Subject: All about Romantic Comedy (Growth and more!)
All about Romantic Comedy (Growth and more!)
February 11th, 2021 at 8:07 pm ESTHi Friend, Romantic comedy, aka rom-com, offers the perfect escape in a troubled and "heavy" world. People have an appetite for something light. No wonder the romantic comedy category and other humor-related genres are among those with the highest g ...
New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2021 Edition
February 1st, 2021 at 9:51 am ESTHi Friend, We have been monitoring the mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime fiction categories on Amazon Kindle for more than five years now. While many traditional publishers compete for this lucrative book market segment, we see a lot of smaller ...
Epic Fantasy 2021 - A genre to watch
January 25th, 2021 at 6:09 pm ESTHi Friend, It is no secret that Amazon's Jeff Bezos (alongside literally every executive in the streaming space) wants to get his hands on the next Game of Thrones. At first, it seemed that Amazon Video's Lord of the Rings spinoff was the platform's ...
A genre for a break from reality (New K-lytics Report)
January 22nd, 2021 at 10:29 am ESTHi Friend, It is no secret that Amazon's Jeff Bezos (alongside literally every executive in the streaming space) wants to get his hands on the next Game of Thrones. At first, it seemed that Amazon Video's Lord of the Rings spinoff was the platform's ...
2021 Market Booster Training + Membership Deals
January 8th, 2021 at 1:31 pm ESTHi Friend, The new year started with good news for the book publishing industry: Print book sales in the United States had their best year in a decade. According to the NPD Group, unit sales volume in 2020 rose 8.2 percent, year over year. And at Am ...
New Genre Report + Final Thoughts 2020
December 31st, 2020 at 1:51 am ESTHi Friend, Before this crazy year ends, I would like to send you my best wishes and the news about our latest genre report that epitomizes the year 2020: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction What?! - Yes, it feels more than strange to research such a ...
Christmas Mysteries - Real Sales Data (free)
December 13th, 2020 at 4:58 pm ESTHi Friend, A few weeks back, we published a free seasonal report about Christmas Romance books. I then received a whole number of requests from writers asking whether we could provide a similar report for the mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime ...
Where Romance meets MTS - New K-lytics Report
December 3rd, 2020 at 9:19 pm ESTHi Friend, Romance and MTS (Mystery/Thriller/Suspense) are the two highest-selling book markets in the Kindle store. No wonder the genre blend at the intersection—Romantic Suspense—has been so successful. We received a lot of requests in recent ...
Teen & Young Adult Book Report 2020
November 13th, 2020 at 1:00 pm ESTHi 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 represent a ma ...
Sci-fi & Fantasy Genre Report down to Level 5
November 5th, 2020 at 1:53 pm ESTHi Friend, Amazon Kindle currently features 30 Kindle categories, 418 sub-categories, more than 2,780 sub-sub-categories, and another 4,600+ Level 4 and Level 5 categories. Here is an example of such a Level 5 category: Teen Young Adult Science F ...