Sentences with phrase «few handfuls of authors»

One could argue (and so I will), that by moving into «traditional» publishing, Amazon is simply acknowledging that content is and always will be King, and while the self - publishing angle has worked out quite well for them, only a few handfuls of authors are truly making any notable profit on $ 2.99 ebooks.

Not exact matches

«In just a few short years, by analyzing tens of thousands of samples, our consortium has moved from identifying only a handful of loci associated with schizophrenia, to finding so many that we can see patterns among them,» said first author Stephan Ripke, a scientist at the Broad's Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and the Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit at MGH.

A few respondents made a point of telling me that the majority of their sales came from an unexpected source (Apple in one or two cases, AllRomance eBooks in another), and for a handful of authors, B&N sales far surpassed Amazon earnings.

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?

I think that, as publishing becomes increasingly concentrated in a few global corporations, we will see a huge gulf open up between a handful of familiar names, often getting deals beyond the time when they have done their best work, and a lot of indie authors.

I've had a handful of did - not - finish titles from new - to - me female authors in the last few months as well.

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.

I'm also not self - pub, but my publisher is a very small indie press with only a few titles and a handful of authors.

Interestingly, although they are the standard for author website design, there are extremely few of them — search around for examples of high quality author websites and you'll find that there are really only a handful of examples out of tens of thousands of author websites.

A few authors do sell a nice amount of print books — Toby Neal and Todd Borg come to mind — but the majority report only a handful of print book sales per month.