Category Archives: e-books

Back in October, I posted some book sales results for our family-owned and operated micro-publishing company Jacobsville Books. Those posts analyzed our sales for the 1Q2010 through 3Q2011 results, with comparisons of print and eBook sales as well as eBook sales by distribution channel. I figured I should update those charts with the results from 4Q2011, so here they are for your consideration, possibly edification, and maybe even amusement. Continue reading →

Since we at Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC/Jacobsville Books publish both fiction and nonfiction and there’s a lot of discussion about how fiction sells much better than nonfiction in the eBook arena, I decided to take a look at our sales distribution among three categories:Fiction Print Book, Fiction eBook, Nonfiction Print Book, and Nonfiction eBook. Continue reading →

In the last post, I discussed our (Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC/Jacobsville Books) book sales over the past seven quarters (from January 2010 through September 2011), breaking down the split between print books and eBooks and between Kindle and ePub formats of eBooks. This time, let’s take a look at the breakdown of ePub sales by distribution outlet. Continue reading →

I spent some time this week analyzing our book sales over the past seven quarters (from January 2010 through September 2011). I knew our total sales had increased a lot and that eBooks had become the majority of our sales. I just didn’t realize quite how significantly things had changed in what is essentially a short span of time. The first, gratifying, news is that we are selling a lot more books. Continue reading →