Which countries are your books selling in? (the authorearnings.com February 2017 Wide & Internat'l Report)

[Quantum]

Are they selling percentage-wise in geographical areas as described in this report?

(The relative size of each pie reflects total sales volume for that country)

* Unsurprisingly, Amazon is the majority retailer in just about every market.
* But in Canada and Australia, Amazon is a lot less dominant than in the US and the UK.
* Taken all together, Amazon accounts for more than 80% of English-language ebook purchases, Apple another 10%, Kobo 2% and Nook 3%

* Between early 2016 and early 2017, overall Amazon US ebook sales grew another 4%

* Indie ebook market share, after the sudden sharp drop that we reported in October 2016, seems to have bounced back a little in early 2017.

* Amazon Imprints’ market share continues its steady climb.

* Big Five ebook market share, on the other hand, after a brief flirtation with recovery in October 2016, has fallen precipitously once again in early 2017, to just 20.8%.

* “Small/Medium Traditional Publishers,” as a cohort, have continued their slow, steady climb in unit market share, but their share of total consumer $ dollars spent on ebooks is rising far faster.

The report also provides some data-driven observations on whether Indies should go “Wide” or Amazon-Exclusive, which is too myriad and nuanced to quote here.

http://authorearnings.com/report/febr...

[M.L.]

This is interesting, Alex. Indies have the largest sales unit in the US, 34% (blue band at the bottom). Then also, the cyan band at the top, Uncategorized Single-Author Imprint, 7%-- and they think this Uncategorized group is mostly indie self-published, so you have a total of Indie sales that could be as high as 41% in Feb.
That's under "Ebook Unit Sales in Each Country Broken Down by Publisher Type."

[Quantum]

Just a little more information about this report. It analyzed sales data on:

* The top five English-language countries
* The fifteen largest ebook stores
* 750,000 top-selling ebook titles, in all genres and categories.
* All of it calibrated against 700,000 points of raw, unfiltered daily sales data, from over 20,000 distinct ebook titles across all 15 stores.

[Nik]

Interesting - in NZ (should interest Ian primarily) Amazon isn't visible..
Wonder how book sales are distributed in India and Northern Europe - other big markets for books in English..

[Graeme]

Primarily US, Canada, UK and Australia - occassionally elsewhere like Germany, Japan, etc.

[Leonie]

Primarily US, Aus, UK, Canada, but also some in Japan, Germany and France - actually last year there were quite a chunk in Germany