Sentences with phrase «buying traditional books»

Their intention is to develop a portal for people to buy traditional books and also digital book and Kindle e-Readers.

EBook readers buy more books than those who buy traditional books.

Not exact matches

Traditional publishers will even get in on the game, only publishing an author who commits to buying a certain number of their own books.

I spent my third year of university in Northern Ireland and when I was travelling around with Simon (we've been together for ages) I bought Darina Allen's book Traditional Irish Cooking as a souvenir.

Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the niche readers who will buy those books.

And remember that traditional publishers will treat your book like produce, if they notice they bought it at all.

However, it's closer to what a traditional experience of reading a comic book is like, so people tend to read and buy more on the iPad.

As a reader, I already don't like many things about Amazon... namely the fact that I can't «rent» a book for 99 cents instead of buying it for $ 9.99, and the fact that «ownership» of an e-book does not come with the traditional rights of ownership (i.e. to give / sell the book so someone else when you are finished).

So using 35 years and a $ 5,000 advance (decent these days), traditional publishing is buying your book from you for the lofty sum of $ 142.00 per year.

The battery on your traditional book will not crap out just as the hero is dangling off the cliff and you have to send it off somewhere for repair or buy a new battery online before you find out what happens.

Suppose a traditional publishing company became interested in buying one of my books.

I got the impression that even if you publish with a traditional publisher, you're still expected to do all of the things a self - published author is supposed to do: blog, network, sign books, endear yourself to any stranger who might buy your book or who knows someone who might appreciate your prose.

It is ignorant to suggest that by buying a book from a traditional publisher that you are doing a disservice to the literary world.

It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day.

Books sell for all the traditional prices, go to the traditional outlets, and are bought by regular readers.

And since readers don't buy for publisher, but for author, any indie book was suddenly sitting beside any traditional book in the big discount catalogs.

On one front, this is essential material for the first - time author pursuing a traditional publishing deal, as publishers are well known for sticking quite rigidly to genre requirements, for the purposes of selling their products (our books) to the even more hide - bound book shops, who aren't interested in buying a book unless they know where to shelve it.

I am always amazed at people who cling to traditional books and tell me, usually in a tone of superiority, how they will never buy a Kindle because they love the feel of books and the act of turning paper pages....

Dog Ear was founded in 2004 by three traditional publishing veterans with over 50 years of collective experience in book packaging, retail buying, graphic design, printing, and acquisitions.

Despite that I tried lowering my standards for self published books and continued buying (I never asked any of the authors for their copy of their books, I wanted to support too), reading, and reviewing, but even the best self published book I read, that I rated a 4, would be a 2.5 with traditional publishing standards.

Your pool of potential readers is limited if you're still conducting exclusively traditional book promotion campaigns and ignoring social networking; producing articles, podcasts, and book trailers; syndicating your blog; using your Web site to create an online community; distributing newsletters electronically to those on your mailing list; publishing eBooks to offer free peeks at your book's content or to gain readers who might potentially get interested enough in your topic to buy your book (or, perhaps, to hire you); and so forth.

The fact that international reader can buy indie books mean that there's no geographic restrictions, except book published by traditional publisher.

Let's take a look at a more traditional use of advertising: telling people to buy your book now!

The readers won't buy expensive electronic books, so the feedback loop in traditional publishing is that electronic books don't sell well.

The book itself worked out (even with shipping costs which you don't get in the US) $ 5 cheaper than I would expect to pay in a bookstore so why would I want to buy using the traditional method?

I'd say the scale tips toward traditional — except I wonder, where do YOU buy most of your books?

I do know that I love my Kindle but haven't stopped buying books in their traditional paper format.

One of the complaints I've heard and read about traditional publishers is that if they buy the book, sell it for a year, and determine it isn't doing well, they'll pull it from stores.

Interestingly enough, traditional publishers don't care and are using the new system as a large slush pile that they can find good, reader - tested books to buy.

I wrote five more books, some of which were bought by traditional publishers.

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Author mills often present themselves as «traditional», because they don't require you to pay up front — but as with the vanity anthologies, their books are marketed not to the reading public but to the authors themselves (who are pressured to buy their own books for resale) and to «pocket» markets surrounding them, such as friends and family.

Any publisher, whether they are a self - publisher, vanity publisher, or traditional publisher, have to buy ISBNs (International Standard Book Number) in blocks of ten.

Traditional publishing was too focused on getting their print books into the bookstores, whereas digital publishing sites are focused on the reader, on getting the reader to click the buy button.»

Indie books have been turned into award - winning films and have been bought by traditional publishers, eager to share in their profits.

2) Because a book is not bought by a large traditional publisher, the book is not good enough to be published.

I am disgruntled to find the newest book in a long followed traditional published series is either $ 25 hardback or $ 10 epub when I've been discovering new authors writing fresher works and buying them for $ 2.99.

... I love that she likens book launch to a startup company... The fact that you can buy some of these services very cheaply is irrelevant for the author who wants to produce a quality book that can compete head to head with those from traditional publishers... I have little sympathy those who complain about the costs of putting out a book now... You don't need to spend this kind of money to self - publish a good book successfully...

I was able to leverage the reasonable success and excitement over a book like Bait Dog to a more traditional deal, too — Skyscape Children's bought the book and will release Shotgun Gravy and Bait Dog as a single volume (with new content and robust edits) called, simply, Atlanta Burns.

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Customers, for the most part, just don't buy books because they were done by a certain large traditional publisher.

Indie publishers are taking their books for the most part around the $ 5.00 number, usually under, and traditional publishers are coming down to that impulse buy point as well in some cases.

The biggest advantage of traditional publishers is distribution, and with so many people buying books through Amazon and Kindle, that is becoming less important.

(For a publisher doing a profit and loss in Traditional Publishing, a book is bought, but expenses have already been spent on the book before the author is offered a contract.

Many traditional publishing imprints (like S&S and Random House) are buying comic books and positioning them like traditional books (for lack of a better word).

I practically gave up on e-books, and never thought that I'd prefer e-books to traditional books — that is until I bought my Kindle Paperwhite.

Use feedback from major traditional editors as a sign of quality, even if they can't buy your book for some marketing reason.

In a nutshell, a traditional publisher buys the exclusive rights to edit, package and sell your manuscript in book form.

When traditional publishing gave up their monopoly on distribution to readers and stores, writers gained the freedom to publish and get readers to maybe buy stories and books that might not have ever seen the light of day.

One thing I found very cool is the cost of my books that I buy is much lower than if I went through my traditional publishers, even after their 50 % discount.