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authors and publishers sell more books using data - driven best practices and inspiring case studies.
Cambridge, MA About Blog We love helping
authors and publishers sell more books using data - driven best practices and inspiring case studies.
We only make money if we help
our authors and publishers sell books.
Rob is the founder of WildFire Marketing, a consulting practice that helps
authors and publishers sell books like wildfire.
Ganxy, a New York - based startup that helps
authors and publishers sell and market ebooks through a set of online tools, has added the option to sell ebooks as bundles.
In fact, discounted Amazon books help
authors and publishers sell in higher volume while earning publishers and authors the same per - unit amount.
How can Book Cave help
authors and publishers sell more books?
During the past 25 years I've helped
authors and publishers sell over a billion books.
This case study is one example of how Rob Eagar helps
authors and publishers sell books like wildfire.
Zola Books, a startup social ebook retailer that will let
authors and publisher sell titles directly when it launches publicly this fall, has hired Seale Ballenger, formerly at HarperCollins, and Mary Ann Naples, formerly at OpenSky.
Not exact matches
Publishers will have to explore how to listen to
authors, observe what
sells books
and find a way to adapt
and be useful in that scenario.
All those years ago, when everything was still possible, book
publishers might have
sold authors instead of books,
and magazines
and newspapers might have done the same with journalists
and commentators.
There are more
publishers to choose from now than ever before,
and many
authors make rushed decisions that result in poorly - produced products that don't
sell.
A
publisher pays the
author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars,
and then invests an enormous amount of resources in producing
and marketing the book without any guarantee that it will
sell.
IMPORTANT: Jack Canfield (co-creator of the Chicken Soup series), Jim Hightower populist organizer
and speaker, best -
selling author of many books,
and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Robert B. Reich (former US Secretary of Labor), Anne Holland (founding
publisher of MarketingSherpa.com) Ken Evoy (founder of sitesell / com
and siebuildit.com),
and several other prominent people endorsed the original, self - published version, Principled Profit: Marketing that Puts People First, but did not respond to requests to update their endorsements.
BITCOIN PRICE OUTLOOK, its
authors, its
publisher and its affiliates (collectively, «BITCOIN PRICE OUTLOOK») is not an investment advisory service, nor a registered investment advisor or brokerdealer
and does not purport to tell or suggest which securities customers should buy or
sell for themselves.
I think it was Jack Canfield (
author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small
publisher and then going on to
sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.
That reminds me, I was looking on the Hesperian Foundation website (
publishers of «Where There is No Doctor»
and other such titles for developing countries,
and which illustrious
author should they be
selling in the store but Ina May, «America's leading midwife» (or something similarly gushy).
Read Book marketing
and ebook promotion tips for book
authors, book
publishers, self - publishing
authors,
and e-book
publishers who want to
sell more books.
It will
sell plenty of copies for its
publisher and yield high - fee lectures for its
author.
Guest Post by Nina Amir Before sharing an excerpt from Nina Amir's new book, The
Author Training Manual (Develop Markets, Craft Books That
Sell, Become the
Author Publishers Want,
and Self - Pu...
It also works for
publishers and authors who want to
sell ebooks with Aerio.
Publishers and authors can submit their content
and make it available to Kindle customers by using Amazon's new Digital Text Platform (DTP), a fast
and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload
and sell their books in the Kindle Store.
We have many accomplished
authors and publishers who are very knowledgeable about all things «self - publishing with KDP» whose titles are currently
selling in Amazon's Kindle Store.
However,
authors of such books can certainly make themselves more attractive to literary agents
and publishers by bolstering their platform, since having influence
and a large following is one indicator of an
author's ability to get exposure
and sell books.
For each Kindle book
sold,
authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs.
The WOOL OMNIBUS was
selling well enough for me to quit my day job
and make a go of it as a full - time
author, while at the same time, major
publishers were making incredible offers for the rights to my book.
But what about the opposite side of the coin: the best -
selling traditionally published
authors who have kicked their
publishers to the curb, focused on self - publishing their books both past
and present?
