Six lessons for digital publishing from Open Road Media, Simon & Schuster partners on new Shakespeare apps, a look at biz dev at a publishing house, Tolino now carries self-published ebooks and more!
Author: Jeremy Greenfield
Amazon Gives Authors New World of Options
Abandoning Amazon
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Big-Six Publishers Take Top of Best-Seller List as Ebook Prices Inch Down
A high-priced, new-release is again atop the ebook best-seller list. Dan Brown’s Inferno (Random House), a new release from the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, is selling more ebooks than any other title at $14.99, competing with $0.99 self-published ebooks and $4.99 classics. While the No. 1 ebook on the best-seller list fits a familiar narrative when it comes to how book sales have been until very recently, the rest of the list follows a new paradigm.
Ebook Best-Sellers $10 and Above Week Ending 5-19-13
CPR for Nook
Self-Published Titles Dominate Top of Ebook Best-Sellers List
Last week self-published authors stunned the publishing world by taking the Nos. 1 and 2 spots on the DBW Ebook Best-Seller list. This week, David Baldacci’s The Hit (Hachette) is No. 1, ending the reign of Holly Ward’s Damaged; however, this week, Ward brought friends. Five of the top ten best-selling ebook titles this week were self-published, three of them at $0.99 and one of them by a bankable big-six author gone hybrid.
More Optimistic Than James Patterson
Amazon Booms in Q1, Revenues up 22%
Revenues up 22% to $16 Billion at Amazon in First Quarter
Sales at Amazon rose sharply in the first quarter of 2013, growing 22% to $16.07 billion at the world’s largest bookseller, besting the company’s $13.18 billion in sales in the first quarter of 2011. For the first time in a while, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t comment on ebooks in his part of the earnings announcement.
Hachette Ranked No. 1 Ebook Publisher in 2013 So Far
Promoting Enhanced Ebooks
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 4-21-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 4-21-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $10 and Above Week Ending 4-21-13
Self-Published Ebooks Are Nos. 1 and 2 Best-Sellers, Average Price Drops to All-Time Low
Publishing industry professionals worried that the ebook era would precipitate a bevy of $0.99 self-published best-sellers may be seeing their nightmares come true today. The Nos. 1 and 2 best-selling ebooks this week are $0.99 self-published works: Damaged by H.M. Ward and The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken. For the fourth time in 2013, a self-published ebook is No. 1.
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 4-21-13
Finding an Audience for Every Book
HarperCollins Audience Development Director Jim Hanas: Finding an Audience, Book-by-Book
Like his new boss, HarperCollins chief marketing officer, Jim Hanas is a publishing industry outsider; in some ways, however, he’s the ultimate insider. We spoke with Hanas about moving from online media to books, how he plans to help HarperCollins find an audience for each of its titles and how Digital Book World helped him get a leg up in digital publishing.
