When you are into self - publishing,
niche books do better.
Not exact matches
Their
books may not be known to most of the general public interested in questions related to Jesus, the Gospels, or the early Christian church, but they
do occupy a noteworthy
niche as a (very) small but (often) loud minority voice.
Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the
niche readers who will buy those
books.
learn how narrowing my
niche, becoming known as an expert, writing a
book and
doing business coaching has grown my business
My ebooks are priced at 4.95 with Ridan because they
did run a lot of numbers looking at pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's
books and determined that sales in that
niche were maximized at the 4.95 price point.
I'm also completely unaware of any pentup demand in the consumer market for self - pubbed
books - even in my tiny
niche subgenre of m / m, people just aren't interested in self - pubs even though the
books certainly exist, * unless * the author already has an audience (which they often
do through things like fanfiction.)
Attending and / or participating in trade shows and conferences, etc. (see below) Reading industry newsletters and blogs Publishers Marketplace Publishers Weekly Monitoring media World news and trends National news and trends
Niche news and trends Reading
books / articles about the industry and / or craft of writing Reading
books in genres the agent represents, written by authors he or she doesn't represent
They're
doing this by expanding their on - shelf selection of
niche books, introducing new flavors of fiction, spreading out romance, and howling over a vast offering of how - to
books.
Since I happen to believe there will always be a market, albeit a
niche market, for print
books, I didn't have any issues with the article — until I started to read it.
There are endless stories of the difficulties authors have had selling a
book because it didn't fit into a particular
niche at the time, but once that
book goes on to be successful then suddenly there are a flood of other
books.
What would you
do if you decide to go into another
niche that is different from personal development and the other
books you have written.
So spend some time finding the right angle for your
book and
do research to determine what could be a good genre or good
niche to publish in.
Well their both your sites so of course you can
do what you want with them, link them together email your list from this site to promote
books on your new site, essentiallly every site is a
niche site though right?
My most recent
book (WRITING FICTION FOR DUMMIES) doesn't fit that
niche, and I have some novels planned for the future that also won't fit that
niche, but that's OK.
Don't just blanket them all with a pitch about your
book,
do your research and reach out only to those folks who review titles in your nich
do your research and reach out only to those folks who review titles in your
niche.
Books are a hard niche because readers don't read many books anymore, they prefer to watch podcasts and pictures on the Social Netw
Books are a hard
niche because readers don't read many
books anymore, they prefer to watch podcasts and pictures on the Social Netw
books anymore, they prefer to watch podcasts and pictures on the Social Networks.
Do more research to find
niche specific blogs that might mention or link to your
book.
Right now, most people don't realize just how
niche small publishers really are — and where they market their
books.
«So basically the idea of a blog tour is you find a certain number of review blogs or blogs in your
niche market who will
do interviews or a review or things like that about your
book so that their readers can be exposed to what you're
doing.»
What
niche does your group of
books fit in?
It's important to have a merging of all three elements — when a
niche is something you enjoy, can teach others how to
do and makes money, you'll find that it's not hard to consistently publish great
books.
If they are for Love, then
doing everything below will enhance their ability to sell, but if you're in a
niche market or your
book doesn't have automatic appeal, your sales may still be low.
I have 15
books under the SSS brand, another 15 in a children's
book market (keeping that one private for now), 1 in the physical fitness
niche which didn't work out and 2 in the personal habit
niche.
You speak about the # 20,000 rule above and although you say it is not set in stone, I
do wonder why there are not many top selling Kindle
books in the travel
niche, not in the UK at least.
How the Bookbub CPM ads can work even if you're marketing cross-genre novels or
books in
niches that don't usually get picked up for their regular sponsorships.
He'd
done the research, found a
niche, and wrote a
book, a
book he admits isn't the best, in order to make a living as a self - published author.
You can even
do this on your own, as long as you have chosen the
niche topic you will be writing about, you have the desire to make the time and effort to accomplish this, and you can set up a simple mini-site on the Internet to conduct your business with your finished
book.
Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer works... out of curiosity, are these writers publishing dozens of
books to get to that level or
did they just find the right
niche and only have to publish a few
books to get to that level?
While some
books will
do better than others, even the
books in very small
niches outsold my business
book.
The 300th place comic
book now sells four to five times what it
did ten or twelve years ago — which is a reflection of a much larger number of offerings carving out
niche audiences.
And taking a big hint from Peggy Sissel PHelan about
book marketing, I've already
done some bulk
niche sales.
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I KNEW I had a wide - ope market that could feed well into a
niche publisher, but the publisher passed on the grounds that they didn't
do «beginner
books» (since then, I've seen a
book or three published by than that seems LOWER than the level I was writing at).
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Publishers are beginning to realize that evaluating the potential saleability of self - published
books requires a more careful analysis, which includes bulk orders from
niche organizations and groups,
books that are value added give - aways, built into the participants fees or sold at trainings, specialty shops that don't report to Nielsen BookScan and other types of sales.
Not only
do they make your
book look more impressive (a large number of reviews means that a lot of people have read your
book, so customers are more likely to try it for themselves), but also because Amazon tends to favor
books with lots of reviews, putting them in lists and newsletters alongside similar
books in each
niche.
You've come up with your
book idea, have
done your competitor research and have a clear idea of how to market your final work within your chosen
niche.
Look for contests that don't require a high entry fee,
niche contests related to your
book genre or topic and those friendly to self - published
books.
Do the research for your
niche, find your readers and potential partners who can help ensure your
book's success.
I'm thinking that
niche books with built - in, dedicated audiences (like cozy mysteries) tend to
do well with self - publishing.
This might seem to some as though BiblioCrunch was embracing an «anyone can
do this» attitude, but the reasons why work may need to be published by would - be writers who lacked the experience to create a
book — such as for the distribution of business materials or by authors who simply write for a
niche market of readers — are numerous.
This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster
book discovery and can lead to
niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.
As notes included with the
book tell it, she was originally trained to be a Seeing Eye dog but didn't find her
niche in that role.
One of the issues for the
book industry is that it is a
niche market: 23 % of Americans didn't read a
book at all in 2014, while only 28 % read more than 10.
I think you need to
do both, unless your
book is very
niche, which for some reason would only fit into an e-
book format.»
Obscure subject —
Books that
do well are those in a popular
niche.
According to Amazon, «Good reviews on Amazon are particularly crucial for
books by new authors and for
niche books, and it stands to reason that they boost sales not only at that site but everywhere people are buying
books, although we don't yet know what percentage of buyers at brick - and - mortar bookstores made their choice by reading Amazon customer reviews.».
If you
do an Amazon search and find hundreds of
books in your
niche, that's a good sign.
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In some locations, though, the EBMs that are in use are
doing quite well, especially for
niche markets like specific textbook or academic titles, out of print titles, and for customers who don't want to wait for a
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