Despite dire predictions, printed books enjoy sales growth while ebooks have hit a plateau. A pleasure vs. work metric.For a corrective, read Bill Peschel's comment below.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Reality check …
… Librarians' Group: Barron's: Don’t Stop the Presses! Printed Books Are Growing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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Actually ebook sales are still rising. Whenever you look at the surveys that say otherwise, they're quoting Bookscan figures, which track the New York publishers only (many indy authors don't put ISBNs on their ebooks).
ReplyDeleteOver the last year, the Big 5 have reached new agreements with Amazon regarding pricing of ebooks. Their agreements allow the Big 5 to set the ebook price, which typically is more than $9.99. They do this to protect their paper sales. Those of us who price below $9.99 are not affected, and are even seeing sales go up.
For more proof, I'll direct you to www.authorearnings.com, where Hugh Howey and an unnamed data cruncher have been gleaning Amazon rankings for ebook sales and came up with some interesting conclusions.