I give them their first choice if possible, but sometimes they get their second choice if I don't have enough
copies of a particular book.
Among the 30 - 50 members who receive
a copy of a particular book it's conceivable, but unlikely, that there might be somebody connected to the book, but the chance of there being enough such people to influence the overall consensus is effectively close to zero.
I suggest that these are among the most trustworthy reader reviews to be found on the Internet because the only people who can post reviews in this section are registered BookBrowse members who receive
a copy of a particular book to review through our monthly «First Impressions» offers.
You want to know how many
copies of a particular book you sold yesterday?
Not exact matches
Christopher Calderhead, author
of Illuminating the Word: The Making
of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case
of a modern
book the reader is the first to see any
particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.
Somewhere on the Titanic is a Persian
book of poetry called the Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám, and this
particular copy of it is jewel encrusted.
In this session we will provide a
copy of the
book to each participant and focus
particular attention to the topics in chapter 11, «The Principal as Leader Learner.»
So, for example, if customers would buy 100,000
copies of a
particular e-
book at $ 14.99, then customers would buy 174,000
copies of that same
book at $ 9.99.
Before POD, a publisher had to predict what the demand for a
particular book would be over time, then print, warehouse, and ship the number
of copies they predicted could be sold.
As Scalzi explains on his blog, «In the course
of the production
of my
book, it is touched and receives positive benefit from (in no
particular order): A writer, an agent, an editor, a
copy editor, an art director, an artist, a
book designer, a marketer, a publicist, a distributor and a bookseller.
If a digital
copy of a
book can only be loaned to one reader at a time and for a limited period only, then there are a limited number
of loans that that
copy can have in a
particular period
of time.
The former French professor's Gothic tale, with echoes
of classics like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, struck a chord with
book lovers in
particular, who sent it straight to the top
of the bestseller lists: 70,000
copies were sold in the U.S. in the first two weeks
of its release.
She has even come up with a digital watermarking system that links the identity
of the purchaser to the
copy of the e-book, and as her
books are apparently going to be available in a compatible form for all e-reader platforms, the
books aren't tied to any
particular e-reader device.
Criticisms
of proposals can range from «not interesting enough,» or «writer's credentials not strong enough for the subject,» to a subject matter not being «marketable,» a
book not being «the right shape» for a
particular publisher's list to it being «not big enough» (i.e. it won't sell enough
copies).
Being hidebound and lacking innovation for decades, the publishers were particularly concerned that Amazon's pro-consumer pricing
of eBooks would negatively impact their moribund sales model, and in
particular the sale
of higher priced physical
copies of books.
Books that come to mind — again, this is in no
particular order — obviously Marty [Whitman]'s first
book, his original
copy of The Aggressive Conservative Investor was, to me, a great
book.
Because the publisher only gets to sell a new
copy of a
book once, and some law students are smart enough to buy used textbooks that are still required for a
particular class, so there's a strong incentive for publishers to release new editions often.