Sentences with phrase «less about the book market»

Since then they could care less about the book market.

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Even if you don't sell a book from the campaign, for $ 25 or less, you can get a good amount of information about who's interested in your book... which can help you with your overall marketing strategy by letting you get more focused on the people who really want what you're writing.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

Using the marketing strategies you're about to learn, I was able to get the book ranked # 1 for the term Lifehack in less than 1 week even though websites with much bigger audiences than mine like Lifehacker and Lifehack were going after the same term.

I have published 600 terrific small market literary and regional titles over the past 30 years that are exactly the kind of books big publishers couldn't care less about.

I've talked before about self - publishing, how it's been a huge boon to my writing career, but also how authors should temper their expectations: realize that writing, editing, designing a cover for, formatting and converting, and marketing a self - published book is a lot of hard work, and is less likely than the lottery to make you rich.

Many people are on Twitter in a personal capacity, but are less clear about how to use it to market books.

My sense is that we hear less and less from Amazon about $ 9.99 new releases these days, and the company has pivoted so that much of its marketing muscle on pages such as this is devoted to books priced in the $ 11.99 to $ 14.99 range.

If an author and publisher have worked together through prior writing, marketing and publicity to get me really excited about a particular book then more power to them if I'm willing to pay more for the privilege of reading that book than I would for a book by a less - successful author - publisher team.

If we want a healthy reading culture, we have to work hard to be sure books actually are competitive against these other media types, and a big part of that is working hard to make books less expensive.And a bigger part of that is to encourage authors to spend their time writing as opposed to pounding their head against the wall wondering about how to market.You want the book market to be like Hollywood, where nearly everything is formulaic and / or derivative?

The plan is to make books more about merit and less about marketing budgets.

The backtest indicates that the magic formula only outperforms the market by about 3 % per year, which is far less than the 8 % to 18 % outperformance that Greenblatt indicates in his book.