Sentences with phrase «book by an unknown author»

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

It can take a lot for a reader to part with their hard - earned cash for a book by an unknown author.

«So technically, not a bad launch, for a first book by an unknown author.

Using cover components that are currently on - trend in a genre can catapult a new book by an unknown author into the shopping carts of readers.

However, that made no sense because several picks have been books by unknown authors.

Out of 10 library books by unknown authors, I dump 7 after initial sampling.

I, for one, have never in my life bought a book by an unknown author that turned out to be crap.

Readers can try before they buy, decreasing their inbuilt risk aversion to a new book by an unknown author.

Studies show that bad reviews on books by unknown authors actually result in a spike in sales.

Question: How much does the origin of a new book by an unknown author, whether from a small press, academic press, Big Five publisher, or indie publisher, affect your choice to purchase?

And Matt Cutts has done a tremendous job in distributing books by unknown authors, who in most cases, or at least in my case, could have never done it on their own.

Not exact matches

The Bible was written by 40 + authors (some are unknown), comprising 66 individual books, and its writing spanned a period of 1400 years.

Because a book written by unknown authors with absolutely no actual evidence for any supernatural claim, a book the Smithsonian says is not historical, says so?

While contextually, some of the Bible has been proven accurate (mostly in terms of a few archeological and geographical artifacts), it is a book primarily written by dozens of unknown authors, some of them claiming to be people they were not.

The unknown author of this book had the temerity to challenge this assumption in a drama in which God agreed to let Satan test the loyalty of Job, a righteous man, by stripping him of his possessions, his children, and his health.

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

Giving away free or selling inexpensive copies is not expected just because... it's a tactic for getting exposure with the understanding that some of these copies will lead to book reviews, which in turn helps get more exposure and entree into certain marketing programs and options, and which helps prompt actual purchases as many readers are hesitant about buying a book by an unknown, unreviewed author.

On that same note, books by relatively unknown authors that attempt to defy genre or other book conventions tend to confuse people, and often get passed over.

The theory being readers will take a chance on a free book by an unknown or little known author which they may not otherwise consider.

My reading for pleasure is split between KU, which I like as I can guilt - free pick up a book by an unknown and delete it if it reeks horribly, and buying authors I know and like.

Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $ 24,000 to a fraudulent seller «Worthless» books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author whose name was, he says, used to send almost $ 24,000 (# 17,200) to an unknown and fraudulent seBooks of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $ 24,000 to a fraudulent seller «Worthless» books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author whose name was, he says, used to send almost $ 24,000 (# 17,200) to an unknown and fraudulent sebooks priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author whose name was, he says, used to send almost $ 24,000 (# 17,200) to an unknown and fraudulent seller.

A very special thank you also goes out to reviewers and book bloggers who have taken time out of their busy schedules to read a book by an unknown Indie author like me.

This is true especially if the author is unknown to them or the book wasn't recommended to them by a trusted source.

And both instances were books written by relatively unknown authors.

If you're David Pogue, the technology writer for the New York Times, you may debut your first book as an «unknown» author, but you have a platform created by the most respected newspaper in the world.

Who wants to buy a book for $ 15, by an unknown author, when they can buy Tom Clancy for $ 7.95?

Trying to promote a book by a virtually unknown author on its own merits is tough.

You can't sell your book on the social because you are an unknown author, while the books which generate high sales are the ones written by famous authors, such as Ken Follett, John Grisham, Stephen King.

Numerous studies have been conducted on how books fare at different price points, even within the genre - based breakdown: a book of a certain word count will sell really well at one price if it's a crime thriller by a bestselling author, for example, but at the same price may fail abysmally if it's a beach - read romance by an unknown author.

The other is that even books by relatively unknown or unfamiliar authors have a shot at this bestseller list if the books themselves cost less than traditionally published titles.

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Knowing this, I decided to search for publishers that actually do publish poetry books and those by unknown or up - and - coming authors.

All they know is that the books of better - known and mid-list authors are too expensive compared to books of comparable length by unknown authors self - publishing.

With limited shelf space, buyers are far more likely to order a book they're familiar with — and their customers have heard of — than a title by an unknown indie author.

When Avon set up a digital first arm, the team thought the books for Impulse would be by unknown authors.

For some unknown reason pocket articles are warning me about 7 unread «books» by certain author who I do not know because I didn't pay attention to a name of the author of article... I have no clue why the pocket articles now referred as books with the new software, it is confusing occasionally.

By offering books on KU, you lower the barrier for potential readers to take a chance on an unknown author.

For newer books, I'll read the next installment by a favorite author or a book by a friend before titles by an unknown writer.

There's even an audio version of «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» and several books which are actually read to you by their author, including two by Jon Stewart and Donald Rumsfeld's «Known and Unknown.»

With literally 100s of thousands of new books coming out each year, it is virtually impossible for an unknown author who self - publishes to get a «free» review by one of the traditional book review organizations.

But I know I'd be very willing to buy enhanced versions of traditionally published books rather than applications by unknown authors.

The people at Goodreads (a twelve - million member social network for reading) try to answer an age - old question with hard data from a book launch by an unknown, self - publishing author.

It's by no means unknown for publishers of heavily illustrated books to require authors to pay for photos or line art, or to find an illustrator who will work for part of the royalties.

By comparison, taking on an unknown author and a book with unknown market potential is a * huge * financial risk.

No matter how good a book is, getting readers to find and choose works by unknown authors is an enormous hurdle to leap.

Then the New York Times examined a now - shuttered book review - for - hire service aimed at self - publishers, run by an Oklahoma businessman who realized that a large pool of underemployed writers willing to work for peanuts plus an equally large pool of unknown authors desperate to stand out equals profit.

Just think about how a great book by an unknown will compete with a brand name author... Yes, life is tough, but again... why doesn't Amazon address the fact that it makes most of its money off of the same old same old, books that are either «built» by big publishers or by indies who often combine formulaic storytelling with full on marketing.

Moderated by Robert Storr, curator and dean of Yale's School of Art, «Comics and Canon Formation» pitted curator and author John Carlin, who helped mount the 2006 exhibition «Masters of American Comics» at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and coedited its massive catalogue, against Dan Nadel, proprietor of PictureBox, a Brooklyn - based publisher of comics and visual books and the author of Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900 — 1969.

Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.