Sentences with phrase «n't about book sales»

The free campaign is not about book sales; it's about exposure and visibility.

Events are NOT about book sales; they're about interacting with fans, reaching out to potential readers and promoting your brand: YOU!

Not exact matches

Don't worry about book sales — worry about creating potential customers for your company's product or service.

I don't see book sales really taking off unless I start pitching the book hard on TV or radio or speaking at conferences or writing a lot of guest posts about the subject.

This isn't about that though, this is more a lesson in how both religion and atheism together can be equally guilty of scamming people out of donations and book sales over trivial and distorted teachings.

A denominational press can feel good about sales of 6,000 to 10,000 over the lifetime of a book; HarperSanFrancisco does not want to publish a book unless it is likely to sell at least 15,000 in the first year.

The recent revelation that Mars Hill Church in Seattle paid an outside company to boost sales of its pastor's books has raised questions not simply about personal integrity but also about the very culture of American Evangelicalism.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

I'd watch on FightPass but would not kill myself tomorrow when tickets go on sale, and last for about 4 minutes, to book tickets for this.

Since I would not recommend trying this without reading the entire book & 40; well, you can skim the sales pitch at the beginning & 41;, I won't go into details about the method, but I whole - heartedly recommend this to any parent.

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.

If it's decided that sales are to be input taxed, the entity must keep records containing details about that decision, such as the passing of a resolution at a duly constituted meeting and recording such decision in the minute book of the entity, but doesn't need to notify the ATO of its decision.

But we should not forget about some direct print limitations in the technology of books, which also influence sales.

The other thing too is to just be real, don't be a sales machine, and talk about your book.

Luckily, the members of the focus group not only avoided the poor sales that would have resulted from a poorly - titled book, but they suggested a better title, one that expressed what they felt the book was all about, i.e., Customers for Life..

Sometimes it doesn't bother me at all that iUniverse and Author Solutions (and now Penguin Books) have one - sided conversations with the world about how great they are, because there are plenty of customers willing to step up and talk about what it's really like to work with companies that habitually overcharge, under - deliver and make harassing sales calls.

As a side note, this book is MOST LIKELY to fit his data calculations, because it's been out for a long time; it's self - published and has been out long enough that there are essentially zero print sales; I haven't been trying to promote it much, mostly because I don't control the first two books in the series, and so there are very few big jumps; and I had a new release about two months ago, so the book in January is at about the «average» rank in its release - to - release lifecycle.

It's going to take a lot of effort to put together your own tour, but you can do it, save yourself, the money, and not have to worry about whether or not your book managed to get any sales from the tour itself.

I've added some books I've been totally excited about when they weren't available yet (meaing sales rank in the millians), and that simply makes the numbers useles..

But we've seen self - published authors dominate us in gross sales, so we know it's about the writer and not the book.

Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than, say, an indie bookstore, which will just bitch about not being able to return unsold books.

Ebook sales are not falling, the print book is not roaring back into vogue and the trend of stories about their perilous future is just a passing one, to be forgotten as soon as the full story can be told.

That said, it's not so much about making money on book sales, but more about developing a «fan» base by building reader relationships.

Writers with modest sales and / or career ambitions can be satisfied with an author mill, as long as it does a decent job of book production and isn't too extreme about cover pricing.

I know I have the luxury of not needing books sales to feed anything but my ego, but I still care about being known as the author of a «good book.»

Amy Collins gives us some good advice about planning ahead related to book marketing and sales, not something I am particularly good at.

Every successful self - published author I've heard from on this topic says to not even think about analyzing sales for a series until at least three books are released.

It's not enough to say that more young people are reading due to an increase in book sales around the holidays, as that good indicate gift giving by people who were clueless about the tastes and interests of the recipient.

Unfortunately, the hush - hush nature that all book retailers and publishers have about sales figures can mean that the public doesn't have full... [Read more...]

Unfortunately, the hush - hush nature that all book retailers and publishers have about sales figures can mean that the public doesn't have full transparency about the process.

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.

5 min read It's rewarding to see your book sales increase every month... But what about when they don't?

In this episode, Steve talks about using it as a way to gauge potential book sales in a niche and when to not worry about it.

In Iterate & Optimize, there is a lot of discussion about re-titling and re-covering books, as well as rebranding by imprint and even author name, in order not to confuse readers and also to invigorate sales of books that just aren't moving.

For me, I think distribution and sales would be too difficult, particularly considering I want to reach the schools market, and I already know how they work, which is hard for me to access (while not actually «self - publishing» before I was responsible for placing a book about how to become a policewoman in Australia into educational outlets at secondary and tertiary levels and it was not only hard work but incredibly time and money consuming too, so if someone can do that side for me at a reasonable cost, I'd always prefer it.)

Of course, the bottom line (i.e., the difference between making sales and not making sales) is, if lots of readers in your target market want to read your book but they never hear about it, they can't decide to buy your book — and the way they hear about your book is through marketing.

Consider: A friend of mine told the story about how he had a radio interview and got over 100 book sales from that interview, so he thought, Hey, why don't I buy an ad on this radio station — they're obviously my target audience.

A: When I'm writing a book, I don't worry about potential sales, potential audience, or potential marketing scenarios.

I hope Steve will not be too mad with me if I reveal his advice that you want to be writing books in categories where you can get books ranking at 20,000 or better — about 5 sales a day.

Create new income opportunities — In a future blog post, I am going to talk about the 8 ways an author can earn money besides book sales, but suffice it to say, a book gives you ways to sell you and your services in a way a blog alone does not.

Let's say that you don't care about book sales, but you really wrote your book to get more speaking events.

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.

I like what you say about blaming the author for lack of sales even when the publisher can't define what that «better book» might be.

Even if you don't land direct sales right away, you're getting lots of people seeing the cover of your book, seeing your name, so that by the time they might see it recommended on Amazon or hear about it from another friend and say «Oh yeah, that makes sense.»

Even if you don't land direct sales as high as you'd like to right away, you're getting lots of people seeing the cover of your book, seeing your name, so that by the time they might see it recommended on Amazon or hear about it from another friend and say «Oh yeah, that makes sense.»

Though there aren't any set - up or monthly costs, they keep about 10 percent of the sales price whenever you sell a copy of your book.

This is another great round - up post from ALLi, featuring lots of members» stories about why blogging has been worthwhile for them (though not necessarily in terms of book sales).

You're only going to be getting $ 0.35 for each discounted book, so it's not about the money but about getting those initial sales.

But shouldn't the piles of stories AND the author's admissions about the book's speculative content prompt the publisher to pull this book from sale?

When you are in the top 200, 300, 400, etc. your book's sales rank should drop about 14 % if you didn't sell a book.