Sentences with phrase «facts about book marketing»

Here are five surprising facts about book marketing today that show just how lucrative indie publishing can be: The majority of book sales are not from best sellers.

Not exact matches

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

I was actually taking a look at a book by Philip Kotler, Kellogg on Marketing, where he was talking about people will buy from you based on the fact that they can self - identify you.

The Big Short, a fact - based drama based on Michael Lewis» book about the collapse of the housing market, has plenty going for it, including the participation of such well - regarded actors as Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, and Marisa Tomei.

In fact, ten of those books were sold in one day thanks to a listing on a site (E-reader) that I found out about through Author Marketing Club.

I recently had the pleasure of attending a local seminar about marketing with a book and speech, in fact that was the tile.

It's not exactly the viral marketing campaign that, say, turned us all onto Jib and Jab — but, in fact, letting your followers at Twitter and your friends at Facebook, and so forth, know about your current or upcoming work is just a smart, core component of a comprehensive book promotion campaign.

Guerilla Marketing Weapons, in particular, will be a hugely valuable read for authors out there who have clued into the fact that endlessly tweeting about your latest Kindle Free day may not be the surest path to selling lots of books.

at The FutureBook, The Bookseller's Philip Jones explores the fact that «We have for so long thought of Amazon as a dominant player in the books market, that we might have forgotten to think about what will happen when the giant retailer stops growing.»

Which is ridiculous for the indie author without the time, resources, or know - how to get their books on the market, but is, in fact, ideal for the authors who want to make the crucial — albeit difficult — decisions about where and how to market and sell their e-books.

Add this fact to the points made above about demographics, longevity and inspiration of other marketers, it makes sense to try to market children's picture books on Pinterest.

Given the interest in the China book market and its relative opaqueness, I thought I'll take a crack at summing up a few facts and themes about the state of translation of foreign books in China, as voiced in the Chinese press.

Barnes and Noble has an 8 % market share, which is kind of surprising when you put it this way: Nook has at least 4 times the market share of Google Play Books, which only makes up 1 - 2 % of the current ebook market (that's really pathetic considering how powerful Google is and the fact that their ebook app comes preloaded on just about every Android tablet and phone).

A one - page sell sheet is free of marketing language; it simply offers quick and concise facts about your book.

Mr. Daniels, here's how I know that you both don't know the book industry very well, and haven't even bothered to read this (or any other) discussion thread on the topic: while your analysis about real costs probably seemed clever and on point, it is in fact irrelevant because, as has been pointed out several times, minimum wage workers are not the market for books.

Recently I wrote a long post about cutting edge book marketing strategies: a lot of that stuff can be outsourced; in fact I'm going to focus on building a step - by - step todo list you can use, just give to your VA and let them take care of everything (I may, eventually, set up some kind of service where you hire a VA from us to do everything, that way I can train them myself to know exactly what to do... but that's a long way off, because honestly I'd rather just focus on writing my own books).

In fact, you're reading about one of the most innovative book PR firms and book marketing firms... ever.

Just think about how a great book by an unknown will compete with a brand name author... Yes, life is tough, but again... why doesn't Amazon address the fact that it makes most of its money off of the same old same old, books that are either «built» by big publishers or by indies who often combine formulaic storytelling with full on marketing.

Everything about Chen and Yair's market - themed food setup is just fab — they had tons of stations, plus a cocktail car, a beer car, and a candy buffet — but the fact that they stuffed a real - life, full - size kayak with watermelon, grapes, mangoes, passionfruit, and more for their guests to dip into during the night makes this wedding truly one for the books.