e-books and their impact on print book sales

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ray Robinson

The American Association of Publishers (AP) recently reported that sales of e-books rose to $90.3 million in February 2011. E-book release accounted for 20.4% in total book sales that month. In the first two months of 2011, e-books sales rose 169.4% while print books declined by 24.8%. In 2010, online retailer Amazon also reported that [...]

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Self publishing & the e-book: B&N buys an e-book retailer

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Ray Robinson

I’ll step in to what might be controversy here, but what the heck. Typically, e-books have not been a large source of revenue for self-published authors. At Dog Ear Publishing, our self published authors have almost never seen sales from an e-book amount to even 1% of their print product. So, it was with interest [...]

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