Sentences with phrase «major bestseller»

The first number caused books to be on major bestseller lists.

The country now has most major bestsellers available in digital form the same day the trade edition is released.

Some people who know their ebooks may land on major bestseller lists use them to make their books more trackable for said list maintainers.

As he frequently does, Jason Boog at GalleyCat pulls off an entertaining twist on the issue, creating a list of Major Bestsellers with More Than 150 One - Star Reviews.

I think the Scalzi model will be the most likely model in this modern world to build major bestsellers.

It analyzes a range of books, according to HipType, «including everything from major bestsellers to obscure titles that only a few thousand people have read.»

But you'll still need to write a great book that satisfies a large market, and is new and different while also being pretty similar to other major bestsellers (including the tropes readers expect from that genre).

This is probably why most traditional publishers and major bestsellers ignore Amazon's recommended ratio.

In Australia, only major bestsellers are published in hardcover because consumers are reluctant to pay for them.

And wine - rating systems still offer evaluations for retailers and consumers, just as major bestseller lists still categorize what is a «good» book for those who will follow their judgment.

And it's dominating the eBook business as well, selling as much as eight in ten of the eBooks of major bestsellers, seeing its eBook sales rate triple over last year.

Probably authors like Lee Child wouldn't necessarily benefit from that, because we know that Lee Child is a major bestseller with Random House.

On The Passive Voice just yesterday a major bestseller after 16 years just moved.

For me, when I walk into a store and see a book I wrote, either under this name or one I wrote for a major bestseller as a ghost novel, I know it's my book.

A lead list title can get a little more, but inside most genres, advances for all but the major bestsellers are now far under $ 10,000 for most books.

And finally, for those looking for a lighter read, Nora Ephron once more taps into the thoughts and concerns of «women of a certain age» with I Remember Nothing (Nov. 9), a follow - up to the major bestseller I Feel Bad About My Neck, while Vicki Myron returns to the subject of her beloved «small - town library cat» with Dewey's Nine Lives (Oct. 12), a collection of stories about and inspired by Dewey.

My novels are character - driven studies of marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and friendship, and I've been blessed in having readers who buy them eagerly enough to put them on the major bestseller lists.

The novel will then be sold almost instantly to a big publisher for a huge amount of money, become a major bestseller, and become a major motion picture.

And both of us have over twenty million copies of our books in print and have been on every major bestseller list.

But my conscious brain knew that if I ever got that big prize — the big book contract or the major bestseller, I'd have to face the fact that my Midnight in Paris fantasy was never going to happen.

Without a major bestseller dominating sales, independent publishers made plenty of appearances on the fiction bestseller list in 2015.

Each has been a major bestseller, and some have stirred controversy for their decidedly ironic and unillusioned view of the realities of American power and of the men and women who have exercised that power.

It still makes headlines whenever a self - published author manages to sell one million copies, or makes a major bestseller list.

David Borgenicht created The Worst Case Scenario Handbook, which went on to become a major bestseller and to spawn a world of franchises.

That's why you will never see a major bestseller even talk about this topic, or bother to learn what is happening to the young writers of today.

Sitting right between two major bestsellers.

Who would have thought that an 800 - page book starring two magicians could become a major bestseller?

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the Wall Street Journal solved The Mystery of the Book Sales Spike, in which business books have tended to debut on a major bestseller list one week, only to fall off into unremarkable sales levels immediately after.

by Jo Walton — Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was a major bestseller, but the fantasy genre has largely ignored it in favour of the grimdark vision.

Fortunately, readers could trust the major bestseller lists, especially now that indie authors were finally getting the credit some of them deserve.

The fact that this book has become a major bestseller is testament not only to the clarity of Gawande's writing and thinking, but to our own desperate need for change.

Success stories of indie authors and self - published authors making the major bestseller lists are becoming more and more commonplace, especially in this climate of digital reading and an appreciation for the DIY authors.

So the money has spread out, especially for the major bestsellers.

My dream is for it to reach a major bestseller list by Christmas.

But to save space, I'll give you the down and dirty: choose more books than movies — preferably all books — choose works with an obvious overall connection, favor titles published in the past ten years, and try to pick books that were commercially successful, but don't choose 3 major bestsellers.

An Appeal to the World is already a major bestseller across the world with its message of goodness, and this is the kind of book we need now more than ever.

In those eight years we have also seen most of the negativity directed to self - publishing disappear, to the point where indie books regularly make the major bestseller lists, win prestigious literary awards and sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

But I can guarantee this: unless you're an author who has already hit a major bestseller list and / or your book is the most important book being published by that traditional publishing house's imprint and / or you got paid an advance of $ 50,000 or more (in small genres like sf or westerns) or $ 100,000 or more (in larger genres like romance and mystery), your book will not get a single title ad.

If you're promoting a book, the right publicity can skyrocket your book onto the major bestseller lists.

Romance novels regularly top the major bestseller lists (New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today), and have a large, dedicated audience of readers.

When his book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World was published by Thomas Nelson in May 2012, it hit three major bestseller lists (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today) within the...

Use Amazon ads to make sure my book shows up next to those I'm targeting — better if they are midlist books very similar to mine rather than major bestsellers.

according to the Romance Writers of America, romance was the top - performing category on the major bestseller lists in 2012 and accounted for $ 1.438 billion in sales in 2012.

Today, we're seeing Kindle sales directly effect rankings on a major bestseller list.

The pressure might have been too much for some writers but not Kate Atkinson: just two years after winning the Costa novel award for Life After Life, a major bestseller hailed as «astonishing» by judges at the time, the novelist has landed the prize again for her follow - up, A God in Ruins.