Sentences with phrase «average high book»

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The average American buys 64 new garments each year, regardless of income, writes the author Elizabeth L. Cline in her book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion.

My fourth book on commodities, Higher Probability Commodity Trading, aims at bridging the gap between sophisticated futures and options traders, and the «average Joe».

A 2012 Credit Suisse Research Institute report evaluated the performance of 2,360 companies globally over six years and found that companies with one or more women on boards delivered higher average returns on equity, lower leverage, better average growth and higher price / book value multiples.

Although there are few statistics on average annual costs for books and supplies, some sources place it as high as $ 1,200 per term, according to an NBC News report.Understandingly, the high cost of textbooks has students wondering if they can apply their student loan money toward the cost of supplies.

The average dividend yield will be high, and shares may be selling at a discount to their book value.

In the book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell tells the story of a man who has an IQ that is well above average (it is 45 points higher than Albert Einstein's) but the man doesn't have any «grit.»

«Ever since the Civil War was over, there's been an average of one book a day published about the Civil War, over 55,000 books and counting,» says Larry Gibbs, a retired high school teacher in Country Club Hills, Illinois.

HOPE, or Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally, covers the cost of college tuition, books, and fees for students who graduate from high school with a B average.

For example, the average school fee for a semester at a public high school in Jamaica, is approximately, US$ 120, plus another $ 120 for books.

There's a decent amount of storage in the Transit Connect wagon, and some of it is in places the average minivan owner won't be used to looking: Thanks to the high roof construction, overhead bins above the front two rows (the rear bins are a $ 100 option) provide space for books, DVDs and lightweight boxes, freeing up floor space.

One of the things that struck me, and probably many others, about his report and its conclusions, is that self - pubbed titles tend to average higher review ratings than trad - pubbed books.

Considering I average 1 — 2 books a week (minimum — that gets as high as five some weeks), not having to carry around books, no longer forgetting to bring a book when I'm in a hurry, no visiting bookstores or libraries every week (only visit when I want to, about once per month or so), no return deadlines or late fees, and having access to any book I want even at 2 a.m. in the morning is AWESOME!

To have a chance to be featured at Buck Books, your book must be priced at 99 cents or less during your promotion, its listing on Kindle must show that it is at least 60 pages in length, you must have at least 10 reviews with an average rating of 3.8 stars or higher, your book description must be well - written and free of any major spelling or grammatical errors, and your book cover must be designed by a non-Fiverr professional designer or book cover design service.

These are the calculations of sales rank information displayed on the book's details page that show lowest, highest, averages, and standard deviation for that book's sales rank.

There are only 5,200 books stocked in this store and Amazon is only titles with an average rating of 4 stars or higher, as well as new books curated by Amazon employees.

A post by Shelf Awareness shared the news that the Kids» Right to Read Project has investigated more incidences of censorship and book banning in 2013 than in 2012, and that the number of cases this year was three times higher than average.

Part of the reason is their high prices compared to everyone else, that is one of Sony's problems, their books are priced so high, that would shop at kobo / amazon where on average prices are 30 % cheaper.

Middle grade books, also called chapter books, will range higher on average.

When the contract was renewed, the average cost of a new Kindle book increased from $ 9.99 to $ 12.99 and sometimes even higher.

But traditionally - published print books carry higher average list prices than traditionally - published e-books.

This doesn't mean that good books can't come out of the self - publishing world, but readers expect a higher average standard from traditionally published books and are willing to pay for it.

Now, each contract has a discount schedule, reducing the royalty if a book is sold at deep (or what the average person would call high) discount.

If you ever have priced your books higher than average, did you see any results?

The Pro's Extreme score is much higher than the 5,539 category average but still under the Transformer Book T100's score of 9,710.

With open rate averages from 32 % to as high as 89.1 % we are blowing away industry standards across all genres to help you get real eyes on your books and build a strong, healthy, dedicated following...

After you have established yourself as an author and have between 50 - 100 reviews (with an average of 4 stars), you should start selling your books at a higher price.

