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Fighting for the other 75%.

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@hughhowey

Heh. No tweeting from verified accounts.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!

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@IvanaKottasova ... while trad publishing industry continues to publish stats mistaking own declining market share for a shrinking market

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@IvanaKottasova The non-traditional (& mostly digital) book sector has grown into a $1.25 Billion dollar US industry in the last few years.

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@IvanaKottasova If you want more details on the bigger picture, ping me. Happy to fill you in on what I know. :)

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@IvanaKottasova The UK Publisher Association -- the source of the latest "digital decline" stats -- now measures only 62% of UK ebook sales.

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The non-traditional and (mostly digital) book sector has grown into a $1.25 Billion dollar industry in the US in the last few years.

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@ivanakottasova See: https://t.co/B8gXpvnIJn

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@ivanakottasova Those nontraditional ebook publishing sectors are up more than big publishers are down, but industry stats don't cover them.

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@ivanakottasova ...and that's only because they raised ebook prices to protect their print business. Other ebook sectors are up... WAY up.

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@ivanakottasova Your recent ebooks-vs-print article missed the real story. Ebooks sales are only down for a few big reporting publishers...

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@smoran26 Indies doing far better than 5 years ago--as an overall market sector and statistically as individuals. May 2016 AE rept 4 details

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@smoran26 Not with any precision. Annual increase in # of Amazon kindle titles is one indicator, but that includes new trad pub titles, too

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.@smoran26 It just did. Our data also shows a big decline in AAP publisher ebook sales... but non-AAP ebooks are more than making up for it.

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February 2017 Author Earnings Report. Big, Bad, Wide & International: ebook sales at 15 top stores in 5 countries https://t.co/0r7XX1NS7x

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Print vs Digital, Traditional vs Non-Traditional, Bookstore vs Online: exploding the publishing myths of 2016 at https://t.co/ejenRf5nY9

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@KLCzepiel Hard to say about MG. But Teen/YA is surprisingly indie when separated out (2016 industry stats lumped 'em in with "Juvenile")

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@WilliamOckhamTx Not yet. I still need to anonymize. Have "only" 200K ebooks & 200K pbooks this time, instead of 1M of each, so XLS works.

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An October surprise for publishing...?
The October 2016 Author Earnings Report: https://t.co/BdQ25Qq0bu

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@TheLincoln @henningsgaard @thDigitalReader Sorry. I won't cut & paste - not fair to PL. Cader's a brilliant analyst -- we co-paneled at DBW

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@TheLincoln @henningsgaard @thDigitalReader Yeah, u make a key point. Most "big advances" go to decades-tenured bestsellers, not new authors