When it comes to self-published e-books and print titles, it is hard to capture any meaningful data. Jonathan Stolper of Nielsen gave a talk at this years Frankfurt Book Fair and dropped a bombshell. Self-Published books account for 18% of the total volume of sales in the United States. Nielsen's data sometimes gets a bad rep in the indie author community because they only … [Read more...] about Self-Published Books Account for 18% of the US Market
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Indie eBooks Need to be Segregated
Industry analysts are claiming that by 2020 50% of all digital books will be written by indie authors. This is going to create massive problems for online bookstores who constantly wrestle with eBook discovery. Simply put, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo did not design their systems to take into account 25,000 new indie titles submitted to their services every month. They … [Read more...] about Indie eBooks Need to be Segregated
The Future of eBooks – The Death of the Online eBook Store
Independent bookstores are on the ropes and simply cannot compete in today's marketplace with Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. During the last year, Books on Board, The Book Depository, Bookland, Fictionwise, BeWrite Books, jManga, and many more have shut their doors. These stores have mainly closed due to a lack of innovation, poor business sense, and competition from the … [Read more...] about The Future of eBooks – The Death of the Online eBook Store