Sentences with phrase «books as an incentive»

They would promote my presence at their events to draw people to their event and offer a certain number of signed books as an incentive to get there early.

The best news for me personally is that many authors are offering free books as an incentive, and I've gotten a TON of freebies recently!

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But instead of paying for a program — as you would a book or movie on Amazon — you'd get an incentive: a credit, maybe, to be used against your health insurance premium, or a free download at Amazon, or a discounted checking account at Chase.

Find a training partner or book the flight and use that as your incentive to see things through.

We can all agree that Fannie and Freddie as business models were seriously flawed — private companies with a public charter, poor incentives for management, excess leverage for their book of credit risk, and so forth — and they are rightly being effigized for it.

And as I also said in the book, we should probably incorporate incentives into that.

A second method employed for encouraging audience contributions and the acquisition of names is the offering of «incentives,» such as free gifts — records or books.

As the whole fiasco in Chapel Hill demonstrated, and this current scandal may too, the incentives for cheating far outweigh the incentives for playing by the letter of the law — both by the book and by the spirit of the book.

There are often incentives, such as a free book upon completing their summer reading lists.

Rewards, incentives, and consequences are only as good as how you apply them — and the strong bond you build with your child every day through simple and ordinary routines such as playing with him, eating dinner together, and reading a book before bedtime.

Let's face it — at the end of the day, coming home to a tidy house as opposed to a disastrous mess is an added incentive in anyone's book.

«That this House is deeply concerned by the ban on all prisoners receiving books as gifts under the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme which will have a detrimental effect on prisoner rehabilitation; notes that the ban has been opposed by eminent writers including Mark Haddon, Philip Pullman and Carol Ann Duffy; further notes that to deny prisoners the books they need in order to improve their skills and support their learning is both unreasonable and counter-productive given that reading goes hand - in - hand with education, rehabilitation and humanity; and urges the government to reverse the ban as soon as possible by exempting books from the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme.»

This shouldn't surprise us, as it is in line with the incentives that electoral campaigns face — as I wrote in my book Ground Wars based on research on previous election cycles:

As water scarcity and quality issues grow in California and around the world, a new book co-edited by UC Riverside water economist Ariel Dinar and water experts in Spain and Argentina examines the experience of 15 countries where conservation has been achieved through water - pricing incentive systems.

In addition to the above, you will receive the following incentives from lower levels: On Story Profile Filter, a social media shout out and mention on our On Story website, Your Name in Audio, a digital download and Tshirt, as well as the On Story Book 3.

That means incentives should be awarded only if they are informational, meaning the student has really learned something, and if the reward is not perceived as controlling but provides the student some choice, such as deciding to read a book when not specifically asked to do so.

Students in the second treatment arm were mailed books as a part of Project READS, and were also offered an incentive to read the books they were mailed.

As an additional incentive, Johnson noted, students who publish five reviews on the site, as well as those whose reviews are chosen as Featured Submissions, are awarded a certificate and a free book from the Literary Book Club committeAs an additional incentive, Johnson noted, students who publish five reviews on the site, as well as those whose reviews are chosen as Featured Submissions, are awarded a certificate and a free book from the Literary Book Club committeas well as those whose reviews are chosen as Featured Submissions, are awarded a certificate and a free book from the Literary Book Club committeas those whose reviews are chosen as Featured Submissions, are awarded a certificate and a free book from the Literary Book Club committeas Featured Submissions, are awarded a certificate and a free book from the Literary Book Club commitbook from the Literary Book Club commitBook Club committee.

Kids earned incentives such as books and bookmarks for completing their reading logs.

There are a range of resources available to promote the event and, as an added incentive, schools receive 20 per cent of their fund - raising total back in the form of a voucher to spend at Scholastic Book Clubs.

The state has attempted to lure good teachers into the most needy districts for years, offering incentives like college scholarships that cover tuition, fees, books and the average cost of room and meals, as well as moving incentives and housing assistance for those who relocate to such places.

They were offered inexpensive prizes as incentives for reading a certain number of books.

Nurture a culture of attendance: Work with a local school to provide incentives for good or improved attendance, such as gift certificates, books, healthy snacks or backpacks.

Corporations, associations, foundations, government agencies and the armed services buy books directly from publishers for use as premiums, incentives, sales promotions, for educational purposes, and sometimes for resale.

