Sentences with phrase «just backlist sales»

The pick up of sales following Christmas is really just backlist sales — but driven by devices.

Not exact matches

A year ago I started an experiment to see just what kinds of sales numbers the average multi-published writer (i.e. me) with a fairly strong backlist, a semi-active front list, and absolutely no energy for self promotion (me, again) could reasonably expect to obtain by self - publishing e-books on Kindle.

Maybe you will think I am naive, or just hopefully optimistic, but when I took on the challenge of heading up the digital development of DBP I thought that we could have our entire monochrome backlist converted into ebooks and on sale within 6 months, and then we could start on our illustrated list.

Besides being happy to see a good author get a smokin» good deal, I think credit is also due Tor Books for making it clear that publishers aren't looking for just flash - in - the - pan NYT bestsellers, but that writers who can develop strong and enduring backlist sales are still a viable part of a publishing business plan.

While it is true that the number of available ebooks with sales continues to decline — from a high of 88 % in 2014 to just 54 % in 2016 — some of this might be due to the growing number of digitized backlist titles.