Sentences with phrase «books cost thousands»

Not to mention how slowly you'll be able to publish if each book costs thousands of dollars to produce.

Not exact matches

One major highlight of the Christmas Book is its «Fantasy Gifts» section, which offers billionaires who have everything the chance to buy one - of - a-kind luxury items, travel packages, and experiences that cost thousands — and even millions — of dollars.

As a Prime member, you can now read as much as you like from over a thousand top Kindle books, magazines, short works, books with Audible narration, comics, children's books and more — all at no additional cost.

There's a reason that the information in college costs thousands while the information the general public has is just a $ 20 book in their favorite book store.....

keep in mind that I was at her event and about to begin a book signing there at any moment which cost thousands to attend.

So keep that in mind when considering your book's production and price point; you want the book to look nice and fit in someone's purse / bag / backpack (and 6 × 9 is a little hefty for fiction books), but you also don't want your epic fantasy at 200 - thousand words to cost $ 20 to print at cost (the flat fee you pay simply for the materials, without the distributor's or your profits factored in yet).

You know, a publishing house that could offer royalty advances, but might also require the author to pay some of the costs, up front, and to provide a pre-launch list of people (maybe a thousand or more) who have ordered advance copies of the book.

I've had mega-successful returns where I've sold tens of thousands of books and I've had disappointing returns where I have not covered my promotion costs.

Based on a pick - and - choose menu of services that includes more than just editing — which right away is a departure from the standard, as too many «author services» companies require all or none expensive packages — the platform is delving into things like review services that will send out copies of an author's book to their channels, along with talks of translation (an ungodly expense for indie authors that can easily cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars per language) and audiobook services.

OTOH, a used e-reader can be had for $ 30 - $ 60, and using Project Gutenberg, can be filled with thousands of books at no cost.

That's three grand you were expected to cough up to the company with a total bill of over ten thousand dollars if the book costs five bucks to produce.

Hire a professional book designer for both your ebook and print edition layouts, which can cost into the thousands of dollars depending on the intricacy or complexity of your layouts.

That's not so easy when you can only print your book in short runs (or on demand) while your competitor has thousands of copies printed at once for a lower cost per book.

I've got a thousand or more copies of that book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another print run — and I need to decide if sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more books, or if I need to go to a small digital print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount as per our contract).

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

The device will cost $ 99 and the company boasts it will store thousands of books and has weeks of battery life.

More to Prime — Kindle books In October 2012, Amazon introduced the Kindle Owner's Lending Library, offering Prime members» access to hundreds of thousands of Kindle books to borrow at no additional cost.

And you might end up with a bad book contract (one that could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars — or more — and prevent you from selling future books to other publishers).

«Tens of thousands of people have read this book, and the libraries and patrons got it at no cost, thanks to Michael Malone and Sourcebooks,» said Potash.

Don't get daunted with the cost of publishing a book, we're not talking about thousands of dollars and we're not talking about going to an upstart self - publishing house who will only rip you off.

At another conference a month later, we printed only a postcard with the website address to access the book online, which saved thousands of dollars in print costs.

Independent publishers, you've already told us you love Pressbooks because it makes it so easy for you to generate book files in the formats you need to publish in ebookstores and print - on - demand, for hundreds to thousands less than they would cost you

The true cost of a book to you — be it a copy at a time or hundreds / thousands of them.

Whereas in traditional publishing the first book costs hundreds of thousands because there's a whole print run, and then on every single book there are margins for the retailer, distribution, publisher, agent, and so on — and if the book doesn't sell out, there are further transport, warehouse, and pulping costs.

They've written to market, have 10 (or more) books out (and they're good, follow tropes, etc) have great blurbs, great covers, a big mailing list, a free reader magnet, and use thousands of dollars in advertisement when the book releases, yet they still don't come close to making a living (most only make a few hundred dollars after production costs).

But the ability to self - publish a book is only democratized if it doesn't cost thousands for you as an indie author to enter the market.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

Prime members get unlimited access to over a thousand books and magazines, millions of songs, and thousands of movies and TV episodes — at no additional cost

iBooks features thousands of free and low - cost books every day in their iBooks app.

When print - on - demand was first introduced, the the unit cost (the cost per book) of printing just one book at a time was far higher with print - on - demand than it was for a print run of thousands.

The software for designing a book cover costs thousands of dollars.

These services, which can cost authors tens of thousands of dollars, likewise fail to deliver what they promise: more book sales and more opportunities for authors.

If the wholesale cost of the book is $ 3.25 and the potential from giving away your book is in the thousands, the return on investment is high and therefore a valuable tool for use as a giveaway.

It's a cost effective way to have print books available without having thousands of print books blocking fridge access at home, while reducing the need for publishers to pulp unsold books.

Shelling out several thousand dollars to front all the costs for their book usually doesn't pose a problem for them.

Author funds book publication in exchange for expertise and assistance of the publisher; cost is often thousands of dollars.

It costs these companies thousands of dollars or much more to publish a book with a large labor force under massive bureaucracies.

This tablet comes in at a very reasonable price, and for members of Amazon Prime, you can have access to thousands of books and magazines as well as songs, TV shows and a photo storage system at no extra cost.

This costs thousands of dollars and who has the money, these days, to put out that kind of money to get their book published?

The initial cost to self - publish a book varies from zero (to electronically self - publish with services like Barnes & Noble's NOOK Press or Amazon.com's CreateSpace or some print - on - demand book services), to tens of thousands of dollars (if you want lots of physical books with all the «extras» like book marketing and publicity).

E-books, paperbacks, and even hardcover books can be designed and printed for the self - publishing author, with a print - on - demand program saving authors thousands of dollars from upfront printing costs.

... not sure where the above comments re self publishing costing thousands comes from... im delighted with Lulu and it did nt cost me a penny to publish my first book Maggie's Shadow and now available everywhere in print and electronic form... i did all the work myself and when stuck asked for help and Lulu's response was almost immediate and either the following day or the next providing invaluable insight on how to proceed ~ and free... i'm now marketing myself and have already agreed to place my book on consignment at one indie bookshop and with others ive yet to call... my library opened their doors to introduce me as a local writer and the local paper just printed the event... little by little its happening but it requires diligence and a willingness to promote one's work... i learn something new everyday and plan to submit my book to many of the self published contests that are now available... i would recommend Lulu to other authors tired of waiting for an agent

Last week I was chatting with a group of new authors who'd been told that it would cost them several thousand dollars to self publish a book.

In this contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry - standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's book.

Depending upon the book, the hired hands will likely cost between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars.

Normally, it costs $ 2.99 per month, but when you purchase this tablet, you get a one - year subscription for free, which gives you access to tens of thousands of videos, books and websites.

E-books have several advantages over paper books: they cost less to produce and distribute, they're better for the environment, they can be downloaded instantly, thousands can be stored on a single device, they never get old or have pages fall out, you can search them and pop up word definitions, etc..

As a self - published author, the cost of printing and distributing thousands of print copies of your book is simply out of reach.

How to format your book for Kindle (avoid the common mistakes most publishers make that cost them hours of their time, and thousands in lost sales)

Helps you get as much traffic as possible by submitting your book to websites with thousands of hungry readers... (done manually, this could cost you $ 100 per book!).