Sentences with phrase «means of book sales»

I see no point in the expense of a website that has no means of book sales.

Not exact matches

Library sales, secondhand bookstores, and in the last couple of years the unloading of paper, especially reference books in favor of digital options by all sorts of people and places, means used books of all sorts are available for the picking.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.

Disclosure for this coloring books for adults posting: This posting contains affiliate links (which means I earn a percentage of the sale) but all opinions are strictly my own.

This is both a pro and a con, as a free book will get some epople downloading it, but this does not mean a large push in sales after the end of the promotion.

Basically, consignment means you bring your own books to the event, and the event (generally) takes a percentage of sales.

That means you can advertise on a huge range of keywords, even in seemingly unrelated books and topics, and still get a good average cost - per - sale.

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.

This means that our authors are entirely free as regards to their content, layout and rights as well as the choice of their books» sales price and the option to publish immediately.

I can speak from experience that many, many authors who sign up with a vanity publisher like this Type & Tell offering, will NEVER recoup their investments, meaning we authors have a snowball's chance in heck of breaking even through book sales.

Considering traditionally published books account for the vast majority of sales, it means that indie authors are rarely, if at all ever considering purchasing their own ISBN's.

I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that 99.9999 % (I might be missing a few nines) of all indie authors would love to have the problem of decreased sales due to this legal battle because that would mean they have a BIG 5 contract and are selling a lot of books.

Amazon is losing the majority of royalties per book (they only get 30 % per sale) which means they're currently «losing».

That is, your contract may say that your rights will revert to you after your book goes out of print, but if you have an ebook, the publisher takes that to mean that as long as an ebook is for sale anywhere, the book is still in print.

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

Mr. Howey inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).

That doesn't mean that things are dire at B&N; as The Times points out, B&N «still holds roughly one quarter of the digital sales of books and more of magazines.»

I mean, sure they'll publish a book about prayer if the author has the credentials, platform, and, preferably, thousands of church members to help catapult sales, but if a simple living recipe book about losing weight and saving your marriage while decluttering your home and raising happy kids came along by a Christian author with a huge cooking blog platform, they won't say no.

Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available for sale.

Self - publishing your book doesn't mean that you can't approach a publisher at a later stage, once you have some sales and «proof of product» behind you — in fact, this is a route we see many authors using to great effect.

@BBU In Amazon's KDP pricing page linked from their Terms and Conditions the state: «You must set your Digital Book's List Price (and change it from time - to - time if necessary) so that it is no higher than the list price in any sales channel for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book... By «list price in any sales channel,» we (Amazon) mean the suggested or recommended retail price or, if you sell your book directly to end users, your own sales price, for an edition of the book available outside of our Program.&raBook's List Price (and change it from time - to - time if necessary) so that it is no higher than the list price in any sales channel for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book... By «list price in any sales channel,» we (Amazon) mean the suggested or recommended retail price or, if you sell your book directly to end users, your own sales price, for an edition of the book available outside of our Program.&raBook... By «list price in any sales channel,» we (Amazon) mean the suggested or recommended retail price or, if you sell your book directly to end users, your own sales price, for an edition of the book available outside of our Program.&rabook directly to end users, your own sales price, for an edition of the book available outside of our Program.&rabook available outside of our Program.»

I'm not a big dawg by any means, but I am on pace to make over 100k this year with the sales of my Indie books.

I'm doing that in two ways: first, I want to make sure my books are part of a funnel or series, so I can make the first one free or cheap, get a lot of followers on Amazon and subscribers on my email list (I have 25,000 subscribers on my list after less than a year), and launch my books well enough they stick (which means, at least 1000 sales on launch).

Godin's decision is also backed up by sales successes like Amazon's Kindle e-reader, Apple's iPad, and even reports like this one that suggest the e-book revolution is redefining the nature of reading itself, and reading e-books means readers are less isolated than if they were reading a physical book.

Which in turn means that it has achieved somewhere around the vicinity of half the sales that a traditionally published book can expect in its lifetime.

Which means almost none of those 800k self published books the chart listed actually got up for sale.

