Smashwords only makes money when
authors make money.
And those trying to traditionally publish but failing are making no money whereas very, very few self published
authors make no money.
Very few
authors make money on a first book.
Tim Grahl is the author of Your First 1000 Copies: A Step by Step Guide to marketing your book as well as the Book Launch Blueprint, and the founder of Out: think, a firm that helps
authors make money with online marketing tools.
In what ways do you suggest that other
authors make money in other ways than just their books?
I do think there are a couple ways that traditionally published
authors make money that aren't reflected here.
Have you ever wondered how successful
authors make money with their books?
(And, of course, hardbacks are high - discounted into box stores like Costco, which means
authors make no money on those copies for the most part under most contracts.
Authors make their money by generating sales.
I actually thought the tale was going to be about the producers of rubbish short story collections that are downloaded to read on Amazon, same stories in a different order with a different title every week, by click farms, in order that
the authors make money on the basis of pages read.
Questions such as, «How will
an author make money from her own work if everyone is simply downloading it for free off an illegal sharing website?»
(Whereas an indie
author makes money if the ROI is more than 0 %.
In addition, before
an author makes any money, the borrower must read at least 10 % of the borrowed book.
I'm all for
authors making money.
You mentioned about
the AUTHOR making money.
Rarely did
an author make ANY money (in fact, they usually lost a fair amount), but, you know what: most didn't care.
The favorite line of the vanity press gang is that «the primary goal of most authors is not making money from publishing their book» because they know the odds of
any author making money from the Vanity / POD business model is similar to them hitting the lottery.
If I go to the library, neither the publisher or
author make money.
That said, it's not that easy to be
an author making the money.
When the reader buys the book,
the author makes money.
So either the report's methodology is fundamentally flawed, or the report shows precisely the opposite of what Howey intended, which is that there's actually only a tiny sliver of self - published
authors making money at any given time.
(Like, for example, Thomas coming on to say, «Why does everyone get crazy when they talk about an indie -
author making money?»
Say, «Buy five used books and get a digital for $ 2.99» Then
the author makes money off a new sale, the publisher makes money, and there is actually enough margin in digital to offer a commission to the bookstore / clerk.
Also that there are more people making money FROM authors than there are
authors making money.
Not exact matches
Joel Comm, Entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling
author shares his insights on Twitter, AdSense, Google,
making money online and social media.
Author, self -
made millionaire and personal finance expert, and David Bach breaks down when and how you should talk about
money with your partner.
As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the
author went on to cite research to
make her point that when women do ask for more
money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.
In the recently released biography about Markle, «Meghan: A Hollywood Princess,» the
author wrote that Markle struggled to
make money and launch her acting career.
Free your mind Don't be afraid to give your product away, Chris Anderson says, you'll figure out how to
make money later The secret to success in the digital age is giving people what they want — literally, says Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and
author of the controversial new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
Studies on allowances offer mixed takeaways, said Beth Kobliner,
author of «
Make Your Kid a
Money Genius (Even If You're Not).»
In Why Smart People
Make Big
Money Mistakes,
authors Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich cite a Harvard study of investment habits.
, a catering and event - planning firm, a small - business coach and
author of But Are You
Making Any
Money?
Fredrick Petrie,
author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more
money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll
make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.
If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for
making money» — well, you and the
author are not going to get along.
«Everybody thinks the pornography
makes money because they've got pornography to sell,» says Barss,
author of The Erotic Engine.
Amanda is a best - selling
author of «
Make Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more product
Make Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more produc
Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with
money and how to make it more produc
money and how to
make it more product
make it more productive.
The
authors» conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can
make more
money by going it alone.
Malkiel (left), the Princeton economist best known as the
author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, now in its 12th edition, took to the op - ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, saying investors who would «pull their
money out of the stock market today to invest in bonds are
making a huge mistake.»
Jonathan Clements,
author of the «Jonathan Clements
Money Guide 2015,» tells The Wall Street Journal retirees should, «consider
making a series of smaller annuity purchases over the course of five or 10 years — which you can stop if your health deteriorates.
Mr. Yubas is the
author of the book «Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to
Making Money from Your Idea» as well as several articles, eBooks, Kits, audio programs, and DVD.
She went on to become a bestselling
author, have a much bigger impact in the hormone space, and
make a lot more
money online.
She's also an online business coach and the Amazon best - selling
author of
Make Money Your Honey.
He is the
author of «Active Value Investing:
Making Money in Range - Bound Markets» (Wiley 2007).
G. Benjamin Bingham CFP ™ is the
author of
Making Money Matter... Impact Investing to Change the World.
Adam is the
author of 7 books including Lead The Field, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book and Book The Business: How to
Make Big
Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for
authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennedy.
The blog is
authored by a veteran in the financial services industry and offers valuable investment and
money -
making tips.
It is said that Runciman once joked that, aside from himself, the only other
author to have
made more
money for Cambridge University Press was God, with his book, the Bible.
Religion Can
Make You Poor In her review of Lisa A. Keister's Faith and
Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (February), Naomi Schaefer Riley takes the
author to task for the superficiality of her analysis of her study's findings regarding religion's effect on socioeconomic status.
Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual
authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to
make money... and quick.
Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually
makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and
money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that
authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....