Sentences with phrase «backed book retailer»

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The books retailer barked back and called any such deal «highly unlikely.»

They have a retail price of $ US7 to $ US10 a bottle and the backing of Los Angeles nutritionist and author Christine Avanti, who has struck some fame with her books Skinny chicks eat real food and Skinny chicks don't eat salads.

After being unavailable for sale through retailers for years, the hardcover book is now back in print!

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

This allows retailers to stock books while putting a lot of the financial risk back on the publisher.

In a story that carries just as many questions as answers, book retail giant and worldwide phenomenon Amazon has agreed to back off on its iron - fisted terms of service, at least in European markets, under threats from the EU of fines and backpayments.

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Some will drift back to physical books while others, like Mex5150, will find ways around the publisher and retailer's restrictions.

The newest information from the most recent Author Earnings report includes its usual proof in the pudding of how indie authors are faring in the current book retail market, but also includes an interesting topic that hasn't received as much attention due to the availability of months of back data: Kindle Unlimited numbers.

And even if you're planning on only selling through online retailers, BCC is still incredibly useful; it's just shifted from the back of the book to the summary / synopsis field on your book's page!

After reviewing the information they will create a 100 - 250 word blurb written to sell your book that you can use on retailer websites like Amazon, or the back cover of a print book.

No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you sell an ebook at an ebook retailer, you can't take the book from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book from the retailer.

Aside from the backing of parent company Barnes & Noble (probably the biggest name in book retailing in the US), the Nook HD's main selling points are its full HD screen, lightweight build and the ability to set up multiple user profiles.

Also, a while back, a publisher could open an account with Ingram, a major book wholesaler, which gave them access to a variety of book retailers.

I typed up a list of my published books with hyperlinks leading back to each book's page on my site, giving readers their choice of retailer and format for my books... audio, print, ebook, kindle, epub, etc..

In an interesting aside, Rainfield's most recent title was basically sent back to the drawing board by book retailers who felt the original cover was too intense for their shelves.

«If publishers make the mistake of pricing their books too high, the marketplace will punish them for it,» Coker explained when answering to how preventing a retailer from discounting a book won't come back on the consumer who has limited funds to spend on a book.

Sadly, just as in the settlements offered to the publishers, the settlement (if there is one) will be paid to consumers in the form of book credits through retailers» platforms, meaning the consumers can turn right around and pay their settlement moneys right back to the publishers and the retailer.

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

The average retail location has hundreds or thousands of books and very often they go unsold and sent back to the publisher.

Amazon tried to force the price of the books down too far too fast, and the publishers fought back what was called the agency model whereby they are able to set a retail price that Amazon can move from.

As well, if you plan to do back of the room sales at events, as a traditionally published author, you may have to purchase copies of your book at retail to resell to your audiences.

Then as you add a new book, you can quickly change the back matter for each retailer.

Book markets in small countries, like Iceland, have long had a small enough retail network to have been manageable for a single person, even back in the dark days before the internet.

But, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there are book publishers who are pushing back on the notion of releasing an eBook version of a new book for a price any less than the retail price of the same book's hardback version.

Book description: You can use up to four thousand characters; this is the equivalent of your back cover copy and will appear prominently on your book retail page on AmaBook description: You can use up to four thousand characters; this is the equivalent of your back cover copy and will appear prominently on your book retail page on Amabook retail page on Amazon.

As a reader clicks the sales page for a book that a BookLikes blogger reviewed, a portion of that purchase goes back to the book blogger as part of the retailers» affiliate programs.

Deutsche Telekom looks back positively on the excellent collaboration with the book retailers.

Powell's lists the book at full retail, $ 27.95, but not an ebook, and sadly, the description of the book wasn't for Brush Back, but for the previous novel in the series.

As more and more retailers and libraries scale back their selection of books on CD, it's becoming critical for audiobook publishers to place their titles on all of the download sites.

Traditionally, in print form, this is the back cover copy; in digital form, this is the information that gets posted on Amazon and throughout all retail and distribution outlets about your book.

Kobo is a global eReading service backed by majority shareholder Indigo Books & Music, Borders Group, REDGroup Retail, and Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd..

Maybe the publishers and / or retailers should have some kind of exchange program where you send in your physical books and they send you back a USB drive or a download link with the digital files.

In the end, people are talking about it (the opposite of obscurity) and when you're in the third meeting in a week where someone quotes a book (as I have been in the past week), you make a note to order it on Amazon when you get back to the office — and pay full retail for the convenience.

Much as I admire the good work done across Waterstones to get back to its best as a book retailer... its digital strategy could never be described as «joined - up».

Last year, Goodreads stopped using Amazon's free Product Advertising API because Amazon's terms required Goodreads to link back only to Amazon's product page for each book, not any other online retailer.

If you haven't already, you should also finalize the title, subtitle, and book description that will be used at all retailers and on the back cover (for a print edition).

Whether they're on the back of a printed book, at the top of an e-book's front cover, or showcased on a book's retail sales page, readers expect the books they buy to be endorsed by someone who has the right credentials (including celebrity status) to say, «This book will rock your world!»

In your post, you can link back to your books page on your website or on retailers.

Again, using Barbara Freethy as an example, she shows us the cover of her latest book, with a quick summary (basically back cover or marketing copy), then links to all the retailers at the end.

I also go back to one of my points is that if retailers / wholesalers don't have any specific territorial restriction data for e-books then they should apply the ones they have for the physical book until the publishers update / provide the relevant e-book data — which 9 times out of 10 will be the same as for the physical book.

Second, if you think the cat can't be put back in the bag, let's see what happens when Amazon and the other retailers institute a «service / administrative fee» for uploading a book, so they can hire screeners (= editors) to vet manuscripts before offering them on their website.

Overseas, major book sellers such as British retailer Waterstones have claimed that not only are printed books back in fashion, but Kindle sales have «disappeared, to all intents and purposes».

The retailer (Barnes & Noble or Borders) typically pays the publisher about half the list price, so the publisher gets $ 12.50 (assuming the book sells, otherwise the bookstore sends it back!).

So don't hold back in your book bio or the one you post to retailer sites.

Kobo, for those unfamiliar with the company, is an international e-book service and hardware provider backed by Canada's Indigo Books & Music, the U.S. - based Borders Group, REDgroup Retail, and Cheung Kong Holdings.

But we do not recommend doing that, because it is considered «gaming the system» and Amazon may send you a threatening email that tells you to also discount your book on Amazon (with the 35 % royalty) or change your book back to the regular price on the other retailer within five days, or they will remove your book from Amazon.

The Borders e-reader software is provided by Kobo Inc., a Toronto - based e-book seller that is backed by Indigo Books & Music, Borders Group, RedGroup Retail and Cheung Kong Holdings.

We have speculated before that back in 2003 and 2004 when Jeff Bezos, Steven Kessel, and others began dreaming up the Kindle and its associated publishing and retail platform, they were driven by fears that the rise of ebooks — with some other parties in the drivers» seats — could, within a decade, destroy the retail print book business that was then the core of their business.

According to a Reuters article from back in June, this is partly because it was too complicated to sort out the logistics for a larger operation similar to those that Amazon has in other countries such as its home market of the U.S., Europe, Japan and elsewhere, where the company also sells physical books, consumer electronics, household goods, and much more — often from a selection of third - party retailers as well as itself.