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.
Over the course of her dynamic career she has
sold over seven hundred titles to every major
publisher,
and has built a client list of more than forty
authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense
and erotica.
Publishing expert Alan Rinzler explained in an interview at Forbes, «By definition, the old model of the
author platform was the writer's public visibility
and reputation that the
publisher's publicity department used to promote
and sell the book... We insisted on a stellar track record in book sales
and appearances on radio
and TV.
Prices climbed
and plummeted from week - to - week, self - published
authors achieved more than one No. 1 best -
selling title
and a few from «big six» (
and later, «five»)
publishers clung to the top slot for weeks at a time.
SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable
authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they
sell.
The Book
Publisher's Handbook by Eric Kampmann The Self - Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print,
and Sell Your Own Book by Dan Poynter The Complete Guide to Self - Publishing by Tom
and Marilyn Ross 1001 Ways to Market Your Books by John Kremer Business
and Legal Forms for
Authors and Self -
Publishers by Tad Crawford Getting It Printed by Mark Beach
and Eric Kenly Beyond the Bookstore by Brian Jud Publishing for Profit by Thomas Woll Red Hot Internet Publicity by Penny Sansevieri
By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping
Authors Become
Publishers since 1995 Hundreds of Print on Demand - POD companies are willing to help with your book,
selling you a package with one of their ISBNs, publishing your book,
and paying you a royalty on your book sales.
Brian Jud is the Executive Director of the Association of
Publishers for Special Sales (APSS — www.bookapss.org — formerly SPAN)
and author of How to Make Real Money
Selling Books.
There's a popular belief among
authors that if they self - publish
and demonstrate that their books can generate huge
sells, a traditional
publisher will take an interest in their work.
Author may, with
Publisher's consent, license other parties to reproduce, display, perform, distribute
and sell copies of the Work, so long as such copies are not directly competitive with
Publisher's.
Kindle Direct Publishing is a fast
and easy way for
publishers and authors to start
selling to Kindle customers worldwide via Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac
and Android - based devices.
Look at her deals on
Publishers Marketplace,
and then look at the
authors she has
sold who are now with other agents.
Last year I established the Billion Book Initiative to help a new generation of
authors and publishers to
sell another billion books.
The classic books include: AuthorYOU: Creating
and Building Your
Author and Book Platforms by Judith Briles How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & BooBoos by Judith Briles 1001 Ways to Market Your Book by John Kremer How to Make Real Money
Selling Books by Brian Jud APE:
Author,
Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki
Best -
selling author and award - winning
publisher, Valerie J. Lewis Coleman serves experts
and professional speakers to magnify
and monetize their message by publishing quality books.
Our technology is used worldwide by 2 of the Big 5
publishers, some very large independent D2C
publishers, several hundreds of medium sized
publishers selling D2C, quite a few independent eBook web shops
and also numerous web shops of smaller
publishers, self publishing
authors and systems integration.
Case in point the claim in your OP title that «self -
publishers»
and «
authors» are mutually exclusive is patently absurd, as is your arbitrary claim that
selling «a thousand copies» suddenly makes a mere writer an «
author».
This change means that the very
publishers who
sell their own works — whether they are the
authors themselves, fully operating
publishers, or
authors with their own imprint for business purposes — can now be undersold
and therefore not be the actual seller when a consumer (oblivious to the rule change) clicks «add to cart.»
Google is planning on launching a new mobile feature for smartphones that will allow
publishers and authors to instantly
sell e-books at the click of a button.
Publishing industry events have been debating the ins
and outs of reaching readers directly for several years,
and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both
publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences
and seamlessly
sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.
I have seen several books where the
author and or
publisher have decided to make all of their money on
selling a tiny amount of expensive e-books.
Swedish journalist
and author David Lagercrantz continues the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy with this authorized sequel,
and according to the
publisher, 100,000 copies
sold on day one,
and it has already gone back for a second
and third printing.