Take a look
at other books in your genre and subgenre and compare prices.
If you don't have strong feelings already, take a look
at other books in your genre.
I usually suggest authors have a look
at other books in their genre and price their book accordingly so as to be competitive.
All I can say is to go to a bookstore and look
at other books in your genre.
I look
at other books in my genre, my books show up in the alsobot list.
Not exact matches
Researchers
at the New School for Social Research
in New York have determined that reading literary fiction —
books that have literary merit and don't fit into a
genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of
others.
Like our list of comic
book - based superhero movies and
other genre movies, we're not including production info such as cast, crew or plot; this is just an easy - to - read look
at what's to come
in North American theaters.
For a guy who has edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and
others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights
in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong with a wildly successful
genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only so many painfully precious lit fic
books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people
at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation
in book marketing and sub-genres.
I like to see
at least on
other book in a particular
genre — let someone else be the guinea pig and test the market demand first!
Learn how to set the right retail price of your
book so you can sell your
book at a competitive price compared to
other books in your
genre.
For example, they can look
at a
book and then (like shopping
in real estate) they compare to
other books of the same length
in the same
genre with the same basic author recognition.
When designing your
book cover, have a look
at other designs
in your
genre — what palettes do they use?
Write guest blog posts for each
other and while you're
at it, expand the circle with additional authors
in your
genre and help each
other sell
books.
Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish
other material «for fun»
in different
genres, or
at different lengths and with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill
in the gaps between big
books with their traditional house.
Other factors include the level of interest BookBrowse's audience have
in a particular theme /
genre and the number of
books already scheduled for a particular time period (
at any given time we are usually scheduled about 2 months
in advance).
If you plug
other books in your
genre at the same time as you plug your new release, and if people buy both, it's likely that you'll appear on the first page of those
other books» also - boughts.
It's nice to support the success of
other authors
in your
genre; you want to be careful not to share crappy
books (and I'd never ask anyone to do that: I'll provide a full copy or
at least excerpts of the
book so they can check it out before committing).
917 reviews and 4.6 average, which is great, except if you look
at the reviews on that
book you will see people who rate that
book excellent then rate
other books in the
genre very poorly.
She'll look
at the price (be comparable to
other books in your
genre).
Okay, you're looking
at other books you know are similar
in content or
genre to your
book, you're taking notes and making rough sketches to get a feeling for how your cover should look, you're doing all the right homework to lead up to your cover design.
Even if that figure above of 92 % of Amazon's sales being kindle is
in units, not dollars and even if bringing
in the sales
other than the
genre sales (which Howey has shown dwarf all
other Amazon sales), it's still very likely that
at least 70 of their dollars
in book sales are from ebooks.
Doing targeted marketing
at fans of
other similar authors
in the same
genre (Facebook ads etc) would be a perfectly fine strategy to find new readers for the
book, and also help get that «Also bought» positioning.
You write
in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on
genre; you workshop with
other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern
at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor
at a major publishing house; your
book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.
It can be helpful to look
at the backs of
books in your
genre for
other ideas.
So I think if people can... Or ask
other authors, so especially indies, look
at the back of people's
books and find editors
in your
genre and then basically, I can't even remember how I found Jen.