Sentences with phrase «books sold at that point»

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That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

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.

I bought this book for a few dollars used, but at one point it sold for as much as $ 150!!

I was tempted at this point to put a link on my Web site and order a bunch of the books to sell at conferences.

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

Certainly I haven't asked people to specify a «heat level» when reporting their stats to me, so I have no way of knowing if there's a point at which «too graphic» sells fewer books (or more books!)

Despite efforts from different major publishers to sell books directly through their own websites, even in the face of pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.

There are more writing craft books out there than you can shake a stick at and almost as many covering a myriad of other topics like writing faster, outlining better, building an author business, selling your books in Tijuana... well, you get my point.

A headline at the top of the cover that succinctly sums up the key benefit or selling point of the book — or consider a convincing quote (blurb) from a recognizable authority who recommends the book

At that point, my books had sold around 20,000 copies.

Ask a bookseller at what price point they typically sell a book like yours.

I know from personal experience that Kindle publishing is a great way to create immediate income for a brand new site — even if you're selling books at the $ 2.99 price point.

Having one's book published (especially in this day and age of on - demand self - publishing) is only one part of the process because at some point, whether traditionally published or self, we can all agree it comes down the selling.

Savikas will be pointing to data gathered at O'Reilly to underscore where digital content is heading, including that O'Reilly Media now sells more digital books than print books on their website.

Imagine that she's going to sell 2,000 digital copies of her book a year, every year, for five years, at which point it tails off and she sells only 500 digital copies of her book a year for the remainder of the life of the contract.

No matter how many or few you sell, you can keep your book alive and available long past the point at which a «traditional» house would have taken it out of print.

At this point Ingram clearly seems like the winner in this category, but there are a few nuances to keep in mind: first off, having control over your global pricing sounds cool, but in practice you need to sell a LOT of books globally for it to pay off.

So when we started into selling electronic books, we priced our books at the lowest point allowed, which was 99 cents.

At this point, you should know which of your marketing strategies works the best, how well your first book sells through to your later works, and how many people are clicking the links in your emails.

After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in at this point) what started to become clear as electronic books exploded in sales was that readers were buying electronic books in place of mass market paperbacks, the pocket - sized books that sold around $ 7.99.

My overall point remains that at the end of the day, when entities as big as Amazon and Hachette go at it, the people who are ultimately hurt by this are still authors — who can't sell their stuff via Amazon — and readers, who can't buy the books they may want to get.

Aimed more at non-fiction, use these 10 «hot selling points» to write and sell a book your readers will love.

I get it about setting a SLIGHTLY higher price point to gain more overall cash, but to make a new bestseller at $ 16 in paper and sell the same book for $ 13 in e-format is highway robbery.

Books don't sell at the 99cent price point.

From my experience, to have the most successful bookstore at this point in time would be having a larger kids section, self lookup kiosks, no cafe (or at least a cafe that runs on its own payroll), and a much smaller retail space with only the best selling of each category in store with the option of having a book shipped FREE if it's not in store, and not having such a huge digital presence (nook).

Hi Troy and all, just pointing you to some articles from publishing industry guys that self - publishing will not harm your chances at a book deal — if you're successfully selling!

Get them reading this book by offering a great deal, and save focusing on selling them something at a higher price point the next time around, once they're already familiar with (and in theory liking!)

Now, never mind that I haven't sold a book at $ 2.99 for six months or so — I understand the point.

And at this point a major way to break in was sell to magazines first, then have editors see your work and come to you for a book.

That's an investment and risk on the side of the publisher, since it requires doing a print run of books that may not sell as expected, plus all books are returnable by bookstores at any point for a full refund.

Some of the things I suggest are controversial; but even setting your book for free to get more downloads will be much more effective than marketing your book and trying to sell it at a higher price point.

Many publishing service providers will claim and emphasize that their books are distributed worldwide through Ingram, that your book will be available at many hundreds or thousands of retailers, and otherwise point to the sizable number of places that your book can be sold.

That isn't to say they can't sell a lot of books at their local events — I've seen plenty who have — but they'll reach a point of attrition, and this means they need to travel further outside their local community.

Extrapolating, if March comes in as it's shaping up, from that point on with no sales growth at all (even though I'll be adding a slew of new titles this year), I will sell well over 100K books in 2012.

Just with Goodreads / Amazon there was not enough information to «sell» his books to me at the price point he had listed.

The wealth of books from the various ebook distribution platforms selling at an under - three - dollar price point — and many of those selling for under one dollar — speaks to what readers are willing to pay for digital titles, especially from newer authors.

A further point others have pointed out is that while book publishers have to sell remainders at deep discounts, the price of an e-book doesn't go down with age, as there is no need to get an e-book out of inventory.

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 book received a lot of favorable attention but no offers, at which point one industry professional finally told her the truth: «If it weren't you, I could sell this book in a minute.»

Now, a new category on Amazon Charts called Year In Books lets you look at how these data points spanned the calendar, providing «a timeline of the biggest book trends and cultural moments from each month, a breakdown of each state's most sold book and many other fun reading trends.»

At the end of the day, while $ 9.95 price points certainly can help sell more COPIES of books, they're not so hot for making money for stores or for creators.

Your book on selling real estate has been out for a year now and is doing fairly well at the price point you've set on Amazon.

Data shows that authors who sell their ebooks at a $ 2.99 price point can actually end up earning more in royalties than authors whose books are priced at $ 6.99 or higher because they move more product.

(I feel the need to add a sidebar comment at this point: If you've never tried to sell a self - published book, you're better off not trying it the DIY way first time out of the gate — or maybe, never.

I've always been a reader and a book person, but I'm totally sold on Kindle at this point.

We all know that at this point in time, electronic publishing is hovering around 20 % of all books sold.

Some simple research will show you that authors that were self published by well known self publishing companies are selling their books at a price point between $ 15 and $ 25.

At one point, it was the # 1 best selling startup book on Amazon.com, which was pretty amazing!»

In this scenario, the $ 10 a book price point is great as you can turn a profit selling just more than half your stock, and you can offer the book at a very reasonable price.

Speaking during the EDItEUR - convened Supply Chain Track at the Tools of Change Frankfurt conference, Downer, now a retail consultant, pointed to the more protected and regulated European book markets as places where diversity in publishing and bookselling was being protected, in contrast to the UK, where Amazon is now selling 30 % of all printed books, and the vast majority of e-books.