Not exact matches
Hopefully, this comment and all the support
from your
readers allows you to
gain even
more conviction about yourself and the need for your cookbook, blog, and overall spirit.
After the notoriety the COF
gained from this,
more than 1,000
readers chimed in on Reddit posts questioning whether College of Faith schools were «diploma mills» with subpar academic standards preying on deluded athletes.
-- Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Financiers to innovators including Hotmail, Skype, and Overture.com «Tim Ferriss's book is about
gaining the courage to streamline your life... But even
more than that, it challenges the
reader to seriously consider an essential — yet rarely asked — question: What do you really want
from life?»
Gaining personal, thoughtful feedback
from a
reader, even if it's only a few words, encourages any writer to keep writing and to try to please
more readers.
As 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to see huge
gains in popularity this year as
readers come to expect
more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebooks.
After spectacular growth in the last few years, the ebook
reader market is on an alarmingly precipitous decline, sent reeling by
more nimble tablet devices that have
gained the ardent patronage of consumers, according to an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics special report
from information and analytics provider IHS.
You might lose a few sales due to the jack - of - all - trades perception, but you might
gain even
more sales
from people who know or meet you and
from multi-book sales (perhaps not all at once, but
readers who enjoy one book now and check out a much different one months
from now).
This will
gain a
reader's interest and will take the emphasis away
from your book, after all you don't want to be continuously plugging your book; be
more subtle about it.
If you give away free what your
readers would gladly and eagerly pay for, you'll
gain far
more than the measly few dollars you might have
gained from a book sale.
The
more content you have, the easier to
gain awareness and get reviews
from industry professionals,
readers.
-- Second, in my view the study would have
gained from fleshing out in greater detail some of the key cases with a
more detailed treatment of the competing arguments in order to add not just colour to the text but also to allow a deeper understanding of the issues — at least for the
reader.