No one would bet a dime on the printed book as it reaches its peak
while ebook sales keep exceeding expectations.
AAP has released some new numbers this week that point to the trend we saw in previous findings: that print (paperback and hardcover) and audio sales continue to grow
while ebook sales continue to decline.
It's with that last imprint group that he started his Fiona Griffiths series of books in the States, only to find that
while ebook sales were robust, the hardback and paperback numbers weren't materializing.
While ebook sales had plateaued, Bohme said it was important to remember that the figures were still higher than they were five years ago, holding a 25 % share in 2016, compared with 26 % in 2015 and 18 % in 2012.
While ebook sales made up 15 percent of trade book sales in the US in 2011, and — according to this report from yesterday — 12.9 percent of UK book sales for the first six months of 2012, ebooks are still a tiny sliver of total book sales in other European countries.
And
while ebook sales are beginning to take off in Spain, in Mexico the digital revolution has yet to arrive, although it will come.»
Yes, their print books are selling better and better
while eBook sales are drifting down.
While ebook sales take off, the sale of ereaders in Russia are steadily declining as customers show a marked preference for tablet computers.
While ebook sales accounted for only about $ 250 million for the retailer last year, their current projections are putting ebook sales at more than $ 2 billion by 2015.
Sales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers,
while ebook sales have been declining.
While ebooks sales are still dwarfed by paperback and hardback sales, publishers are now seeing even less revenue from their recently repriced bits.
Not exact matches
For example, consider a training program for
Sales reps..
While an eCourse can cover the product features in detail, an
eBook can offer a comprehensive comparison with leading competitors — including pricing options and product specs.
And
while it's uncertain just how much enhanced
ebooks and apps will fuel the next phase in content
sales, writing and reading still enjoy unprecedented popularity as mobile growth accelerates.
Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of
ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.
According to a Publishers Weekly summary of an Association of American Publishers (AAP) study,
while overall book
sales were down 2 % in 2012, adult book
sales increased by 5.6 % partly due to a 33 % rise in adult
ebook purchases.
While eBook manga
sales is constantly expanding, print book
sales including manga and magazines have decreased in Japan.
This is welcome news in a publishing climate in which children's
ebook sales —
while on the rise — still lag behind other... [Read more...]
I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their
sales of
ebooks rise
while pricing them at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.
While I am sure they counted verifiable
ebook sales I am still suspicious that their survey did not take into account the many publishing imprints that fall under the umbrella of Kindle Direct Publishing and others who are not members of AAP and therefore paint an incomplete picture if there was a market shift.
According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books,
eBook sales made up 23 % of unit
sales for the first six months of 2014,
while hardcover's accounted for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.
While the news of the 79 % increase in self - published
sales is exciting for the way it demonstrates how much of the associated stigma is dissolving, there is still a long way to go before the bookselling industry reaches that long - awaited prediction of
ebooks wiping out the print market altogether.
Now, according to a report in Time, not only are
ebook sales down
while print
sales continue to rise, e-readers
sales are in a slump as well.
eBook sales have shown a positive growth during the last few years,
while conventional printed books have shown a steady decline in
sales for the last eight years in row.
At Hachette, they were down 1.1 % to 14.5 m,
while at HarperCollins, when
sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014),
ebook sales were down 4.7 %.
Sales figures from the end of last year show that
while they don't dominate the marketplace as they once did, print books are showing a good amount of resiliency during the precipitous rise of
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While ebooks are growing, print is still the majority of
sales.
According to our current
sales numbers, Amazon contributes to 45 % of the global
ebook sales,
while 55 % happens elsewhere.
Traditionally published children's
ebooks fell 22 % in 2017,
while young adult
ebook sales fell 8 %.
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).
Amazon is talking about
ebook sales going to authors
while print book
sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.
Publishers are increasingly annoyed because
while there are some cost savings involved in
eBook production versus print production, they still have the same overhead, including acquisitions, editorial, marketing,
sales and production (if not printing).
The Publisher's Association's Statistics Yearbook, as reported in the Guardian, talks about a massive growth in
eBook sales, where consumers spent in 2011 # 92M,
while print lost 7 % to previous year, totaling
sales to # 1.579 B. Notice the M versus the B.
Lagardère Publishing:
eBooks Account For 5 % Of Total Net
Sales... 5657 readers From the MPS blog:
While most people were enjoying a well - deserved break, our EPUB 3 team has been busy working on a sample for the iPad.
With this being what they are, just as I released the book, the
eBook market exploded and within months it became obvious that print is on its way out,
while the Kindle and Nook now generate the majority of today's book
sales, particularly when you're not published by a New York publishing house.
According to Nielsen's survey,
ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit
sales for the first six months of the year,
while hardcovers made up 25 percent and paperback 42 percent of
sales.
While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of ebook sales that's putting as much profit in their coffers as Amazon's, while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scena
While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of
ebook sales that's putting as much profit in their coffers as Amazon's,
while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scena
while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scenarios.
While this is quite likely going to be an Ereader Christmas and there will surely be records set for
ebook downloads and
sales on December 25th as people rush to load up their new toys, I suspect there's not as much long - term upside as conventional wisdom seems to believe.
While predictions vary, with some analysts suggesting e-readers will be edged out by tablets, last December's holiday
sales tallied by the Pew Research Centre found that
ebook reader ownership jumped to 19 per cent from 10 per cent among adults in the United States.
While print
sales are strong, so are
eBook sales.
While Japan has had domestic eBook sales for a while, few services have been very succes
While Japan has had domestic
eBook sales for a
while, few services have been very succes
while, few services have been very successful.
While Pottermore.com will be the exclusive
sales location for the entire digital Harry Potter series, Pottermore and Google confirmed that they have joined up to allow consumers to store their Potter
ebooks in their cloud - based Google Books libraries.
While txtr's market, much like Diesel, may not be one of the top players in the
ebook market, as Coker pointed out those
sales are
sales that indie authors would not have made otherwise.
While Amazon closely guards its
sales figures for both
ebooks and e-reader devices, the press release did mention that the post-holiday windfall from the
sale of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets has allowed them to raise the amount designated in the fund for KDP Select authors.
While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell
ebooks at less than their cost in order to push
sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the
ebooks for the retailers.
While some recent studies have shown stagnation in the growth of
eBook sales, the variety of new devices and options for readers continues to expand.
Amazon does not release customer data, and with good reason; HarperCollins has been steadily building an
ebook sales channel
while encouraging consumers to shop at other outlets besides Amazon.
And
while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several
ebook retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their
sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real - world
sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.
In addition, Nook users can read any
ebook in the entire catalog for free, as long as they are in the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore,
while translating into increased
sales for B&N in products besides books.
Some Japanese publishers have tried and most initiatives have failed as they have done poor market research (mainly not understanding international purchasing habits, poor marketing, or even worse have blindly believed previous
eBook booms to include similar
sales for manga or comics in general);
while others have simply had their stances thaw out hoping to gain revenue streams or to prevent piracy.
What remains to be seen if Amazon will bite the bait given less of consumer acceptance of
ebook reading devices,
while it is pushing for greater
sales of its Kindle Fire tablet range.