Sentences with phrase «book with a high percentage»

Thanks to Amazon Charts, you can now sort your search by «most read» (as in, the books with the highest percentage of page views on Kindle and the longest amount of read content on Audible), and the books that are the «most sold,» meaning the books that have sold the most copies, although this doesn't equate to those books necessarily being read and enjoyed.

I don't think I've ever had a book with a high percentage of returns, and a higher percentage than that is held against possible returns.

Not exact matches

I du n no, if I were writing a «paleo» book I wouldn't deal with macronutrient percentages at all because there is no way of knowing our evolutionary heritage in that respect, besides some bone isotope studies that show protein was high in some populations, but that doesn't say anything about percentage.

Books will be allocated to schools on a first come, first served basis with priority given to those who have a high percentage of free school meals.

In 2009 a higher percentage of U. S. students (than those in the other six countries) told PISA, the international testing agency, that they came from a family with few books in the home.

(The percentages will, of course, change with genre and type of book, some higher, some lower.)

As far as the agreements with the agency publishers, it has been reported by people on both sides that the agreement forced less percentage on higher priced books by Amazon, meaning above the $ 9.99 level.

In self - published books, with fewer people handling a manuscript over a shorter time, the percentage of slip - throughs is generally higher.

In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy, print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of sales, given the prevalence of print over digital in that demographic; at the same time, ebook sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing numbers from the first go - round — made ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.

Each book's score is a percentage; iDreamBooks recommends books with a score of 70 percent or higher.

Still, if you have a solid media platform and truly expect to sell more copies of your book than the maximum stated in your contract, you may be able to negotiate with your publisher to add a higher «bucket» (for example «25,000 + copies»), with a more favorable royalty percentage, to the royalty schedule.

Maybe a lower price might get someone to try a series with a slightly increased price for other books in that series, but with the higher royalty percentage on each unit and less cuts into margin, an author can afford to keep the cost down.

They figure out in concert with the publisher how many copies they think the book should sell (big authors with long track records are somewhat more predictable than the rest of the universe, which is one more reason their books are so desirable to the publishers) and get an advance that is equal to a startlingly high percentage of the revenue that sales level would produce.

And, in some ways they're right — I'd wager that three and a half years after the first market - significant ereader (the Kindle) hit the market, a higher percentage of newly released books are available as digital downloads than we saw with music, and particularly movies.

Indeed, David Dreman reported in his book Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation that opting for the high - yielding stocks in each industry fared better — by about one percentage point annually — than simply going with high - yield stocks overall.

In this engaging new book, Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman capture five compelling cases, teaching us that thoughtful, purposeful integration of social and emotional learning combined with rigorous project - based learning results in high levels of academic achievement, strong attendance, low dropout rates, and a high percentage of students going to college.