Events are
NOT about book sales; they're about interacting with fans, reaching out to potential readers and promoting your brand: YOU!
The free campaign is
not about book sales; it's about exposure and visibility.
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.