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Audiobooks Case Study: How-to Indie Publishing Tips from Annette Leach
Audiobook sales continue to be on fire, far outpacing eBook sales, the next fastest growing format according to the American Association of Publishers as reported by The Digital Reader. But the complexity! Uploading a Word doc to KDP is like child’s play compared to producing a quality audiobook. That’s where advanced planning can help and …
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My 7 Favorite Posts of 2014
This past year I wrote 50 blog posts on authorimprints.com, just about 1 per week. It is a practice I began at the end of 2012 when I decided to see for myself if regular blogging could deliver results. Here they are: In 2013, revenue from customers that said they found authorimprints.com via an Internet …
Bowker Reports Amazon CreateSpace Published 62% of All Self-Published Print Books in 2013
In just two years Amazon’s print-on-demand unit CreateSpace has increased its market share of self-published print books to 62% in 2013 from 37% in 2011. These percentages are based on the number of ISBNs issued by Bowker and outlined in the October 2014 press release, Self-Publishing Continues to Grow in the U.S., Says Bowker. (Full …
Canaries in the Coalmine: Lessons and Insights for Book Publishers from Digital Music, Video and Content Marketing
For the last four years I have presented an annual address on eBooks to the Publishers and Writers of San Diego, a 300+ member organization focused on the business of publishing and an affiliate of IBPA. This year I choose to highlight events, trends and techniques in digital video, music and online marketing and how …
Searches for Free eBooks Down 28% from December 2010 Peak
According to Google Trends, searches for the term free ebooks doubled between December 2009 and December 2010 but has since dropped by nearly 75%. Searches for the term “free ebooks” during the last five holiday seasons What got me interested in looking at the trend of searching for free eBooks was the Pew Research Internet …
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Bing Finds Barnes & Noble Book Listings Better Than Google
This weekend I was using my new Kindle Fire HD to do some web surfing and I made a surprising (and welcome) discovery: my print book is for sale on Barnes & Noble. I guess with all the rivalry talk about Amazon and B&N, and the fact that I use CreateSpace, not to mention the …
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2013 Highlights and 2014 Outlook
Since it’s the start of the year I thought it would be the ideal time to share some stats from this past year and talk about my plans for AuthorImprints in 2014. First a recap of our top 5 2013 accomplishments and lessons learned: 1. authorimprints.com Alexa ranking drops from 1.4 million to below 300,000 …
Book Related Results from Amazon’s 2013 Holiday Highlights
Buried under the headlines about its Prime membership growth (one million new subscribers in one week) I dug out some facts about book selling and related activities. (No, this is not a photo of a Baby Bezos!) Prime members. This is an important number for self-publishers because Prime members that own a Kindle device can …
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Market Research: Self-Published Books are Competitive, Apple & BN Market Share Down, Bundling, eBooks for Kids
2014 is right around the corner so there is no better time to survey recent research on book and eBook trends and topics. As always I’ll do my best to identify and interpret results that are the most relevant for small publishers and self-publishers. Also see the AuthorImprints market research page even more resources. Do …