The 2.99 -3.99 «sweet point» is popular not so much because readers buy more at that price than because
more and more authors list at that price in order to get the 70 % «royalty» from Amazon.
Not exact matches
Since then it's been a powerful journey for me — building up a multi-million dollar online media company, speaking all over the world, helping
authors reach the New York Times bestsellers
list, advising for billion - dollar brands, receiving media praise from places like Details magazine
and much
more.
Because
list post
authors have already organized the key points of information for their readers, website visitors find this type of post less intimidating
and more easily accessible than other content formats.
Donny Lowy,
author of Secrets of eBay, says ProStores offer a
more polished appearance than typical eBay Stores
and allow retailers
more flexibility in
listing their product offerings.
Here's a very partial
list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 m
list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox,
and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher
and bestselling
author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert
and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black
List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 m
List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum),
and nearly 100
more.
He is
author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead
and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media,
and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing, has sold
more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into nine languages,
and peaked at # 17 overall on the Amazon bestseller
list.
Even
more to the point, no two modern - day scholars seem able to draw up the same common
list of errors, each finding on the other's worksheet difficulties which have, in their opinion, plausible modern - day alternate explanations often involving a reassessment of the
author's intention
and / or cultural context.
If it gets onto The New York Times Best Seller
List, we'll be
more likely to trust the integrity of a book
and its
author.
I'm guessing the
author didn't have
more than one small child at a time in order for this
list to fit her lifestyle...
and likely not
more than one child total, as some of these «needs» will vary from child to child.
Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men
and women
authors listed on
more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals
and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.
In their new paper, the
authors list several steps — some simple
and others
more complex — that hospitals can take to prevent or at least mitigate attacks
and to ensure that they are in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act, which requires holders of health records to keep them secure.
Thirty one
authors collaborated on the review paper, which combines data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red
List of Threatened Species, peer - reviewed scientific literature
and United Nations databases to analyze the status, threats
and conservation efforts of the world's
more than 500 primate species.
She's also the
author of Listful Thinking: Using
Lists to be
More Productive, Highly Successful
and Less Stressed.
Paula Rizzo is an Emmy Award winning senior television health producer
and the
author of Listful Thinking: Using
Lists to be
More Productive, Highly Successful
and Less Stressed.
The
authors don't go into great detail about the scientific basis of eating Paleo — because there are tons of other books
and websites available that do this they say — but they provide a
list of resources where readers can find
more information.
All great
authors know that a killer first line is almost
more important than the first few pages,
and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a
list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit
If receiving dating advice from a celebrity is on your bucket
list, Delightful.com may be your ideal place to meet singles.Delightful is the brainchild of entertainer
and author Steve Harvey, who delivers strategic tips on how to be
more...
«This is just
more of the move away from traditional broadcasters into new areas such as cable
and other platforms including satellite
and mobile phone,» says the
author of «New New Media,» adding «it won't be too far off that we will see a series that never aired on either network or cable, that began
and ended just on the web on this
list.»
An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning
author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (
and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this
list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit
more damaged
and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film
and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.
The
list of competitors includes
author, pundit, activist
and all - time NBA great, Kareem Abdul - Jabbar; retired figure skater Tonya Harding; the woman who sank buzzer beaters in the NCAA Women's Basketball Final Fur
and Championship Game, Arike Ogunbowale; Washington Redskins» cornerback, Josh Norman; baseball great, Johnny Damon; Olympic figure skater / activist, Adam Rippon
and more.
I've started a Google Doc that includes
authors and their Twitter handles,
and instructions on how you can add
more to this
list.
As background,
and from a related article about the Cowen Institute
and one of its new affiliates — Douglas Harris, who has also written a book about VAMs but positioned VAMs in a
more positive light than I did in my book, but who is also not
listed as a direct or affiliated
author on the report — the situation in New Orleans post Katrina is as follows:
Our
list includes educators,
authors, counselors, speakers,
and more, many with decades of experience
and insight.
Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher,
and has built a client
list of
more than forty
authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense
and erotica.
Blogs are usually specifically themed hubs, rather than broad general interest platforms so I would have to say that choosing early on what it is you are actually selling
and / or promoting
and then sticking with it is how the
more successful bloggers
and authors build their
lists.
