Sentences with phrase «dollar cost of books»

If you have a law library, sending at least one library staff member to a professional conference each year is worth more than the equivalent dollar cost of books.

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Self - publishing on Amazon is like putting an infinite number of your books in the center of the world's largest bookstore.It costs very little time and zero dollars to self - publish on Amazon.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

One major highlight of the Christmas Book is its «Fantasy Gifts» section, which offers billionaires who have everything the chance to buy one - of - a-kind luxury items, travel packages, and experiences that cost thousands — and even millions — of dollars.

* follow the advice in Ben Stein's great book, «Yes you can time the market» about SMARTER dollar cost averaging * Of course tracking net worth with Personal Capital by linking all my accounts * tracking the budget with YNAB.

He knows how much the different versions of the first edition of Ulysses cost in francs, pounds, and dollars, how much Eliot received from all sources for publishing The Waste Land and how that compares with the per capita income of the United States at the time, and how much Ezra Pound's first book had increased in value by 1924.

The program is a «last dollar» approach, meaning that it will cover the remaining tuition balance after all other scholarships and grants have been applied, and does not contribute anything towards non-tuition costs like books and housing, which often form the majority of student costs given that CUNY and SUNY already have relatively low tuition.

ALBANY — Bill de Blasio's first trips to Albany this year were like walking into a buzz saw: First, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property taxes.

Their off - the - books investment in 12 ships would cost trillions of dollars and would require training missions that would surely be noticed by the public.

luckily i was able to put down their «marketing» consaltant, she did try to press on useless marketing service at cost of 5thousands dollars, what a shameless b... ch, she had nothing to say on question how can i be sure that i will have a return on such «investment», can you guarantee me that i will actually sale a book, and with author royalty like 40pence how many do i have to sell to get back my money?

Paper costs money, of course, and I don't think that anyone is planning a get - rich - quick scheme by milking the oh - so - lucrative comic book market, but I can't help but remember paying five dollars for a comic book that had a First Wave preview.

Based on a pick - and - choose menu of services that includes more than just editing — which right away is a departure from the standard, as too many «author services» companies require all or none expensive packages — the platform is delving into things like review services that will send out copies of an author's book to their channels, along with talks of translation (an ungodly expense for indie authors that can easily cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars per language) and audiobook services.

If the book sells for twelve dollars and costs five dollars to print, you are getting 50 % of seven dollars (the net revenue) not 50 % of twelve dollars (the selling price).

That's three grand you were expected to cough up to the company with a total bill of over ten thousand dollars if the book costs five bucks to produce.

There was a short notice that authors were expected to buy 1500 copies of the book at book cost plus two dollars.

Hire a professional book designer for both your ebook and print edition layouts, which can cost into the thousands of dollars depending on the intricacy or complexity of your layouts.

Sure, Amazon may be a huge seller of paper books but shipping dead tree costs Amazon dollar.

I am not published by Macmillan but plenty of my friends and colleagues are and they do not deserve their books being mucked about with while Amazon asserts itself as the only game in town or Macmillan digs in over how many dollars an ebook needs to cost.

And you might end up with a bad book contract (one that could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars — or more — and prevent you from selling future books to other publishers).

In the case of NetGalley, it can cost an indie author hundreds of dollars to list even one book for distribution to book bloggers and readers.

No more printing books, hauling them down to the post office, filling out address labels, and paying to ship them off to winners (which can cost hundreds of dollars for a 100 - copy giveaway).

With the new breed of E-Readers coming out, more companies are releasing new e-readers because It is more cost effective for a company to release an e-reader and not invest millions of dollars into developing their own book store, when they can simply get a commission referring their users to other bookstores.

When I can buy books by authors whose work I love, when I can find new authors who join my «must read» list for half the price of what a traditionally published e-book costs, why should I limit my reading by paying the high dollars?

Don't get daunted with the cost of publishing a book, we're not talking about thousands of dollars and we're not talking about going to an upstart self - publishing house who will only rip you off.

So consider those mailings as part of the cost of doing business, and don't dwell on the obvious fact that some people are using your book to make a couple of undeserved dollars.

At another conference a month later, we printed only a postcard with the website address to access the book online, which saved thousands of dollars in print costs.

They've written to market, have 10 (or more) books out (and they're good, follow tropes, etc) have great blurbs, great covers, a big mailing list, a free reader magnet, and use thousands of dollars in advertisement when the book releases, yet they still don't come close to making a living (most only make a few hundred dollars after production costs).

Not to mention how slowly you'll be able to publish if each book costs thousands of dollars to produce.

The actual physical costs of a print book — paper, printing, binding, packaging, warehousing, etc. — are less than 10 % of the cover price, even in small volumes, and drop to less than a dollar per book for large volume titles such as bestsellers.

The time in between visits leading to a stockpile of border bucks that lead to book hauls for my child self of a hundred dollars or more at no extra cost to my parents or godmother.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said earlier today that «Do we want kids walking around with 50 - pound backpacks and every book in those backpacks costing 50, 60, 70 dollars and many of them being out of date?

It is beyond the scope of this initial letter to discuss in great detail these issues, such as the sale of Mr. Riggio's own college book business to BKS for more than $ 500 million and the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Company's failing and poorly - conceived Nook business may have cost shareholders, along with the Company's inexplicably high SG&A expense structure and parade of CEOs who have come and gone in the last few years.

In Australia, our books cost a fortune ($ 35 is not out of the ordinary), and listening to US readers complain about paying a couple of dollars for hours of entertainment makes me a little angry...

The software for designing a book cover costs thousands of dollars.

These services, which can cost authors tens of thousands of dollars, likewise fail to deliver what they promise: more book sales and more opportunities for authors.

Still, comprehensive programing books that teach you how to use GO, Ruby, Python, Meteor or Django often cost hundreds of dollars.

There's the cost of having your book edited, the expense of having a cover designed, the cost of layout, and then all those marketing dollars.

Author funds book publication in exchange for expertise and assistance of the publisher; cost is often thousands of dollars.

We have been able to increase our book royalties by hundreds of dollars each month... without writing a new book and without any upfront costs — just by releasing our books as audiobooks.

It costs these companies thousands of dollars or much more to publish a book with a large labor force under massive bureaucracies.

This costs thousands of dollars and who has the money, these days, to put out that kind of money to get their book published?

The initial cost to self - publish a book varies from zero (to electronically self - publish with services like Barnes & Noble's NOOK Press or Amazon.com's CreateSpace or some print - on - demand book services), to tens of thousands of dollars (if you want lots of physical books with all the «extras» like book marketing and publicity).

E-books, paperbacks, and even hardcover books can be designed and printed for the self - publishing author, with a print - on - demand program saving authors thousands of dollars from upfront printing costs.

Last week I was chatting with a group of new authors who'd been told that it would cost them several thousand dollars to self publish a book.

In this contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry - standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's book.

The manufacturing cost of a typical print book is a dollar or two, and that's the most significant cost in the items you list above.

Of course, remaindering means that the books will be sold — at a deep discount that probably will only cover printing costs at pennies on the dollar — so the publisher is getting paid — albeit at a loss — but the writer is not.

My books cost me five dollars to provide; I offered them for $ 10 and a set of three for $ 25.

Oh, there are promotions that work, like Bookbub, but they cost hundreds of dollars and they are very picky about the books they feature, especially those from indie - authors.

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