Thread: Why ePub 3?
View Single Post
Old 09-25-2017, 02:01 PM   #54
Hitch
Bookmaker & Cat Slave
Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Hitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Hitch's Avatar
 
Posts: 11,503
Karma: 158448243
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2
Quote:
Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
Of course the only thing that matters to a self-publisher trying to make a living is what the KDP does to the file we upload to it.

Five years ago, 75 percent of my sales were on Amazon, 25 percent on Apple, B&N, Kobo, Google etc. Two years ago, the breakdown was 80/20. Now it is closer to 90/10.

I wonder what Hitch hears from her individual customers (as opposed to publishing houses -- whose sales of course are differently skewed)?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...

Our (clients') numbers have, by and large, been pretty stable over the term....88-92% on Amazon, up to 95% (and that skews, of course, b/c of the number that are exclusive to the Zon); 8-11% on B&N, and all the rest are simply peanuts. Even our biggest hottest clients still only sell 1 book on iBooks for every thousand that they sell on the Zon, and man, that's impressive, to me. Of course, Apple couldn't care less about how many ebooks they do/don't sell, so that patently plays into it. God only knows what it is per thousand for Kobo.


Hitch
Hitch is offline   Reply With Quote