Sentences with phrase «many backlist books»

I can definitely say that SOME authors are making impressively good money self - publishing both new works and backlist books they've gotten the rights to.

These are backlist books and rights were acquired for the physical only,» Nurnberg said.

In 2017, 60 % of all print book sales were for backlist books, which is up by 2 % over 2016.

S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy said that while sales of e-books rose by one percentage point in the quarter, sales of digital audio had a huge quarter driven by sales of both new and backlist books.

As far as my own reading resolutions, I can have several: I want to read more nonfiction; more backlist books from authors I've recently discovered (I'm looking at you, Geraldine Brooks!)

We plan to try subscription with backlist books, and mostly with titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores.

You can help prove the most critical assumption — that FaceBook marketing can drive sales for full price backlist books if it is done consistently and well (more about that if your books qualify).

Here's how published authors can make old titles new - and sell backlist books.

Reach out to PW Booklife, Kirkus Indie, Foreword Clarion and independent book reviewers to help promote backlist books.

You might also consider adding a reader's guide that can help promote backlist books to book clubs.

Some published authors even put out special editions of backlist books that include illustrations or two - color printing.

Whether you're publishing a new title or not, you can grow your book sales in general by promoting backlist books.

How do you promote your backlist books when they've been languishing on virtual shelves?

This one aspect alone is why so many known mid-list professional writers are going like crazy to get up at least their backlist books in electronic form.

I've had my backlist books scanned and must decide how to proceed — use a company like eBookit or Book Bay, or try to do it myself via KDP.

For the past 10 years, I've worked as a marketing consultant who has helped authors get books on the New York Times bestseller list 3 different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and even a 20 - year - old backlist book.

He's currently working with authors he has successfully placed with traditional publishers «to launch additional mid-length material and backlisted books using new self - publishing tools.»

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist — both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and authors who wa... -LSB-...]

So we are fine passing on some savings to readers for backlist books.

These tend to be backlist books from top notch authors.

First, an aside: publishing industry definitions for frontlist vs. backlist books: Though timelines differ for different publishers, a book is considered «frontlist» from when it is newly released into the marketplace until it on the bricks and mortar or virtual bookstore shelves six months or so.

I advertise permanently for all backlist books.

Plus, it's never too late to breathe life into a backlist book.

The digital marketplace puts all books — new releases and backlist books alike — on the same limitless space provided by the virtual bookshelf.

This is good news for potential sales results for backlist books.

It was technically a backlist book, but with the first - time digital release, we combined frontlist and backlist book marketing strategies in order to make new audiences aware of the book.

However, we can't get long tail sales from physical bookstores — because they don't carry most books at all, much less any backlist books.

Then, once her book wasn't free anymore, it would be tied to things like «Customers who bought X also bought Y,» plus readers might post glowing reviews and buy backlist books.

All of our backlist books reverted from traditional and brought back through WMG Publishing have new copyright and publishing dates on them.

Backlist books went out of print, but this is no longer true thanks to POD.

He's traditionally published, but he also self - publishes his backlist books on Kindle.

High prices do the opposite and letting great backlist books flounder is tragic.

So, to me, it makes good sense for a bestselling author to put the first book in a series or older backlist books in subscription services but I wouldn't expect to find many newer books that are still selling well in a subscription service.

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

Or backlist books disappeared from bookstores, but now most books are sold online.

But a great many backlist books are available readily from free sources on the internet, Openlibrary.org being the most obvious.

My backlist books still have the pb edition available second hand so I have not created a paper version to go along with my new digital editions.

Aimed at already - published authors, Open Road Distribution will work with independent published authors, literary agencies and independent agents with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who want to digitize and distribute their content.

When print - on - demand is combined with online sales, backlist books can remain available for a longer time because of lower printing and stocking costs.

Backlist books don't attract the attention that new releases do, but backlist books that sell solidly over a number of years can be an important part of an author's income stream.

If my indie published backlist book does well and I make this money back, it would be worth going the indie route again for original works.

In print publishing, most backlist books would eventually go out of print once they were no longer selling a sufficient number of copies to justify the cost of printing and stocking them.

Changing publishers is a divorce and your backlist books can be neglected like kids in joint custody.

Literary agencies have refused to sign e-rights deals for countless backlist books with traditional publishers, even though they and their clients, no doubt, see real benefits in having a single publisher handle the print and electronic rights to a book.

The primary cost factors associated with backlist books are printing, shipping, production costs and author royalties — all of which can be minimal when compared to the cost of initial publishing of the book as a front list title.

So, in a nutshell, here's a step - by - step breakdown of how to turn your backlist book to which you retain rights into an ebook:

Especially for backlist books that were sold to traditional publishers and changed significantly, would any authors be willing to «release» (epub or print) both the «original motion picture» (traditional published text) and the «director's cut» (a different version a bit longer that the author liked better)?

There are a few reasons this isn't as far - fetched as you may think — lots of backlist books being released as ebooks, indie authors continuing to sell books at $ 1, smaller publishers and new publishers taking advantage of Amazon and Apple's 70 % cut model.

When that went well, some of my author friends asked if we would do the same with their backlist books, and our catalog really started to grow.

But I am constantly seeing backlist books (10, 20, some even 30 or more years old) priced in the $ 12 - $ 14 range.