Subject: Cozy times ahead
Cozy times ahead
September 18th, 2017 at 9:52 am ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ...
My interview on the Begin Self Publishing Podcast
July 30th, 2017 at 3:57 pm ESTHi Friend, I just had the pleasure of being on Tim Lewis' Begin Self-Publishing Podcast. You can tune in here to listen to or read about the questions we discussed: = http://k-lytics.com/a1eg (free, no sign-up) 1. What is the biggest new trend in ...
A massive market on Kindle + FB audience case study
July 20th, 2017 at 12:54 am ESTHi Friend, The overall demographics of publishing haven’t changed much, but romance readers have. They are increasingly multicultural, and they want more books with characters who look like them, live like them, and share their values. The African ...
The Children's Kindle Market 2017
July 15th, 2017 at 9:44 am ESTHi Friend, Amazon recently launched a new Kids Edition version of its Fire HD 8 device. And this is where the opportunity for authors, designers, and publishers comes in: Any device is only as good as its content. But as simple as kids books seem, ...
What 234,360 books tell us right now
June 22nd, 2017 at 8:11 pm ESTHi Friend, Mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime literature are hugely popular genres. Therefore, I decided to look at more than 234,360 books in the genre to find out what's really trending. And I have excellent news: 1.) You do not have to go thr ...