You know, a publishing house that could offer royalty advances, but might also require the
author to pay some of the costs, up front,
and to provide a pre-launch
list of people (maybe a thousand or
more) who have ordered advance copies of the book.
For over 10 years, I've trained
more than 450
authors, consulted with top publishing houses,
and helped clients hit the New York Times bestseller
list three different ways, including new fiction, new non-fiction,
and backlist non-fiction.
Hot topics below include bestseller
lists, email, social media, advertising, word of mouth,
author websites, marketing copy,
and much
more...
Self - publishing has not only democratized publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for
authors to publish at low or no cost, own all the rights, control the pricing
and timetable for publishing,
and get their books
listed for sale
and distribution on major outlets
and platforms — e.g. Amazon, kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google
and more.
But
more than just a place for discussion to happen, Bublish is also building
author tools, like the ability to build an email
list for targeted announcements
and the chance to offer pre-orders.
Lauren Myracle,
author of Shine, the TTYL books, the Luv Ya Bunches books
and more, told us about how ashamed she was the first time she popped up on the most frequently - challenged books
list — but now she sees it as a point of pride.
Now that Gone Girl is on the New York Times bestseller
list for the 7th week in a row; 20th Century Fox has paid $ 1.5 million for the film rights (with Reese Witherspoon producing
and starring,
and Flynn writing the adaptation);
and the
author is appearing on morning news shows... I thought you might want one
more nudge to read this brilliant, exciting thriller.
After
more than 35 years as a school librarian, Pat Scales is a freelance writer
and children's literature advocate
and the
author of the forthcoming revised edition of Books under FIre: A Hit
List of Banned
and Challenged Children's Books.
He does a good job
and he also has the files to all my earlier books, so it's easy to have him update the old ones at the same time (as you publish
more work, you'll want to update your «also by the
author»
lists in the earlier books).
Use your
Author Central page to provide
more information for your readers: upcoming events, a full
listing of your books, pictures
and videos,
and even excerpts from your blog.
He said the bestseller
list is too inadequate in scope,
and that there are far
more authors that should reach readers,
and far
more readers that deserve to find those
authors.
PREDICTION:
More female than male
authors are going to be on best - seller
and top circulating
lists of both print
and ebooks in future months
and years.
Authors that Mark Malatesta has worked with have gotten 6 - figure advances, been on the NY Times bestseller
list, been licensed in
more than 30 countries,
and won countless national
and international awards
and honors.
Book reviews are valuable
and securing them should be on any
author or publisher's book promotion to - do
list, but your novel deserves
more widespread, long - term,
and ongoing exposure than it can get through reviews alone.
At this time, «Your Six - Figure Launch» is not open for enrollment, but
authors looking to learn
more about Stephenson's marketing strategies (
and receive notifications when this course opens again) should sign up for his mailing
list at Your First 10k Readers.
In order to help
more self - published
authors become better at editing their own books, I've compiled a
list of 37 common misspelled or misused English words
and added the correct spelling
and a short explanation so as to give you
more control on the quality of your writing!
Here at AUTHORSdB we've formed the only FREE database of
authors, including social media, book
listings and much
more, for today's mind - field of thousands of aspiring
and established writers.
If readers read an additional 20 %
more, the
author and publisher get credit for a full sale of the book, 60 % of the
list price.
(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.
Mark's
authors have gotten 6 - figure advances, been on the NY Times bestseller
list, been licensed in
more than 30 countries,
and won national
and international awards
and honors.
You can also go cruise on Google for other «best of 2015» fiction
lists, such as those from or by Small Presses, Independent Publishers,
more Indie / Self - Pubbed
authors, Debuts, Flash Fiction,
and on
and on.
Mark's
authors have gotten 6 - figure advances, been on the NY Times bestseller
list, won countless awards, been licensed in
more than 30 countries,
and had their work picked up for television, stage,
and feature film.
Read up on
more of our acquired
authors and see a complete
list of
Author Solutions titles that have been picked up by traditional publishers on our acquisitions page.
Take a page from bestselling self - published
author Mark Dawson, who leveraged Facebook advertising to grow his
list and sell
more books.
Such alternative methods of book distribution employ the
author's strengths
and preexisting customer bases (such as active mailing
lists, attendees to an
author's lecture, etc.) to distribute
more directly
and efficiently.