Sentences with phrase «copies on bookstore shelves»

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.

Not exact matches

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that E.L. James» Fifty Shades trilogy is on track to hit 20 million copies sold in the United States, after just three months on bookstore shelves (it has been available digitally for about four months).

I've always advocated for working with your local bookstore to get copies on the shelf.

The owner might not have a copy on the shelf yet, but it might be in the bookstore online catalog.

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.

You, Anne, didn't have to handwrite individual letters to each one of us, nor did we have to journey to the bookstore in hopes of finding a physical copy on the shelves.

If you plan to approach bookstores to stock your book on their shelves, you'll need a visually appealing bookstore sell sheet, which is what retailers and wholesalers use to get the information they need to order copies of your book.

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

You give up an awful lot in rights and royalties just to have the supposed prestige and validation of a publisher's name on your book's spine, or to see it on a bookstore shelf for a few weeks, before all the copies are pulled and remaindered.

eBook lovers may not find enough reason to visit bookstores unless they want to preview the tangible copy of their book or window shop the potential item for their eReader; still, physical shelves can not accommodate the virtual copies on the cloud that are systematically categorized and curated.

Outfits like iUniverse, Xlibris, and AuthorHouse (which have merged and been consolidated under AuthorSolutions) offered a range of packages to help authors get their books in print, though most books never sat on a bookstore shelf and sold a few dozen copies at best.

If I'd been in a bookstore, Deighton wouldn't have had a look in, firstly because he would be unlikely to have any shelf space (despite a recent reissuing of the texts with damn fine covers), at best maybe a spine out copy or two and secondly because other, newer titles would have been calling out for my attention on tables and in 342 offers.