Subject: Peak-season success (research result)
Peak-season success (research result)
December 22nd, 2017 at 9:12 pm EDTHi Friend, I have a gift for you: A special research study, which we just finalized today. It is based on "real-time" peak-season sales data from the Amazon Kindle Store. Christmas is a big business for many in the publishing industry. So if you ask ...
Facebook changes - what authors need to know
December 20th, 2017 at 8:19 pm EDTHi Friend, Facebook made four announcements related to its news feed algorithm since September; the most recent one took place just yesterday morning. All of these news feed modifications significantly affect writers and publishers who use Facebook ...
October trends + Halloween question answered
October 9th, 2017 at 4:39 am EDTHi Friend, We just finished "crunching" 21,000 book data points for you. You can watch the results in our latest blog post here: = Market Update October 2017 Another thing: A couple of K-lytics members asked me whether it is worth publishing books ...
Teen & YA trends - How to participate?
September 27th, 2017 at 12:12 pm EDTHi Friend, Teen books, coming-of-age, new adult, young adult—you name the segment—we are talking about a huge industry. No matter whether you write Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery or even nonfiction, teen and young adult readers are a massive ...
Cozy times ahead
September 18th, 2017 at 9:52 am EDTHi Friend, The popularity of mystery shows no sign of retiring. The books remain as popular as ever. If you are not familiar with it , you may think of them as something "old-fashioned." Once you take a closer look at their sales performance, you ...
Business Books = Big Business?
September 10th, 2017 at 9:44 pm EDTHi Friend, Every year, more than 20 million business books are sold in the United States alone. = http://k-lytics.com/business-books/ That's enough reason for us to have a closer look at the e-book segment of this major nonfiction market. The Kind ...
Where has my Amazon search result data gone?
September 5th, 2017 at 12:13 am EDTHi Friend, You may have noticed that Amazon changed the way it displays category information and search results. In a nutshell, Amazon drastically reduced the transparency of search results. We had a closer look at what changed. And—that's the goo ...
Nonfiction for a change
August 16th, 2017 at 10:29 pm EDTHi Friend, I realized with horror that I have not done any nonfiction market report in a while. But then I found this data: The book industry for self-help is estimated to be worth $776 million in the U.S. alone. Wow! Let's face it: People want to b ...
Amazon's KU 3.0 announcement - some background
August 6th, 2017 at 9:34 pm EDTHi Friend, Amazon’s introduction of its pay-per-page royalty scheme (KENPC) for borrows two years ago caused much debate. By comparison, Amazon’s recent announcement of Kindle Unlimited version 3.0 almost went unnoticed. In this month's K-lytics ...
The one Kindle genre worth looking at in 2017
July 31st, 2017 at 12:16 pm EDTHi Friend, If you have not looked into mystery, thriller, suspense, or crime literature yet, now is the time. The current performance of these genres on Amazon Kindle is enormous. You can get all the details in the summer edition of our Mystery Thri ...