According to a recent email we received from Ingram, the largest distributor, the following book genres are selling GREAT!
Humor – Average sales growth up 1085% (Everybody needs a laugh right now!)
Young Adult Fiction – up 843% (Students are stuck at home.)
Fiction – up 509% (We’re all looking for an escape these days.)
Business & Economics – up 377% (Perhaps people are brushing up on new business skills while they’re not working, or working at home.)
Social Science – up 319% (This includes economics, or “the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.“)
Nature – up 317% (Perhaps this is related to the new burgeoning homeschool market.)
Juvenile fiction – up 305% (Kids need entertainment right now, too.)
Bibles – up 296% (With the state of the world right now, that one isn’t a surprise.)
You can read many more genres and sales growth percentages RIGHT HERE.
If you have a manuscript you’ve been waiting to publish, now is the time to pull it out, polish it, and get it on the market. People are buying more books because they’re inexpensive entertainment. 🙂
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Angela Hoy is the publisher of WritersWeekly.com, the author of 19 books, and the co-owner of BookLocker.com (one of the original POD publishers that still gets books to market in less than a month), PubPreppers.com (print and ebook design for authors who truly want to self-publish), and Abuzz Press (the publishing co-op that charges no setup fees).
Angela has lived and traveled across the U.S. with her kids in an RV, settled in a river-side home in Bradenton, FL, and lived on a 52 ft Irwin sailboat. Angela now resides on a mountaintop in Northwest Georgia, where she plans to spend the rest of her days bird watching, gardening, hiking, and taking in all of the amazing sunrises.
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At this moment, thousands of would-be authors are slaving away on their keyboards, dreaming of literary success. But their efforts won’t count for much. Of all those manuscripts, trade book editors will sign up only a slim fraction.
And of those titles--ones that that editors paid thousands of dollars to contract, print and publicize--an unhealthy percentage never sell enough copies to earn back their advances. Two years later, most will be out of print!
Acquisition Editor Tam Mossman shares seven essentials every book needs to stay in print, and sell!
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I’m interested in seeing what these numbers will look like when everything goes back to “normal”.