Sentences with phrase «midlist titles»

What I would like to see is the sales for midlist titles in different categories for Traditional Publishing.

It succeeded in transferring 69 % of the titles and went on to adopt the use of the enki platform for midlist titles from about 200 publishers and several thousand self - published titles from Smashwords.

The end result was the very few publishers came on board with the services, and many of those who did only brought their back list or a handful of midlist titles.

«We've seen the popularity of both frontlist and midlist titles soar in the library, building a loyal following not only through the volume of impressions, but also in conjunction with targeted publisher campaigns and the various social and readers» advisory features included in the library websites.»

One of the key problems that has arisen under US lending and subscription models is that publishers who are willing to take the risk on an experimental lending model have rightly been cautious about participating, often resorting to testing the waters with their backlist or a few midlist titles.

If you have bought backlist / midlist titles before from bookstores, you know what it is like to leave home and hunt down specific titles of your great interest.

When you add in the cost of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory POD has becomes the optimal choice for more midlist titles.

Many librarians have pointed out to me that tying up so much of the budget on high - priced bestsellers has limited their opportunity to purchase midlist titles, even from the publisher involved.

With such a small portion of the market, a continuing challenge for US libraries is to build on libraries» demonstrated value in discovery for newer authors and midlist titles as well as promoting a culture of reading that promotes the reading of books and other longforms.

I'll bet this happens with some bestsellers and midlist titles too.

We discovered that the «honeymoon period» of a new book is longer for midlist titles.

What's worse is that we have to take into account that bestselling books sell about 500-1000 times more than midlist titles, which means the potential revenue for the average book will be a few cents.

Amazon is mainly launching with smaller presses, but most of the big five all support the smaller companies with their backlist and midlist titles.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos did meet with CBS CEO Leslie Moonves earlier in the week to talk about eBooks, maybe contributing backlist and midlist titles had something to do with it.

What is more, regardless of publisher, the midlist title will acquire roughly the same number of sales.

The book received standard publisher's treatment for a midlist title, and got standard sales results.

In the event that a midlist title was lucky enough to see 24 circulations, pulling the plug ran the risk that the money would be used not to repurchase that title, but to secure another copy of a current bestseller.