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The end is nigh … for printed books | TODAYonline

August 22, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

The End Is Nigh

Stephen Cole, founder of eBooks.com, describes why the current slowdown on eBook sales growth will be only temporary:

The innovation I look forward to is not so much about added functionality as about elegant simplicity. Today’s ebooks are still a slightly awkward simulacrum of a print book. You cannot just flip through an ebook, back and forth, the way you can with paper. Even turning pages, after all the practice I have had, is still a bit clumsy.

Writing margin notes requires a keyboard of some kind. The list is long. But with time, and through the incremental efforts of thousands of designers and developers, all these things will resolve.

There will come a time, quietly, when the experience of reading and managing your ebooks will actually surpass that of paper.

via The end is nigh … for printed books | TODAYonline.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: digital, ebooks, Kindle, print, reading, sales

Gone Girl e-books 60% of paperback sales in UK

July 16, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Significant Stat – Ebook Edition of Gone Girl Outsells Physical Book In US

Orion has reported that e-book sales of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl have accounted for 60% of [UK] paperback sales.
The publisher said the novel had sold 250,000 e-books since release across all territories, compared with 410,000 mass market paperbacks, citing it as Orion’s highest ever proportion of e-book to physical sales. In the US, the e-book has sold more than double the copies of the physical book, the publisher added.
Nielsen BookScan has recorded 418,879 copies sold through the UK TCM since the book’s release last year, for a value of £2.2m.
Orion General m.d. Lisa Milton said: “Only a year ago it would have been impossible to believe a novel could sell over a quarter of a million e-books within a few months. As long as there are readers, how anyone chooses to read a book—whether hardback, paperback, audio or e-book—doesn’t matter.”

via Gone Girl e-books 60% of paperback sales | The Bookseller.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: eBook, figures, Gone Girl, Orion, sales

Children’s Booksellers Dork Out and Catch the Wave This Summer: A PW Survey

July 5, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

A recommended Publishers Weekly feature about the mood in bookstores what’s hot in children’s sales this summer (in America)

While sales for Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy (Scholastic) and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton) may have dropped off at many stores from last summer’s highs, Rachel Renée Russell’s Dork Diaries series is still going strong, with number six, Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker (S&S/Aladdin), topping many bookstores’ kids list.

Other children’s books and series with staying power include R.J. Palacio’s Wonder (Knopf), published a year and a half ago, and Pete the Cat (HarperCollins). “Anything with beach scenes on the front is doing well for us,” says Robin Allen, owner of Forever Books in St. Joseph, Mich., whose customers are grabbing Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach and Pete the Cat: Play Ball!, both created by James Dean. Sarah Dessen’s name also popped up on bestseller lists at a number of stores, like Hooray for Books!, which has been doing particularly well with her new novel, The Moon and More (Viking).

via Children’s Booksellers Dork Out and Catch the Wave This Summer: A PW Survey.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: booksellers, bookshops, popular, sales, summer, titles

We Love Ya!

May 23, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Who are you, and what is your job title?

Hello!  I’m Katie and I work in UK Sales at Headline Publishing.  My job title is Digital Sales Executive and I’m responsible for the day to day running of some of our key digital and audio customer accounts, as well as assisting with online and high street customer accounts too.

Describe an average day

An average day for me would include running reports to see how many books we’ve sold, preparing presentations and sales materials for forthcoming customer meetings, corresponding with customers about new titles and possible promotions, processing orders and checking that our books are displaying correctly on retailer websites.

It’s really exciting working in digital sales as it’s a growing and changing area, and it’s brilliant to see how many different ways people can now read books – from print, to ebooks and audio downloads too.

One of my favourite parts about my job is presenting new titles to our customers and being able to talk about all the fantastic books we will be publishing!  We generally present titles about 3-4 months in advance, so right now we are talking about summer books but are also just starting our Christmas highlights too.

We make sure our customers have as much information as possible about our books in advance of publication – in meetings we’ll describe the books to our customers and tell them about any significant information such as publicity and marketing, as well as details about the author too, and will give proof copies of the books we present to our customers to read.

