Sentences with phrase «instead of any number of books»

You ask, «Why did the unseen gods of Amazon smile on my book instead of any number of books with thousands more views?»

Why did the unseen gods of Amazon smile on my book instead of any number of books with thousands more views?

Not exact matches

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

Lewis discussed his Moneyball book and the theory that people make misjudgments when they rely too much on their eyes instead of numbers and hard data.

After Portugal found the back of the ole onion bag that price came crashing down across Europe... not to an expected +300 range on a 3 way draw line line instead the number reopened at +180... and crashed even further to a paltry +150 at some books.

At the time, however, there were large numbers of books coming out on China, and so we decided not to add to that per se, but instead to think comparatively about the two most important states in the global system.

«You can punish them by restricting them from watching televisions or giving them books to read for a certain number of hours instead of caning them,» she said.

Equal parts fantastical and counterculture, artist lifestyles are right up there with van life goals, and yet an increasing number of people are trading in their mindful coloring books and choosing the artist's way instead.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

Just as for a child who learns how to read it would not be a good idea to ask them to copy the first 15 pages of the phone book to practice letters and numbers, and we would not expect them to develop an affection by for reading, we should not expect a teacher to develop a crazy passion for new technologies if instead of helping them to identify their needs and the types of tools that exist to address those needs, as well as to know the keys that underlie those tools, we are dedicated to inflating them to application manuals of which they will only use 10 % each time.

Instead, the system demands that teachers put increasing numbers of grades in the grade books for parents to be able to access and monitor progress.

Instead, do you want to encourage your students to read a set number of books?

What I recall is that some people pointed out that Amazon was choosing to not stock large numbers of Hachette books that it possibly could not sell if negotiations fell apart completely, so instead they were ordering titles from Hachette as the orders came in.

Instead of ordering X books, and warehousing X books, Amazon ordered a smaller number.

Instead, focus on your biggest accomplishments including the number of years of work history you have in the field related to your book, major media outlets where you have been featured, awards you've won, and anything else that demonstrates your authority in your field.

Most of what I consider errors are probably typo's (then instead of than), and frankly, I was seeing about the same number 3 years ago when I was reading «Big 5» edited dead - tree books.

Instead of adapted devices and adapted books, it seems much more useful — and much cheaper — to buy laptop computers that can be used by a number of people.

At this time we are estimating one million downloads a day on the average, but because some of the books require files in multiple numbers, instead of estimating 32 million, for the 32 days from Jul. 4 through Aug. 4, we prefer to do an estimate of a more conservative nature.

Rather than describing a situation in which publishers withheld great books from consumers (which is what it sounds like on the surface of his argument), Byng feels that publishers should cut their titles — and therefore the number of authors they work with — and instead focus all of their efforts and attention on a few titles that they deem worthy.

Elderly people are starting to gravitate to them in record numbers, due to the fact you can enlarge the fronts, instead of having to buy pricey large print books.

When Amazon Publishing, the book giant's retail arm, announced over a year ago that they would pay their traditionally published authors monthly instead of quarterly, a number of critics scoffed at the idea that this upstart company would change a four hundred - year - old system.

The problem is a growing number of people choose to pirate the books instead of paying for them.

Amazon Rolls Out More Apps for Kindle [Puzzazz] has built Wordoku, a spin on Sudoku, that uses letters instead of numbers, and acts just like puzzle books found in airports, drugstores and bookstores.

This marks iStoryTime's only current work outside of the iOS and webOS operating systems; the app book publisher has had Android - compatible titles in the past, but found the variations in screen size and resolution to be frustrating, so they chose instead to focus on the number one selling downloadable app store to sell its products.

If I was dealing with authors instead of engineers looking for work, the mentality would be the same: Can you help me make my monthly revenue quota by selling X number of books?

So, instead of allowing my book sales to get lost in a labyrinth of a vast number of channels, I am focusing my distribution to the three major players.

But with the new 9th Circuit decision of electronic books being a license instead of a sale, let us assume that number goes to 50 % which is a standard license share in most contracts.

