Publishing Sales

Friday Midday Links: Courtney Milan’s Win Win for RWA

Jason Pinter wonders whether being online and so accessible removes the mystique of an author and thereby reduces one’s ability to sell books. **** More authors are getting into the casual gaming platform.   Orchid Games released Heartwild Solitaire Classic and recruited a few authors to write short stories that players are allowed to read after(…)

Wednesday Midday Links Roundup:

In non shocking news, while first day sales of the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol were strong, digital sales represents only about 5% of the 2 million copies sold so far which was in line with what I thought last week: Over time, obviously, the digital version cannot outsell the print version because of(…)

Tuesday Mid Day Links RoundUp: The Medieval Chronicle

A short piece in Publisher’s Weekly notes that   July booksales fell 0.5% and down 2.5% for the year.   The good thing for bookstores is that the new Dan Brown book is out.   Increased foot traffic in stores will hopefully lead to an increase in book sales over all.    M.J. Rose jump started a twitter(…)

Net Book Sales in February Up Despite Depressed Economy

I haven’t done a good job of posting these figures recently, but net book sales for the year are up 6.2% in 2008 and 4.8% in February alone. Given that we are either in a recession or on the cusp, I would think any amount of increase is positive. Adult paperback is seeing the largest(…)