US ebook sales breakdown by genre

[Fbone]

It wasn't necessary to get all ideological. I was just pointing out that meshing the two reports is problematic since they each measure different things.

[Kyle Connor]

Writers have highly benefitted from the EBook revolution as compared to the previous paperbacks.
Better explained here
https://www.google.com/#q=E-Books+vs...ooks+studymode

So we must consider this fact as well before relying on the ratings and reports if not considered previously.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Kyle Connor

Writers have highly benefitted from the EBook revolution as compared to the previous paperbacks.
Better explained here
https://www.google.com/#q=E-Books+vs...ooks+studymode

So we must consider this fact as well before relying on the ratings and reports if not considered previously.

Could you clarify?
Are you comparing the ebook evolution to the paperback revolution of the 30's to the 50's or to the pre-Kindle status quo?

If the latter, yes: even the "industry standard" 17% of retail ebook royalty is an improvement over the 8% royalty typical of mmpb.

But it is still early to compare it to the paperback revolution of the last century as ebooks are still a minority format and to an extent mostly displacing the mass market format whereas paperbacks at their peak outsold all other formats and expanded the market dramatically, adding a whole new format and bringing in new buyers to what used to be a hardcover-and-magazine market.

eBooks have a ways to go yet before they become as important as paperbacks were before the corporate publishers took them over.

To a large extent, from the long time reader point of view, ebooks are merely restoring the status quo of the pre-corporate era: an industry dominated by hundreds of small independent publishers instead of one controlled by a cartel.