Sentences with phrase «most backlist books»

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.

Not exact matches

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).

Some of my favorite authors have been around for over ten years, and most of them have a huge backlist of books.

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.

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.

Today, most publishers make most new books available in at least one electronic format, and many sell direct to readers from their own websites, but they're taking their time making backlist and out - of - print titles available this way.

Based on my own experiences and those of other authors, I believe that the ideal Kindle Store price for many backlist titles is in the $ 2.99 to $ 4.99 range, and that most such titles, if they are quality books with a little bit of marketing effort behind them are likely to sell roughly twice as many copies if they are reduced from $ 9.99 to $ 4.99 or roughly three times as many if they are reduced from $ 9.99 to $ 2.99.

I remember reading that there are two broad categories of book buyers: the five books a year or less group, which is very large and the main driver behind mega-bestsellers, and the 30 - 50 + books a year avid readers, which is smaller but is what keeps the backlists and most genre fiction alive.

That took the account that sold upwards of 10 percent of most publishers» books, and a far greater percentage of the bookstore shelf space for backlist, off the board.

Glenn Miller presents Your One - Sentence Book Marketing Plan posted at Career Authors, saying, «Most writers don't an extensive backlist or an established author platform.

But what isn't being said is that these aren't necessarily new books; most of these authors have an impressive backlist.

A newsletter is one of the most important tools we have at our disposal for promoting our new releases or backlist of books, as well as for forming connections with our readers.

(More about why that happens in this post: KDP Select & Kindle Unlimited: Why Ebooks Not Enrolled Are at a Disadvantage) In 2015, I found that I sold less of each title overall for my backlist books (specifically my Emperor's Edge books, which are part of a series I completed over a year ago), most likely because the permafree Book 1 is being downloaded a lot less now — there are more free titles available at Amazon and elsewhere, and also I believe KU has siphoned off some of the deal seekers who used to peruse the free lists.

When I joined the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) board, I thought my company, Cooperative Press (which primarily publishes knitting books, with a backlist of about 40 titles), would be the most specialized publisher represented.

As someone who buys a lot of e-books, I still think that most of the Big Publishing House e-books are priced too high, especially many backlist books.

Most current books are available there, but the backlist is strangely spotty.