By the end of 2010 the average increase in book price was between 5 and 15 % and with higher rates not being uncommon.

If you could throw all these out, the average number of books would be higher.

That may outdo the Inspiron 11 (56 percent), but the Transformer Book (69 percent), Switch Alpha (101 percent) and average ultraportable (92 percent) all scored higher marks.

When a vanity press tells you that they will print your book on demand (POD) and pay you higher royalties than a conventional publisher, they don't tell you that the average book sells fewer than 100 copies.

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.

It is doubtful they make a penny from the sale of a Kindle, for example, but the average Kindle owner buys something like 15 books a year, and there is high profit for Amazon in downloading a data file with a retail price of $ 10 or more.Convince me there is another solution which makes sound * business sense * — not what you think a user would want to see, but a solution which would otherwise justify Amazon bringing to market a device which by itself would generate nothing more than a tiny profit to a small loss for each device sold.

This makes the average pledge per person very high, much more than the same number of supporters would be giving to Digital Manga if they were buying the books off the shelf.

If your book has high delivery fees on Amazon, you may earn more royalties on B&N, but for an average ebook, you will still earn slightly more on Amazon.

On average, 60 % of the books submitted to us fail to pass the initial screen, but those authors that are successful can be assured of our commitment to providing the highest level of service and support so that they can continuing focusing on what they do best.

They would do this by receiving their royalty on a higher average price that readers might pay for a more useful ebook — because royalties ultimately are based on what a book will sell for — and from the extra sales made to readers who want this specific feature.

That's higher than the Iconia W4 (8,910) but well below the Aspire Switch 10 (17,836), Transformer Book T100 (15,879) and the category average (15,725).

That's higher than the Nextbook 10.1 (338), the tablet average of 279 nits and the dim Transformer Book T200 (235 nits).

>> The top 1000 indie books have * higher * average review scores than the top 1000 big - five published bestsellers.

It cites its own studies, which show that compared to an e-book costing $ 15 (a bit higher than average for an e-book across all digital marketplaces Electronista looked at), the same book priced at $ 10 would sell 1.74 copies for every one copy at the higher price.

Here's what they would find: The top 1000 indie books have * higher * average review scores than the top 1000 big - five published bestsellers.

If the enormous number of such books was removed from the calculation, I'm betting the average per - book sales figure would be quite a bit higher.

These results may well be due to a third factor, such as the higher average book prices for books with ISBNs, or a lower average level of entrepreneurial sophistication among those indies still believing they need to purchase ISBNs.

, write a great story, get distributed - drm inconviences customers more than pirates - use google alerts to stay abreast of of search terms phrases used in your book to watch out for plagiarizers - market your book / brand, blog, fb, twitter - get beta readers - never - ending book launch - study bestsellers in your category - highest earners write 150 - 200k words 60 - 80k are considered full length tho - top 50 bestsellers on smashwords average 100k words - write series (review of free book)

But PRH is also choosing to list - price their books far higher (in both sales - weighted and non-weighted terms) than most of the Agency 4 are now (other than Simon & Schuster, who is pricing nearly as high as PRH on average but getting pretty much no Amazon discount at all.)

At $ 3.99, thanks to the higher volume, books (on average) earn the same or more than books priced at $ 10.00 +, yet they gain more readers.

If a handful of best - selling authors are receiving say 50, 60 or even 70 % or more of the net revenues from their books, that would majorly skew the figure for the percentage of all revenue paid to all authors, especially since the brand name bestselling authors must be earning a higher percentage of overall revenue at most publishing houses than say an average mid-list author.

Key findings: Buying habits of Audiobook shoppers prove that British accents are favoured by American listeners according to an Audiobooks.com study Americans are almost three times as likely to buy a book read by a British narrator, and rate British voices higher on average Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of audiobooks in North America, launches...

Nora Roberts on average produces a book every five weeks, and everyone at the high - brow writing conferences I used to attend joked that James Patterson could not possibly write everything that his name is attached to.

They are often characterized by low price - to - earnings or price - to - book ratios and sometimes by higher than average dividend yields.