| Authorgraph is an innovative service that allows authors to personally autograph Kindle and EPUB eBooks. The community has over 7,000 authors that are very engaged in the community and sign a copious amount of digital eBooks every day. The company is starting to mine into its big data and is able to tap into popular trends of hot genres, authors and a myriad of other factors. For the month of May the hottest genres were: “Romance”, “Teens (YA)”, and “Science Fiction”. We talked to various authors at Book Expo America, including bestselling author Sylvia Day. She mentioned that Paranormal Romance in general is getting harder to break into, due to the inundation of titles. Authorgraph has continued to see this sub-set of eBooks to be the most popular in their network of authors and people wanting autographs. Over the course of May, the most popular authors on the service that had the most autographs fulfilled was Sylvain Reynard, E.L. James, Raine Miller, Abbi Glines and Sylvia Day. This leads to further credence that Romance and Erotica are the hottest genre in all of publishing. The month of May had the following interesting trends, compared to April. Travel was up 83%, Health, Fitness, & Dieting: up 78%, Gay & Lesbian: up 76%, Sports & Outdoors: up 73% and Religion & Spirituality: down 57%. The CEO of Authograph, founder and CEO Evan Jacobs remarked “Many of these trends appear to be seasonal but I’m not sure what to make of the decline in Religion & Spirituality or the rise in Gay & Lesbian.” Next month, Authorgraph intends on monitoring the big data trends and will begin a predictive analysis of emerging authors and the genres that are on the rise. This type of data is useful to publishers and indie authors struggling to find their niche in the industry. Authorgraph Big Data Illuminates Trends in Digital Publishing is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, June 7, 2013
Authorgraph Big Data Illuminates Trends in Digital Publishing
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