He tells us not to worry
about book sales too much and focus on larger issues.
Not exact matches
The other thing
too is to just be real, don't be a
sales machine, and talk
about your
book.
Writers with modest
sales and / or career ambitions can be satisfied with an author mill, as long as it does a decent job of
book production and isn't
too extreme
about cover pricing.
For me, I think distribution and
sales would be
too difficult, particularly considering I want to reach the schools market, and I already know how they work, which is hard for me to access (while not actually «self - publishing» before I was responsible for placing a
book about how to become a policewoman in Australia into educational outlets at secondary and tertiary levels and it was not only hard work but incredibly time and money consuming
too, so if someone can do that side for me at a reasonable cost, I'd always prefer it.)
I hope Steve will not be
too mad with me if I reveal his advice that you want to be writing
books in categories where you can get
books ranking at 20,000 or better —
about 5
sales a day.
With «The Lion's Gate,» the
book that we were talking
about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was
too big a
book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a
sales force and all that.
Writing good
sales copy (the description of the
book on your amazon page) is an art and a science — most authors are very bad
about summarizing their story into an attention grabbing, intrigue building lead - in (without giving
too much away).
Social networks are by now
too much crowded and the chances to see your post
about your new
book for
sale, exhibited for free, are more and more diminishing.
However, there was a lot of talk
about how pricing ebooks
too low can actually have a detrimental effect on
book sales.
So does Pinter have a point
about how
too much online networking can threaten
book sales?
With the advent of Amazon, media consumers could suddenly buy
books online as soon as they saw, or heard
about, or read
about the author... so
book promotion opportunities could become
sales opportunities,
too.
It's no surprise to me that some traditional publishers think this way — they have long cared more
about sales that reader satisfaction and relied for
too long (forever) on being the only source of
books while selling the idea that they have some mysterious and unknowable skill — and 90 % of
books fail anyway donchaknow?
Jeff Bezos says we worry
too much
about change - Kindle owners read more
books and recent figures appeared to show that physical
book sales were not being harmed by the digital switchover.
Publishers have access to
sales data
about their
books, with services such as Nielsen BookScan and Above the Treeline (though to be fair that doesn't help
too much with ebooks), but until Author Earnings there has been no centralized place for indie authors to find data
about ebook
sales.