SWM wrote:ericth wrote:I came across this link, which tracks paper book sales and either Sci Fi sells a ton more e-books than I had realized or the market segment is far smaller than I thought:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t ... -2012.html
The most relevant line is ART ranked at #7
7. A Rising Thunder by David Weber. Baen Books. 25,348
I'm afraid the Science Fiction market is not as large as you thought. The proportion of science fiction sales in print versus electronic format are not significantly different from other genres. Those numbers do not surprise me in the least.
What really bothers me is that four of the top 10 sf book sales are media titles (Star Wars and HALO). It doesn't surprise me, but it bothers me. At that, it's better than some years, actually. Media science fiction books have dominated shelf space for far too long.
Eh, media science fiction has a huge advertisement campaign - the original media.
It doesn't surprise me in the least that media science fiction tops the science fiction charts.