Sentences with phrase «average book takes»

With my Kindle, I can take thousands if I want in less space than one average book takes.

Not exact matches

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

In my latest book, Content Inc., we found that it took an average of 15 to 17 months of consistent content creation and distribution to reach monetization (or results).

Taking five pages at random in one of their widely circulated books, I found that the author had averaged five scriptural citations per page.

So one of my books takes about 1.5 inches on average, whereas she can fit about 10 books in the same amount of room.

One of the key characters in the book is disgraced «faith healer» Holy Wayne (played by British actor Paterson Joseph); a once - average man, bereaved on October 14th, who realises he can take other people's pain upon himself, like a kind of emotional sponge.

Let's take a close look at the data behind the averages behind the charts in the books, for example, this study, one of the most complete baby sleep charts, published in the highly respected medical journal, Pediatrics, based on the average sleep times associated with 493 Swiss children tracked from birth (Iglowstein et al 2003).

And in a two - week trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, published in 2014, volunteers who read on an iPad for four hours before bed reported feeling less sleepy, took an average of 10 minutes longer to fall asleep and slept less deeply compared with those who read paper books at night.

Suddenly, average George becomes curious George, spending all his time reading books, creating ingenious scientific gadgets, and learning new languages in about the time it takes you and me to eat breakfast.

The film tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski, a comic - book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real - life superhero.

We compare the test scores of students in each of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the number of non-school books in the home, and the quality of the peer groups (calculated by averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).

With representatives of the Guinness Book of Records and German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) on hand, Raphanel made passes around the big oval in both directions achieving an average maximum speed of 431.072 km / h (267.856 mph), thus taking back the title from the SSC Ultimate Aero TT as the fastest production vehicle of all time.

Now take 1000 authors sending updates for 10 books (on average).

In other words, top book agents only take on (on average) approximately one new unpublished author every four months.

But the hope and goal is that the average over a line of books over a period of time will be around the 4 % figure, give or take.

What's worse is that we have to take into account that bestselling books sell about 500-1000 times more than midlist titles, which means the potential revenue for the average book will be a few cents.

On average, it will take 1 second to load the chart for each book selected (1 second for 1 book, 2 seconds for 2 books, etc).

Book layout programs like InDesign take a little bit of gumption to learn, but there's no reason the average person can't do it.

The report takes a look at the effect of the book and magazine publishing industries on both trees and carbon emissions: the U.S. book and magazine sectors accounted for the harvesting of 125 million trees in 2008, and an average book has a carbon footprint of 7.46 kilograms of CO2 over its lifetime.

«With [Perry's] sensitive take on what is also a real - life social issue, I would rate this book as an above average read.

Finally, if the industry would stop taking an Amazon - against - the - world stance to book publishing and selling, more cooperative efforts could happen, which will benefit everyone from the publishers down to the average reader.

The book's strongest moments come when the author's newsroom instincts take us inside the private quarters and public halls where a godless soviet dictator showed his all - too - human face to American businessmen, entertainers, politicians, and Average Joes.

One thing about Kobo I like is that aside from the page and word count it will tell you on average how long it will take to read the book.

Custom books and Hardcover books require more attention during production and on average take 10 — 20 business days.

If we take the twenty Brazilian bestsellers from PublishNews's most recent list of bestselling titles, and survey the average price at which a book is being offered by eight of the most important Brazilian e-commerce sites as of last Saturday, we find an average discount of:

Do mainstream publishers pay for reviews, buy up large amounts of table space at large book stores to squeeze out their competition, or take part in any of a number of things that would look less than scrupulous to the average bear?

«Studies have shown that bookstore browsers take ten to twenty seconds on average to decide whether to purchase or reshelve a book.

There are plenty of metrics to keep track of, such as how long it takes you to read a specific page of text or the average amount of time it takes to read a book.

It takes about seven gallons to produce the average printed book, while e-publishing companies can create a digital book with less than two cups of water.

Promoting it via press releases is THE most effective way to get the average person to take five minutes and read it or for other websites to report on your new book.

Reading Progress Indicator: This is a new feature exclusive to the Paperwhite that estimates how long it will take you to finish the chapter or entire book based on your average reading speed.

There's a reason traditional book publishers take an average of two to three years to take a book from rough manuscript to hard copy.

This is the first time it has crossed over to the mobile space and it gives information on how long the average person takes to read the book and also tells you about the premise and the author.

Keep in mind that the books average about 110 pages each and took between 100 and 200 hours to write.

Wallace's bestseller deals with a long - running legal battle over the banning of a book that takes a close look at sex: in particular the seven - minute duration of the average sexual encounter.

One drawback to this service is that it can take up to 4 - 5 weeks longer than the average 12 week lead time to have manuscripts turned into finished books.

Dan Poynter -LCB- 1 -RCB- quotes a publisher's survey of 1988, where the average fiction book took 475 hours to write, publisher's average annual sales were $ 420,000, and staff worked 50 hours a week.

The average 60k - word book will usually take between 3 - 5 business days to receive your typeset sample for review.

At the 70 % I make from Amazon, it will take a few hundred sales on average for a book to break even and start making money.

If my average cost per click is $.20, and it takes me 12 clicks to get a sale, then I'm losing money on every $ 2.99 book I sell.

So is «read time», which estimates how long it will take to finish reading a book based on average reading speed.

«I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error.

I didn't take the survey, but I make high six figures, and I do pay more than the average here for editing, though it should be pointed out that people whipping out a book a month are probably writing books on the shorter side.

Even taking into account both fees, that makes our average «cost» about $ 30 per book / audiobook, which since many of them are only in hardback release currently, isn't an entirely unreasonable cost.

On average it takes 6 to 8 weeks from the time we receive all your materials until you hold the first printed copy of your book in your hands.

When and if a contract happens, it takes an average of two years before your book is actually published.

Reading Life can track how long you took to read a book, how many pages you've turned, the average length of your reading sessions, and how many books you've read.

As an author you just have to work with the market as it stands, so the average first time fiction author, taking the business minded approach of making your first book a «loss leader «can go along way to building momentum and your readership in the first year or so of being available.

Some new software features include optimized fonts, faster page turns, and a new «Time to Read» feature that estimates how long it will take to finish a chapter or the entire book based on your average reading speed.

The average author with New York sells around 5,000 books these days — it's why, if they take a book, the advances are quite small.