Sentences with phrase «few less books»

We'll probably sell a few less books five years from now than we do now, for example.

Not exact matches

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

But as more and more book - wielding entrepreneurs crowd the stage, the term published author has less traction than it did even a few years ago, Booher says.

Even a relatively mundane corporate tax return for a Canadian corporation with a few dozen employees and domestic operations can easy run into 100 pages, and frankly our tax legislation and compliance obligations are far less onerous than those of our US cousins (by way of example, our Tax Act is one phone book, the IRC is three, of more or less inpenetrable gibberish).

Displacing ideas and institutions that are now long established is not merely a matter of writing a few books, much less a few blog posts.

A third matter of note is that Luke freely includes references to the kingdom in citing the sayings of Jesus, though less often than Matthew, but in the book of Acts by the same author the references to the kingdom are few.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

@Chad Would you consider the book Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter less fictional if it had been written just a few decades after Lincoln died?

Just as less and less theological writing is being put into books, the theological reader is reading fewer and fewer books.

This stumped me for a few minutes and then I revisited Nigel Slater's book, Tender... which I think is the perfect book when you need «less - is - more» kind of inspiration.

Car seats and boosters are typically not supplied unless booked in advance, but for quick jaunts of a few blocks or less, the NYC taxi experience is great fun for toddlers and little kids.

Aidan receives insight from many notables — Princess Beatrice of York, Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft and novelist John Irving, to name a few — but Aidan's «tips» sprinkled in boxes throughout the book are no less insightful and very entertaining.

I asked her recently to write up a few things about what it was like breastfeeding at a time where even less women breastfed than today and there was no internet, no Google to search things up, no information except the odd parenting book or La Leche League meeting.

But once you stop playing this particular game with her, you can go back and give Satter's book a more thorough read, and introduce other strategies (proper meal and snacktime spacing, optimizing her nutrition via the few foods she eats, chilling the eff out overall, etc.) that will make mealtimes more pleasant and less of a power struggle over... well, whatever thing your toddler has decided to turn into a power struggle this week.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

While there are a million great recipes out there for quinoa and brown rice dishes (including in this book) we want to highlight a few of the lesser used grains — namely, amaranth, millet and spelt — and how Amy is using them.

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Crossbones (Frank Grillo), one of the franchise's few double - dyed bastards, gets an early look - in but is benched in favour of Zemo (Daniel Brühl)-- who's a typical MCU baddie in that he's more grounded than his comic - book equivalent but considerably less interesting.

This film is basically Whedon's attempt to top himself as no movie series, much less a series in the comic - book genre, ever aims to do less action or fewer amazing set pieces.

by Walter Chaw I'm most familiar with Thomas M. Disch for his sterling non-fiction work (The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of and The Castle of Indolence) and a few samplings of his less impressive genre short fiction, and though I was aware that he'd written a couple of children's books about a band of appliances, I'd never felt compelled to investigate.

Although Knee is a business - school professor and former investment banker, his book reads less like a coherent analysis of the prospects of education businesses and more like a few standalone cautionary tales.

The benefits for the three deliberately developmental organizations (DDOs) the book profiles are staggering: increased profitability, improved employee retention, better communication, reductions in employee downtime, less interdepartmental strife, and faster solutions to tough problems, such as how to anticipate crises, create valuable leadership, and realize future possibilities — to name a few.

Our students go on fewer field trips, are exposed to a narrower range of books, and participate less in the arts.

That might be because many black children are poor, with less educated parents and fewer books at home.

Research shows that they hear about 30 million fewer words, they have significantly lower exposure to books, and their impulse control and self - regulation — often called executive function — tend to be less developed than in higher income children.

After formatting a few of your books, it will become so easy that you can do it in less than 30 minutes.

Promotional pricing (sales), even going free briefly, has less influence on total earnings than I'd have expected, though a few authors have reported that putting one book free has increased sales of their other books, especially if it's a series.

Likewise, there are fewer books, which means the pool of good content is smaller, which therefore means there will be less talent.

Self - published writers frequently hear that they need to pass their books by beta readers or critique groups first before sending the stories on to freelance editors (fewer corrections in a book means a less expensive editing process).

It's why the majority of self - published books sell less than a few hundred copies, not in a year but over their entire lifetime.

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).

We'll talk about the biggest obstacles every aspiring author must overcome before reaching her goal; how to focus your idea so your book takes less time to write, requires fewer rewrites, and immediately grabs your ideal readers» attention; and the secret to structuring your book so readers are hooked to the end.

Find a category where a few books are selling really well (less than 10,000 overall ranking on Amazon) but that the majority of the top books have a ranking over 100,000.

Foreign rights are sold so cheaply for most books, sometimes for as low as a few hundred dollars, that anything less than a 50/50 split barely produces pocket change for an author.

With ebooks, your wallet may gain a few pounds as well, as you will be spending a lot less money on books.

But, a weakened Amazon, with less share of the book market, means fewer book customers searching for books and stumbling upon the self - published work.

Fair warning, there has been notably less data about Kindle book sales history and sales rank tracking in the past few months, so there will still be some adjustments in the coming months to the sales estimates that are generated.

Some say that this behavior by book agents in the early 20th century was responsible for the trend of publishers beginning to print fewer titles and take fewer chances on newer and / or lesser known authors... another trend that continues today, and continues to be debated.

If fewer books are being sold, that means less money in your pocket.

If only a few hundred have sold, that's likely friends and family members, which means the book is more or less undiscovered by its audience.

Dig down into the less - populated subcategories with fewer titles (e.g., «Romantic Suspense,» «Technothrillers,» «British Mysteries»), where your book will stand out better.

In other words, it only takes a few minutes to read a picture book that's 1,000 words or less, while most agents take many weeks or months to read longer books and decide if they're going to offer representation.

Question: Would you be thrilled with a few hundred copies of your book sold (average is less than 500) or would you like to sell thousands?

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

Many probably feel that they «did» Shakespeare to death during their school years and can think of few things less appealing than reading a book about him on their own time - let alone paying good money to buy it!

He was originally going to buy the books but discovered that the ebooks cost only a few dollars less than the paperbacks.

The past few months has seen an explosive firestorm of opinion taking place in forums and blogs around less - than - reputable reviews and book awards.

The prospect of being able to buy something for just a few dollars less will make them much more willing to buy a new book.

In less than six months since my first publication I have already sold a few dozen books out of hand and to museums through Moraine's Edge Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, books out of hand and to museums through Moraine's Edge Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, etc..

If your book is $ 4.99 or less, we will also post it to a few newsletters to try and get more sales for a couple of days during our promotion.