Few
authors get rich off their books, so be sure you have plans to spackle the income gap between your old job and your future book royalties.
This episode is sponsored by JKS Communications, helping
authors get their books noticed by influencers, taste makers, and readers via book marketing and publicity services.
In exchange for pages read,
authors get money.
Many
authors get bogged down in things like distribution, price point, social media platform, and a host of other things.
So why don't
all authors get excited about book giveaways as part of their book promotion campaigns?
They can help
authors get traditionally published faster, and also help new authors in avoiding obstacles in the publishing process.
Authors get it, not everyone has $ 15 to pay for a book and are generous in decreasing their price to accommodate.
A lot of would - be
authors get their friends to edit and then make a cover themselves.
A few aspiring
authors get to stay home and write all day.
DGT Book Promotions offers two affordable book review services: editorial book reviews and our book review list to help
authors get the reviews they need.
As with the Kindle Only Lending Library (KOLL),
authors get paid out of a monthly fund set up by Amazon.
Because self - published authors keep 70 % of their total purchase price on Amazon compared to the 25 % that most traditionally published
authors get from their publishers, indie authors are earning almost half the daily author revenue in the Mystery / Thriller, Science Fiction / Fantasy, and Romance genres.
We love helping
authors get feedback from copyeditors, proofreaders, graphic designers, and marketers who are immersed in the world of books and are conscious of today's literary trends.
If
authors get upset at readers stealing from them, they say we are unjustified because books are a type of art.
Today Author U — Your Guide to Book Publishing will focus on a variety for common hiccups that new
authors get into.
I love being in control; I completely understand how authors might want to control what their book cover looks like because some traditionally published
authors get horrible book covers.
Authors get a bit of royalty for pages read in these shares through the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Online Lending Library programs.
So, how do successful
authors get buzz going about their book?
I love helping
authors get sales for their books.
Unfortunately,
authors get very focused on things they know and understand, like being on the Today show, or getting traditional reviews — and they're great if you can get them, but you can't rely on getting them, no matter how much money you throw at it.
Because
authors get so concerned about seeing their print book in stores — it's the «dream» and offers validation of their status — they're unfortunately blind to the truth of the industry: Physical bookstore sales aren't where most trade books sell; they constitute maybe 30 - 40 % of sales.
But Random and its imprints and authors have benefited hugely from the price flexibility that Amazon and other retailers have been allowed, especially since the publisher and
the authors get paid based on full list price even if a title is discounted below wholesale cost in the Kindle Store and elsewhere.
2 min readHow do self - published
authors get the word out about their work?
ReviewSt is our sister company which focuses on helping
authors get reviews in return for a free copy of their book.
And yet, how do self - published
authors get started?
«We're always looking to build features that customers love, and to help publishers and
authors get their books discovered — Kindle Countdown Deals achieves both,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content, in a press release.
Actually
authors get paid more than a dollar, plus a number of extremely popular authors have signed up along with many publishing houses.
The vast majority of
these authors get very little support from their publishers and still have to find their audience and work to get notice.
Many
authors get PLR who are not bestsellers but do very well in libraries.
Set to launch during this year's BookExpo event, BookLife will not only help authors with the usual suspects like vetted professionals for cover design, editing, and formatting, but will also work to offer promotional tools that help
authors get their books noticed in front of readers.
He would post them on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other self - publishing websites to help
authors get noticed.
Let's hear from Diane in Fairfax who raises an interesting question about what
authors get out of all this.
We are a team of experienced, authors, editors and designers dedicated to helping indie
authors get the exposure they deserve!
After I'd read and re-read that book and taken copious notes on it, I set out to research a dozen or so companies that are in the business of helping
authors get their work into print.
For the past 10 years, I've worked as a marketing consultant who has helped
authors get books on the New York Times bestseller list 3 different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and even a 20 - year - old backlist book.
Yes, there are book festivals, but very few local
authors get to attend in any way other than setting up a table in the dealer room.
As far as doing it, I've been publishing books since the 1980s, worked in traditional publishing, owned my own publishing business, and every year help hundreds of
authors get their books to market.
In a more expansive campaign, JKS would alert an author's local media of any award wins and help indie
authors get an award sticker on their book cover.
Apple likes things simple,
authors get a 70 percent royalty rate for books.
Self - pub
authors get one printed proof.
agents change the way they do business and work with self - publishers to help cultivate new talent and help more
authors get published.
Many of
our authors get to know each other and support each other as well.
Highly successful
authors get their readers attention — say what... what was on that cover that snagged the eye... that commanded the reader...
Indeed, when
authors get mean, the results can be spectacular, as the infographic below by Amy Cowen, found at her AussieWriter blog, shows:
At some point someone will try a third - party solution to help
authors get into LSI (if that's not happening already).
Without a plan most
authors get lost.
They're not anxious to have the material that they pay a lot for, and
authors get compensated for, to have it be, you know, hacked and available — made available for free.
Roseanne Cheng's role at Wise Ink is to help
authors get their work out into the world.
I love seeing when
authors get together for promotion, after all most who read won't just read one book so working together can be a great way to reach more readers!
My focus is helping independent
authors get their books ready to publish and helping authors and businesses gain more exposure.