Ebook Market Driven By Genre Fiction

According to "The Guardian" ebook sales are being driven by low brow electronic pulp.

                           

Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction

Publishers face secrecy over sales and an absence of industry-wide data to help them plot strategy

 

      

The word on the street … a woman reads an ebook while travelling on a bus. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.
The ebook world is driven by so-called genre fiction, categories such as horror or romance. It's not future classics that push digital sales, but more downmarket fare. No cliche is left unturned, no adjective underplayed. At the time of writing, the bestselling Amazon Kindle book was Asylum Harbor, by Traci Hohenstein. Crime sells. Try a sample, I dare you. In digital, dross rises. But does this have implications for publishers' decision-making, as we increasingly migrate?
One of the problems publishers face in setting strategy is the absence of industry-wide data on ebook sales. Amazon, the dominant player, is secretive with its numbers. As the company revealed its mixed results for 2011 last week, all its UK division would say was that ebook sales over the past three months were up five-fold on the equivalent period last year. No actual data.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/05/ebook-sales-downmarket-genre

I want to make a quick introduction, I am BookBabe333 currently I have a lot of skepticism regarding Kindle,Nook, etc. I believe books will always be favored over the electronic devices. I find it mind boggling when I walk into a Barnes and Noble and see people reading there Nook in the bookstore. I sometimes wonder what our libaries are going to consist of in a few year. The library will be filled with computers and devices instead of books. Just a quick food for thought......

April 15, 2011: Ebooks Surpass Paperbacks

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The publishing tide is shifting fast: E-book sales in February topped all other formats, including paperbacks and hardcovers, according to an industry report released this week.
E-book sales totaled $90.3 million in February, up 202% compared to the same month a year earlier, according to a study from the Association of American Publishers. That put e-books at No. 1 "among all categories of trade publishing" that month -- the first time e-books have beaten out traditional publishing formats.

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http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/15/technology/ebooks_beat_paperbacks/index.htm

Are Ebooks Just Four Years Away From Becoming A $10 Billion Industry?

Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster.
Strong demand for tablets will drive the growth, UK-based Juniper Research said in a report published Thursday. Nearly 30% of all ebooks in 2016 will be downloaded to tablets.

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http://mashable.com/2011/12/01/ebook-sales-10-billion-2016/

Ebook Authors Who Have Recently Sold More Than 2500 Books Per Month

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http://bookmarketingbuzz.com/2011/08/05/and-yet-another-self-publishing-ebook-success-story/

Blake Crouch – 2500+
Nathan Lowell – 2500+
Beth Orsoff – 2500+
Sandra Edwards – 2500+
Vianka Van Bokkem - 2500+
Maria Hooley – 2500+
C.S. Marks – 2500+
Lee Goldberg – 2500+
Lexi Revellian – 4000+
Zoe Winters – 4000+
Aaron Patterson – 4000+
Bella Andre – 5000+
Imogen Rose – 5000+
Ellen Fisher – 5000+
Tina Folsom – 5000+
Terri Reid – 5000+
David Dalglish – 5000+
Scott Nicholson – 10,000+
J.A. Konrath 10,000+
Victorine Lieske – 10,000+
L.J. Sellers – 10,000+
Michael R. Sullivan – 10,000+
H.P. Mallory – 20,000+
Selena Kitt – 20,000+
Stephen Leather – 40,000+
Amanda Hocking – 100,000+

A New Career Niche

OK, so literary agents are having a hard time these days. Ebooks are cutting out the middle man, so the story goes. As I see it, opportunities have never been greater.

The Internet is flooded with ebooks. But it is hard to sort through the dreck to find something worth reading. I am not yet aware if the successful business model has emerged that will assist the reader to separate the sheep from the goats. That is something we want to explore at "Get Your Novel Published."

We have a few ideas in the embryonic stage. Look to these pages for updates. This is an exciting time to be a publisher or an agent or a writer.

Amanda Hocking: Our Heroine

Amanda Hocking has opened the ebook flodgates. She is an inspiration for all writers, especially ebook authors. From Wikipedia:

Hocking lives in Austin, Minnesota. Employed as an assisted living worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her spare time.[3] In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.[1] By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors.[4] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.[2]

Her blog

http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html