Mark Coker Surveys 2015 Ebook Sales on Smashwords

In his annual survey of ebook trends on the Smashwords platform, CEO Mark Coker noted that fiction, specifically romance, dominated 2015 sales, and that the sweet spot for ebook pricing shifted between $2.99 and $3.99.

In a presentation prepared for the recent RT Booklovers Convention in Las Vegas, Coker surveyed a variety of trends extracted from data generated by the Smashwords platform. Smashwords distributes more than 300,000 e-book titles from more than 100,000 authors/publishers.