The lure of potential sales will see more ebooks published especially
for backlist titles that might once have had decent print sales an area that might see an uptick too.
Especially for backlist books that were sold to traditional publishers and changed significantly, would any authors be willing to «release» (epub or print) both the «original motion picture» (traditional published text) and the «director's cut» (a different version a bit longer that the author liked better)?
When an agency model publisher fixes a low
price for a backlist title like these, the publishing is putting itself in a position to learn a great deal about pricing, sales, and profitability in the ebook world.
The average amount of time a title has been available as an e-book: 7.7
months for backlist, 6 months for original titles.
Be the «other» book distribution company, the one that corporations use to buy in bulk, the one that book retailers
use for the backlist because using your site is much easier than whatever messy crap it is that their other distributor offers.
Existing clients who wish to navigate the new frontier (without doing it themselves) can delegate the details to their
agency for their backlists, short stories to promote upcoming releases or epub works that might not be as marketable.
Publishers will be put in a very interesting position — They will be forced to give 50 % to authors for ebooks and even
more for backlist titles.
You must have come here after seeing a plea by Kelly McClymer *
for backlist series to use to test out some marketing theories.
Get social — Social media is an author's best friend if done correctly and comes in
handy for a backlist book marketing campaign.
HarperCollins is excited to reach an innovative partnership with Scribd that monetizes its audience through traditional retail and a subscription
offer for our backlist titles,» «HarperCollins authors will benefit from extended reach, increased discovery, and improved royalty streams.»
So Amazon stands to make more money per unit of a new release sold, but
less for backlist titles and non-new releases.
• February 13 2013 meeting: «Beyond the Book: How to Write Killer Book Titles and Back Cover Copy, Assemble Media Kits, and Craft a Fresh
Message for Your Backlist Titles» — Speaker: Sue Sylvia
It also helps authors and publishers by providing a new way to generate
income for backlist cookbooks.
In the early days of the retail giant, it seemed a near miracle that any book in print could be had easily — it was
great for backlist authors, great for those of us whose job it was to market books.
Get your younger staff out talking to readers, off loading books, taking a leaf out of indigenous techniques for renewing the land, start a new grassfire in culture every year to renew it — not chasing the new only or necessarily but reorganising
respect for backlists.
Given all the industry changes, agents are re-evaluating how they can advise and work with their clients on publishing e-books (
particularly for their backlist).
The one and only benefit of agency pricing was that at least it got publishers to pay attention to what they were
charging for their backlist titles, since they were suddenly in the position of having to set retail prices for everything themselves.
Giveaways and contests can grab readers» attention whether you're trying to promote a book launch or create
buzz for a backlist book.
Here's a tip regarding author interviews: when I receive interview
requests for backlist, i.e., not current, authors, I respond to the journalist thanking them for their interest and letting them know that I will forward their request to the author.
It puts them in a really strong position when it comes to winning ebook rights from Published Authors and ebook rights
for the backlists of star authors.
If some of those NG backlist books are from 2016 or earlier, they would totally
qualify for The Backlist Reader Challenge.
Some respondents say they favor ebooks over
print for backlist, replacement copies, completion of a series, or high - theft items, and such shifts are taking place in other formats as well.
I do wish, however, that they'd experiment more, particularly with offering libraries per - checkout
fees for their backlist rather than inflated sales prices linked to excessive restrictions.
That took the account that sold upwards of 10 percent of most publishers» books, and a far greater percentage of the bookstore shelf
space for backlist, off the board.
Anyone else see The Knight Agency's blogpost about their self - publishing «assistance» they are now offering their current
clients for backlist titles:
Your
argument for backlist books holds more sway, but it still doesn't take into consideration the investment publishers need to make to create ebooks.
However royalties for ebooks can range from 15 % net receipts for front list, to up to 35 % of net
receipts for backlist.
I buy almost all fiction as ebooks, and I buy a lot of it, but I won't pay over $ 9.99 for new fiction, and rarely that
much for backlist.