Ebook Sales Genre Fiction

5 horror 79 6 million.

Ebook sales genre fiction. Readers of these genres are more likely to share recommendations via blogs and community forums and their clearly defined interests make it easier for authors in these genres to target their book sales marketing efforts. We love escaping into a fictional land. It s not future classics that push digital sales but more downmarket fare.

Cookbooks food and vine. The new york times best sellers are up to date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the united states based on sales in the past week including fiction non fiction paperbacks. Fiction and non fiction sell differently on different stores as you can see from this graph.

In fact half of the e book bestsellers in the romance science fiction and fantasy genres on amazon are self published. Plus kobo has a lot more promotions for fiction than it does for non fiction. The ebook world is driven by so called genre fiction categories such as horror or romance.

Apple and kobo are primarily fiction mainly because one of the most consistent sales methods is a permanently free first in series. Readers enjoy being scared and they re loyal to their favourites which is perhaps why king and koontz although having both written out of the genre. According to book ad report the following sub genres make the most money.

With genre leader stephen king said to have a net profit of 400 million and dean koontz with 125 million horror s clearly a popular genre but it s undeniably a smaller niche than some of the popular genres valued at under 80 million. Meanwhile for e books the most popular categories are. A similar trend can be seen amongst e book readers as 50 percent of respondents in a recent survey stated that mystery thriller books were their favorite genre of e books.

Although sci fi and fantasy sales dropped dramatically in 2009 forbes reports that combined print and digital sci fi and fantasy book sales have doubled since 2010 and because genre fiction is a particular growth area in indie publishing self publishing and ebook sales account for 48 of sf and fantasy sales across print digital and audio formats. Dragons elves witches robots the possibilities are endless. 4 science fiction fantasy 590 2 million.