Sentences with phrase «face of book sales»

What this really means is that the face of book sales is changing.

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Other companies reporting quarterly results today include book retailer Barnes & Noble (BKS), which is expected to report a decline in its fourth - quarter sales — a drop that would represent the company's fourth - straight quarterly decline — as the retailer faces the increasing threat of online rivals as well as underwhelming demand for its Nook e-readers.

Let's face it, you could go out and buy any book on psoriasis (you may have already) and all you're usually left with is a book that will likely spend the remainder of its life collecting dust on your bookshelf or jumping from garage sale to garage sale.

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The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective about the authors we take on.

Waterstones, which had sales of over # 400 million last year, has returned to profitability over the last two years after almost collapsing in 2011 when it was hit by a combination of high debt and declining book sales in the face of competition from electronic readers.

I'm all for changing the cover and title — but have you ever witnessed an actual «rebirth» of a 2 or 3 - year - old book... have its (amazon) sales rankings do an about face?

Now that such a significant portion of the book retail business has moved online, publishers can't rely as heavily on these sales channels, and many have adopted a consumer - facing approach to sales and marketing.

At this year's Tools of Change conference in February, another issue facing publishers in relation to book price was debated: publisher branding for in - house retail sales.

From the very first chapter of The Bad Beginning (the first book) to the last lines of The Grim Grotto (the latest title, which goes on sale Sept. 21), the Baudelaire children Violet, Klaus and Sunny face grief, misery and disaster.

Given the dynamic nature of the book industry, the challenges faced by traditional booksellers, and the robust innovation pipeline fueling new opportunities in hardware, software and content creation and delivery, Barnes & Noble is utilizing the strength of its retail footprint to bolster its leadership in selling content to drive sales across its multiple channels.

However, Seeing that Raider has forfeited its rights concerning royalties etc on my book «Moses was a Liar» and in the face of continuing sales, where do the royalties go now?

While many of these publisher - specific websites can be linked to their existing sales channels for print, book discovery is always an issue that consumers and creators will face.

Promotion: If you've booked any promotional events, such as readings or festivals, or if you're planning to promote your self - published book at face - to - face events, then you'll want to have print copies of your novel or memoir available for sale.

I can think of another major bookstore chain that was facing similar issues with diminishing book sales, and started to gravitate towards a lifestyle brand, Borders.

Word of mouth and Hand sales face - to face are how authors» reputations get built and how books get sold.

I know quite a few Authors who carry around a suitcase full of books everywhere they go with the hope of getting some sales and when being face to face with someone trying to sell you a book it is much harder to say no.

Amazon (the market leader in ebook retail sales)... The publishers were concerned that any single publisher who issued that ultimatum would face «retribution» — «the actual extreme of [Amazon] not putting our books up for sale.»

Workshop attendants will share their thoughts on any and all issues currently facing traditional bookstores, including ever - declining physical book sales, the importance of the bookstore as an institution and how bookstores can provide customers with books regardless of format.

SP authors don't suffer the ridiculous delays that TP authors face: layers of minutiae editing, marketing and sales conferences, catalog seasons and the annual holdup of Book Expo.

And because the publishers traditionally didn't offer much in the way of book distribution or book marketing or publicity support, naive or uninformed authors who had expectations of sales beyond a small circle of friends and family were sometimes faced with a basement or garage full of leftover vanity press books.

In the U.S., the quick growth of e-book sales has been something of a lifeline for publishers facing a declining print book business.

When it comes to marketing their book, the cover design is their primary sales tool, the face of their project, and the thing that can elevate them to a professional standard in the eyes of readers.

Maybe your sales are lackluster, perhaps you're just running out of time to market your book, or let's face it — we've all had to admit at one point that we just don't know what we're doing.

I faced both of those issues: first, a fear of pricing too high when I put the book up for sale at $ 9.95; then a worry that if I gave it away free, readers would believe that's all it's worth.

When discussing disappointing sales of a specific title, one of the first questions a rep will ask is if the book is on the shelf face - out.

The new face of publishing and book sales is transforming everything.

Since Amazon is now behaving more like a supermarket chain than a book publisher, it would be reasonable for it to lower the price of the Kindle to $ 50 before the next year is out and to hold a fire sale on all of the e-books in its inventory, if these steps are what is necessary to maintain and enlarge its market share in the face of stiff competition.

This would seem to fly in the face of logic, as a Kindle Unlimited borrow in December of a book priced at $ 2.99 would pay the author only $ 1.43, while a sale would net the author $ 2.09 at the 70 % royalty rate.

This company is facing some challenges such as slow sales, but it has a book value of nearly 4 times the current stock price.

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