No matter whether your book is a print book or an e-book, you have the huge marketing task of letting readers know it exists, then convincing them your book is informative and / or entertaining enough to buy — when there are
hundreds of thousands of other books out there.
I * think * the point I'm failing to make was offered in response to your comment: «No matter whether your book is a print book or an e-book, you have the huge marketing task of letting readers know it exists, then convincing them your book is informative and / or entertaining enough to buy — when there are
hundreds of thousands of other books out there.
And why has B&N not done this for
the hundreds of thousands of other books that Amazon has digital copies of that B&N can only stock hard copies of?
How can an author compete with
the hundreds of thousands of other books on the market?
Not exact matches
For this
book, he conducted
hundreds of interviews and dug his way through
thousands of pages
of publicly available court transcripts and FBI interviews, and countless
other documents obtained through freedom
of information requests.
Instead
of letting a person attempt to shed his or her beliefs, You are demonstrating «All Negative Behaviors» that a
book that just so happens to be called, «Bible», and was noted so many
hundreds of thousands of years, Tells us, «the believers», That people
of your sort would be here to «Dictate»
other wise!!
And i know we're right and everyone before us have been wrong about the
hundreds and
thousands of other gods because my «god
book» says i'm right.
Over the last seven years or so, like many people who find their way to this Blog, I've listened to
thousands of podcasts, read
hundreds of blogs, watched
hundreds of lectures and
other information on YouTube, listened to many audio
books, and bought many print
books.
Where's Wally
books, first published in the 1980s, featured large detailed hand drawn illustrations spread across double pages that challenge readers to find Wally in his distinctive red and white striped outfit and thick black glasses amongst
hundreds and
thousands of other people.
Bestsellers such as «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» by Stieg Larsson, «The Lost Symbol» by Dan Brown, «The Big Short» by Michael Lewis, and
hundreds of thousands of other popular
books are USD $ 11.99 or less in the Kindle Store.
If you had two agents wanting to represent you and both were passionate about your
book, but one agent had tens
of thousands of followers on social media, while the
other one only had a couple dozen or a couple
hundred followers (or wasn't on social media at all), which one would you most want to work with?
I see it as leveraging
hundreds of thousands of books with 0 downloads and 0 sales polluting
other ecosystems.
But for every Hugh Howey there are tens or more likely
hundreds of thousands of others who won't sell 50,000 copies
of their
book, let alone millions.
Aside from preparing and releasing all
of my own
books as eBooks in a wide variety
of formats, including mobi, ePub, LIT, PDF and many
others, I have also prepared close to one
thousand eBooks for
other authors, such as New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Tracey Garvis - Graves, Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush, as well as Scott Nicholson, P.A. Woodburn, Gord Rollo, Gene O'Neill, Joe McKinney, Tammy Parks, David H. Burton, Jon F. Merz, Catherine Thorpe, R.E. McDermott, Delabarre Publishing, Redrum Horror, Shawnee Small, J.B.Turner, and Martha Wells, among
hundreds of others.
After discovering how to thrive through chronic illness, Kristen went on to write and publish 18 Kindle
books in 18 weeks, start over 50 publishing companies for
others, publish over 200
books and e-
books, teach
hundreds of webinars, coach
thousands of authors from idea to published, build a livelihood from negative $ 300 - a-month to a multi six - figure business, study martial arts, get her conceal - carry license and eat way too much chocolate.
The
other scenario, where there are no agents, and everyone can just pour their
books onto the Net on haphazard sites; where there is no clear way for a reader to sift through the
hundreds of thousands of books that will be out there; where you will waste your time downloading things that sound okay, but end up being grammatically unreadable because they haven't been through any sort
of editorial process — this is what will kill the
book industry.
• Amazon or
other booksellers have
hundreds of thousands of books — how can you be found?
And you might end up with a bad
book contract (one that could cost you
hundreds of thousands of dollars — or more — and prevent you from selling future
books to
other publishers).
Not only was their
book displayed before
thousands of people —
hundreds of them going home with a piece
of their promotional material, but there were often
other opportunities available to several
of our authors.
Every day your prospects are bombarded by
hundreds, or
thousands of blogs and
other self - published authors sharing articles, posts and
books about similar topics as yours.
(hint turn both the batter pack and the reader on after connecting the cord) Can carry
hundreds, maybe
thousands of books in a SDHC card (up to 32 gig) most
other wannabe e-book readers can't.
Why should someone waste time seeing if your
book is any good when there are
hundreds or
thousands of other books on a similar topic?
In
other words, readers may be able to choose from
hundreds of thousands of books, but they have no way
of telling if a
book is going to be any good unless they stick with authors they know and trust.
Google expanded its online bookstore to Canada on Tuesday, offering
hundreds of thousands of electronic
books for sale and millions
of others for free.
But with
hundreds of thousands of new titles published in the U.S. each year, attracting people to your author or
book website becomes like any
other marketplace — competition rules.
Too many authors work their rears off crafting a
hundred thousand words, editing, formatting, polishing, learning the craft, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, developing a website, writing sequels, supporting
other authors, working 40 hours a week to pay for the luxury
of writing part - time, and supporting families while spending years writing their
books... to sell a few
hundred books all together.
On the iPad the competition for eyeballs will be fierce: awesome games,
books,
hundreds of thousands of other apps.
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Of course, there are many other books that receive hundreds or thousands of to - reads this wa
Of course, there are many
other books that receive
hundreds or
thousands of to - reads this wa
of to - reads this way.
Unless you spend a lot
of time researching the idiosyncrasies
of each online marketplace and expending time and money marketing in those venues, your
book will probably languish unseen among
hundreds of thousands of others.
But I'm still getting a few
hundred to a
thousand a month with Pentecost which is a good trickle as some
of those go on to sign up and then may read the
other books in the series — without relying on any
other marketing strategy.
You have potential marketers, connected to
hundreds or even
thousands of other people, promoting your
book and without pay.
Just like in any
other highly competitive field — consider those
thousands of new writers every year,
hundreds of thousands of new
books — any success you achieve will almost certainly be the result
of hard work and sheer dogged determination and stubbornness.