{"id":18858,"date":"2018-04-26T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18858"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:37:10","slug":"2017-ebook-sales-decline-suggests-market-share-is-shifting-away-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18858","title":{"rendered":"2017 eBook Sales Decline Suggests Market Share is shifting away from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/ebook-sales-plummeted-by-10-in-2017\/amp\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> post talks about a <strong>10% decline<\/strong> in <strong>eBook sales<\/strong> in <strong>2017<\/strong> that can be directly attributed to the\u00a0<strong><em>agency<\/em>\u00a0model<\/strong> (or <strong>price-fixing<\/strong>) where the legacy publishers set eBook prices\u00a0ridiculously high to drive consumers to cheaper paperback and hardcover sales. It&#8217;s important to note that the quoted research is &#8220;skewed&#8221; because it does not include sales for the massive Indie author and publisher market share.<\/p>\n<p>Is this trouble for everyone or just an indicator that\u00a0<strong>Amazon<\/strong> and the <strong>legacy publishers<\/strong> (<strong>the big five<\/strong>) are losing their &#8220;death&#8221; grip on the market? It&#8217;s more likely that jaded consumers are tired of the obvious manipulation and are simply clearing the way for the <strong>2018 eBook Resurgence<\/strong> when the other big players,\u00a0<strong>Kobo<\/strong>\/<strong>Rakuten<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Walmart<\/strong>, <strong>Apple<\/strong> and <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong>, are expected to return to the competition with a vengeance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GoodeReader post talks about a 10% decline in eBook sales in 2017 that can be directly attributed to the\u00a0agency\u00a0model (or price-fixing) where the legacy publishers set eBook prices\u00a0ridiculously high to drive consumers to cheaper paperback and hardcover sales. It&#8217;s important to note that the quoted research is &#8220;skewed&#8221; because it does not include sales &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18858\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11,4,5,8,25,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18858"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18866,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions\/18866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}