Sentences with phrase «money on buying books»

Obviously students will benefit from the low prices and schools themselves will save money on buying books that will be outdated in a few years.

Not exact matches

As the company meets one - on - one with institutional money managers, their tentative commitments to buy given numbers of shares — known as «indications of interest» — are jotted down in the book.

No not the genre, but I will not buy another book from Grant Cardone in fear of wasting my money on another book with the same concepts.

If every single person who buys the book takes advantage of this opportunity, then I will lose money on it (since Amazon takes their cut).

Do not buy my books, kit, or coaching, or spend money on a patent or prototype.

Hey why do nt they show a priest on TV and you all come come to the idiot box and confess... the problem is no one makes the money except they can show adds for buying books on how to confess to cops..

Kim will explore details in the book on how to make use of your resources at home so you no longer need to shell out more money buying fancy potty seat, potty training pants and other stuff.

Who's going to buy my book, the other people that are writing books on how to earn money because they too need to earn money?

I bought a book on the subject once and found it to be a waste of money.

Some books and e-books I have bought were a total waste of money, with poor advice based on no research or any clinical work.

Yes, I heard they are making the film on this and fortunately I saved my money without buying the book being that I was not so convinced, lol.

(Mum, that book I bought by Gardening Australia on herbs fourteen years ago that you thought was a waste of money - reading that totally paid off!!)

The book never gets boring for a moment, with the author gleefully dishing behind - the - scenes dirt on everything from Michael's sham marriages, one for money, one to buy some babies who aren't even his, to his fear of flying to his playing the race card strategically to his personal hygiene and cosmetic habits.

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

Along the same lines, parents (53 %) are also more likely than the public (46 %) to think money should be spent on reducing class size rather than increasing teacher salaries or buying new books and technologies — unless they are told the relative cost of each policy.

Here's how it works: the publisher appoints Amazon the only store where someone can buy their book and Amazon will share a pool of money based on how many times a person borrows that book from their new «lending library».

Publishers may not even see the money they think they are owed because the books are bought on a returnable basis.

So I buy the hardcover books and try to get my hands on the ebook while I don't have the money to pay twice.

Buying books on Amazon is unsustainable and a waste of money.

The more we understand our own likes and dislikes, the more we'll know which books to buy — and even if those books are more expensive, we'll be saving all that wasted money on books we won't enjoy.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I still could not resist and bought three books, but in all honesty, now that I think about it, I could have bought them as Kindle books instead — at the same price most likely — I feel even worse, because if I had, at least the authors would have made some decent money on the sales.

It just makes me laugh at the newbies who ignorantly attack anyone who rejects them, whether they are editors, publishers, BOOK BLOGGERS, the hapless REVIEWERS who bought a book only to find they wasted their money on something that needed another year of work before it should be inflicted on the buying pubBOOK BLOGGERS, the hapless REVIEWERS who bought a book only to find they wasted their money on something that needed another year of work before it should be inflicted on the buying pubbook only to find they wasted their money on something that needed another year of work before it should be inflicted on the buying public.

Amazon reported to the IRS that Patrick Reames had made $ 24,000 selling books on its Createspace self - publishing platform, but Patrick Reames never got a dime of that money; it appears that a money - launderer who had Reames's Social Security Number used a fake book to cash out money from stolen credit cards by buying the garbage book repeatedly and pocketing the 70 % from each sale.

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Spending a lot of money on your first book is like buying all the toys for your first kid, and making the second kid you never planned to have use hand - me - downs.

From then on, you'd be saving money at the rate of $ 20 every time you bought a book.

I recieved a Kobo card $ 25.00 for xmas this year i put it on my kobo acct well i went to buy a book no money my credit is gone ive been emailed so many different stories they admitted that there was an issue and put money on my store credit ya right go to buy a book no credit..

Geez, I went with Kobo to try to avoid giving money to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (I have some author friends who think Amazon / B & N have poor business practice, as they undercut the publishers when selling ebooks which affects the publishers» / authors» profits on the books that THEY produced), but now I'm wishing I just caved and bought a darn Kindle like everybody else did.

Many probably feel that they «did» Shakespeare to death during their school years and can think of few things less appealing than reading a book about him on their own time - let alone paying good money to buy it!

In essence, they are saving money by reading more on a tablet, rather than buying it from a magazine or book store.

I will not be buying books from B&N even with the money that I have on my account.

It seems like spending money on promo doesn't necessarily get people to buy your book, it gets people to look at it.

At least that way, people who look at reviews before buying something would have an idea if the reviewer actually put down money on the book in question.

Consumers save money if they would have bought the $ 14 book anyway, and maybe they spend the saved $ 4 on one of mine, or on more books in general.

With emphasis on your books and a simple / easy buying experience, your author website can help put extra money in your pocket.

And one thing I noticed was that I bought into the Amanda Hocking fantasy that all you have to do to sell a book on Kindle is throw it up there with a decent cover and watch the money roll in.

We work extra-hard to save our readers an average of $ 5 to $ 10 on every book they buy through Bookzio, because the only thing better than knowing you've found a brilliant read, is having coffee money left to enjoy it!

Buy a box of these books then sell them at your own conference or event for full price and make money on it.

If money is a challenge — at least get your book edited; have a professional cover designer create your cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space — at least you've get the visuals of a solid book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).

That's why you should bet on a winner (Kindle), buy paper when an ebook and a real book are approximately equal in price, and otherwise not give your money to companies if you can help it.

They are charging money to authors and publishers to orchestrate Kindle Giveaways, promote books on the site with Sponsored Books and now GoodReads wants to send an email directly to your inbox and tell you what books you shouldbooks on the site with Sponsored Books and now GoodReads wants to send an email directly to your inbox and tell you what books you shouldBooks and now GoodReads wants to send an email directly to your inbox and tell you what books you shouldbooks you should buy.

Some people have the money to buy things on demand, and install all of their favourite applications and buy the books they want.

I read so much, in fact, that one of my exes used to complain that I spent all my money on booze and books, which inconveniently couldn't be bought at the same locations.

Plus ebooks cost almost as much as real books, you are not really saving money on books when you buy an ebooks - unless if you go to the Pirate sites

Every month Amazon send out the royalty money, and I'll bet a good percentage of it comes right back as the authors spend it gifting books for promotion and buying stuff from Amazon they'd never have considered if they weren't on the site all the time.

I don't spend a lot of money on books, and I don't often buy books from new authors.

The money you may be tempted to spend on buying book reviews can be either saved or spent in other aspects of your book promotion campaign.

This feature FINALLY freed up the visually impaired so that they could get books at regular prices and listen to them (as opposed to paying quadruple the money for recordings / audio files)!!!!! It was a whole wonderful new world that, because of corporate greed, is now being riped away from them!!!!!! Since this feature is not on the new Kindle and since the newer books are not TEXT to SPEECH enabled, we now have to buy the Whispersynch to listen to the book.

They buy my books from a wholesaler and my calculation is that Amazon actually loses money on my books.