Sentences with phrase «niche books like»

Blurb, who began as a limited print company who specialized in niche books like professional portfolios before expanding into genres like indie cookbooks and art books, announced today that it has a host of new features for authors, including free ISBN numbers, direct to Amazon distribution for print, and a new tool called BookWright that lets authors upload without having to have the expertise to submit files through Adobe's InDesign.

The ebook and indie book explosion has opened up spaces for niche books like mine.

Not exact matches

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later.

The book provides dozens of examples of companies large and small that have succeeded by putting people first: familiar names like Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Southwest Airlines as well as numerous entrepreneurs who are successful in their own niches, even if not widely known.

«The book's wheat - free niche will win it legions of bread - eschewing fans, though recipes like colorful autumn panzanella salad and spiced pear and brown butter muffins promise to please gluten eaters as well.»

These small stores are little niches of wonder just waiting to be discovered, and by supporting them you will not only help keep a local business afloat, but you will also introduce your children to the warmth and beauty of walls lined with books, shopkeepers who can converse about every title like an old friend, and possibly even some local authors that you never even knew existed!

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.

In Algorithms, Slater discusses the shift from the «bookend theory» initially used by pioneer sites like Match.com (aiming to win over every «book» on the shelf) to the prevailing «niche» dating sites that now dominate the market.

By matching users by the types of books they like, Alikewise is taking the niche dating market to the next level.

Aimed at young adults, the book occupied a niche alongside works like «Twilight.»

WHY: Marvel may be winning the battle of the comic book heroes on the big screen, but DC has carved out a nice little niche on the small screen with shows like «Arrow,» «The Flash» and «Legends of Tomorrow.»

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.)

Even a niche that seems specialized — like soapmaking, the subject of a self - published book by Shepard's wife, Anne Watson — faces dozens of competing Kindle titles.

You want your cover to look like a good book in that niche, but you also want it to stand out.

It's important to learn not only how to choose a great niche genre and write the perfect book that will fit that genre — you'll also need to learn the secrets to optimizing your Amazon product page so your books will come up at the top of the search results when potential buyers search for a book like yours.

«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.»

However I think they're niche books, and perhaps wouldn't be liked by readers of well - known fantasy like Martin or Rothfuss.

But they are becoming a niche product and only speciality bookstores are going to prosper — not your large book chains like Borders and Angus & Robertson.

Sometimes the need for a platform feels like a Catch 22 — you're expected to enjoy a certain level of celebrity status in your niche to get a traditional book contract, and yet, getting that status can be difficult without a book as a credential.

I finally found my niche in self - publishing the Kindle and other book publishing market places like iBooks, Barnes & Noble and many others.

One of the reasons they like and look for niche books is because they can find and market to niches.

If your genre is considered «niche» — like crossover fiction, a personal memoir, or a book designed to promote your business — you may find it harder to attract interest from a publisher.

I'm thinking that niche books with built - in, dedicated audiences (like cozy mysteries) tend to do well with self - publishing.

Paper and print books are becoming a niche market for people born before the advent of e-book readers like Kindle, the iPad, and the Nook.

There may evolve a «niche market» but books that you can hold, feel and smell won't ever go away - much like vinyl records are making a come back so that the scratch of the needle and the turning disc remain as much of the experience of music as auditory perception.

The first are highly skilled self - promoters like Godin who have successfully identified their entire (niche) audience and who know they will only ever sell a certain number of copies of their books to that same audience.

Tamblyn went on to speak about how important self - publishing platforms have been in foreign markets where would - be authors may not have access to avenues for publication, notably small niche markets like sub-Saharan Africa, or oppressed cultures where freedom of expression is not as simple as writing a book and having it published and can have serious ramifications for the author.

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 book to arrive — again, especially if it's a title that is needed for academic work.

I've got a few niche customers that look for obscure academic texts like some archaeology books, but mostly self - published authors come in and want to produce a few of their titles.»

If you've read classic marketing books like Get Slightly Famous or The Obvious Expert, you've probably read that one way to stand out in your niche is to write a book.

Yep, right on the spot, I am going now over to buy the «publishing 101» book, one more thing I would like to add Jane, I think an author logo is also important to have, but of course depends a bit on the niche.

While there are still no guarantees, especially with Google and Microsoft looking to replace niche devices with simple browser - based alternatives, the addition of players like Sony, Asus, and Barnes and Noble pretty much ensures that the concept of electronic books is here to stay.

They might be from media / editorial / literary reviewers, but more often than not, they're from influential people in your book's niche or category you have contacted for an advance endorsement because your target readers like and respect them.

It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to surmise that print books are on their way to becoming a niche market where smaller stores capable of catering to local tastes can survive; even thrive, but big chains can't be sustained.

This created niches in which books can be «category bestsellers,» like my Best Easy Day Hikes in Buffalo, NY, which became a # 1 bestseller among books about Buffalo.

You want to know what the competing books look like in your niche.

Here readers are sorted depending on their liking in particular book niches.

POD books are particularly useful for niche books that have a high retail price but less sales opportunities like special academic books.

I don't buy into all the sentimentalism for paper books, but there will be a cabal of those types — just enough people to ensure that paper books are an enthusiast or niche product, much like vinyl.

I suspect that there are many niches like this which will be forced to find different ways to make their books known.

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If you are looking to be a fiction writer, or becoming a respected voice in a niche like fitness books, then yes, developing an author / personal brand is highly valuable.

I've hated it in the past when a fad just took over a niche like cartoon covers took over straight contemporaries and every book that could remotely be construed as lighthearted got the same cover treatment until readers realized they couldn't trust the cover to deliver the content promised because so many were jumping onto the fad.

Perhaps it is because of this that she has more than 650 reviews of her book posted on Amazon (a 4-1/2 star overall rating) or perhaps this success is due to our curiosity about the niche topic she so readily and easily explains with her insider knowledge, but I'd like to think that Caitlin is a perfect example of an author with an extensive author platform, established long before the launch of her book.

Sadly I suspect the publishers and niche device vendors are not securing their future but hastening their demise as they force people to find better solutions to either create, distribute or purchase books — for instance like Robin Sloan is doing with his new novel http://bit.ly/4bKSBv

Drill down the topics to find one you'd like to write, then look at the top 100 books in that niche.

From the consumer perspective, it looks like Amazon only added book lending so that it could have better feature parity with the competition (* cough * Nook), and now it's taking early steps to ensure that the activity remains a niche interest instead of a major Kindle feature.

This kind of award is good for niche market books that are out of the box enough (like mine) to never win the other kind of contest simply because they'd be lucky if the judges were their target reader.

They also offer niche services like analytical paper services, reaction paper completion, and book reviews.

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