Sentences with phrase «bookstore shelves»

It's common to find the newest bestsellers showing up on bookstore shelves in hardcover, and some months later in paperback, and later still in the even more economical trade paperback.

Once your book hits bookstore shelves, you've got just eight months to generate sales.

Worse, competition is fierce for bookstore shelf space and available media slots.

Books no longer leave the market like they used to disappear from bookstore shelves after six weeks.

We look for books that are unique, providing readers with something other than the standard commercial fiction already lining bookstore shelves.

The third way to get your book on a local bookstore shelf is to go through the back door.

Unless there is a history of sales or a clear book marketing plan from the author to get books off bookstore shelves, most stores won't take a chance on a new author.

Don't expect to see your book on physical bookstore shelves when working with such a press.

Large - pub's advantage in filling bookstore shelves is of declining importance.

Even if a book has steady sales, if they're not in the millions, your book will be removed from bookstore shelves after a few months to make room for new fare.

Gift Card Books take up less of the very expensive bookstore shelf room.

A length pressure to reduce size will start taking hold to allow publishers to get more books into the same shrinking bookstore shelf space.

Authors who are pitching literary agents should understand where their manuscripts fit onto the (literary or virtual) mystery bookstore shelves.

For every available bookstore shelf space, there are 100 to 1,000 or more titles competing for that shelf space.

As many others have observed, browsing through a book, like browsing the library stacks or bookstore shelves often produces invaluable, if unintended, results.

It can be up to a year or more from the time you sign your contract to the time your book hits bookstore shelves.

If you wanted to get onto bookstore shelves, you had to deal with a legacy publisher because they had a lock on it.

Who knows how many of their names will appear on bookstore shelves over the next twenty years?

So if you want your book to fly off bookstore shelves, guess who's going to have to do all the publicity?

If it doesn't sell well, it's removed from bookstore shelves, and the covers are sent back to the publisher for a credit.

I've been dreaming of the day where a hardcover book filled with glossy images, the name on the spine reading «Tessa Huff» would sit on bookstore shelves next to some of my baking idols like Greenspan, Tosi, Beranbaum, and Stewart for years.

You hit bookstore shelves with a handful of titles at once, and they prop each other up.

Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.

Their books fly off the Christian bookstore shelves dispensing whatever ad hoc explanation or special pleading might be required to salvage the evangelical belief system from the perils of uncomfortable fact.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

Only start querying when you'd be comfortable with your manuscript appearing as - is (and being sold) between covers on major chain bookstore shelf.

It allows copies of the book to reach bookstore shelves before major publicity appears, gives reviewers some lead time to prepare their articles, and provides a margin for unforeseen changes in the book's production schedule.

If fans pledge a total of $ 13,000 or more by the deadline, both volumes of Captain Ken will be released simultaneously for Kickstarter backers to receive in February of 2015, before hitting bookstore shelves in March of 2014, through DMI's Platinum Manga classics imprint.

However, if fewer people are browsing bookstore shelves, publishers can't count on the serendipity of the bookstore visitor bumping into a front - of - store display and taking a chance on a new author.

On the other hand, many traditionally published midlist authors have a few thousand copies of their works gathering dust — temporarily — on bookstore shelves before the books are remaindered or pulped.

In the olden days our only goal was to have a jacket standout on a crowded bookstore shelf that would inspire someone to cross the store to pick it up.

No matter how wonderful your book might be, it won't sell itself... and it's highly unlikely for a new author's (and even many well seasoned one's) book to jump off bookstore shelves without some help.

First, an aside: publishing industry definitions for frontlist vs. backlist books: Though timelines differ for different publishers, a book is considered «frontlist» from when it is newly released into the marketplace until it on the bricks and mortar or virtual bookstore shelves six months or so.

«Why Tyler Cowen's new book will be on Kindles, not bookstore shelves.»

Any casual browsing through bookstore shelves reveals a glut of books on modern spirituality that claim a vague authority by beginning with variations of «A medicine man once told me...» There is no sign that the best - selling Medicine Woman series by Lynn Andrews or Carlos Castenada's almost - classic Teachings of Don Juan, the Yaqui Sorcerer have lost any of their legitimacy or attractiveness — despite mounting criticism from the Native community.

I mean, there are entire bookstore shelves dedicated to «Christian Romance,» a phrase the world would be much less gross without.

While bookstore shelves are teeming with shattering memoirs and incredible life - changing events, a unique and quiet calm surrounds The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating that gently lifts Bailey's story a bit above the rest.

I swore I'd be happy no matter how tiny the advance, how miniscule the press run, how scant the publicity, how few reviews, how many bookstore shelves it might not land upon.

Whereas a full - length work can easily take as much as two years to reach bookstore shelves under a traditional publishing model, ebook - only marketing of shorter works means that time can be as little as a few months.

Since most bookstores shelve their books vertically, your spine is the only real way for your potential readers to easily spot your masterpiece on a shelf.

My On The Shelf article went up last week on Otaku USA so check it out to see what new books you can expect to see on bookstore shelves right now.