30% of eBooks in the US do Not Use ISBN

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Author-Earnings

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This is just one of the findings of the “January 2015 Author Earnings Report” by an independent (and non-profit) web survey.  It is not at all Nielsen data, which covers only a fraction of e-book and book sales, and does not reveal the true numbers of purchases and author earnings. However these Nielsen data is publicized widely and people are believing these (wrong) numbers. Not to mention that overall bestseller lists are often manipulated. Until now there were no true numbers available as online distributors, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble don’t even share their e-book sales figures.

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Author Earning Report’s Mission
Number one is to gather and share information so that writers can make informed decisions. Their secondary mission is to call for change within the publishing community for better pay and fairer terms in all contracts.
This is a website by authors and for authors. 120,000 bestselling Amazon ebook titles are included in their surveys.  Or as J.A. Konrath wrote: “See Hugh Howey (bestseller author of WOOL) blew the lid off of Amazon author earnings. To say it is a revelation is putting it lightly.”

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Get the REAL Numbers: January 2015 Author Earnings Report

  • 30% of the ebooks being purchased in the U.S. do not use ISBN numbers and are invisible to the industry’s official market surveys and reports; all the ISBN-based estimates of market share reported by Bowker, AAP, BISG, and Nielsen are wildly wrong.
  • 33% of all paid ebook unit sales on Amazon.com are indie self-published ebooks.
  • 20% of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks on Amazon.com are being spent on indie self-published ebooks.
  • 40% of all dollars earned by authors from ebooks on Amazon.com are earned by indie self-published ebooks.
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Get the comprehensive data, including detailed statistics at the Author Earnings Report. It shows lots of background information and comparison between survey methods – and why they are often wrong, not counting e-books that miss an ISBN.

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Find out more why and how these author earnings surveys evolved and how valuable they are for every writer in an interview on J.A. Konrath’s blog.

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