Subject: 2018 publishing | First genre insights coming in
2018 publishing | First genre insights coming in
January 11th, 2018 at 2:00 pm EDTHi Friend, Let's make 2018 the best year of your writing and publishing ever! I am pleased to announce our first research in the new year: the latest K-lytics Mystery, Thriller and Crime market study. This time, it examines 93 Kindle sub-markets. An ...
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 ...