Sentences with phrase «few author copies»

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A few weeks ago I was a lone author / baker and now I have two photographers, a hired proof - reader, copy editor, and an indexer.

I can point to moments of good fortune in the life of the book, but then, so can other authors whose books sold either far more or far fewer copies than mine did.

Author affiliations are particularly important in the academic world — if a professor at University X writes a book, chances are high for course adoption or at least that the library will purchase a few copies.

If I remember correctly, the last time I ordered author copies for a book with approximately the same page count as the special edition of Vengeance, it cost $ 4.99 (give or take a few cents).

Many authors sell maybe only a few hundred copies of their books.

Sales for the average author mill title are around the same as for the average self - published title: fewer than 200 copies.

According to Writer Beware statistics, most POD runs sell fewer than 200 copies to «pocket» markets — friends and family of the author.

Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few copies on consignment.

He engages his readers on so many social media platforms that it is hard to imagine he has any time to write his bestselling novels, and yet he has sold nearly 1 million copies of his books and recently achieved a feat few traditional authors have...

After working with fellow indie authors in NIWA for a few years now, I've decided that it's stupid that I don't have print copies of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple other places that carry books published via CreateSpace / KDP).

Author copies don't cost much, but you still have to convince folks to buy a few.

Self - publishing - paying a printer to run off a few hundred copies - has long been available as a last resort to frustrated amateur authors.

But, ever thinking of the company's welfare, the rep quickly offered to print a few hundred copies of the book for the author.

The group's application of new technologies and publishing on demand reduced the cost of publishing a book to a fraction of what it had been for previous generations; authors now have the ability to publish a book in as little as six weeks and print as few as a single copy.

How many front list authors go on tour and report back about hosting events where a handful of people showed up and only a few copies of their books were sold?

If the Vault becomes a backwater for authors with typical self - pub sales (a few hundred copies), professionals will probably stay away.

«If the Vault becomes a backwater for authors with typical self - pub sales (a few hundred copies)» That's the problem, isn't it?

Well, that money will have to come from something other than marginal cost of production... probably either author advance, or by publishing fewer books by more marginal authors (those who sell less than 20,000 copies).

If you are unfamiliar with the royalty structure on most major retailers, then you may be asking yourself: How is it that authors earn more money at $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they do at $ 0.99 - $ 1.99, when they sell fewer copies of their book?

Many books people «think» are successful earn the author only a few thousand and might sell just 1,200 copies.

And of course they can rely more on the efforts of authors to sell their books, because they can make a profit by selling fewer copies.

Hypothetically, what if an author had published 1,000 books, each of which sold only a few copies,» Coker said.

While Big Five print titles, for example, may sell more than the average indie author's work, a self - published author has to sell far fewer copies than a traditionally published author to earn the same amount of income.

And quite a few authors have sold 10,000 plus copies in their first year after getting selected by this program.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareA few years ago, I wrote a post on the difference between copyright (literally, the right to copy or reproduce, ownership of which guarantees authors control over their intellectual property) and rights (the... -LSB-...]

The authors give a copy of their book, hand over a few bucks, and fill out a form.

This would eliminate all those Fake Authors who are getting pittances for advances from Big Publishers and who sell only a few hundred copies, or those Wannabe Authors who aren't getting any advances at all from their small - press publishers.

Most authors copy down a few paragraphs from their book's introduction and leave it at that, missing out on a huge opportunity.

TPL now receives about 300 requests per year from authors to consider self - published books, although it ultimately adds far fewer than half of those to its collection as either hard copies or ebooks in OverDrive.

Other authors write even fewer words and just copy and paste the description on the back of their book jacket.

The authors see that 1,000 copies of their books sold in the first few days and tell all of their other author friends.

But having a few copies of the authors» books handy for these instances means giving away their work — which still isn't a bad thing — but there's only so long an author can afford to give away her print material.

With more and more self - published authors getting «discovered» by the traditional publishing industry and in many cases having their originally self - published books redistributed by a major publishing house, what becomes of those few original copies that readers came to love from the very beginning?

The role of design is to help translate the heart, tone, and essence of the writing into a visual metaphor that hooks a potential reader and gets them to come closer, to read the cover copy, to learn more about the author, to take the book seriously, to get excited about what's inside, to preview the first few pages, and then let the words of the book take them away.

We've been approached by many authors who tell us they're self - publishing their book when what they've actually done is had a few copies printed, or posted an electronic version of it on Amazon.

Mmm, 9.99 is the most I'd pay for an ebook myself; and I'll sulk if for the few handful authors I'd pay more for didn't have a physical copy of the book for me to order.

What I mean is: if you're a self - published author with a book (or maybe a few books) and you'd like to see sell more copies, you absolutely have to be making use of Social Media.

Author Susan Bischoff who has a subscription to BookBuzzr Author Pro and is giving away over 30 free copies of her e-book on Freado.com has seen her book's Amazon rank increase substantially over the last few months.

If it has zero reviews and the authors aren't giving away review copies or soliciting reviewers; if the book cover sucks; if the description is poor; if the first few pages have weak beginnings or spelling or grammatical errors — and I'd guess that fully 75 % of self - published ebooks have these problems — then of course the books will sink and visibility will be an issue.

Some books published by vanity publishers for first time authors have gone on to become highly successful while some sell only a few copies.

Currently, when I get a strong recommendation from a friend it's a few days before I get around to a bookstore and take a look at it (of course, with the exception of getting lent a copy which actually is zero profit to author or publisher).

I have ordered several proofs and author's copies from CS over the last few months.

T.K. Kenyan, author of Rabid, also uses BookScan numbers to report that of 195,000 new titles published in the US each year, 70 % sell fewer than 500 copies a year.

Indie authors publish their books for free, most of the best sellers are only priced at 99 cents, and the rest sell on average a few hundred copies.

Indie authors publish their books for free, most of the best sellers are only priced at 99 cents, and the rest sell on average a few hundred copies, if that.

Of course, below that broad shoulder is the famous «long tail» of authors who move a few hundred copies per year.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

Now if Amazon, the authors, and publishers really wanted to make more money off me, they'd just need to create the «Kindle Unlimited discount purchase plan»: after reading a KU book, give me the opportunity to get a permanent copy for just a few bucks more.

Of course there were a few success stories to fuel the flames, but in many cases naïve authors found themselves with a large invoice and 2,999 copies of their book in the bedroom cupboard.

Yes, these books tend to sell fewer copies than some of their 99 - cent cousins, but in this case the author is not going all out to make an immediate splash.