In our first installment of blended statistics that combine standard industry measures with data slices from Authors Earnings and our own research and adjustments, we looked at the 2016 market for individually sold ebooks. In that paid download market, the one in which traditional publishers conduct nearly all of their business, publishers captured 80 percent of the dollar sales, but only about 53 percent of the unit sales. We also showed that, within Amazon’s US Kindle store on its own, 53 percent of the unit sales are “house sales,” distributed and/or published by Amazon. But the larger hole in the […]
