Sentences with phrase «books than you'll»

Nothing makes a bigger impact on the lifetime sales of your books than a kickass book promotion right at the start.

On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard - copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.

Hugh Howey is right: if people like you, they're more likely to check out your books than if you scream at them or act pathetic and needy.

When you consider each step — and the fact that most reviewers receive more books than they could ever read — you will quickly understand why book publicity doesn't happen overnight.

I've also learned that putting books into bookstores on consignment isn't worth the time and effort: there are better, smarter, cheaper ways to sell books than to move them one by one in return for miniscule checks for a few dollars.

The net result: it would be cheaper to buy a Kindle and all the books than to just buy the books from Waterstones.

I mean, we're still selling more physical books than ever before.

While there are more terrible books than ever out there, there are also more authors making livings writing.

In fact in Amazon's last report they said that they are now selling far more digital books than print books.

Women buy more books than men do, and more female authors are making it onto the bestseller lists than ever before.

It's heavy - handed, and unprofessional, but it will help you sell more books than every other self - publishing author who doesn't use any keywords and has covers that don't convey the genre.

Those lamenting the death of literature may find solace in the fact that the average Kindle user purchases four times more books than they did prior to owning the tablet.

• Brick and mortar retailers are far more open to self - published, small press and POD books than ever before.

Amazon.com Inc., a major force behind e-readers with its pioneering commercial success, the Kindle, said last week that it was selling more electronic books than printed ones.

First, KU subscribers read more books than those not in the programme (about the same percentage — 27/8 — of each read 5 to 10 books, but while 43 % of non-subscribers read fewer, that number of subscribers reads more).

Another observation from my colleagues is that more editorial attention is paid to hardcover books than to mass - market paperbacks.

Like you, I download way more books than I have time to read.

The online retailing giant says that for the first time, it has sold more electronic copies of books than actual print editions.

Also the typesetting process is different for print books than ebooks and is much more expensive.

As such, the recommended word counts are largely the result of industrial standards and therefore have more to do with the production requirements of paperback books than they do anything related to storytelling technique, artistic aspirations, or the preferences of readers.

When a large publishing market undergoes a more rapid shift towards digital delivery and consumption of books than a smaller publishing market.

Even a good publisher can't read more than a hundred books a year, and because publishers should not publish more books than they can read, my sole explanation is: if they publish more books than that, they must not want to read them.

There are now more self and independent published books than those produced by the traditional NY...

You need to spend a lot more time on marketing your books than you might think.

I thought to myself: «It makes more sense to be a Pottery Barn selling a few books than a bookstore selling a few pots.»

There are more free books that I delete after only reading one or two chapters, but I download more free books than I checked out from the library as well, so I don't know if the actual percentage of books I try, and find I don't care for, is substantially different.

With a teetering to - read pile constantly tumbling down by my bed, and the black hole that is my Kindle hiding dozens of downloads, I've always got more books than I have time to read, but whenever I receive a courteous, friendly request to review a book that sounds interesting, I do my best to squeeze it in, unless it sounds like a book I'd actively dislike.

Another survey — this one, done in Great Britain, I'm pleased to say — finds that young people are reading fewer books than their parents did.

But the fact is that it's a lot harder to sell books than most people realize.

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.

But even more interesting is the news that «Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books».

And there's the overtake by Big Publishing of smaller and independent houses, of course: Krüger has no love of a house that can put out more books than its publisher can read:

Time and technology march onward, and since I'd rather read books than sniff them, I'm happy to join the eBook revolution.

Frequently does not mean the majority, but the statements by Jeff Bezos last fall and in January were unequivocal, Kindle sales have not cannibalized paper sales and the Kindle buyer buys more books than the ordinary Amazon book customer.

There are many more good books than publishers to handle them.

It's both inspirational and depressing to watch someone else sell more books than you are (I'm often in that position, with the crazy successful indie authors I hang out with)-- but that the most important thing is to keep writing, keep improving, keep putting out your best work, and keep finding ways for your audience to find you.

I bet I sell more books than you with my free (and infrequently paid at very low costs) marketing.

Self publishing probably produces a lot more lousy books than are already out there.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

Amazon recently announced that during September it sold more Kindle books than print books for the top ten, hundred and even thousand bestselling books on its US website, and other retailers will no doubt see the same as Christmas approaches.

A friend was telling another friend (in my presence) how getting an ereader has completely changed the way she reads — that she buys far more books than she ever had before.

Even if that number is inflated, us eBook publishers should be able to sell a few more books than our usual monthly average, right?

The self - publishing revolution means that anybody can be an author, and that means more books than ever in the marketplace.

You may notice slightly different sales numbers for your Kindle Edition books than you did previously.

«Books have been around for a very long time and people have a deeper relationship with some books than most digital content,» he said.

Reading is an aspirational activity — all of us aspire to read more books than we actually do.

And I'm not just saying this because I listen to more non-fiction books than I read.

And I did an art and lit show yesterday and sold more books than anticipated (copies of all three — so for those with more than one book published, listen to Sandra — keep on promoting.

I hadn't thought about buying more books than I used too since I have always bought a lot but realize you are right.

While agents have a better nose for good books than the average newbie author, agents are still fallible.