Posted by Gary on February 23, 2010 under Ebook Marketing, Ebook Publishing, Selling Ebooks | 
It’s certainly a great time right now to get into writing and publishing ebooks!
The Association of American Publishers has just reported a jump of 176.6% in ebook sales in 2009!
“E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5 million, the AAP reported Friday. The jump in e-book sales coupled with a slight decline in sales of print trade books increased e-book’s share of trade sales from 1.2% in 2008 to 3.3% in 2009.” (Publishers Weekly)
If you would like to see a ten-year historical chart on ebook sales click here.
This is really an exciting time for ebook authors. There is enormous growth in the ebook industry and this is an ideal time to get involved.
Write an ebook. Publish it. And start selling your ebooks in 2010!
Posted by Gary on February 8, 2010 under Creating Ebooks, Ebook Publishing, Ebook Readers |
Self-publishing company FastPencil is now offering writers the ability to publish e-books and release electronic versions of individual book chapters.
Writers can easily generate their content and convert it into whatever format they want so that it can be read on Kindle or other ebook reading devices.
Posted by Gary on January 13, 2010 under Ebook Publishing, Ebook Readers, Selling Ebooks |
It’s been a good Christmas season for ebooks. Not only are there new ebook reading devices popping up everywhere, but people are buying more and more ebooks.
It’s no coincidence of course because there two trends are directly related. But it’s all good news for ebook writers and the ebook publishing industry.
Here’s an excerpt from the Guardian in late December:
“Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day…” (Guardian, 28 Dec 2009)
Read more here
Posted by Gary on November 25, 2009 under Ebook Publishing |
John Wiley recently released its first e-book only trade book, “The Swine-Flu: The New Pandemic” by Dr. Marc Siegel, in a bid to get the most recent information on the topic out to readers as quickly as possible.
And another publisher Little, Brown announced this week they will publish an e-book only update to the 2007 book “The Vaccine Book”, by Dr. Robert Sears. In the e-book exclusive, Dr. Sears has updated the flu chapter to contain the latest information about H1N1 and seasonal flu diseases and vaccines.
Read more on this here
Posted by Gary on October 1, 2009 under Ebook Publishing |
This just in!
According to a September 2009 survey by the Frankfurt Book Fair of 840 international industry experts, the year when digital sales will overtake sales of traditional books will be 2018.
Now if you had any doubts about which way the ebook industry is going, that should clarify it for you. That’s industry insiders who were surveyed. At a traditional book fair.
Although the majority of respondents estimated that less than 10% of their revenue would come from digital sources this year, 38% estimated that more than 25% of their their total revenue would come from digital sales in 2011.
Now that’s a huge increase… and it reflects the exciting growth that the ebook industry is currently experiencing.
