Sentences with phrase «backlist at»

There is however evidence to suggest that online buyers will buy an author's complete backlist all at once (because it's cheap and easily transmittable) whereas traditional print customers wouldn't

Led by Lori Bennett, it focused originally on backlist at its 2011 inception and now supports frontlist publication, as well, for Nelson's agency clients and for «guest author clients.»

Harlequin is one publisher who I see is really taking advantage of the digital opportunities with its epublished only fiction, it's decision to digitize its entire front list of over 120 titles every month while digitizing its backlist at the same time, by offering all series books a month in advance, by pushing its content onto devices through partnerships with Daily Lit, providing its content for cellphone users.

DMP also uses these campaigns as a way to clean out the closets, giving backers at certain levels the ability to choose volumes of manga from their backlist at the approximate cost of $ 5 a book.

The idea being that you're rewarding loyal readers and, once you've won a reader over with one of your books, they're more likely to buy your backlist at full price.

Not exact matches

Which is why I'm also starting to say — don't worry about marketing or selling until you have a backlist of at least 3, preferably 5 books.

In recent years, Breakwater has successfully begun publishing cutting edge literature in all genres, including children's books, literary and commercial fiction, educational curricula, non-fiction, and poetry, while at the same time continuing to support its culturally significant backlist titles.

Authors seem to have realized the value of «sales,» since at this point 31 % of original and 35 % backlist titles have been either free or discounted at some point, substantially more than last time around, especially for backlist.

As that item is partially about allowing time to build our backlist, Liliana's instant backlist shortened this time period (she had sales of 20K / month by month three) because she was patient at the front (pre-published) end rather than at the back (post-published) end.

I think instead of just being angry all of the time at Amazon — keep writing and working on generating the backlist.

I have data on a total of 82 titles at the moment, 33 backlist / reprint titles and 49 original titles (meaning they've only ever been self e-published).

Backlist is more important than time or marketing, so publishers that give up at book two or three or four of a series are doing it all wrong.

At the moment, I'm focusing more on self - pubbing my backlist and sending my new work to a smaller press.

For backlist, 18 % of titles have been discounted at some point.

At this point, the average amount of time a title has been available as a self - published e-book is 7.8 months for backlist and 7 months for original, which is nearly unchanged from the December average.

Given their extensive backlist and Oprah's esoteric taste, this could mean anything at all.

As far as my own reading resolutions, I can have several: I want to read more nonfiction; more backlist books from authors I've recently discovered (I'm looking at you, Geraldine Brooks!)

For example, Penguin opened up with us at first, with just their backlist eBook titles, and after they were happy with our delivery of data, metrics and statistics, they felt more comfortable and opened up all of their titles.»

We plan to try subscription with backlist books, and mostly with titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores.

The New York - based publishing house, whose roots date back to 1817, was the only one of the Big Five publishers to offer some of its backlist titles — and perhaps more importantly, some of its prestige — to these startups at launch, helping to kickstart the fledging Netflix - like e-book subscription market.

And then I cringe at the thought of so many backlists (ours included!)

• The store has launched an independent press, is looking at POD textbook solutions, working with local writers, and has plans to revive out - of - print backlist titles for the University of Texas Press.

This one aspect alone is why so many known mid-list professional writers are going like crazy to get up at least their backlist books in electronic form.

One of the newest trends in self - publishing is, in fact, authors like this — authors like me — who are re-releasing their backlist as Kindle and ePub products, and at ridiculously low prices by comparison.

I am lucky that I've been able to purchase my favorite author's backlists during temporary promotions when it comes to e-books, but would I buy «any» book at random?

Whereas indies are aggressive at promoting not just their new releases, but also their brand, and their backlists.

I'm not generally a fan of launching 2nd, 3rd, 4th books at a discount (the exception to this is romance, where low pricing for the length of a series may be your strategy, then raise the price on backlist).

If you look at your backlist as an investment portfolio of IP, it's a good model.

(Actually, the authors who will really make money in this new world are those who can write fast or who have backlists they own and sell to both traditional publishers and have other projects up at the same time to take advantage of this promotion.)

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

Getting a bunch of successful authors» backlists tied up in limbo is something to avoid, but not at all costs.

At the same time, they have both new titles and a substantial backlist.

What I appreciate about Joe Konrath's posts on ebook pricing is that he is experimenting with backlist pricing, looking at the results with an objective eye, and being transparent about the decisions he makes based on results.

Now, I feel at some point I need to take a step back and evaluate issues such as author platform, branding, backlist, and identifying new opportunities as part of a longer term strategic plan.

The backlist is essentially the author's previously published books that once enjoyed appearing on the «front shelves» at bookstores.

Adrienne: Bookstore shelf space is limited, and only the backlist titles that sell at a significant rate or are part of a seasonal promotion will find a spot on the physical shelf.

There have been a number of eBooks released in 2011 by newspapers and magazine periodicals and stories are suggesting this might be their salvation, or at least a way to leverage their «backlist» of articles.

So my advice, as a freelance professional in the business of helping authors turn good stories into stellar ones that garner great reviews, is to take the time to make sure that at least the weakest links in the chain of your backlist are brought up to your current standards.

At least two - thirds of the romance section is taken up by the current and backlist titles of the major players in the genre, Nora Roberts and the like.

From misguided agents to cruel or absent editors to the callous slashing of midlist authors and backlist titles, the longer a writer is in the publishing world, the more chance of encountering at least one of these major (and sometimes career - freezing) hurdles.

However, we can't get long tail sales from physical bookstores — because they don't carry most books at all, much less any backlist books.

Due to an internal systems issue at Overdrive, for the limited number of backlist titles they carry, they failed to ingest the proper data until recently.

We actually have to work at this a lot harder than online bookstores who have unlimited copies of new books and don't have to promote mid and backlist titles that much.

Now that I'm reading a lot of backlists from Harper Collins and others via Scribd, I'm appalled at the number of typos in your much - vaunted legacy books.

The report also found that 67 % of publishers are releasing digital formats at the same time as print — the highest percentage ever — and over 30 % of publishers have now digitized over three - quarters of their backlist collection.

and David Walliams» Bad Dad, as well as higher backlist sales at the Children's books division.

My backlist titles are also at deep discount, but as I said, I would expect that as publishers are dumping backlist inventory.

If I like your book I may glom onto your backlist, if I don't, at least I don't resent you for making me use my scarce book - buying dollars on your (to me) sub-par product.

I'm a hybrid author who isn't doing as well at Amazon with my backlist as I wish — and am all for hybrid / indie authors.

, one chart jumped out at us and begged for deeper analysis: It was a look at daily author earnings according to publication date, and it revealed the heavy reliance Big 5 publishers have on the sale of their backlist titles.