Sentences with phrase «lure readers»

While they lure readers into an engagement, the frenetic shapes and puffs ultimately fail to cohere.

Amazon has commoditized books by offering them all at the same low price, losing money so they can lure readers in as consumers.

Kobo is trying a unique strategy to lure readers away from Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble by promising regular free e-books.

It's very important to choose an interesting topic, depend on your interests and the interests of your audience, it should lure the readers.

Booksellers, hobbled by the economic crisis, are struggling to lure readers.

But, up to this point none of the book specialists (ehem, Barnes and Noble, cough, cough) have been able to pull their heads out of the sand long enough to lure readers from Amazon's shiny online warehouse of discounts and free shipping in order to turn them back toward odiferous, eye - hazing book shelves.

All the little pieces of information shared in social media are like virtual breadcrumbs you scatter into the world to lure readers towards your content.

And without great books to lure readers, you get...

So where does that leave standard literary fiction and other genres that rely on the only the words on the page to lure readers?

What are your thoughts on an author that puts just the first book of a series on KU to lure readers in then hope they like them enough to convert to paid readers for the rest of the non-KU series?

OK, it's only partly free, but right now it looks like Crunchyroll is coming very close to the holy grail of manga publishing: A digital manga service that will lure readers away from bootleg sites and still make money.

The unusual presentation and hopscotch offerings of biographical facts will lure readers into wanting to know more about this ever - evolving, always excelling artist.

That's exactly the kind of deletion that can be picked up, polished and expanded as necessary, then emerge as a prequel to lure readers with a delicious sample of the larger work to come.

Bennett relies instead on her powers of storytelling and her own writing ability to lure readers in with a roller coaster ride of suspense and intrigue.

Authors and publishers have experimented with different ways to avoid paying the royalty commission to book retailers, opting instead to lure readers to their own websites to make their ebook purchases.

While this might be a viable option for individual authors whose readers already know where to search, it can be incredibly difficult for publishers to lure readers, given that many consumers may be familiar with a name or title, but are rarely in tune with who launched a particular book.

Whether this is a gimmicky attempt to lure readers or the wave of the future for digital publishing remains to be seen, but as always, this kind of innovation has a strong foundation with romance readers and the publishers who provide that content.

Amazon isn't holding anything back right now in a bid to lure readers away from other ecosystems and sign new ones up.

CAUTION: People are often tempted to lure readers from one penname to another — if you're separating them out because they're in different genres, don't undo that by mashing them back together.

The headline was designed to lure readers.

I wrote back, saying that I did not see the harm in luring readers from a circus Web site to learn about elephant natural history and conservation.

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

Cannes Film Festival Lionel Shriver's 2003 bestseller «We Need to Talk About Kevin» is a rare pop novel indeed: a nippy, low - comfort social essay that lures readers into messily untied arguments on topical subject matter the talk - show circuit would have far less trouble resolving.

Maisie lures the reader in — I intended a lure — to what may seem at first another assay at a familiar form, the English country house novel — a genre with a long tradition, Mansfield Park being at one end of it, and Ian McEwan's Atonement at the other.

- Publishers Weekly «The promise of uncovering Mother Ravenel's involvement in a past incident of seeming import to one of the families lures the reader on, but the denouement, though tragic, reveals little motivation beyond schoolgirl pettiness.»

Writing a synopsis is always a challenge, even if you are good at it, because it boils down your book into a teaser that you hope will lure a reader to buy your book.

It's an apt metaphor for flash fiction because these tiny stories flow from tantalizing glimpses that lure the reader forward.

If you've written a series, giving book 1 away for free as a way of luring readers into buying the rest of the books in the series is a proven tactic many authors have successfully employed

When done properly, it lures readers in, as well as signals what audience the book is targeting.

Koonin mis - states a number of scientific details, and ultimately lures readers toward the conclusion that climate... Continue reading →

When you write a cover letter, you are attempting to lure the reader to read the accompanying resume.

They provide a wider window for applicants to say what they want to, in order to lure the reader towards their credentials.

The reason is simple — a resume objective is the most potent part of a resume since it has the capacity to lure the reader to the end of the resume — or put him off completely.

If you put in a few «just for the sake of it», you are actually luring the reader away from the point and not doing yourself any favors.

Simply because the summary is more detailed and has the capacity to lure the reader to read the rest of the resume, like an objective doesn't.

A great way to lure your reader in is to use your cover letter introduction as a marketing tool by considering the ideas in this article.

Not exact matches

Taking a cue from magazines, web pages are using large high - definition photographs and typography to lure in readers with eye - pleasing openers before revealing further content.

I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).

It begins with basic apologetics to lure a casual reader into interest in ultimate things, becomes gradually more christological, and then ends with demands for mission in the world — all in the course of a 40 - day reading program.

She hopes readers lured by the drama of her life story will stay for the step - by - step yoga instruction the rest of her book provides.

Educators should also try to continuously refresh students» knowledge of fake news and update them on new tactics being employed by fake news creators to lure in readers.

Products designed to lure in writers, not readers.

Sony has announced the Sony Reader Wi - Fi (PRS - T1) at this year's IFA in Berlin; following a leak earlier in the week, this release has been expected.Hoping that the lure of Harry Potter can do wonders for business, a limited edition version of the new... Read more

This, together with the lack of a pan-Russian book sales network like Barnes & Noble, that creates the perfect setting for ebooks to thrive, and as is evident elsewhere in the world, digital editions are already luring more readers than their printed counterparts.

Now Apple and its new homeboy Smashwords is luring authors, not with a higher royalty rate (60 % vs 70 % with Amazon), but by allowing authors to price their books at $ 0.99 or $ 1.99, which many authors have done on Kindle in order to generate more downloads and find more readers.

Last October, Marvel Comics launched its Marvel NOW initiative, which was designed to lure in new readers by offering new titles featuring classic characters (Uncanny Avengers, Indestructible Hulk) and resetting the numbering of several ongoing series, with each new issue # 1 being designed to be a good jumping - on... [Read more...]

If lures more readers into the fold — first to buy the issue with the code and then to buy the rest of the series — then it's a great strategy.

The readers of comiXology will not let low prices lure them away from this week's new releases!

These recently published read - aloud recommendations all have intriguing opening lines that will lure young readers and listeners into their stories.

In the ocean of books available, it's very difficult to lure new readers.