In addition to investing money, among other measures of support being considered by the government are the provision of tax incentives to support domestic book publishers, especially the the abolition of VAT, which is currently at 10 %, as well as a reduction in price of insurance premiums.

What's more, as US and UK publishers push more and more e-books (and print books) into markets where large communities of English - speakers reside (for example in northern Europe, India and Australia), there is less incentive for publishers to acquire the rights to those books.

Offer the second book in your series as an incentive to people to actually leave a review for the first book to get more reviews.

Incentives that rock — Whatever you offer as an incentive to buy your book must be congruent with the topic of your book and the interests of your target audience.

Moreover, Olson and Anand point out that the pricing of ebooks, as a stand - alone business, can provide for a wide variety of dynamic pricing based on time - based or other economic incentives that could actually far surpass the revenue available via the current book distribution model (something akin to a consignment shop).

I think there may have been one author I bought a.99 book from as a result of the free book incentive.

One thing digital publishing has done on a widespread basis for the industry as a whole is give content providers — from the newest writer venturing into self - publishing to the largest, oldest publishing houses — the flexibility and freedom to provide additional incentive for readers to pick up their books.

As an incentive, the top reviewer who has published the most quality reviews on Writerful Books will be rewarded with a $ 100 Amazon gift voucher.

When you attend my author interview call tomorrow, you'll also get a free copy of 3 Things Your Computer Can Teach You About Time Management for you to study and use as a model for creating your own book marketing incentives.

However, as some of your readers have noted, if an author invests the time and effort to successfully market their own book, the incentive to turn everything over to a publisher, let alone a small press with minimal expected financial returns, is greatly diminished.

As for Ingram, it enables you to expand your distribution (to over 39,000 worldwide) and entice libraries, educational institutions, and other booksellers to carry your book, through higher wholesale discount incentives.

The goal here is to drive sales while giving readers an incentive to commit to a full series or collection of books as opposed to buying books one at a time.

In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.

And as it's already been adapted into a film, that might be an incentive to give this book a chance.

Despite the fact Amazon and Barnes and Noble reduced their e-readers to under the $ 200.00 price range, Kobo offered an added incentive to hustle even more electronic readers, giving a free $ 20.00 coupon for Boarders Books if you pick up a Kobo, the offer is available Online as well!

If students will be paying the same price for the digital version as they would have to for a brand - new print edition of the same book while knowing that there is no option to purchase a used text or to resell the texts later, where is the incentive to go paperless?

B+N sells books, they don't have an «App Store» or it's ilk so no revenue stream there and consequently no real financial incentive for the ever futile attempts to stop jail breaking as performed by a certain fruit themed company.

Upstart and Edupress include Reading Enrichment products like our Very Ready Reading Program and award - winning Froggy Phonics game, as well as, reading incentives and teaching resources to help promote a love of books and the library.

Service - savvy companies like Barnes and Noble have even offered their customers extra incentives to come suck up the wifi; in B&N's case, the move was a brilliant strategy to bring its NOOK customers into the physical B&N locations by offering them coupons and discounts that were available only after logging on to the in - store wifi, as well as making it a policy that NOOK users could read the full length of any book carried in the B&N digital catalog while they were logged on in the store.

The new bookstore is not just a simple platform to solely sell books, it also offers incentives such as eBook recommendations, special deals on books, and more!

It serves as an incentive for potential buyers to purchase your book during the launch period.

I never go over the limit as the per - book cost can be stratospheric — as in, provide me all the incentive necessary to drop by the Nashville Library and check out the book on a CD.

Access - based models allow readers to read as much as they want for a flat rate, which also gives readers more of an incentive to read more widely and discover books they wouldn't otherwise take a chance on.

Self - published authors have a strong incentive to improve their books as much as possible, as this will greatly improve their chances of success.

Incentive to digitize Most interestingly to me is that by opening up the hitherto closed incremental revenue option, Amazon is encouraging publishers and authors to make old books available both in print and as ebooks.

They now want a monopsony as well — they have spent the last few years offering greater and greater incentives for self - published authors to pull their titles from all other vendors, while also making it easier for them to see other authors as competitors rather than colleagues, with things like their zero - sum KDP Select book - lending promotions.