I saw that I sold hundreds of
copies on Kindle, and the the ebooks of mine in the same series from my traditional publisher sold 5 or 6 each.
Plenty of indie authors were told their books «weren't good enough,» only to sell a gazillion
copies on their own.
Sure you might sell a thousand
copies on Amazon, but selling a hundred thousand to a bookstore chain is more compelling.
His titles have now sold more than 250,000
copies on Amazon UK, and the fourth and fifth books in the series are pending.
I tried many ways of selling e-book, to start with I was selling then on ebay, I even kept going after we had to start sending out
the copies on CD, but the end I gave it up, The main reason was because I sell other items there and did not want to have my account blocked by ebay.
Most authors report that their books sell far more
copies on American book retail sites than on other country sites.
There are places available like CreateSpace and Lulu that can print off
copies on demand for you at a reasonable price.
Every month my most popular e-book sells many more
copies on the Apple store than on Amazon.
Fair contracts should stipulate exactly what information must be displayed in the royalty statement: the number of copies sold and returned; the list price; the net price; the royalty rate; the amount of royalties accumulated; the amount of reserve for returns withheld; the gross amount received by the publisher pursuant to each license along with copies of statements received by the publisher from its licensees during the accounting period; itemized deductions; the number of copies printed, bound, and given away; and the number of saleable
copies on hand.
We put Killing Cupid out in February 2011, and as Louise predicted we sold around 4
copies on our first day, to people that we knew... But then I became completely obsessed about trying to sell it.
Just don't count on selling your self - published book to a traditional publisher; this almost never happens, and when it does, it's only when you've already sold tens of thousands of
copies on your own.
Her next ebook sold 145
copies on the day she published it.
And most significantly, if you can achieve a threshold of sales, say from 5 - 10K
copies on your own, a traditional publisher may offer you a deal to take over the book for their list.
Should a bilingual copy cost the same as Japanese and English
copies on their respective Kindle stores?
I sold 4
copies on Kindle, 3 paperbacks, and surprisingly 19 on the Nook.
To help drive early reviews, they gave away 100
copies on Goodreads (case study).
Amazon sold out of
copies on Aug. 10 and has yet to restock, though there are copies available from private sellers; The Associated Press reports that Knopf has rushed 75,000 copies into print.
people will no longer be fussed about having «local»
copies on their own storage, but this tech is still in its infancy and and it's possible that this is just another temporary swing in the fat - client / thin - client pendulum.
Rees said Oliver had been a big seller, selling more
copies on Mondays after the «30 - Minute Meals» programmes are repeated on Sundays.
His first novel, A Tale of Friends, Enemies and Minecraft, has sold more than 14,000
copies on Amazon in only one year.
I sold a total of 217 paperback books, 234 audiobooks and 195
copies on Amazon Kindle during the month.
After the announcement was made, he put up a message at Tokyopop.com, now long gone, but other people posted
copies on their own sites.
You can also print
copies on demand using IngramSpark or CreateSpace.
Traditional publishers build their business around the typical sales curve of a print book: put a lot of
copies on bookstore shelves, see what sells in the first 90 days, and deal with returns and marginal ongoing demand on most titles.
In the first 24 hours after the promo ended, I sold 68
copies on the US market and about a dozen on different foreign markets (6 in UK)!
I sold 178 paperback
copies on CreateSpace, also owned by Amazon.
I'll be arranging with Third Place to sell print
copies on consignment, and meanwhile, the ebook editions will go up on the various big ebook - selling sites as soon as I familiarize myself with all the appropriate systems and procedures.
I originally chose my iPhone because I'd been buying books in PDF and from Fictionwise — and the iPhone was my best shot at being able to read those files on the go while also being able to keep backup
copies on my computer.
I sold 162
copies on Amazon Kindle in March, 14 more than in February.
-- We have had no home runs, no big sellers, and many, many stories and novels of ours sell
no copies on some site each month.
If your calculation suggests that your publisher's contract is worth $ 28,000, and you'll make $ 49,000 if you self - publish, and you're going with your publisher because you want to have books on the shelves, ask yourself if it is worth $ 21,000 to you to put 6,000
copies on the shelf.
According to the same data, 36 % of e-reading Russians borrow e-books from friends, and a mere 15 % buy digital
copies on «specialized web sites.»
Even with twenty or thirty
copies on the shelves of independent bookstores near and far, you are going to make most of your sales directly from your website to your online followers.
For example, you can offer review
copies on reader networks like Goodreads and LibraryThing.
I've always advocated for working with your local bookstore to get
copies on the shelf.
Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few
copies on consignment.
The first is Metadata API — which allows access catalog information such as title, author, description and title samples.The second is the Availability API — which provides unique title - availability information from library holdings including number of units or copies, units available for lending, number of
copies on hold, etc..
Her sci - fi novel The Host wasn't a big jump from the teen fantasy she is known for, yet it still sold just 2 million copies in hardcover (yes, an impressive figure, but the fourth Twilight novel, by comparison, sold 1.3 million
copies on its first day of sale!).
She politely asks me if the store will mind if she buys all
the copies on the shelf that night for family and friends.
A small aside: Amazon also said it would be re-issuing the novels of Charles Dickens — in their original serial format — as digital
copies on Kindle.
With her bad luck with traditional publishers, she'd often find few
copies on the shelves, or they'd be in the wrong place.
Give - aways of free paper review
copies on Goodreads and other book sites are being gamed.
And for exclusive offerings and a chance to score Advance Reader
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Unfortunately they have placed two
copies on my page for my book «The Spirit Within» and priced them at over # 4,000 each.
Where it cost me $ 50 to place three
copies on their shelves.
Noosa Pengari Steiner School's books are available to be ordered as hard
copies on www.amazon.com, or from www.pengaripress.com.
If It can't sale over 100,000
copies on its home turf in one day I don't see it doing any better in America
For reference, Final Fantasy XI also sold significantly fewer
copies on launch than prior entries, yet is currently the most profitable Square Enix title to date.
Recently, it was revealed that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes had sold three times as many
copies on PlayStation 4 than it did on Xbox One.
An industry analysis firm has predicted that Destiny 2 will sell 3 million
copies on PC and shame the console versions in its first three months after release.