That meant that the authors needed to bring those books, have them checked out, determine the sales of books afterward, and fill out paperwork as to how they were to be paid.

If your book manages to make it through their process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author their ever was), you'll still see less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

What I mean by this is that Amazon changed its algorithm in way that number of downloads of your free book is no longer considered a «number of sales» which means sales and free downloads are two different things now.

While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of ebook sales that's putting as much profit in their coffers as Amazon's, while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scenarios.

That means that nobody is viewing it via an RSS feed, the book's details page, a user page, a sales rank widget, or through a mobile application for a total of 3 months.

It's great if it can also truthfully represent the book, but it's always better to use a powerful cover that doesn't quite represent the book accurately, but doubles your sales, than it is to represent the book accurately (a mistake most authors make) with a shitty cover crammed full of exact details and pictures and scenes and meanings that you can explain and talk about for an hour but nobody else gets (or even likes).

Furthermore, sales through HarperCollins» website are likely to make up only a very small percentage of an author's total book sales, meaning the royalty increase wouldn't necessarily account to much.

They might get an email warning from Amazon that this has happened because they are suspected of «rank manipulation» — which can mean, driving a lot of sales in a short period of time in order to get a higher sales rank and sell more books.

As sales channels evolve and digital sales (as opposed to sales of physical books via online channels) become more robust, a publisher will still have the upper hand over individual authors for the same reasons, because direct access to distribution doesn't mean equal (or profitable) access, and the long tail favors scale.

Generating pre-sales, which is when buyers commit to purchase the book when it goes on sales, means that all of those pre-orders are billed on the day your book is officially released — and all those sales on release day count toward your ranking on Amazon bestseller lists.

For some non-fiction writers, where your book's content is more likely to be read non-sequentially, it means if the reader starts their reading deeper in the book at Chapter 10, a sale could be triggered after reading only 20 % of the book (As an aside, this underscores the importance of authors building fully functional navigation into their ebooks so that all their book's content is easily discoverable.

What this really means is that the face of book sales is changing.

If I drop ship my books to Houston (meaning I place the order with my printer, who then directly ships them to Houston), I pay for all of it, and will only recoup the net from the sale of the book, minus the percentage taken by the bookstore (usually between 30 % to 60 %).

You'll see this sort of thing when there is a time line on the «out of print» meaning no sales can happen for a year before you can ask for your book back.

This website contains Amazon affiliate links to products I use and recommend, which means that I receive a small commission on the sale of books and other products featured on the site.

Authors used to be able to buy ad space from book newsletter publishers like Book Bub, Ereader News Today, and Free Kindle Books & Tips, rise up the ranks, and have it mean something in terms of long - term and «halo» sabook newsletter publishers like Book Bub, Ereader News Today, and Free Kindle Books & Tips, rise up the ranks, and have it mean something in terms of long - term and «halo» saBook Bub, Ereader News Today, and Free Kindle Books & Tips, rise up the ranks, and have it mean something in terms of long - term and «halo» sales.

Picking the right categories can mean the difference between your book ranking consistently and making sales or just being another of the four million books available on Kindle.

I'm also aware that Amazon has started to crack down on ANY kind of book launch that focuses on boosting sales rank (which can be conflated with «rank manipulation»)-- which means using BookBub or even your own email list to sell copies is becoming dangerous for legit authors (more on that here).

My local comic shop Strange Adventures is having a 20 % off everything sale this month — hopefully that means lots of new books in the coming weeks!

In my tests I increased the price of half my books to $ 3.99 (from $ 3.27) and found that sales remained steady... which means I am making MORE money without losing ANY sales volume.

Every book you have out there means all of your marketing efforts are doubled, and will probably lead to double sales.

With our age of quick results, ebooks could easily mean the difference between a sale of our book and the customer moving on.

By the way, when I use the word «significant» to describe sales, I don't mean dozens or hundreds of books here and there.

If you're prepared to take the omnimegahyperconglomerate (or whatever) at its word, however, then for every 100 print books it has sold so far in 2012 in the UK, 114 of its paid - for e-books have been downloaded (and if you're really, really bad at maths, that means that e-book sales are 14 % higher than print sales).