Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.5 million (plus bonuses)in October 2018 , up from $23.4 million in September 2018. At the same time...
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EU Finally Allows For Lower VAT on eBooks
So six years after EU members were punished for lowering the tax they collect on the sale of an ebook in violation of EU rules, the European Union decided...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in August 2018 While the Per-Page Rate Didn’t Change
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.3 million in August (plus bonuses), up from $23.1 million in July 2018. At the same time the...
Continue readingGerman eBook Market Estimated to Exceed 100 Million Euros in First Half of 2018
GfK Entertainment and the German publishing trade group Boersenverein have released their estimates for the German ebook market in the first half of the year. The projections are based on a...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2018 While the Per-Page Rate Fell
Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.1 million in July (plus bonuses), up from $22.6 million in June 2018. At the same time the per-page...
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Publisher eBook Revenues Fell 3% in First Four Months of 2018
Publisher ebook revenue continued to decline in the first third of this year, while trade revenues fluctuated upwards, increasing by 7.3% over the same period in 2017. Same song,...
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AAP Estimates US Book Publishing Industry Generated $26 Billion in Revenue Last Year
The Association of American Publishers released its annual StatShot estimate on Friday. You can buy the report from the AAP, or find the press release below. There isn't much...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate, Rose Slightly in June 2018
Amazon announced on Monday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool totaled $22.6 million in June (plus bonuses), up from $22.5 million in May 2018. At the same time the...
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook Division Generated $111 Million Last Year, and Employs 57 People
B&N's once mighty ebook division has fallen on hard times. What at one point was a billion dollar a year business has now shrunk to the point that there...
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Around Half of SF&F Sales Are No Longer Being Tracked
In 2016 I showed you how the print market for romance, SF&F, and thriller genres was either dead or dying due to the fact that over half of each...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in May 2018
In spite of cheats like Chance Carter, the third largest ebook market in the world continued to expand in May 2018. Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited...
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AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up 6.3%, eBook Revenues Down 3.2% in First Quarter
The American Association of Publishers reported a surprising jump in trade revenues on Friday. Overall revenues rose 6.2% ($143.2 million) while trade revenues were up 6.2%, to $1.59 billion....
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AAP: Publisher eBook Sales Fell almost 5% in 2017
The Association of American Publishers has released its end of year revenue report for the legacy publishing industry. As expected, trade revenues were essentially flat (a 1.3% increase), while...
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Publisher eBook Sales Fell 10% in 2017
NPD reported on Wednesday what everyone already knew from the past few years of AAP monthly revenue reports: publisher ebook sales are down. From PW: Unit sales of traditionally...
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Kobo Content Sales Up 60% in 4th Quarter 2017 – Mostly Due to Tolino
It turns out Kobo has a lot in common with the major trade publishers; in both cases, much if not all of their growth comes from acquisitions rather than...
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