This always has mixed results, since people on Facebook don't know anything about book cover design, they probably aren't your target market, they probably aren't ideal readers of your genre, and they aren't designers.
I know those people aren't my ideal readers.
This can be tough — you don't really want reviews from friends and family, because they're
not your ideal readers anyway; and selling books to friends and family can actually HURT sales, because it screws up your «also - boughts» section on Amazon (which will confuse Amazon and result in less visibility).
You can end up with confusing comments from someone who is
not your ideal reader and would probably never buy, or even borrow, your book.
He tiptoes to the brink of admission when he remarks that his wife, Elizabeth Hill, a writer he met in grad school, is his first reader and the reader he has in mind when he writes his novels, and then adds, deadpan, «Even though she's my ideal reader, she's
not my ideal reader, since she hasn't finished either of my books.
Not exact matches
While Greene's project is an
ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce
readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.
Whether Ryken correctly limns the subtleties of the last point — how one may repudiate dominant trends and emphases in an institution and yet maintain allegiance to the institution itself and
not simply to its «
ideal» — is a question
readers are left to ponder.
But both the course and the result of this interpretation presented to the
reader will still be only the opinion of the interpreter for which he will once more be held accountable by the book itself in an
ideal, though certainly
not in a real sense.
Not all
readers will accept the authors» conclusions, but we can all agree that this is an exceptional fine example of work that fits the Am Nat
ideal of challenging how we think.
I used to be on the Young Living Bandwagon but have found that their structure and prices are
not ideal for most
readers.
I used to be on the Young Living bandwagon but recently got off — I just feel that the structure and higher prices are
not ideal for many
readers (or really even myself).
While we love online magazines, we realized that this was
not the
ideal platform for the content that we will be sharing with our
readers.
Not that FreeAndSingle
readers break the rules... The European is also
ideal if you're looking for a pre-theatre or after - show spot to chow down a few nipples and cocktails, giving it plenty of versatility for any occasion.
But while many of us don't need to know who's who and why, the film pitches itself as potentially being most satisfying to an audience who know everything: you or I, cinephile
reader of Film Comment, might enjoy this film quite a lot, but imagine how much more we'd enjoy it if we were the
ideal viewer it presupposes, who can spot specific winks at iconic moments in Captain America # 332 or Avengers # 123.
Not only does this place concrete examples within a larger context, but it also provides
readers with valuable lessons and tangible insight that sketch a blueprint for an
ideal civic education.
Hill's piece, however, treats the
reader to a tour of what the
ideal system should be —
not how you would move to it per se.
As a blogger, your
ideal audience is a mass of engaged
readers who trust you as a source of valuable and unique information that they can't find anywhere else.
Not all social media is created equal, especially when it comes to targeting your
ideal reader.
I have argued before that in an
ideal world eBook
readers should cost under # 50 — the value being in their content
not the device — though the Kindle 3 is a hugely significant step in the right direction.
I'd learned something about who my
ideal reader was
NOT.
If you don't know who your
ideal reader is, take some time to determine who that might be.
Readers (aka, consumers — another notion many authors reject) don't live in that
ideal world.
Often, fiction writers haven't identified the wants, needs or desires of their target audience clearly enough (if they've even identified their
ideal reader at all), so attracting the right crowd becomes tricky.
Your website isn't for them: it's for the
ideal reader who loves your kind of books but doesn't know who you are.
No, I have
not found the
ideal PDF
reader yet... but I don't understand why you would need to revert to the pre-rooted state to use the Nook
reader.
I'm going to say right up front that I'm
not a regular
reader of Wolverine, but that should make me the
ideal audience for a comic designed to draw in new
readers.
In another word, I don't think my
ideal reader has been released before.
As Matting pointed out in his talk, the
readers who buy discount products are usually a different market segment than your «
ideal»
readers, who aren't looking at the price, but the groups overlap a little bit.
But if real
readers do like your books, then you have an obligation to keep getting your book in front of more
readers who will like it, and possibly mitigating negative reviews that aren't relevant to your
ideal readers as much as possible.
They offer back - lit lcd colour display with battery life only few hours.They can
not be used for reading for long time and doing so may cause eye strain.They are
ideal enough to surf web.They offer good video playback.They are less portable and are heavier.They are costlier as compared to any standard e
reader.
Publishing success is enjoyed by authors who identify their
ideal readers and provide desired content,
not those who write the «best written» books
Targeting
not only helps build an emotional connection with your
ideal readers, it also reduces your book's competition.
Your goal is to identify the missing book — the book that hasn't been written yet, the book your
ideal readers have been waiting for!
My most used reading app is
Reader for my RSS feeds, without a true gmail app and account sync I wasn't able to use
Reader other than in a browser, which is less than
ideal, on top of the other issues mentioned above, back to the store it went!
If you don't happen to have an
ideal reader sharing space in your home, you can still get the benefits by defining your
ideal reader.
That may sound
ideal, but what if your
reader doesn't use this platform or that one.
Whether the book in question is fiction or non-fiction, the appeal of its cover goes a long way in determining if your
ideal reader decides to buy it or
not.
A microSD would be great but
not required for
ideal reader
My
ideal reader is someone who loves what I write and does
not care whether my name is «Kumar», «Khan» or «King».
Finding your
ideal reader is essential for success so,
not surprisingly, a considerable amount of digital ink has been spilled writing about it.
One piece of advice I give to every author I meet is to know who their
ideal reader is — because it's really challenging to market anything when you don't know who the audience is.
If you're new to book marketing and promotion, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, like you're doing everything all wrong or worse yet,
not doing enough to get your book out there and into the hands of your
ideal readers.
These oddities become so overwhelmingly distracting your
readers will tune out and stop reading, which is definitely
not ideal.
Our goal is to create an
ideal reading experience where your
readers focus on your writing, and
not on disruptive formatting.
If I was going to buy an ebook
reader this holiday season, I would clearly spend the extra $ 100 and get the Nook Color over any basic ebook
reader just because it delivers so much more content in a rich colorful manner, making it an even more
ideal device for reading
not only books, but magazines, newspapers and content on the Web.
Unless they are passionate
readers willing to pay $ 6 and more per eBook on a regular basis, paying the monthly fee may
not be an
ideal choice for everyone.
Now,
not every author gets to be their
ideal customer;
Reader Zero, I call it.
In this 26 minute video tutorial (developed for both fiction and nonfiction authors), I share tools, tips and a walk - through for creating an opt - in incentive that your
ideal readers just can't resist.
When you do come back to your work, pretend you're going over it
not as the author, but as your
ideal reader.
I made a big mistake with my author website, which I rectify in this video: I chose a «clever» tagline for my website that wasn't clear, didn't have any keywords, and didn't offer my
ideal readers the benefits they're looking for.