Sentences with phrase «author copies do»

Even without the NaNo coupon, author copies don't cost much (CreateSpace prints author copies at a lower price).

Author copies don't cost much, but you still have to convince folks to buy a few.

Not exact matches

The owners, says Bianca Bosker, author of Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, are «dreaming of what they'll do with the riches they imagine they'll get when they one day sell them.»

When Christ Was Gay: http://www.soulforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=648 (original author's site has been sucked into the internet vortex, for the most part; thankfully someone did a copy - and - paste job!)

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

There are also more ancient copies being found through out the ancient world, meaning that our Bibles are becoming even more accurate You might say that any inaccuracy makes the Bible false, but Christians don't hold that translators are perfect, rather we hold that the original version give to the Biblical authors (weather that be Moses, David, John, Mark, Matthew, or Paul) were inspired by God and flawless.

And now I'm a published author with a wonderful husband and a burgeoning speaking career and I'll I can do is hate poor Ann Voskamp for selling more copies of her memoir than I've sold of mine.

The author admits that those who copied the manuscripts didn't get it right all of the time.

Now if the true issue is so clearly defined in the article — THE ISSUE OF WHAT THE LOST MUST BELIEVE TO BE SAVED — and I believe it is, and like I said, I can scan my own copy of the article with with notes and numbering in my own handwriting — and if your position on this issue is so Biblically solid, then why do you not deal with the real issue at hand, rather than raising all these sorts of protests and all this fuss about the author that can be directly quashed by quotes from the articles?

We honestly don't know anything about any eyewitnesses other than what «unknown authors» have written, and we don't know how many of those stories from those unknown authors are simply copy - cat stories — just someone from a different town that heard the tale, but happened to know how to write.

Note: While I did receive a complimentary copy of this book for review, I was not paid by the publisher or author to review and feature it.

Mark Earls is the author of a new book, Copy, Copy, Copy: How to do smarter marketing by using other people's ideas

«It appears that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others, but the outcome is generally the same for authors who copy extensively: Their papers don't get cited much.»

Only when there is no obvious reason for an author to have copied significant chunks of text from already published work — particularly if that previous work is not cited and has no overlap in authorship — does the software affix a «flag» to the article, including links to the papers from which it has text overlap.

«The extra copy of the Guy1 gene is only passed down to half of the progeny, leaving some females among the mosquitoes that did not inherit the gene in the next generation,» said Frank Criscione, who is the first author of the paper and worked on the project when he was a graduate student in the Tu laboratory.

He is the author of the bestselling ebook, The Truth about Six Pack Abs — which has sold over 1 million copies in several languages, as well as the best - sellers The Fat Burning Kitchen, Do This, Burn Fat: 101 Sneaky Fat Loss Tricks, and The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging.

«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could sell a single book copy, much less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»

If you're interested in reading it and can't find a hard copy (in case you don't have a Kindle) let me know and I'll hook you up with the author herself to purchase a copy!

I can point to moments of good fortune in the life of the book, but then, so can other authors whose books sold either far more or far fewer copies than mine did.

Because free electronic books are awesome, I'm spreading the word that authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are celebrating the release of the latest Liaden novel by doing a contest to hand out thirty - six copies of the omnibus edition of the first three novels, entitled The Dragon Variation.

I do wish libraries would buy more copies of independent work, for example, especially of local authors and that book clubs would take advantage.

Yes, they do light editing (but expect the author to have a round already completed before submission); yes they do the cover design and back cover copy (it doesn't mean that you will like, much less love it); yes, they do the interior design (ditto here); and no, they don't do much in marketing (they expect you be the lead and underwriter of any campaign).

While I can see why this might concern some agents, most authors also don't end up writing their own back cover copy either.

Although, I think it's possible to find other ways to get readers, like your advanced copy deal that you did, I can see how some authors might want to do it this way, and still get money for it.

Often, authors are great at writing in their genre, but they don't know the first thing about writing the marketing copy that will sell their book to readers.

The arrangement is also potentially a lot more expensive for authors, e.g. Archway offers Simon & Schuster copy editing for $ 4000 beyond what you have already paid (for that price I did it myself for The Russian Embassy Party).

As an author, I published my book about a month ago and am pleasantly surprised to find a hand full of copies are selling to people I don't know, with little marketing effort by me.

I love to create little penguins of real people — in fact, I did a bunch as I was sending out copies of the book to authors I admire.

Their hope is that a small number of people who have read the complete book for the purpose of doing a review, will report any content errors directly to the author, publisher or the website that the advanced reader copy was downloaded from.

«We are delighted to work with Scribd and Oyster to offer this exciting new model for readers to find and read eBooks, and to do so in a manner that respects the value of our authors» creative endeavors and supports our mutual goals of selling the most possible copies of their books.»

Even if you don't deem us «professional authors» (although I've sold 50,000 copies of just one of my books, so...) at least we use professional standards in our writing, which is apparently more than can be said for your writing.

Let's do the math on a hypothetical book with a list price of $ 10: At a 55 % discount to retailers, the publisher would receive $ 4.50 per copy, minus the author's 15 % royalty of $ 1.50.

Wait, I thought all you had to do was sell 1,000 copies and you're a professional author.

If an author — who does know how many copies of her book she has sold, and in what markets — can not share information with other authors, then it creates an every - man - for - himself atmosphere in book sales.

When Roger Straus or Lucy Morello brought a new author to Frankfurt, they all jumped, as they did for Rob Routman, the head - turning editor in chief of Owl House — sometimes, it was rumored, without reading all that much (or, let's be honest, any) of the manuscript — because often, or often enough anyway, the books «worked,» i.e., sold copies back home.

I'm also really sorry for people who have lost their incomes, but totally agree that Amazon has done an extraordinary thing by paying authors for borrowed copies of their work.

Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few copies on consignment.

If you're getting into Christian publishing, here's the best thing I can tell you about marketing: you need a plan, but you don't have to copy every bestselling author.

After working with fellow indie authors in NIWA for a few years now, I've decided that it's stupid that I don't have print copies of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple other places that carry books published via CreateSpace / KDP).

I prefer not to go by T.R. as I think too many authors lately have been doing this to copy J.K. Rowling.

«Real» authors do this all the time — sending out dozens of advance copies to influential reviewers and members of the press hoping to gain a favorable review.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

Your First 1000 Copies: The Step - by - Step Guide to Marketing Your Book aims to help authors do exactly that.

QUESTION: Do you have any tips to offer self - published authors trying to write the back cover or jacket copy for their book?

As I'm sure you're aware self - published authors don't have a lot of money and as a self - published author yourself, I know you'd appreciate me asking you to appreciate this and perhaps buy the book instead of getting a FREE copy of it...?

True, I did feel I got the copy writing right with this one — probably because I put it together in one night and didn't stress about trying to sell it to people (I actually said, very clearly, that this offer wasn't for everyone and most authors probably shouldn't buy it).

If the publisher is unable to invest the time or energy to approach those smaller outlets, the author should take it upon herself to do so, usually with digital copies to avoid expense.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

You have to pay the author's advance and royalties, the cover artist, the editor, the copy editor, the typesetter, the sales force, and that doesn't even get into distributor costs or the percentages taken by retailers.

Freemium self - publishers use tactics that aren't quite so obvious, but include overcharging for additional services (like the custom covers and book videos), overcharging for author copies, and the coup - de-grace: manipulating you into actually giving away your e-book to their customers under the guise of «marketing» (but, you only «earn the right» to do this if they have an exclusive on your book, thus preventing you from making money elsewhere).