DON ’ T IMMEDIATELY TRUST MAINSTREAM SITES ON PUBLISHING STORIES ( CONT ’ D )
And at the Bookseller , editor Philip Jones , arguably the single most astute of all UK industry observers , noted non-fiction that , when ,. the Publishers Association report announces falling ebook sales , they don ’ t count Amazon ’ s numbers , of course , or Bookouture ’ s , or those from Head of Zeus , Endeavour Press , Amazon Publishing , or self-published writers . “ Were we a little clearer about this missing bit , we would not today be reading about how … the ebook was dead ( again ),” he wrote .
The publishing industry in the UK and US has a real problem — not necessarily of its own making — in trying to assess its digital reach , given the lack of accurate digital sales data from online retailers . While that problem can be laid at the steps of Amazon , it ’ s the job of publishers associations to characterize what data they do have on digital sales as only partial , and to be wary of contributing to overstatements of what ’ s known about ebook sales and print supposedly blasting back . Not coming clean about this is misleading to their own customers , as well as to the culture at large .
EDITOR ’ S NOTE : Thank you for the heads up about the third party resellers of books listed as new . It is something that I never questioned , so I decided to check it out with one of my own books . It certainly raises the question , and I will be contacting Amazon to “ test the water ” using what I found below for the Silver Sisters Mystery TERROR IN A TEAPOT . Check out your own books . Are these sellers legitimately selling copies they bought a wholesale or discount , or not ? Notice that they ship from multiple states . This is a book published through CreateSpace with pricing all over the place .
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