Instead of a more traditional mode of printing, which only prints a large number at one time, POD is an «as needed» printing system, so there are no wasted books and no need to store them.

You know those pages at the front of a print book that get lowercase roman numerals instead of regular arabic page numbers — the boring stuff that you usually flip through so you can start reading?

But page numbers scroll by, instead of being fixed in place; as you scroll through the book, the page 23 marker will appear at the bottom when you get there, and scroll up off the screen as you continue reading.

One would think readers would spend $ 30 to buy one good book instead of $ 3 each to buy ten shitty ebooks, but the book market numbers show they do not.

In other words, Le Veque realized on some level that the landscape for her books had changed: instead of being standalone novels that people could either buy or not buy, they had suddenly become a kind of premium offering compared to the cheap rental of mass numbers of books through Kindle Unlimited.

He suggests as win / win that a library should be able to buy a large number of check - outs and use them all in the month of a book's release instead of spreading them out over year or more, like the print book model.

Another of my books has the old list system instead of the callouts, and still shows the number of similar remarks.

Instead of naming your book with extensive detail (Book 1 / Part 1 / No. 1), you can specify your sequential number right in the metadata while keeping the book title concbook with extensive detail (Book 1 / Part 1 / No. 1), you can specify your sequential number right in the metadata while keeping the book title concBook 1 / Part 1 / No. 1), you can specify your sequential number right in the metadata while keeping the book title concbook title concise.

Instead of emailing your book file to each person separately, you can set your book up on instaFreebie, assign the designated number of copies that are to be downloaded plus an expiration date, and instaFreebie generates a download link for your book, which you can share with reviewers or giveaway winners.

Instead of letting the market determine value in KU, they have decided that a book's value can be measured by the total number of pages read.

For this reason, I prefer reading a fair number of books, but with all of my engagement to evaluate if they are good or bad, instead of reading tons of books for free without spare time to write my reviews for you.

When KU was a year old, in June 2015, Amazon announced that they would begin paying participating authors by pages read, instead of by number of books downloaded.

Some platforms like PublishDrive don't offer a free ISBN, but will instead assign to your book another kind of unique identification number which will be accepted by the different stores they publish to.

Recently I decided to change titles of my book; doing so with the Kindle version was easy, but you can't change titles on Createspace (because it's linked with an ISBN number) so I thought I'd try moving the print version to KDP instead.

After the publication is reported, the ISBN number identifies the publication as a specific book, for example, instead of just another publication by Certa Publishing.

Rather than create a false comparison (this is usually done by ignoring the vast number of traditionally aspirant authors who never get published and never sell a single book, and instead comparing the top 1 % from one pool to the 100 % from another), we're just looking at results.

Instead, the books they wanted would have gone off sale for a number of months (and I wouldn't be earning) all for an advance that equated less than two weeks of my earnings at that time.

But if the book has no ISBN, or if it's a Kindle Book, or if it has been improperly listed without its ISBN by a third - party seller, Amazon instead uses its own ten - character combination of letters and numbbook has no ISBN, or if it's a Kindle Book, or if it has been improperly listed without its ISBN by a third - party seller, Amazon instead uses its own ten - character combination of letters and numbBook, or if it has been improperly listed without its ISBN by a third - party seller, Amazon instead uses its own ten - character combination of letters and numbers.

Instead of a fixed amount per book sold, the new program will pay authors by the number of pages that a reader actually reads, a change that will have two - edged effects in this industry.

For example, if British Airways decides to increase the number of miles needed to book an award ticket, you can transfer your points to one of Amex's other partners instead.

In other areas, neighbors complained about nuisances, and lawmakers responded with limits on the number of dogs an owner could have instead of enforcing anti-barking laws and leash laws already on the books.

For example, if British Airways decides to increase the number of miles needed to book an award ticket, you can transfer your points to one of Amex's other partners instead.

The Expeditioner: Why do you think guide books so often contract - out writers who are just passing through a place for a short period of time, instead of finding a local or expat who has spent a considerable number of years getting to know a place?