{"id":145,"date":"2013-06-21T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/06\/21\/self-published-ebooks-20-of-uk-genre-sales\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:38:00","slug":"self-published-ebooks-20-of-uk-genre-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/06\/21\/self-published-ebooks-20-of-uk-genre-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-published Ebooks 20% of UK Genre Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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How terrible that we have a larger choice of reading material than ever before in human history!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The UK market is a year or two behind the US market in the shift to digital reading, though they are the second highest in the world, and UK ebook sales spiked 134% in 2012 to total \u00a3216 million<\/a>. The impact of indie authors can be seen there too. Now, according to Bowker Market Research, an astonishing 20% of all genre sales go to indies:<\/p>\n

Self-published books accounted for more than 20% of crime, science fiction, romance and humour ebooks sold in the UK in 2012, according to newly released statistics. The figures, from Bowker Market Research, show that while self-published books made up a tiny proportion \u2013 2% \u2013 of all books purchased last year, this figure increases dramatically, to 12%, when print books are removed from the equation. When just adult fiction and non-fiction ebooks are looked at, self-publishing’s share increases to 14% of the market, and in the crime, science fiction, romance and humour genres, self-publishing took more than 20%, according to Steve Bohme, UK research director at Bowker, which tracks book-purchasing trends by interviewing over 3,000 book-buyers a month. Only 3% of children’s ebooks, by contrast, were self-published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the obligatory Ritual Insulter of Indie Books, speaking for traditional publisher<\/a>s, in this case, Andrew Franklin, rushed to assure everyone that this in no way changes the fact that self-published books are “unutterable rubbish” that “don’t enhance anything in the world.”<\/p>\n

But Franklin, we knew that already. ANYTHING women like to read<\/a> is considered rubbish:<\/p>\n

Bohme said that price was the reason most cited<\/a> by readers for the purchase of self-published ebooks. By contrast, price was only the third most important reason for choosing to buy other ebooks, and books as a whole, behind “author” and “subject”. And Bohme revealed that women are more likely to buy self-published ebooks than men, with 68% of buyers of DIY ebooks female<\/b> \u2013 more than the 58% of female readers buying books as a whole. Those who bought self-published ebooks were also more likely to be heavy readers, with the statistics from Bowker showing that 61% of buyers of self-published ebooks said they read daily, compared to 37% of buyers of books as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Franklin also added, as a warning to any would-be indie author, that, “the principle experience of self-publishing is one of disappointment.”<\/p>\n

Aw. That’s touching. I’m sure those 2% indie authors snagging 20% of genre sales are weeping all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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