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Day: June 1, 2016

Closing Image: June 1, 2016

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

A recent BookExpo America presentation by Nielsen shows that ebook sales (for those with ISBNs) took off dramatically between 2010 and 2012

Categories Industry Research, Traditional Publishing Tags BEA, ebook sales, ebooks

Links of Interest: June 1, 2016

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

There’s now a Netflix for comic books. Amazon’s ComiXology has launched a subscription service: $5.99 for all the comics you can read. Notably, titles from Marvel and DC are not available. Read more at Entertainment Weekly. BookBub will soon allow authors and publishers to buy advertising in their deal emails. 

Categories Children's Publishing, Links of Interest Tags audiobooks, subscriptions

Hot Sheet Index: June 1, 2016

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

A snapshot of current industry data.

Categories Industry Research Tags Big Five, Comics, Hot Sheet Index

On the List: Lab Girl

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

Lab Girl released earlier this spring and recently appeared on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list.

Categories Bestsellers, Profile

Building the “Self-Sustaining” Reader Community: Hal Elrod’s Facebook Strategy

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing brings together five self-published writers for the company’s first KDP Business Author Roundtable.

Categories Amazon, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tags Facebook, KDP

Romancing the Differences: “Multicultural,” “Diverse,” and Nielsen’s New RWA Summit

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

Questions of diversity in romance came into play last year at RWA’s conference, and the Nielsen program is designed to tackle them.

Categories Culture and Politics Tags conferences, dei, RWA, trade shows

Macmillan Acquires the Self-Publishing Service Pronoun; Paid Features Are on the Way

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

In October 2015, we reported on the launch of Pronoun, a new self-publishing service for ebooks.

Categories Self-Publishing, Tools and Services Tags Big Five, ebooks

Still No Comprehensive Data on Ebook Sales; Not Much Help, Either

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

The UK’s Bookseller announced a weekly ebook ranking, but any attempt to track sales data is limited to what data trade publishers will share.

Categories Digital Publishing, Industry Research Tags ebook sales, ebooks, Sales data, UK

Self-Publishing: A Significant but “Separate” Book Market

November 14, 2022June 1, 2016 by Jane Friedman

The London-based Enders Analysis media team analyzed the US Amazon’s 100 top-selling ebooks and found that 40 were self-published.

Categories Industry Research, Self-Publishing Tags Amazon, indie publishing

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