Sentences with phrase «less books since»

I know I personally am buying far less books since Agency, and I'm a high income high user household.

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PRICE RATIONALE: Since this is a business in which books sell for 50 % of their original price or less, it's no surprise that this deal feels right.

eerdmans, 160 pages, $ 16 In the seven years since its release, Charles Taylor's A Secular Age has entered a particular category of books: frequently referenced, less frequently read.

I really struggle with most of these books since it seems that once the authors get to where they are, they forget the struggles and pain that all of us «lesser» people are dealing with.

Second, since the inherency of evangelical truth in the book is focused on its main claims, it follows that there is much in the text that is «lesser,» not a main claim, but probes and attempts over the generations to carry the main claims to specificity.

I was wondering, since my husband and I start a family in less then a year from now, can you recommend some good books / recipes for pregnancy and beyond?

We are less fit, we make less sprints, we cover less ground per player than (this season) any other team in the league, we make more errors to leading to goals, we have more players booked and sent off, we have more injuries than most clubs, we are less likely (since Payet) to do as we did last night and come from a losing position to win, we lose more games from winning positions than any other club (last season and this), the facts are damning to Slav, the biggest surprise is that our Chairmen run multiple businesses yet they don't seem to link these things together and realise that the manager and or the coaching staff are the problem.

The warming of the WAIS is most worrisome (at least for this century) because it's going to disintegrate long before the East Antarctic Ice Sheet does «'' since WAIS appears to be melting from underneath (i.e. the water is warming, too), and since, as I wrote in the «high water» part of my book, the WAIS is inherently less stable:

What is less known is that the lifting world has been flirting with the 5 × 5 protocol since the 60's, when bodybuilder Reg Park wrote about it the first time, although it was Bill Starr's 1976 book «The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football» that really made it popular.

I have been following the blood type diet more or less since the book came out in the UK many years ago.

Since we wrote our book, we've become a bit less excited about the therapeutic potential of ketogenic diets.

Since reading this book, the natural cleansing products I now cost me a lot less than what I was paying before, and they work just as good if not better.

You know that's a plus in my book since it means less time cleaning and more time for the fun stuff in life.

I have collected comic books since i was in the 6th grade and saw a fellow nerd obsessing over a perceived imperfection and how that made the book less...

I don't really have any idea what that means (especially since you could argue a lot of The Jungle Book is more or less timeless, so it's a bit tricky to make it futuristic), but Gore Verbinski is attached to produce.

He's been like that, more or less, ever since, a fan - favorite for folks who value a little humor in their comic books have kept an eye on the character ever since.

Unsurprisingly, «Fantastic Beasts» amplifies both the strengths and weaknesses of Rowling's storytelling approach, which unfolds in the episodic style of vintage serials — a cliff - hanger - oriented tactic that works well in novels, where readers might otherwise be tempted to put the book down after each chapter, but feels less elegant on screen, since viewers invariably commit to taking in the entire story in one sitting.

Good new for Rudyard Kipling fans because less than two years since we last had a live adaptation of The Jungle Book, a second one is heading to big screens.

Indeed, it may be even less engaging than similar scenes in the book, since the cast of young actors who play the soldiers are not up to the challenge of shouldering the weight of the story.

«Getting rid of school libraries also risks increasing inequalities and further disadvantaging the most deprived children who are less likely to have access to books or computers at home and will have less access to public libraries since so many are closing.»

Later in the book, the author slides away from the 30 percent claim, saying, «Since education is mostly signaling,...» That is a much stronger and less credible claim.

Provide opportunities for ELL students to participate in Book Buddies experiences as a way to let students practice their new language in a gratifying, low - pressure setting (e.g., ELL students still get the honor of being a role model and mentor, feeling less pressure since they are reading primary picture books).

The company has received more than 30,000 bookings in less than three months since launch.

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

And the more DRM - encumbered e-books you buy, the less likely you are to dump Amazon for another e-book retailer since you are so heavily invested in Kindle books already.

Also, since many authors aren't web savvy, they can't tell the difference between putting their book up on one site that gets thousands of new visitors a day, versus another that gets less than 50.

Since France and Japan are less popular and useful, I may provide a way to mark the book inactive for those specific domains, ceasing tracking where it is least helpful.

The common rationale is that since ebooks cost a fraction of printing a real book, they should also be priced much less than what it is right now.

Since 2013 the sales of electronic books have been more or less flat, rising or falling by a percentage point or two.

It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.

Some will argue that free is a gimmick, too, especially since you can't upload a book for less than 99 cents at Amazon (you can at iTunes, Kobo, and, via the Smashwords backdoor, Barnes & Noble — you have to wait and hope Amazon will price - match).

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Plus, since the publicist is less emotionally involved in the book, he or she will know how to best approach the media while being just the right amount of pushy.

Since your book will take less time to edit and proofread than theirs, it should cost you less.

I got super excited when I finished the next book, especially since it was three times the size of the first one and took me less than two days to write, so I sent it to my coach Nicole Dean, who promptly called me with a crazy idea... Could I write and publish one of these Kindle books every week for the rest of 2013?

I was content to do, since my iBooks sales were more or less nonexistent — but it's really unclear how this works with my having previously released all these books under a Creative Commons license.

Since then, computer programs that enable publishers to prepare books for printing entirely on computers, coupled with the rise of print - on - demand (POD) technology, mean that the publishing process can be much less costly than it used to be.

Honestly, notwithstanding the passage of time since this was written, the stripping of reviews off authors» books has become more aggressive, not less.

It makes sense since book lovers are more inclined to buy or ask for a dedicated e-reader over a multifunction device like a tablet PC which is less suitable for long term reading.

Since authors can spend less time on social media, this gives them more time to write and take care of things like editing, and book marketing.

And since editing is often the largest publishing cost (often over $ 1000, whereas cover design, formatting and everything else together can be had for much less) editing is the biggest decision and largest investment you will make self - publishing your book.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

Hmm, I have been buying from Amazon less and less since UK's The Book Depository opened up a US branch.

Since then they could care less about the book market.

Since I'm self publishing, I only have my book, not 2 others (much less by other authors).

In less than six months since my first publication I have already sold a few dozen books out of hand and to museums through Moraine's Edge Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, books out of hand and to museums through Moraine's Edge Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, Books, and I function as a registered business, collecting sales tax, etc..

Since ebooks are checked out similarly to books (only the number of copies that the library owns can be «out» at a time), I think the publishers have less to worry about than they think.

If your book is under an exclusive contract, the prospect of republishing your book could be of less interest to a traditional publisher since it could take legal action to wrest it away from the original publishing group or service.

Since books with smaller page dimensions can hold less text on each page than books with larger page dimensions, the smaller version of a given book will have more total pages than the larger version of that same book.

It took the author five years to finish the current title after book seven hit shelves in 2009 and she has not turned a book around in less than two years since 1994.