One answer to what sells
books is word of mouth.
Millions of people are fully convinced that
those books are the word of God and are quite sure that the Bible is not.
faith «unable to reconcile the falsehoods from the teachings of men to the word of God» And neither can you since you have no idea if
your book is the word of any «gods».
If
this book were the words of an Omniscient, Omnipotent God, there would be NO questions, NO mistranslations and NO misinterpretations.
This being the case then why cant
ANY book be the word of God?
The book is the word and the word is lord.
Anyone could write a book and include statements within it saying, «
This book is the Word of God.»
Within the covers of
my book are words of encouragement, understanding and support.
Books are words strung together.
The main approaches conventional ebook stores use to help sell
your book are word - of - mouth and «similar titles» tables.
Whether it's the blurb, or the first chapter, or the first novel in a series, the biggest thing that sells
your books is the words themselves.
There's no argument that the most important part of
your book is its words.
Books are the words that are written, the images that are used.
But in this book it's worded in a way that makes me rethink my previous stance, and then backed up with interviews, survey data, and sales figures.
We've all known for a while that the most valuable commodity for the sustained promotion of
a book is word - of - mouth buzz.
His most recent
book is Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2013) and he has contributed to books and catalogues on artists such as Henri Matisse, Alighiero Boetti, Jessica Stockholder, and Gillian Wearing.
Not exact matches
She has demonstrated this in both actions and
words since her husband took office, and sending
books to schools across the country
is but one example,» her spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to Fortune.
Here
is a personal collection of some of the greatest opening
words to some of the greatest
books.
To
be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big *
was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I
'm not sure the
word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this
book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.
Here
is Gates's summary of this entertaining
book: «The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects — from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says — using only the 1,000 most common
words in the English language and blueprint - style diagrams.»
[With it,] she went from a child who couldn't hold a single letter in her head to someone who
was able to read
words and sentences and chapter
books and able to effectively communicate with people around her.
In other
words, it operates much like a regular Airbnb
booking — only the price
is set at zero, only agencies can do the
bookings, and Airbnb does not collect fees.
I shared in my
book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, five ways that people could show others they
're valued — through
words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, tangible gifts and physical touch.
In her
book Hello, My Name
is Awesome... How to Create Brand Names That Stick, former Ogilvy & Mather copywriter Alexandra Watkins of naming firm Eat My
Words offers two mnemonics to help you get the basics right.
Accenture
is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his
book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little
Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»
For decades it
was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their
words and transform them into a few boxes of
books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.
But while spending more time with the written
word is pretty much always a good idea, there
is another way to increase how much nourishment your brain gets from
books.
Their narratives parallel each other's in both
words and pictures; many of the illustrations
are reflections of the girls» worlds that can only
be read by physically turning the
book upside down.
Belying Spicer's comment
is data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, which has 450 million
words spoken on television and written in
books and print media over the past three decades.
Whether he
's commenting on the recent Time Warner and AT&T merger, recommending
books for entrepreneurs, or sounding off about the 45th president, the internet hangs on Cuban
's every last
word.
As soon as you know when your
book is going to publish, you should start using all your social channels to get the
word out.
«A person's name
is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language,» writes Dale Carnegie in his classic
book «How to Win Friends and Influence People ``, and those
words couldn't
be truer.
You can tell yourself you
're only going to write 200
words to get started on that
book project, but your brain often does an end run around your intentions, paralyzing you with visions of savage critics and blown deadlines nonetheless.
Not only do I credit comic
books with improving my reading comprehension skills (having pictures explain the
words is a great educational trick), they also made me into what I consider to
be a fairly decent driver.
President Donald Trump kept up his war of
words with James Comey on Friday, calling the former FBI director
's new
book «third rate,» and suggesting it
's unfair that Comey
is profiting.
Recently when she
was doing a
book signing in Washington (for Mum's the
Word: The High - Flying Adventures of Eve Branson), I paid her a surprise visit.
I've already shared with you my list of the Best
Books for the Holidays — but sometimes
words aren't enough.
You may never write a
book or call yourself a writer, but if the majority of your day
is spent stringing
words together to communicate, then it
's worth your time to learn how to do it well.
In fact, sometimes
words are too much and what you really want from a great
book...
are great pictures.
That
's 180,000
words over a three - month span, a goodish length for a
book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale
is done well and stays fresh.»
The
word nanotainer should have
been like a neon sign to all of us, a blinking light at an adult
book store eliciting scrutiny and skepticism.
How about Frontier Airlines, which offers these comforting
words on its website: «We'll try to keep your party together, but the only way to ensure that you'll sit together
is to select seats at time of
booking»?
No
is a powerful, productive
word (James also wrote a
book about it).
At Sunday's Grammy Awards, Carrie Fisher
was honored for best spoken
word album for her
book «The Princess Diarist.»
What they
're seeking to build, in other
words,
is the conduit through which much of the world's digital
book trade will happen.
This
was Fisher's second Grammy nomination and first win, following her nod for spoken
word for her 2008
book «Wishful Drinking.»
So when The Nation printed an excerpt from Gerald Ford's unpublished memoirs even though it didn't own the rights, it
was found guilty, even though it only printed 300
words from a large
book.
In other
words, there
's no official «right» way to organize your
books.
Your customer - support team may never write a
book or call themselves writers, but if the majority of their day
is spent stringing
words together to communicate, then it
's worth their time to learn how...
At Advantage, the option Rusk took — called Talk Your
Book, in which an editor puts an entrepreneur's spoken
words onto the page —
is the budget option.