Piracy, Historical sales...

[erastes]

I’d like to get this community closed down. I can’t join it, as there’s no way they’d let me, but if anyone IS a member, let me know if any of my books are on it, because I’d like to report them to LJ for copyright abuse.

Please see Kirby Crow’s post on the matter, (via Alex Beecroft). As she rightly says, and hardly needs stressing to this audience on my flist, if only a third of that community downloaded ONE of my books, I’d lose $1000, and that’s more than I make in royalties in total for ALL my books at the moment. It’s no good whining to me about how people are “entitled” to have free fiction. They aren’t. Not mine. If they want free fiction, there’s plenty out there, they don’t have to dip into my pathetic pocket and take money which I actually NEED.

On a lighter note, I gleaned this from the Historical Novel Society:

This, among other news, was presented at: The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), a primary source of intelligence on what's happening in the book business, held its sixth At the annual "Making Information Pay" conference of the Book Industry Study Group – this piece of info came out. Interesting reading for historical novelists.

"Jim King of Nielsen BookScan noted that over the past five years, sales of adult nonfiction were up overall 11.1 percent, but declined in 2008. In adult nonfiction, travel was down 4.6 percent, biography and autobiography rose 34.1 percent and business was up 19.4 percent. Sales of adult fiction were up 8.9 percent during the past five years. Within the fiction category, general fiction was up 23.3 percent, graphic novels rose 52.7 percent, mystery and detective titles were down 12.7 percent, literary fiction rose 86.1 percent, historical fiction was up 24.1 percent and political fiction was up 157.7 percent."

 

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