Not exact matches
Expedia's stock surged after the travel company reported better - than -
expected quarterly sales and a sharp increase in
booking volume.
The company increased its U.S. -
booked air
volume 6 percent in 2016 and
expects that figure to increase to $ 57.2 million in 2017.
You would
expect a story like this to be included in William Bennett's
Book of Virtues, now in two
volumes.
Based on the survival rate of
books by Copernicus, Gingerich had
expected to find twice as many
volumes, but some 300 were destroyed by the publisher, he suspects, because the
book's difficulty made it unpopular with its target audience: «A user familiar with the previous way of computing would no doubt freak out in the opening steps of the Rudolphine procedures,» upon seeing all the calculations Kepler had added for accuracy.
Not so, says Spotte: «Anyone
expecting a handy reference
volume faces disappointment; this
book is organised to be read, not consulted.
In the above interesting chart, there appears to be more parity than might have been
expected in the male - female comparison of UK
book buyers (measured as percentage of
volume).
Since I was giving the
book away for free, I didn't really
expect to make any sales from it; it was just the only way I knew how to track the click
volume.
In some genres (especially high -
volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often
expect anything shorter than a full - length
book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.
The one thing I did do was put some information, at the back of the
book, that gave the reader some approximate date / month when they could
expect the next
volume.
Let me see if I understand this; when I sign a contract with a publisher,
expecting that publisher to properly exploit my work by selling it in every market possible, and said publisher doesn't do that because they want to keep the prices of my
books high when Amazon wants to keep them low and sell more copies thereby making me more money via
volume, I'm supposed to get angry at Amazon and not my publisher?
Matthew Pack, CEO, Holiday Extras said: «We
expect to be busy in January and have recently expanded the team to service the extra
volume of
bookings.