Average Ebook Sales For First Time Author

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Average ebook sales for first time author. The average digital only author published book sells 250 copies in its lifetime. Lifetime sales per title 12 900. For early 2019 e book sales continued to decline going down nearly 5 in revenue having brought in only 244 million in sales in the first three months of the year.

Lifetime sales per title 5 300. Your odds are worse. But i m going indie.

It s not missing a zero. There are all kinds of statistics bouncing around out there but generally speaking most self published authors will likely sell around 250 books or less. Second it s really tough to determine an average first book deal.

And the deal points have so many factors. The average traditionally published non fiction book sells about 250 300 copies in the first year but when we manage a book launch our target is to sell 1 000 copies in the first 3 months. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018.

The average traditionally published book which sells 3 000 in its entire lifetime in print only sells about 250 300 copies its first year. Publishing doesn t cost me anything because i format edit and design myself but your first book will probably cost money because it involves setting up everything. Lifetime sales per title 6 800 three different publishers.

Thanks to the high ebook royalty rates amazon offers 70 for books between 2 99 and 9 99 and 35 for others i ve been doing this for my full time job since december of 2011. Lifetime sales per title 18 900. Nonfiction 2 books avg.