Sentences with phrase «estimate of the number of books»

That's why they rely on Bookscan to give them an estimate of the number of books that are sold.

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But the book provides no basis whatever for estimating the number of priests who are violating their celibacy vow.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

The least one ought to be able to expect in a book by a statistician is (a) clear specification of what is being depicted by the numbers that are presented and (b) appropriate indication of the magnitudes of uncertainties (as reflected, for example, in the range of respectable estimates of a quantity of interest).

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

If you asked me to estimate the number of wellness - related books released in a given year, I wouldn't have half a clue.

Jim Grant, author of several books on looping, says no figures exist for how many U.S. schools loop, but he estimates the number to be as low as 1,000.

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I've got a Bachelors in English Literature, so forgive me if my math is janky, but here's a rough estimate of books sold in 2015, according to those rough numbers:

I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just book royalties.

According to Wikipedia «Best - selling» refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an author.

A rough estimate pegs the number of manuscripts that print publishers get in a year at anywhere between 2000 — 3000, but only about 250 books are eventually published in the end.

That number is based on Seth Godin's estimate of 15 million books published in 2012!

But for the sake of advice, let me give you some estimated numbers via BookTrackr for all three of my books, which includes two novels and a short story collection.

At this time we are estimating one million downloads a day on the average, but because some of the books require files in multiple numbers, instead of estimating 32 million, for the 32 days from Jul. 4 through Aug. 4, we prefer to do an estimate of a more conservative nature.

Adding its own total to the number of print books sold in 2015, the Bookseller estimates that there were 276.2 m print and digital books sold in 2015, 2.9 % up on its 2014 estimate, with digital accounting for 30.9 % of all volume sales, down from 32.7 %.

Because of the wide variety of standard trade book sizes and layout configurations, estimating how long a book should be by the number of pages is generally not helpful.

As for the actual findings of the report, it was interesting to see how the number of copies was calculated for various books based on sales rank along with the estimated royalties (something you could probably spend all lot of time trying to figure out and do very poorly).

Other retailers, including Apple, do not, limiting us to only estimating the very top books in a limited number of categories on those channels.

In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.

If you've run a KDP free promotion on Amazon.com before, you can compare the numbers above with your own to get an estimate on the size of the German free book market.

I also keep an estimated monthly and annual sales projection both for income and number of books sold.

There are many factors that go into the curation process, of which number of reviews, number of titles, whether your books are in a series, estimated sales figures, cover art, book description, current genre saturation, library interest, and overall availability are just a few.

In the last 6 months, NovelRank has made a large number of improvements, including: Research on sales rank myths, improved kindle sales estimate accuracy, improved social networking tie - ins, book analysis, CSV download and RSS feeds for user pages, sorting of books on user pages, added Amazon.co.uk Kindle book tracking, worldwide snapshot on user pages, and tons of little bug fixes and tweaks to speed up the website.

There are a number of compelling reasons why a business or publisher might want to use CreateSpace publishing to produce a print - on - demand (POD) edition of their eBook: By most estimates print books are still 50 - 80 % of the market.

To know the right number of copies for a print run, the publisher would need to estimate future demand for the book — even if the book was being sold for the first time.

There are many ways to estimate the average number of books that an indie author sells by analyzing data that's available.

50,000 titles are the estimated number of books sold during their initial operation competing against the local Sony and Kobo stores that offer 65,000 titles in their catalogues.

The data shows that the e-book market for traditionally published digital books is much bigger than previously thought, with estimates suggesting that a total number of 65 million e-books were sold in 2012, representing a value of about # 200m — at least double what it was in 2011 in volume terms more than double.

Rumor (and Börsenverein prediction) has it, that the number of consumers reading both print and ebooks will decrease slightly (an estimated 3 %) within this year, while the exclusive use of print books will be significantly on the rise (from 38 % in 2014 to an estimated 45 % in 2015).

The number you quoted is actually the number of books NOT published by traditional publishers: «Bowker reported that 764,448 titles were released in 2009 that were outside of the company's «traditional publishing and classification definitions»» According to the post, traditional publishers released «an estimated 288,355 titles in 2009.»

Australia, for example, has what appears to be quite a generous program, though payments are based on the estimated number of copies of an author's book in libraries, not total loans.

You can estimate the finished time of your audiobook by dividing the number of words in your book by 9300, which is the industry average number of words that can be spoken in an hour.

Laura Ellen Scott: Right now we do not have the hard numbers from the distributor, but the conservative estimate is that the book was downloaded in the tens of thousands during the free period.

BookScan estimates the nationwide number of print books sold but does not measure ebook sales.

But nonetheless, BookScan is the industry's go - to source for the size of the print market, used to estimate the overall number of hardcovers, trade paperbacks, mass - market paperbacks, and board books sold each year in the U.S.

But a Bowker estimate puts the number of self - published books in 2013 at nearly half a million.

This figure was estimated by examining the typical number of shares offered at various prices, and estimating how deep «into the book» a fund would have to go in order to execute 10,000 shares.

On emergence, the company had a book value of about $ 38 / share (remember this represents «fresh start accounting value», an estimate of true asset value at the time of exit from bankruptcy, not a historical cost number) and about $ 0.9 billion in long - term debt vs. pre-petition debt of $ 4.8 billion

Beginning later this month, customers will be able to see an estimate of the number of miles and elite - qualifying credits they will earn for a chosen itinerary when booking their trip on aa.com.

Starting later in June, American said, «customers will be able to see an estimate of the number of miles and elite - qualifying credits they will earn for a chosen itinerary when booking their trip on aa.com.»

So you can estimate the number of books pretty accurately.