on each
sale to authors — a couple of dollars tops on a $ 10
paperback, often far less.
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.
This leaves us mostly with
paperbacks and hardcover books, both of
which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in
paperback sales during a recession as dramatic, but that may just be me).
In 2010, we saw e-book royalties for self - published authors (through Amazon, B&N, Apple, and most other outlets) increase from 35 % to 70 %,
which compares quite favorably to the 8 % authors used to get from publishers for
paperback sales, or the 17.5 % (net) they normally pay for e-book royalties.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg named The End of Power as the first title to be read in his new book club, Nielsen BookScan reported that global print
sales in the stores from
which it collates data exceeded 3000
paperback copies in a week.
CreateSpace also lets you link a digital or Kindle version of your book to the
paperback,
which allows purchasers to choose their format on the same
sales page.
Harlequin's Vallik, noting that the romance market has been «in change for some time,» told the conference, «Mass market
paperback sales are down, and that's no surprise when you think about the indie world,»
which has gained what McLean conservatively estimates may be 25 percent of the romance market and is focused in ebooks, of course.
There is, however, no doubt that ebooks,
which are decimating
paperback sales, have now become the established, contemporary mass market for books.
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.
I suppose the next milestone will be when e-books overtake combined print (
paperback + hardcover)
sales,
which can't be too far away now.
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.
The numbers are bearing that out, as e-book
sales,
which just last year were below mass - market
paperback, are now nearly triple.
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.