Between the whole sales team we sell our books to all of the major UK high street bookshops, supermarkets, online and digital retailers, as well as independent bookshops, wholesalers and international customers too.

Pick your favourite YA book

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My favourite YA read is actually a Headline book that hasn’t been published yet – Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (which is out in August, and available for pre order).  It opens on Leonard’s 18th birthday and he has five presents to give away – four are for people who have been influential in Leonard’s life and the fifth is a present for himself – his grandfather’s WWII gun.  He plans on giving all of the presents away before shooting his former best friend, and then himself.  I won’t give the rest of the story away but this is a really special book with an amazing character in Leonard Peacock – it’s a brilliant read that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading.   I also loved Heart Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne as it was a really compelling read that left me guessing right to end, and I’ve just started reading Wonder by RJ Palacio and am totally absorbed by August’s story already.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: audio, digital, guest, guest post, sales, YA

Mark Coker: New Smashwords Research Helps Authors and Publishers Sell More Ebooks

May 17, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Short extract from the findings of an interesting, indepth survey into ebook sales and pricing. Highly recommended:

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An indie ebook author earns about $2.00 from the sale of a $2.99 book. That book, on average, will sell four times as many units as a book priced over $10.00. In order for a traditionally published author to earn $2.00 on an ebook sale, the book must be priced at $11.42 (if the publisher has agency terms, as Smashwords does) or $16.00 (if it’s a wholesale publisher). Remember, traditionally published authors earn only 25% of the net, whereas Smashwords authors earn 85% net. If your book is traditionally published, and your publisher sells under the wholesale pricing model, you earn only about $1.25 for a book priced at $9.99, whereas an indie ebook author would earn $6.00-$8.00 at that price.

If a reader has the choice to purchase one of two books of equal quality, and one is priced at $2.99 and the other is priced at $12.99, which will they choose?

via Mark Coker: New Smashwords Research Helps Authors and Publishers Sell More Ebooks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: authors, ebooks, independent, indie, pricing, promotion, royalties, sales, traditional

Sara Sheridan: What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth

April 26, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Sara Sheridan writing in Huffington Post:

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how much does a writer have to sell to make it?

Average earnings in the UK were around £26,500 in 2012. To make this amount on a book contract for a paperback edition selling at £7.99 that pays 10% a writer would need to sell 33,166 copies a year. And that’s if the book isn’t discounted as part of a 3 for 2 promotion, for example. That is a lot of books! To put it in perspective to get to number one in the UK paperback chart last month you’d have needed to sell almost 20,000 copies a week. This means that going to number 1 doesn’t even earn you the national average wage (and that book may have taken the writer months or even years to produce). The odds of making a mint are very long – writing is a risky profession.

via Sara Sheridan: What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: authors, earnings, sales, wrirers, writing

Arthur Slade: The YA Fantastical Fiction Guy: Whoa! Two Years of Selling Ebooks…

April 24, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

I expect my ebook income to drop this year. Why? Because as I’ve noted before there has been a downward trend in my sales since my last report. Here’s an amazing graphic to show that…

Hey, that number in the bottom keeps going down each month. 249 copies seven months ago. 53 copies sold last month. I do think there is much more competition out there now and that there was a big blitz on sales while everyone and their pet got an eReader then filled it up. And the drop in sales is also because of the algorithmic changes Amazon made to how they weight the price of books on the sales chart (if you sell a 9.99 book, it’ll jump higher up the sales chart than a .99 cent book). It became harder for my books to climb the charts and get noticed by buyers.

Yet, I’m happy with the sales. It’s still passive income for me that will go on as long as there are eReaders in the world. I really don’t do much extra work to earn that income. And I’m very much a less work for more money kind of guy!

via Arthur Slade: The YA Fantastical Fiction Guy: Whoa! Two Years of Selling Ebooks….

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: digital, ebooks, figures, Kindle, publishing, sales

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