Sentences with phrase «backlist like»

Pricing comic backlist like new titles is good for creators and good for publishers.

Trust me, 160 stories, collections, and novels sounds like a lot, but you can get to it as well given time and a lot of writing, even if you don't have a backlist like I do.

Not exact matches

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«Macmillan's Minotaur Books imprint has a rich backlist built on best - selling mystery and crime series by the likes of M.C. Beaton, Nevada Barr, and Laurie King,» said Heather McCormack, collection development manager, in a press release.

As an extra step, you can link to a printable list of your backlist in PDF form (with ISBNs) for those readers who like to order from bookstores.

And it's going to be publishing what's known as the backlist, backlist titles, titles like «The Invisible Man,» «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,» books published before digital books existed.

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.

I, like Joe, have a large backlist of titles, have had agents, several, and have published with maybe eight of the publishers in NYC and guess what - there are legitimate writers publishing ebooks every two hours right now and soon I hope to have every book I ever wrote — around fifty on ebooks.

Traditional publishers often use a short discount for books like backlist titles that aren't expected to sell through brick - and - mortar stores.

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.

Especially those of us with very large, very dead backlists that suddenly looked like gold mines in our file cabinets.

Because I have three other backlisted novels next in line, and they won't torment me like the first one did.

I've had my backlist books scanned and must decide how to proceed — use a company like eBookit or Book Bay, or try to do it myself via KDP.

Because authors aren't paid for books selected, SELF - e seems like an option for an author with a backlist.

Like Weinstein, she says she is «incorporating self - publishing into every one of my clients» career plans for backlist titles, experimental fiction, shorter works, and more.»

Ken: On the one hand, having a good backlist help your sales so if you're committed to one particular genre like in science fiction, when I released a new series in the fall, it did really well and those readers read my other science fiction series so it had that kind of cascade effect.

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.

CEO Michael Pietsch said, «Our good first quarter results came from many places: # 1 bestselling books by HBG house authors James Patterson, David Baldacci, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Brad Meltzer, from backlist hits like You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero, Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza, and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and from breakout bestsellers including Michael Isikoff & David Corn's riveting Russian Roulette, Jennifer Palmieri's powerful Dear Madam President, Peter Brown's delightful The Wild Robot Escapes and Vashti Harrison's inspiring Little Leaders.

You must also not realize (as you think it's only backlist titles) that there are traditional authors who are putting out NEW books as SP titles in addition to their regular titles, or have left traditional altogether (like Courtney Milan).

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.

Then, once her book wasn't free anymore, it would be tied to things like «Customers who bought X also bought Y,» plus readers might post glowing reviews and buy backlist books.

Like many genre fiction authors, I had a lot of backlist rights revert to me between 200 and 2010.

These are the authors dropped like hot potatoes who are finding success self - pubbing their backlist.

While certain categories like holiday cookbooks and «quick and easy» time saving titles become popular at this time of year, some of the books would be considered backlist titles, such as the famed Boston Cooking School's Fannie Farmer Cookbook, but current sales rankings prove they are still influential to cooks today.

They will try and will buy a lot of books, probably zoom through backlists if they find something they like.

If a name was big enough — like Stephen King — a reader could also find a lot of his backlist sitting on a shelf.

I'd like to hear your thoughts about a critical - mass point where one book begins to sell another, both sequels and backlist.

Changing publishers is a divorce and your backlist books can be neglected like kids in joint custody.

Yep, the write - publish - repeat backlist strategy can be a winner for self publishers like us.

We currently have a backlist of nearly 200 titles, including beloved authors like Pam Schiller, MaryAnn F. Kohl,...

(And right now you are not exploring putting your backlist up electronically because someone else like your agent should do that for you.)

Especially for backlist books that were sold to traditional publishers and changed significantly, would any authors be willing to «release» (epub or print) both the «original motion picture» (traditional published text) and the «director's cut» (a different version a bit longer that the author liked better)?

There are, of course, traditionally published authors like Arthur Slade and James Scott Bell who are experimenting with self - publishing their backlist.

If you have bought backlist / midlist titles before from bookstores, you know what it is like to leave home and hunt down specific titles of your great interest.

They feel like they - can't - go indie, because it would mean kissing their backlists (and in some cases, continuing characters) goodbye.

I feel like I've built something, and I look at my backlist with amazement.

When an agency model publisher fixes a low price for a backlist title like these, the publishing is putting itself in a position to learn a great deal about pricing, sales, and profitability in the ebook world.

Now major authors are buying back their ebook rights; mid-listers are finding new life for their abandoned backlist titles; newbies like Colleen Hoover are breaking into bestsellerdom; and everyone is reading the small print in their old contracts.

Just in case you've, like, been sojourning on another planet and it's escaped your notice; — RRB - a while ago I decided to self - publish what I term my «backlist»... namely a bunch of manuscripts that have done super-well on the contest circuit, but for whatever reason haven't been «loved enough» by traditional publishers to score me that elusive contract offer.

In short, this is a program fit - to - purpose for what Amazon has perceived a high - powered agency like Curtis Brown UK might want and need to refloat clients» available backlists on the digital tide.

This means that by the time the Festival arrives, when authors discuss their work in various events or «sessions», you can really engage with the conversation and get a feel for what else in their backlist you'd like to add to your reading pile.

In fact, I like that Sarah Weinman at Publishers Lunch reported in Macmillan Expands eBook Library Lending to Total of 11,000 Backlist Titles the means by which we learned this:

Keep in mind that pricing high and then lowering the price over time might harm your numbers as well... say you release at $ 12.99, then drop to $ 9.99 after 6 months, then $ 6.99 after two years, and eventually down to $ 3.99 for backlist... sure, if I am that eager for the book and I really like what you do then I'll put down the $ 12.99... but if not, why would I buy at $ 9.99 either?

I stopped buying Hachette books about three years ago, as a result of what I considered egregious overpricing of backlist by a favourite author and a rather frustrating refusal to publish an author I liked in ebook format in my region (they owned the rights to ebook publishing in the region and choose not publish).

-LSB-...] when a bloody wanky author uses phrases like «Being Forced to Sit in the Backlist», and words like «segregating», we know that he is deliberately invoking the civil -LSB-...]

With the great success they had with the re-publication of books like the Atlantis Series and The Green Beret Series, Cool Gus opened its doors to other authors and their backlist and frontlist.

But there are times when buying digital is an advantage, as is when a publisher, like Viz, has a big backlist of titles that are lengthy or difficult to find.

Meanwhile, traditionally published authors will continue to go indie, whether to accomplish personal goals like earning higher royalties or publishing an out - of - print backlist or, as Jackie Collins recently did, to get in on the action, to see what self - publishing is all about.

The Writing Platform will give practical advice for writers, from providing the basics, like how to get an ISBN number for that backlist title you are thinking of re-publishing yourself, to more complex issues, like why reader - focused metadata keywords could prove to be the real future of bookselling; it will look at innovation in both publishing and writing as books morph from bound objects to e-books to web - based, multimedia, «containerless content» and beyond.