They have big
name authors selling it on TV.
Not exact matches
Only later did many readers notice that the
authors were not in fact the well - known short -
selling firms Muddy Waters and Citron Research, but rather two fake accounts using similar
names with misspellings: @Mudd1waters and @Citreonresearc.
An anonymous security researcher has published details on a vulnerability
named «Antbleed,» which the
author claims is a remote backdoor affecting Bitcoin mining equipment
sold by Bitmain, the largest vendor of crypto - currency mining hardware on the market.
Rachel is also an
author, with a best -
selling book of the same
name: Hands Free Mama, as well as a photographer; her blog is filled with wonderful pictures!
Named one of the fittest men in the world, Rich is a world renowned ultra-endurance athlete and best
selling author.
The New York Times best -
selling author made her
name with IQuitSugar.com, Australia's biggest digital wellness site, where she helped 1.5 million people break their sugar habit.
The New York Times has
named the best -
selling author of «A Little Life» as editor of its luxury style supplement, ending four months of speculation as to who would replace Deborah Needleman.
Synopsis: Based on The New York Times best -
selling author Miriam Horn's recent book of the same
name, Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's illuminating film spotlights these unlikely conservationists, stewards of the land and sea who don't fit preconceptions of environmentalists.
The drama, directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, 2014) was adapted from the best -
selling novel of the same
name by
author Emma Donoghue.
Umberto Eco, an Italian academic who became an unlikely best -
selling author of novels like 1980's «The
Name of the Rose,» died Friday in Milan, according to a spokesperson for his American publisher, Houghton Mifflin.
All of this was chronicled in
author Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 best -
selling book of the same
name.
These two political scientists,
authors of a best -
selling provoucher publication, Politics, Markets and America's Schools (Brookings, 1990), have shifted their bets from that spoke of the school - reform roulette wheel
named «school voucher» to one marked «technological innovation.»
The National Young Writers» Awards is set to return with a bang as world renowned best -
selling children's
author David Walliams has been
named judge for 2018!
Vocab in Action: Critical Vocabulary Strategies for Your Classroom, based on the work of Marilee Sprenger, and Total Participation Techniques, based on Pérsida and William Himmele's best -
selling book of the same
name, give educators the opportunity to witness how the
authors» strategies are implemented in a classroom.
Therefore, these retailers limit shelf space to the «brand -
name»
authors and top -
selling books.
I have no
name recognition and I still
sell a book or two at the non-English Amazon stores each month so I can only imagine the demand for more popular
authors.
Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance)
author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen
names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and
selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).
I self - publish, so I do pretty much everything myself; but I've heard several traditionally published indie
authors say they were surprised to find out that even with a traditional publisher, they were expected to do a lot of the marketing for their own books, particularly if the publisher is small, since they were * not * a celebrity
name that could
sell itself.
Author name is the most important
selling tool you have over time.
After all, I get to connect with writers at all stages, including super-well-known, best -
selling, award - winning
authors... and they come to know me, by
name and by face.
If you want to attract more readers to
sell more books, the logical choice then becomes to brand your
author name as the most direct link to those books.
Hugh Howey and Friends (that really should be a trademarked superhero team
name, as you'll see in a moment) has launched the sixth quarterly
Author Earnings report, a seemingly flawless look at how ebooks are actually
selling on Amazon.
Author name recognition helps
sell books?
I don't think anyone's listed all of them in one list, but if you read enough around the publishing industry, you will encounter multiple partial lists, several surveys, and quite a few shoptalk stats swaps that document these comfortably independent
authors who may not be a household
name, but don't care because they
sell enough books to equal, exceed, or comprise their day job.
Side note: Anytime you see a book cover where the
author's
name is bigger than the title, it's the
author's
name that
sells book, not the story inside.
Books
sold into bookstores is becoming something only reserved for the brand
name authors or big, breakout books that are getting a lot of buzz.
This is best from a big
name celebrity or well known best
selling author.
My
name is Alinka Rutkowska and I'm an award - winning and best -
selling author.
In her piece, Katherine references (but does not link to in order to avoid helping the blogger with traffic to her site, as Good e-Reader likewise will not) an article that circulated almost virally last weekend, a piece that
named thirty prominent, best -
selling self - published
authors; while specifically targeting
author Melissa Foster, who is now pursuing legal action against the blogger, the post by someone who claims to have spent two years «working undercover» at Fiverr
names authors Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, Amanda Hocking, and several others as those who purchased bulk book reviews.
Former comedian Eric Jerome Dickey has made a
name for himself as the New York Times best -
selling author of steamy romances, and his latest novel, One Night, is out now.
To all those offended by DRM: With few big
name exceptions,
authors spend a vast amount of time and talent with the slim hope of having a book that
sells enough to make the venture worthwhile.
Roz is the best -
selling author of over a dozen novels as a ghost - writer and has also written «My Memories of A Future Life» and «Life Form Three» under her own
name.
This national best
selling, critically acclaimed
author's debut novel NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM was
named Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008.
Authors too can adapt as once you have the
name you can
sell your own books and avoid the superfluous middleman.
Perhaps you want to start a new series or perhaps your book would
sell better with an
author name that fits well in your genre.
Some interesting experiments going on by
authors — both proven bestsellers and no -
names — to
sell ebooks direct.
All covers will only be
sold once, and we'll update the cover with your title and
author name, and in case of a paperback cover, with your book blurb and
author bio.
As for what wholesale price to offer, unless your
name is Stephen King or JK Rowling, you need help marketing and
selling your book (and building your
Author Brand) and breaking into the market.
I'll start this topic by referencing a previous posting where I was considering adding «best -
selling author» to the
name of my blog.
There are so many
authors, even the big
names, who are only
selling their ebooks on Amazon or BN.
At any rate, adding «best -
selling author» to my blog
name raises one issue solely based upon the hyphen.
An internationally acclaimed best -
selling author, speaker and business executive, he also currently heads a security consulting firm
named after his father — Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc..
Indie presses don't have the sales and marketing clout of the bigger
names so rely on
authors selling and marketing books, too.
I think
author blogs can bring exposure to an
author's
name, but for fiction titles, using blogs for direct
selling seldom works, in my opinion.
It would be churlish of me to mention
names but I recently made myself read a series of «thrillers» by best -
selling authors published by mainstream houses.
The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one
author with the intention of
selling that title to other would - be
authors who wish to put their
names on it and
sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.
The spammers would
sell plagiarized content of both copyrighted or out of copyright books under their own
names, thereby depriving the original
author who worked hard to compile the books in the first place.
Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback
sold for $ 8.00 earns the
author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie
authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big -
name authors go indie.
The Site Which Shall Not Be
Named will not be the only site left standing as many readers are returning to the bookstores in droves, and many
authors are beginning to
sell from their own sites instead of sticking with any of the big online stores.
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