Sentences with phrase «book was the tipping point»

For most, this book was the tipping point.

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«The Tipping Point» was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon customers, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian, and was Barnes & Noble's fifth bestselling nonfiction book of the decade.

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For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

As we get closer and closer to the tipping point and less books are bought through physical places where debut authors find the bulk of their readers is going to change.

Received wisdom is that provided the books you've self - published are any good, and that they are in the same genre, you'll see a significant increase in sales when you publish your third, fifth and seventh book, and so on — although yesterday someone told me that the fourteenth is the biggest tipping point (no idea why!)

I'm looking to do a Kindle book at some point in the future — your tips have definitely helped!

Now that ePUBs and Kindle books have reached the tipping point [become more than 50 % of sales for most of us], we truly need to be sure we make an excellent ebook for sale.

His decision was widely reported as a tipping point for a struggling book business flummoxed by the thriving self - publishing movement.

There is a tipping point by which publishers may no longer be interested in your self - published book.

It's also worth pointing out that Hugh is doing an awesome job of content marketing: he's posting tips about cover design that incidentally share his new books — instead of saying «Hey everybody, go check out my books!»

He is the author of two books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, (2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005).

I was very interested in the whole Amanda Hocking thing and how the tipping point for her was the book bloggers.

According to the film, 2005 was a tipping point of sorts, as it was then when adolescents» use of the Internet for reading surpassed the use of traditional books.

Authors like Malcolm Gladwell, whose best - selling books like The Tipping Point and Outliers are all available to Kindle users in the U.S. but not Canadians.

The tipping point for comic books happened, for some reason, about 4 or 5 years ago and they knew it when librarians started coming to them with «no need to sell me on the format, I get it but what should I be buying?

According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.

Many shoppers read book reviews before making a purchase, and reviews can be the tipping point that causes them to click the Buy button.

I find the tipping point is around 4 - 6 books out for at least 4 - 6 months.

Even if your book is a romance novel, you can find a jumping off point for an essay or an op - ed (get op - ed writing tips here).

This is the final step in my «self - publishing book completion tips,» although you can technically design your cover or hire a graphic artist at any point during the entirety of this process.

When you clicked on our Kindle Nation Daily «Like» button at some point in the past couple of years, you were probably counting on Facebook to deliver our posts about free and bargain books, Kindle news and tips, and our weekly Kindle giveaway sweepstakes.

We knew there would be a boom after the «tipping point was reached» and sales of ebooks passed sales of print books.

I am very grateful to your writing / marketing tips, which pointed me in the right direction — so much so, in fact, that I've included you in the acknowledgments of my newly published book: WORD SAVVY: Use the Right Word Every Time, All the Time (Writer's Digest Books).»

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I think... This is a big thing and if people... If we're doing tips and everything, probably one of those tips is — at some point if you're struggling with moving from reading books on writing or listening to podcasts on writing or going to seminars on writing and not actually writing, then timed writing sessions are the secret to writing books.

Howey points out that the 5,643 number is only the tip of the iceberg and there are many strong - selling authors and books that never appear on Kindle best - seller lists as they are in highly competitive genres where even dozens of sales a day are not enough to reach the top 100 on any sub-genre best seller list.

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Here are a few tips and tricks to help make your life easier when booking flights to Europe with points.

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I was a just a few points short, but had enough e-Rewards saved up (TIP: they transfer to Hilton almost instantly btw) to just top off the account to get the last booking I wanted.

Free from business nonsense and to the point, this book offers you tools, tips and techniques to answer the basic questions: Where are you now?

Publications by James E. Hansen pubs.giss.nasa.gov, his latest book is: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. Amazon.com Runaway climate change Runaway climate change describes a scenario in which the climate system passes a threshold or tipping point, after which internal positive feedback effects cause the climate to continue changing, even...

His book Assault on Reason — published in April 2007 — stated that: «Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several «tipping points» that could — within as little as ten years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage of the planet's habitability for human civilization.»

Earth Changes Media has also found out that Hansen just so happens to be promoting his new book «The Tipping Point?»

Gladwell, whose two previous books, The Tipping Point and Blink, have been best - sellers, writes that these «outliers» are «the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies.»

Chip & Dan Heath have a lot more tips for changing behaviours in the book, such as scripting the critical moves, shrink the change to make it seem less scary, build core habits, and break the change down into specific steps while still pointing to the exciting new world that we'll be part of.

In my September 2007 SLAW posting titled Digital Law Books in Canada, I suggested that we have perhaps reached a (positive) tipping point on the availability of digital law - related books with (very) roughly 10 % of the major Canadian legal treatises being available in digital foBooks in Canada, I suggested that we have perhaps reached a (positive) tipping point on the availability of digital law - related books with (very) roughly 10 % of the major Canadian legal treatises being available in digital fobooks with (very) roughly 10 % of the major Canadian legal treatises being available in digital format.

Malcolm Gladwell is said to have redefined how we understand the world around us in his most popular book, «The Tipping Point,» which I highly recommend for anyone interested in business or the way things work in general.

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