If you don't have a beautiful, engaging cover,
the majority of your book marketing efforts will fail.
Not exact matches
Many first - time authors are surprised to discover that although publishers don't help
market your
book, they still take the vast
majority of earned revenue.
In an industry where we know the
majority of the end - consumers are women, and we know that the congregation in any church on a given Sunday is dominated by women, how is it that the men are commissioning and editing the
books, then selecting what is made available,
marketing and selling them?
A
majority of the
market has this game listed at 5.5, although there is some disagreement amongst the
books.
A
majority of the
market has this game available at -1.5, but a variety
of books including 5dimes and Heritage are currently offering a line
of -1.
A
majority of the
market - setting
books are offering this game at -3, however, there are a number
of books who have moved their line to 3.5 including Sports Interaction (SIA) and Carib Sports.
A
majority of the
market - setting
books are offering this game at -14, although there are lines available on either side
of this key number.
A
majority of the
market - setting
books have this game available at -13.5, although there are
books offering this game at both sides
of that figure with Canbet laying 12 and Jazz offering 14.
A
majority of the
market - setting
books have this game available at -10, although a number
of books are offering this game at 10.5 including Easy Street, SIA and Bodog.
This lop - sided betting percentage has moved the line 1.5 points and currently sits at -4 at a
majority of the
market setting
books.
The
majority of moms are encouraged to breastfeed by their healthcare professionals, friends, and pretty much every pregnancy
book on the
market.
But that doesn't happen all that often anymore; the
majority of books they sign, they'll do a half - ass job at
book design and virtually zero
marketing.
eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 %
of all
books sold, which means the
majority of the
market is in printed
books.
If you've read anything about publishing contracts, you'll understand that the
majority of authors don't get a say in how the
book is edited, printed,
marketed, or distributed.
Sarah Bolme presents An Important Element in Publishing Nonfiction posted at
Marketing Christian
Books, saying, «With decreased time spent reading, decreased attention span, and knowing that the majority of readers don't read a Christian nonfiction book in its entirety, every author should pay attention to this important element for nonfiction books.&r
Books, saying, «With decreased time spent reading, decreased attention span, and knowing that the
majority of readers don't read a Christian nonfiction
book in its entirety, every author should pay attention to this important element for nonfiction
books.&r
books.»
Like a train... the
majority of energy for
marketing your
book is expended in the first or early campaign.
With this being what they are, just as I released the
book, the eBook
market exploded and within months it became obvious that print is on its way out, while the Kindle and Nook now generate the
majority of today's
book sales, particularly when you're not published by a New York publishing house.
An overwhelming
majority of schools and administrators indicate a desire to build digital libraries rather than experiment with
book rental and subscription models, but the
market is still in its early stages.
And since the onus
of marketing is vastly on me and my coauthor (something else many self - publishing authors don't realize — they'll have to do the
majority of book promotion themselves regardless
of how they publish), there hasn't been a real advantage to going the trad route.
Basically, if you took the
majority of the writing craft
books on the
market and distilled their advice into one, you'd have GMC.
However, with eBooks it is even easier because vast
majorities of eBooks in every country in the worlds
marketing lists
of books are given away free and it just doesn't fit in models
of limited distribution, as have been the de rigueur rules
of civilizations, all the way back to the dawn
of our history.
Because the
majority of indie authors don't want to spend any time, any effort, or any money publishing and
marketing their
books.
The
majority of each
book's content could be identical, but the introduction and a closing chapter could be tailored for different
markets.
In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard
Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its
majority share
of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US
market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.
But the vast
majority of authors, as I've mentioned previously, don't make any money with their
books (which means, actually, they're losing money: not just in expenses, but in the huge opportunity costs from all the time they've sunk into writing, and then trying to figure out how to
market their
books).
In the vast
majority of cases, it will be multiple
marketing methods that help improve
book sales.
In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than
books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a
market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the
majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.
The vast
majority of indie writers are also very lazy, they won't even spend the $ 99 for an ISBN number so their
books will be included in
market data.
Speaking during the EDItEUR - convened Supply Chain Track at the Tools
of Change Frankfurt conference, Downer, now a retail consultant, pointed to the more protected and regulated European
book markets as places where diversity in publishing and bookselling was being protected, in contrast to the UK, where Amazon is now selling 30 %
of all printed
books, and the vast
majority of e-
books.
Also, as the vast
majority of self - published authors have little or no media platform, traditional bookstore presence, or traditional
book marketing or publicity coverage, SEO - optimized metadata is the critical tool by which those
books are discovered.
This worked fine in the printed
market as the vast
majority of printed
books were purchased from bookshops who brought their
books from publishers and distributors in their own country.
This would likely exclude Amazon, who will not only be unable to sell
books in Spain, but will not have access to the vast
majority of Spanish language titles for either the US or Latin American
market.
It's always better to write the next
book over spending a
majority of your time
marketing in the beginning.
And shifting just 5 %
of the
market from physical
books to digital ones all
of a sudden means that the
majority of books purchased are digital — and just like that, physical bookstores go out
of business.
Copy the post word for word and lead off with a note that says something like this: «I am unable to review the
majority of books authors send, but I have found Ed Cyzewski's
book marketing advice helpful as an alternative.
Unless you are a BIG NAME or a BIG
BOOK (and at a BIG HOUSE with a BIG BUDGET), 99 %
of the time, the vast
majority of marketing falls to the author, no matter who pays for printing.
With
majority of the BookTube community gaining a serious following with thousands
of subscribers and even more views per video, the
book marketing possibilities
of this network can not be ignored.
But the
majority of publishers are expected to embrace FairPlay, along with other copy protection software such as Adobe's Content Server 4, as a means to squelch incipient
book piracy as the e-
book market begins to take off.
But the vast
majority of books are never turned into audiobooks because
of high production and
marketing costs.
Here are five surprising facts about
book marketing today that show just how lucrative indie publishing can be: The
majority of book sales are not from best sellers.
The
majority of best selling authors (61 %) dedicated five hours or less to
book marketing each week.
I know know a hell
of a lot about
book marketing than the vast
majority of people claiming to be
book marketing experts.
it is supported by the
majority of the reader devices in the
market, such as: Adobe Digital Editions, Google
Books, iBooks, Calibre.
Kobo — which is
majority - owned by Canadian bookseller Indigo
Books — was launched in late 2009, and is now the number three player in most
of the major
markets it participates in, Serbinis said.
While some savvy non-fiction authors succeed through grit, willpower and constant bullhorning, the
majority of authors are making a mess
of their
book marketing and promotion, using decade - old techniques and advice, which will move few
books off shelves and even worse, can be detrimental to an author's professional reputation.
Hand goes up in the back: How about also fighting for ways to promote diversity as well as recognizing that the vast
majority of books being offered on Amazon are not the result
of the Big 5 nor authors - turned
marketing / social media geniuses.
But the vast
majority of the eBook
market is electronic versions
of print
books, which means pure text for fiction and a limited number
of illustrations for most nonfiction.
The fact I think many haven't realized is, even if you get a traditional publishing deal, you're still going to be responsible for the
majority of the
marketing of your
book.
The
majority of indie authors rely on spam, and consider it «
book marketing» — which sucks because it makes us look unprofessional, desperate and annoying.
It is only to say the vast
majority of the work in scholarly journals and
books is not competing in the commercial
market of intellectual property.