Sentences with phrase «selling indie books»

What if someone did a comprehensive apples - to - apples comparison of Amazon's top - selling indie books and the top - selling big - five - published books?

66 % of the best selling indie books on Amazon.co.uk were KU titles, which is very close to the 68 % we found in the US.

Best selling Indie books typically take months, not years to produce, and certainly not 50 drafts.

The selling point: indie booksellers selling indie books.

Horror seems to be more at home in selling indie books rather than any big two titles by and large.

We're going to be talking about how do you sell your indie book into chain stores, and when I say chain stores, I mean like Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Target.

B&N sells indie books on the Nook.

Most bookstores prefer to sell indie books on consignment because the consignment model is less stressful to the store's cashflow: authors don't get paid until after the books sell.

For bookstores to stock and sell an Indie book they must have standard terms: the book must be returnable and have a 40 - 55 % discount.

Not exact matches

Steve Scott, a top - selling indie author of self - help books on Amazon, often turns to Facebook communities to crowdsource his next book titles.

Purchase our cookbook at the following retail outlets: Amazon USA Amazon UK Amazon Canada Alibris Abe Books Barnes and Noble Half.com Indie Bound Books - a-Million Powell's Prepbooks Independent book stores and anywhere cookbooks are sold.

It is well known among the indie writer community that the best way to sell books is through word of mouth.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

I know that Lindsay's MG goblin book (which is cool, by the way) didn't really sell well despite good reviews and so I wonder if, in the end, Middle Grade is just not a place you can go as an Indie?

For a writer who kept control of their property and was indie published, if a book is selling at the level of about 3 per month, the writer would push it some, or write more in the series, or write some short stories to boost it, or do a Bookbub, or who knows what....

With the growth of the indie publishing industry, more and more authors are choosing to sell their books directly or through online retailers.

As always whenever I put one of my indie books on sale, the price applies to all places where the book is sold, and also to anyone who'd like to buy the book directly from me (which is the best option if you'd like the fancy PDF).

Well, hopes are that it means even an indie author could make it to those shelves if their book is selling well enough.

The indie writers who are now wanting to go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling authors ala Castle.

Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance) author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).

And the funny thing is that these indie writers are already selling their books for 99 cents.

I self - publish, so I do pretty much everything myself; but I've heard several traditionally published indie authors say they were surprised to find out that even with a traditional publisher, they were expected to do a lot of the marketing for their own books, particularly if the publisher is small, since they were * not * a celebrity name that could sell itself.

That put a heavy financial burden on the independent writer not published by a traditional publishing company, because with offset printing an indie author would have to pay to print thousands of copies of their book that weren't guaranteed to sell.

He started off indie, sold a couple books to New York, had both of them take off in sales, won an award or two, and has a very, very active social media visibility.

This won't work for other stores but then those won't sell as many books for the average indie publisher.

If your book is making $ 3,000 per month for you in indie publishing, you might not want to want to sell it or any book for a $ 10,000 advance for the life of the contract.

At the same time there are certain books which I think would be a hard sell as an indie and might actually have a better chance via a traditional route.

Gaughran uses some gross percentage breakdowns on best - sellers reported by the likes of Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Kobo to extrapolate for the industry in aggregate, concluding that indie books account for 25 % -30 % of all books sold these days.

Print on demand is perfect for most indie authors because it's hard to judge how well your book will sell, and ordering copies before they're sold can be a massive expense.

But in those rejections, there's hope for the indie writer — if you can develop your own platform and show that you've sold a few thousand copies of your self - published book, it's very likely that you will catch an agent or publisher's attention.

GravisLector.com is a new bookstore exclusive for Indie Authors to help promote and sell their books while earning better profits.

There's no data, but it's pretty clear that free and $ 0.99 books ensure that revenues from indie sales couldn't possibly be a very meaningful number compared to units «sold.»

Joel Friedlander, who's been designing print books for decades and blogs at the Book Designer, told me in an email that when indie authors try to sell books to stores or arrange an event, they find out the «awful truth»:

This workshop will have a focus on selling more books, indie publishing, the business of indie and hybrid, and everything that has changed and progressed since the last business master class.

Indie authors might be doing well right now selling their under priced e-books, but the Amazon is making more money right now selling physical books.

If an Indie writer puts only one work out and sells 10 copies a year I can see your point of view, but Indie authors sells 10 copies every hour, and if readers buy their books and enjoy reading them, those Indies ARE authors, whatever you can think otherwise.

I have sold foreign rights to my indie published books.

I would reject the idea that selling a million books is the barometer of success, but if it is, I personally am friends with more indie authors who have hit this benchmark than I have fingers, so try again.

Additionally, because traditionally published books tend to sell for a higher price, they tend to draw an older audience whereas indie and small press books draw younger audiences (and since teens and those in their early twenties are the biggest group of readers right now, this isn't a bad thing).

Are there a lot of really horrible, badly - written books being sold by indie authors?

This article makes me wonder if he signed with a small publishing house and is not selling many books or is upset that an indie AUTHOR has sold more than him.

Foster, whose thirty - plus indie books have sold over one million copies and have landed on both the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers» lists, is also the founder of two sites for indie authors, World Literary Cafe and Fostering Success.

Indie authors can only start selling the book 90 days before the book's release date.

127 million / 528 million = 24 % of all adult fiction books of any format sold in the US in 2014 were indie adult fiction EBOOKS

I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that 99.9999 % (I might be missing a few nines) of all indie authors would love to have the problem of decreased sales due to this legal battle because that would mean they have a BIG 5 contract and are selling a lot of books.

As American John Locke becomes the first self - published writer to sell a million Kindle electronic books, the first «indie authors» to top the UK e-books chart explain their success.

I find it funny how indie writers (usually newer indie writers with only their first book out) always look to discounting their prices when a book or story isn't selling.

It has to do with how much you will pay the indie publisher for books to sell on your own at book events and signings.

Clearly, I as an indie author with very limited sales of a book or two a week should not be grouped with top authors selling a book or two a minute.

That is especially true when I can and have found indie authors and small press authors who sell their books at half that price or less.