Sentences with phrase «half of a books sales»

Independent authors enjoy more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties for traditionally published books.

Until recently, Amazon allowed Jihad Watch to participate in a program that promised a cut of any book sales that the site generated.

The late - night Comedy Central host has challenged his audience to boycott the ecommerce giant for its manipulative treatment of book sales.

But though Serbinis is among those who see e-books representing 80 % of book sales in a decade, Indigo isn't pinning all its hopes on digital.

It was suggested in the earnings call that 14.5 GW of booked sales were a reasonable target based upon the current opportunity pipeline.

Trust me, odds are that the folks who write books on this type of stuff are getting rich off of their book sales, not their investing prowess.

Plus, 25 % of book sales will benefit Cloth for a Cause and the Rebecca Foundation's Cloth Diaper Closet with much needed cash to help cover shipping costs to get even more families started with cloth diapers!

Sleeping through the night, as much as it is considered desirable in a child and the pursuit of it fuels lots of book sales, isn't truly normal for human babies and some studies have shown it to lower natural SIDS protection.

And people are buying this idea; in the form of book sales — both Davis and Perlmutter's books have generated quite a bit of revenue.

Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

If that trend continues, I don't see how Amazon would see that as a bad thing, because it makes Amazon a growing focus of book sales.

Bookscan compiles sales data from various sources — primarily chain bookstores — and tracks around 75 % of book sales for most titles.

BookScan data represents Nielsen tracking of 75 % of book sales through retail and online providers, as identified through the Amazon provided graphic to the right.

To get movie interest you need an agent that specializes in that and the way to inspire the rights sale of your book is to get a ton of book sales, a lot of media attention, and support from known people who provide strong testimonials for your book.

The emphasis on print over e-books comes after Nielsen reported earlier this year that e-books comprised just 23 % of book sales for the first half of 2014.

I was recently asked what amount of book sales lead to rankings averaging 100, 1000, etc..

Language is the power of the book sale.

Word of mouth is still the # 1 driver of all book sales.

I found this data more useful than you did, but that is because I have been building my own model of book sales.

Amazon represents less than 20 % of book sales, and their «lists» are too numerous and too specific to be of any value to ANYONE.

eBooks have grown to be a billion dollar business and now accounts for 27 % of all book sales in the US.

if they lived off of their book sales, they are professional, otherwise just writers.

They only account for 4.7 % of ALL book sales.

In 2014 e-books accounted for 4.3 % of all book sales and generated 24.8 million euros.

Gifts accounted for 22 % of book sales in 2013, down from 24 % in 2012.

One of the findings associated with the report is that self - published books, which still only accounted for 5 % of all book sales in the UK last year, are bought for one of two reasons: either the author has established a dedicated following and a fan base, or they were bought on a whim due to book discovery or promotion.

Despite predictions that e-books might reach 50 % of all book sales, Reidy said e-books sales have slowed and are likely to settle at about «25 % to 30 %» of total book sales.

Amazon's strategy seems to have run into 3 problems: Distribution to physical bookstores is still critical if you want mega-sales (70 % of book sales are print books).

Electronic only consists of about 20 % of all book sales.

Self published authors frequently lament their lack of book sales.

Without a foundation (also known as your «platform») on which to build a visible presence on the Web, it's going to be difficult to attract attention and get connected with enough potential readers to make a significant number of book sales.

Hundreds of companies are ferociously competing to be your publisher - for - pay, selling you a package with one of their ISBNs that will put most of the money you earn from your book sales that you generate into their pockets, publishing your book the way they think will make them the most money, and claiming the majority of your book sales» profits as if they've done anything that remotely resembles what a mainstream traditional publisher would do to publish and promote your book, generate targeted reader interest, and earn every single sale to each individual reader.

Learn how to calculate your ebook royalties, plus how the online retailers» percentage and list price affect your cut of book sales.

Ebook sales will be the driver, not just a growing segment, of book sales.

One mention in a local newspaper can translate into a flurry of book sales.

E-books now account for about 20 percent of book sales, according to the Association of American Publishers.

Traditional book publishers have long expressed concerns about Amazon's huge dominance of book sales.

They have added reports over the years and are now widely recognized for tracking 75 - 80 % of all book sales through the register.

You can have your Kindle and paper too.Only about 30 % of book sales are e-books, and that percentage seems to be leveling off as an October report from the Book Industry Study Group reported.

Electronic books are major factors now in many genres, even though across all of publishing electronic books are around the 23 % level of all book sales.

When Amazon has 95 % of the book sales market, let's talk again about the M word.

Three - quarters of Americans 18 and older report reading at least one book in the past year, a number which has fallen, and e-books currently make up between 15 to 20 % of all book sales.

(FYI, ebook sales accounted for 20 % of book sales in 2011, up from 10 % in 2010.

All I can say is that after I changed my thinking a year or so ago and concentrated on increasing traffic and forgot about selling books, my website income is now well in excess of my book sales income, which by good fortune has remained about the same as a year ago.

In the U.S., ebooks as a percentage of book sales increased from about 1 % in 2008 to 3 % in 2009 to 8 % in 2010 to 20 % in 2011.

All those indie writers who post tens of thousands of book sales every week and I feel lucky to have made ten.

There are some elements of your book sales strategy that can make a big difference when it comes to how well your book sells, and the biggest of those is your book metadata.

But I've experimented lately with Draft2Digital, a similar distributor (these distributors are paid a percentage of our book sales for our convenience).

This is another great round - up post from ALLi, featuring lots of members» stories about why blogging has been worthwhile for them (though not necessarily in terms of book sales).

Therefore, you should not expect to see each publicity dollar come back to you in the form of book sales; that's not the right way to look at the investment.