Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription paid out $49 million to self-pub authors and small presses in February
History suggests the payout will hover around the $49 million per month mark during H1 and climb a...
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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US Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
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Uncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers
Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses
Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...
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Amazon’s unlimited ebook subscription service paid out $450 million to self-published authors in 2021 as AAP reports US ebook market worth $1.1 billion. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about? (redux)
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
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AAP reports October ebook REVENUE worth $84 million. For the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $39.8 million in ROYALTIES. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about?
Per the AAP, tracked ebook sales REVENUE from January through October 2021 amounted to $892.5...
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Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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'Jessica Jones,' 'Punisher' Canceled. Netflix led the streaming surge and now pays the price as suppliers copy the Netflix model and content is siloed
“Jessica Jones, Punisher Canceled as Netflix Completes Marvel Purge” runs the headline in The...
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Scribd defies its critics. Hits 1 million subscribers
It all seemed so improbable just a few years ago, when many believed Scribd would follow Oyster...
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Kindle Snapshot: 8 out of Top 10 ebooks in the Kindle US store are Amazon imprint titles this morning
Probably the single most unforeseen consequence of the digital revolution in publishing was that...
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