Sentences with phrase «backlisted into»

What if you could relaunch those books, turning your backlist into a great source of income?

But thankfully, the war between traditionally published writers and indie writers started to sputter in 2012, flared up a few times, and then mostly just vanished as more traditional writers started to work their backlist into indie.

Not exact matches

Nick, I love what you did with the «Get a title from my backlist» email, but I wonder if you might get a longer algo boost from Amazon if you broke that into four or five separate mailings on separate days.

Traditional publishers rotate books into bookstores for ninety days and then, unless a book is a hit, they rotate in new offerings and drop the old ones into their backlist catalogs.

How does publishing / digitizing a backlist (if the author has regained the rights) fit into the non-compete clause?

Meanwhile, Joe, I've been trying to make a deal for international, multi-platform e-rights distribution of some of my backlist, because I want to get into as many markets / venues as possible, but I really don't wan't to deal - myself - with multiple formats and multiple vendors.

Then I saw that Chris Fox had a new book coming out, today, in fact, titled Relaunch Your Novel: Breathe Life Into Your Backlist.

But you came into e-publishing with a name, a reputation, a backlist of enjoyable books available... and your name and reputation came not only from your own promotional efforts (and they are outstanding!)

And, with a backlist, you were poised well to ease into the process.

Taking matters into his own hands, he signed a deal with Amazon to publish the e-books of several of his most notable backlist titles — including Invisible Man, Midnight's Children, and Lolita — without consulting their traditional print publishers.

Take advantage by creating campaigns to turn your backlist titles into classics.

So we are still working on backlist, but also starting into new books and stories as well.

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.»

Surely professional authors with a string of best sellers and a backlist that fills five Amazon screens don't have problems tricking their brains into work mode.

In this time of difficulty for book discovery, offering your content — especially backlist content — to readers is a way to entice them into getting to know the rest of your list.

There are creative ways to breathe life into backlist titles and take advantage of this trend.

First, an aside: publishing industry definitions for frontlist vs. backlist books: Though timelines differ for different publishers, a book is considered «frontlist» from when it is newly released into the marketplace until it on the bricks and mortar or virtual bookstore shelves six months or so.

And major writer's backlists are flooding into the market finally.

Maybe you will think I am naive, or just hopefully optimistic, but when I took on the challenge of heading up the digital development of DBP I thought that we could have our entire monochrome backlist converted into ebooks and on sale within 6 months, and then we could start on our illustrated list.

Plus, it's never too late to breathe life into a backlist book.

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.

If you loved her story of life on the French homefront during World War II, dip into her backlist with her first foray into women's fiction, 1999's On Mystic Lake.

He insists that publishers are doing better than ever, and mentions in detail how PRH are using their backlist to expand into different markets in ways never - before dreamed possible — cross-branding with everything from cartoons to car companies.

But before that accidentally morphs in anyone's mind into «one in three copies of a new comic is sold digitally,» consider that digital figure may include DC's entire digital backlist, however deep that is.

Getting the licensing rights to images or to backlist titles to put them into an ebook is still a huge and expensive issue.»

One of the greatest adoptions in the early days of digital publishing came quietly from publishers who were reluctant at first to put their new releases into ebook form, but were more than willing to use the «experimental» reading technology for their out - of - print and backlist titles.

I want to help authors and publishers with a backlist get more titles into audio!

As digital publishing began to enable the reissue of backlisted titles as ebooks, «agents needed to get those ebooks out into the world.

And now that you've jumped into the indie publishing world with your backlist novel, do you think you'll indie publish follow - on works, making Tomorrow Land into a series?

Being critical of many aspects of traditional publishing (the agent requirement, horrible contracts with more poison pills in them than you'd find in a bottle of arsenic, lack of appreciation for long - tail backlist sales) doesn't mean that the critic is beating up on authors who prefer that system, or who are contract bound into that system.

Before you create a boxed set, take a good, long look at your backlist of books to determine how you might group some of them into a cohesive collection.

I noticed a Tweet the other day that said: «Someone should write a properly informative article about turning backlisted titles whose rights have reverted to authors into ebooks».

So, in a nutshell, here's a step - by - step breakdown of how to turn your backlist book to which you retain rights into an ebook:

Often we have clients who have been in the writing game for quite some time and are interested in taking a novel from their backlist and turning it into an eBook for sale at Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and other eBook platforms.

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.

As referenced in my Tuesday Ether for Authors at Publishing Perspectives, one thing that sailed into pink - tinted view at the FutureBook Conference in London Monday was news from literary agent Jonny Geller that his agency has arranged «digital self - publishing» at Amazon of more than 200 backlist titles from some favored UK authors.

The reason I went into Indie publishing was to bring my backlist to life.

She later added other authors and her own books, then in 2015 booksBnimble spun off bbnmarketing with the aim of helping self - published authors find their audience and backlist print authors find their way back into the game.

Most end up backlisted — they cost publishers more in returns than they make in earnings — but one blockbuster can turn into Fifty Shades of Profit.

If your book doesn't move, it can disappear forever into the black hole of the publisher's backlist catalog.

CT: Aside from the audio features for Annick's backlist picture ebooks, are there any other enhanced or interactive features that Annick will be incorporating into future ebooks?

In this regard, it was instructive to hear HarperCollins» Kristen Rens refer to the value of Angie Thomas» The Hate U Give, for example, a National Book Award longlisted title, and to take note of Walter's view into how backlist growth is stronger at this point than frontlist.

«We will see more publishers taking advantage in the amazing growth of Audiobooks to convert backlist titles into audiobooks using services like ACX.com.»

Ben Macklin presents 5 Steps from Print (Backlist) to eBook + Costs posted at BWM Books, saying, «A short blog on what to consider when thinking about turning your out of print book into an eBook»

I'm still inspired by the serendipity of my work — the thrill of finding a saleable project that was sent over the transom, the satisfaction of seeing a project turn into a top seller and reliable backlist title, the chance to travel to conferences to meet authors who are starting out and to help build their careers, book by book.

And then HQ capitalized upon that celebrity by re-releasing their backlist books with new titles to trick fans into thinking it was the their latest thriller.

Digital comics Corrina Lawson pens an open letter to DC Comics concerning the publisher's recently announced digital pricing model: «I'm not saying DC should put up their new books for free — I can see all kinds of piracy problems plus the issues with cutting into comic retailers profits — but DC should seriously think about putting up a large amount of its backlist for digital distribution.