Sentences with phrase «buying ebook reviews»

Some indie authors have been trying to solve this problem by engaging in the process of buying ebook reviews and creating an air of distrust in their chosen vocation.

Not exact matches

Buy our Call Me by Your Name Special Issue eBook for only $ 4.99 CAD, and see how Alex Heeney expands on this review's analysis of the film's technical craft in her longer essay, «Tricks with time».

But libraries can't look at the first page of an ebook before they buy it, and under the sales rank system they can't even choose according to the professional review publications they have on file.

We had 490 downloads, which is 490 new readers who may go on to buy other books by the same author, or who might leave reviews on the ebook, or who might mention the book to a friend, helping promote it by word of mouth.

Okay, I'll admit it: I'll buy and review a Amazon Kindle, but what I really want my eBook reader to be is a Kindle - size iPod Touchbook (or what we call around here, Rumor # 3).

Many have screamed unfair and shouted for the rights of the reader who has only bought one ebook ever and has developed a burning need to review that book.

As well as free EPUB books, I have several eReader reviews and also a resource page where you can find places to buy EPUB ebooks from (none work directly in iBooks but may do via 3rd party apps).

If you want more detail on what not to do, along with a lot of belly laughs (and some cringe moments now that the cat's out of the bag on the review debacle), go buy How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) for $ 2.99.

Those that wish everyone buying $ 4 highly rated ebooks instead of $ 15 trad published ebooks would stop doing so and view all indie work as sub-standard garbage whose reviews are manufactured.

For the reader buying an ebook for less than a dollar is cheaper than their daily coffee or tea and your tip can be free (just a short review).

However, people who buy ebooks at regular price on Amazon, who buy them during the author's sales and promos on Amazon, and who «buy» them when they're temporarily offered for free on Amazon can all leaves reviews for those book on Amazon, so reviews alone are not any sort of incentive for keeping books in KU.

Here's another way of getting readers interested in buying your eBook: getting great reviews, five - star reviews, from readers who have actually read your book.

You should also take the time to read online product reviews for some of the different eBook reader devices that you are interested in buying.

He hired a firm to buy 15,000 of his own eBooks to «juice» sales and write favorable reviews, sky rocketing his exposure.

By the time you upload the ebook to Amazon (5 days prior to release, no pre-order), you want to have 5 - 10 reviews on the paperback — more is great, but that's all you need to buy ads.

If you're too broke to buy the ebooks, sign up for review tours, NetGalley or Edelweiss.

This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Sometimes it is for reasons to avoid the ebook, sometimes it is «you will only like this book if you enjoy X and Y» and I'm a reader of» X and Y.»;) Avoid buying books on reviews based on «I love every book by Author AAA» or ones that just say they hated the book.

Meanwhile, please leave reviews and show your support for the series by buying the ebooks where they are available!

Fun fact: if you have the dead tree edition available before the ebook, people can buy and leave «verified purchase» reviews on the print edition, so your ebook launch starts with reviews available.

Social proof, much like online reviews, give potential buyers the added confidence needed to buy your eBook.

«If it is something that people in my area would like and is well reviewed but is in a less popular genre (such as sf or fantasy), I may just buy the ebook version rather than have to weed it in a couple of years,» clarifies John Mundy, Perry County Public Library, IN.

Make readers more likely to buy your ebooks and make your book show up higher on Amazon's lists by gaining more reviews for the book.

Like ebooks and print, reviews are critical to provide social proof and convince people to buy your audiobook.

A year previously, as the 2013 Bowker's Demographics & Buying Behaviors Annual Review reported, ebooks were reported to be achieving «22 percent of units in 2012, up from 14 percent in 2011.»

In addition to buying reviews, Locke also paid the reviewers to download his.99 ebooks so that the reviews showed up on Amazon as «verified purchases.»

Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well - known way to «juice» an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.

We also know that some rented ebooks will drop out of the packages each year, so we review usage statistics annually and buy the ebooks with the heaviest use, so that if access to the rental copy should later disappear, we will still have access.

The Nook ebook buying experience is similar to Amazon with two exceptions: the number of customer reviews and topic subcategories.

Streitfeld also reveals that John Locke, the author who became the first self - published writer to sell a million Kindle ebooks through Amazon, bought 300 of those reviews.

If you can pay enough people to buy your.99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out.

In addition to Booklist, select reviews are distributed to No Shelf Required, a popular website for librarians interested in ebooks; Douglas County Libraries, a major Colorado library system (8 million annual circulation) that buys many of BlueInk's recommended titles.

And most ebook purchases come from Apple or Amazon — and the way people buy those books (finding the book, looking at the cover, reading the reviews, reading the description, downloading to their device) is just about the same — and the book's pricing should be the same across platforms.

«Those who want to buy the ebook can, and we love it when they do, but the web is still our home and its the force that is driving readers to the review, in whatever format they consume it in.»

This is becoming a familiar chorus: great review, click buy link, gasp at ebook price, go to library catalog.

Independent author and blogger Imy Santiago bought an ebook, read it, and posted a review on Amazon.