Sentences with phrase «author sales listing»

After spending some time yesterday trying to find a book for my mother and absolutely refusing to pay $ 10.99 — $ 13.99 for e-books, I appreciated going to the Indie Author Sales listing and finding books that didn't cost the price of a meal out.

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He is the bestselling author of Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $ 100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com, which has been referred to as «The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley» and has ranked # 1 on Amazon's telemarketing list for the past two years.

The self - published authors mentioned below are a combination of things: bestsellers on the NYT's lists, part of the «Amazon's million» book club, and some, like Ksenia Anske, are not even making money off their book sales yet, but already have thousands of supporters.

Ask successful authors what single method guarantees book sales, and the answer isn't «great editing» or a «knock - em - dead cover», but the power of their email list to enthuse readers, make their books visible and generate reviews and sales.

«We are honored to be included in the 2018 Fast Growing Independent Publishers list, and congratulate our authors, sales force, staff, and partners on this achievement,» Ms. Brown stated.

Some authors have used FB ads to increase their mailing lists, but for actual book sales, I haven't seen anyone who can analyze this.

Self - publishing has not only democratized publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for authors to publish at low or no cost, own all the rights, control the pricing and timetable for publishing, and get their books listed for sale and distribution on major outlets and platforms — e.g. Amazon, kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google and more.

The critical «proof of the pudding» will be if book listings convert to increased sales for authors, and that will always be the bottom dollar.

Smashwords authors and publishers will earn 45 % list from Odilo sales, the same as from Smashwords library aggregators OverDrive and Baker & Taylor Axis 360.

With the rise of third party distribution channels such as Amazon, an individual author can write a book, prepare it for digital distribution, and get it listed for sale on a global marketplace.

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

Smashwords is a self - publishing service that allows authors to submit eBooks and list them for sale on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and other major retailers.

Essentially, author Lani Sarem and B - list former child actor Thomas Ian Nicholas bought the book in bulk from retailers that report sales to the bestseller list, only the book wasn't actually available.

Best - selling author Hugh Howey gets this, and uses his back list to drive sales of his front list.

As XinXii is an European based company, we have to warrant two aspects: - we have to pay the German VAT to the tax office for each eBook sold (19 %)- the VAT must be always included in the final price of all products listed on XinXii So after a sale, we have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the author will get his percentage of the net price as provision / royalty.

Promoting one book on an author mailing list can lead to sales of your other, full - priced books.

Royalties splits for sales on printshopcentral.com will be as follow: Author will receive 80 % of list price for each sale of a Printed Book & / or a Digital Book.

Authors keep 100 % of their rights, set their own list prices, and enjoy the convenience of a simple, powerful, and elegantly designed sales dashboard.

The direct sales are skewing the results and shouldn't be used here to complete the analysis since most (fiction) authors wont have the direct sales channels that you employ (e.g. the how - to non-fiction books that you sell and the sending of all of your authors on this email list to buy other products and get kick - back affiliate commission on it.)

-- Derek Murphy @Creativindie, How to format your book's sales page listing on Amazon.com (through KDP or Author Central)

If readers read an additional 20 % more, the author and publisher get credit for a full sale of the book, 60 % of the list price.

However, self - published authors still have a chance to make the ebook best seller lists (NY Times and WSJ) because sales data for ebooks is submitted by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple and Google.

Many, many traditionally published authors are working to add either back - list titles they've gotten the rights back on, or bonus books (novellas, short stories) through indie publishing to boost the sales of their books under contract.

For your author site, you'll want a home page, a page listing your books with sale information, a page with personal information about you, and possibly a separate page for posting blog style articles.

By listing my books with Smashwords, I was missing out on the options available through KDP Select, and at that point Amazon was meeting my needs as an author for sales much better.

The approach usually centers on the author buying 3,000 — 9,000 copies of his or her own book through a behind - the - scenes agent who places the sales through retailers that report to the bestseller lists.

Authors / publishers / agents receive 60 % of the list price on sales through major retailers and up to 85 % of net sales through the -LSB-...]

The truth is there is too much competition, and unless your publisher is doing brilliant content marketing, building a genre specific email list, helping you build your amazing author website and boosting your optin offer, counseling you on social media strategy and long term book sales, you've basically signed away a big chunk of your sales in exchange for editing, formatting and design.

QUESTION: Have you used a mailing list to increase traffic on your author website or boost sales of your book?

You should be aware of the situation, but also know that this massive book promos aren't the only way to sell books (I know tons of authors in multiauthor boxsets who hit the list but don't make money, or see a significant increase in book sales).

Re «one other factor that still plagues authors is the seemingly random and lengthy delays in the publishing industry,» I would point out, in defense of publishers, that B&N wants to know what's on a list 8 months out for a sales call 6 - 7 months before pub.

20) If indie authors are 20 % of Amazon's total sales, then it's hard to imagine that indie authors aren't on that list to be improved.

Result Source is no longer a viable option for authors looking to get that extra boost in their book sales and make the bestseller list.

Excluding the sample, once the reader reads an additional 20 % of the book, a full sale is triggered and the Smashwords author earns 60 % of the list price, up to a maximum of about $ 12.50 per read.

The crux of the issue is authors using services such as ResultSource to inflate their sales figures, effectively buying their way onto the bestseller lists.

Information on specific sales data is about e-readers and ebooks is often hard to come by, especially from self - published authors who may not have their books listed with some of the major book tracking companies.

Past moves have included adding whole new sales territories in foreign countries, and only revealing to authors that their books were available in Mexico, for example, when they found the country listed on their sales dashboards.

Aggie Villaneuva wrote Amazon Categories: Create Best Sellers to address the problem that many self - published authors fail to list their book in the appropriate categories leading to lost sales.

Founded in 1977, Andrew Nurnberg Associates represents a distinguished list of authors and is also proud to represent leading UK and US agent and publisher clients for the sale of translation rights via our offices in the UK and overseas.

All you have to do is enter a book title, a subject, author or publisher and TitleZ within seconds comes up with a comprehensive list of books from Amazon.com plus historical sales ranking data.

Any author with a book listed for sale on Amazon can sign up for an Amazon Author Central acauthor with a book listed for sale on Amazon can sign up for an Amazon Author Central acAuthor Central account.

Includes tools and templates to help you build your author email list at events, ignite online sales with the power of promos sites and get book reviews.

For self - published authors, discount giveaway lists are really the lowest hanging fruit to driving book sales.

So my perspective on all this may be a little different from either an established author with an extensive back - list or a struggling newbie yet to make a «professional» sale.

All the rest — the literary fiction, the cookbooks, the self - help books, the bread and butter midlist books that now make up 80 percent of every publisher's list — those books they'd cherry pick from self - published authors who'd already tested the market and had the credible sales to prove it.

When I asked the authors about their goals, they didn't mention hitting lists or even making sales.

I'm also aware that Amazon has started to crack down on ANY kind of book launch that focuses on boosting sales rank (which can be conflated with «rank manipulation»)-- which means using BookBub or even your own email list to sell copies is becoming dangerous for legit authors (more on that here).

Author Lynn Viehl had total sales of 61,663 on her 2009 paranormal romance, Twilight Fall, earning her a spot on The New York Times mass market paperback bestseller list but it wasn't enough to earn her any royalties over the $ 50,000 advance she received from her publisher.

Due to this timing, self - published authors are able to list their books for sale online without having any up - front costs.

Tools and templates to help you build your author email list, help you blog, ignite online sales and make the business of selling books direct to retailers, organisations and at expos easier.