Sentences with phrase «number of copies sold is»

So number of copies sold is the measure of a book's quality.

The number of copies sold is important for marketing purposes.

The numbers of copies sold re my books say something completely different.

Not exact matches

Carrying the Chinese title Be Yourself, by the end of August the book had sold 320,000 copies — a huge number, even in a country of 1.3 billion.

The issue sold 984,697 copies and is the number six cover on the American Society of Magazine Editors October 2005 list.

A number of students were outside the main conference hall trying to sell copies of Ed Miliband's speech for # 2.

During the school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000 copies of the three texts were sold, a number sufficient to reach 12 percent of the high school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.

For a limited time, the Healthy Back Institute is running a very unique promotion and has decided to GIVE AWAY a certain number of FREE hard copies of their best - selling book, The 7 - Day Back Pain Cure, as a one - time special promotion to get extra publicity.

Hyrule Warriors was expected to be something of a best seller in Japan, but as we saw by last week's Media Create numbers, the game only managed to sell just shy of 70k copies during its first week available on the market.

While units shipped isn't the same figure as units sold, we know that the game sold 5 million copies just over the course of its opening weekend alone, so it's likely that the total number of units sold is close to the number of units that have shipped.

Though more important than that is the fact Famitsu does track download cards (something neither Media Create or Dengeki do), and since the game did sell out at a few stores, this could have led a higher number of people to go for a download card instead of a retail copy.

Add in marketing, manufacturing and distribution it's entirely possible a game of this magnitude (number of people involved) didn't turn a profit with 2 million copies sold.

Ford C - Max Energi: While the Fusion Energi posted a surprisingly high number of its own, the 988 C - Max Energis sold in June was even more significant... considering the non plug - in variant of the C - Mas only sold 1,952 copies.

If nothing else, I sold 16 copies over February and March so far, and made $ 7.20 I would not have otherwise made (though admittedly some of these numbers are skewed as I am in the middle of a promo thing).

Given those facts, then it's safe to argue that if some young woman named Nicole Polizzi had written the same books before gaining her celebrity status as Snooki, her first book wouldn't have even have sold 0.1 % of the number of copies it has sold to date.

Those that do may be concerned that making books available through the library will reduce the number of copies they sell, she said.

Most months, I still sell less than a dozen copies of books a month (although that number is climbing) and feel like I'm closer to the moon than becoming an author full - time.

Before POD, a publisher had to predict what the demand for a particular book would be over time, then print, warehouse, and ship the number of copies they predicted could be sold.

It's common to set a number of steps with which the royalties escalate, setting a lower rate for the first 5,000 copies, a higher rate for the next 5,000, and only reaching the maximum rate after 10,000 or more copies have been sold.

If you're looking to get your book into the hands of the greatest number of readers by selling the most copies, $ 0.99 is by far the best price point to achieve that goal.

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

If we also publish the title as an eBook we have to be selling a specified minimum number of copies in every royalty period or again the rights will revert.

Imagine that she'll have a print run of 8,000 copies (based on a number of authors I've talked to, this is about right — if you're getting more books printed than 8,000, and your advance is $ 3500, you're being seriously low - balled on the advance figure), and she'll sell 6,000 of those in the first year at 8 % of the cover price of $ 7.99, giving her $ 3835.20 in print earnings.

Ignoring super-star authors who write their own tickets, the best rate most writers can hope for is 15 % of the cover price of trade hardcover books, with this percentage being achieved only after a certain number of copies have been sold.

Plus, the average number of books sold by a self - published author is less than 80 copies.

People for whom ranking and number of copies sold and profits actually MEAN something because they have a frame of reference for interpretation or because they're using them in their pitches of your awesome to other people (that would be my agent, yo).

By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

While a number of classically famous authors have utilized vanity publishing (Edgar Allan Poe for one), it was usually because they couldn't sell the book traditionally and it often didn't fare well (Poe put out Tamerlane and Other Poems and moved 50 copies).

This year there are a number of surefire bestsellers that are all slatted to sell thousands of copies.

When JK Rowling published her first Robert Gilbraith novel, the sales were unimpressive at only 1,500 copies the first month; of course, the number skyrocketed when the author's true identity was revealed, selling out the book in bookstores and requiring additional print runs.

For me right now, that's approximately 60 % of my sales (in terms of number of copies sold).

To put this all in prospective, the total number of copies sold of these 233 titles is over 60 % that of the total sales for the year of Author Solution's 59,000 titles.

Most MG authors will tell you they sell as much (or more) in print as they do in ebook, but it's hard to move large numbers of print copies if you're not in bookstores (and with POD prices high relative to mass market print runs).

But keep in mind that the average number of copies a self - published title actually sells is closer to 75.

You could also inquire about the average «sell in» for a book — that's the number of copies sold to retailers or distributors in advance of the publication date.

In the past, indie publishers were typically forced to order a required number of copies as a first printing, and figure out how to sell and distribute them later.

An argument could be made that the only true way to define a «best - selling» book is based upon the number of copies it has sold.

Fair contracts should stipulate exactly what information must be displayed in the royalty statement: the number of copies sold and returned; the list price; the net price; the royalty rate; the amount of royalties accumulated; the amount of reserve for returns withheld; the gross amount received by the publisher pursuant to each license along with copies of statements received by the publisher from its licensees during the accounting period; itemized deductions; the number of copies printed, bound, and given away; and the number of saleable copies on hand.

Before POD, a publisher had to predict sales, print, and then warehouse the number of copies they thought could be sold with the result that they often got it wrong.

BookLogix can not guarantee that any number of copies of your book will be sold / purchased / ordered because of your use of our services.

If you think a book's rank is based only on the number of copies sold, think again, as this blog post from Pat Bertram explains.

In a Kindle Direct Publishing newsletter, author Hal Elrod, who has sold over 100,000 copies of his self - published ebook, said, «I can confidently say that the number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews on other people's podcasts!»

Romance also has much larger numbers than sf / f — I recall a romance writer friend of mine complaining that her latest mmpb release «only» sold 80,000 copies, and wasn't going back for a second printing.

Bestsellers are determined by the number of copies sold through the Archway Publishing Bookstore over the past month (retail channel sales and direct sales made by an author do NOT count toward this figure).

As far as total numbers of copies sold, that data will not be included at the present time in Nielson's information, only the ranking of the books in order.

Their first color e-reader sold a tremendous amount of copies during the holiday season, but were edged out of the number 2 position by Pandigital.

The number of copies it was selling was staggering, but it resulted in an angry backlash from thousands of Canadian customers, who said they would no longer do business with Amazon.

«Unpaid royalties of approximately $ 7,300 because the publisher sold nearly 6,500 copies of a $ 17.99 hardcover edition at «high discount,» even though Agent Kristin had ensured that the author's contract limited the number of copies the publisher was allowed to sell at high discount.»

One of the big bright spots of the year was the new Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which sold over six million copies in the first few weeks of release and set a record number of pre-orders.

I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.