With the click of another button, it can look up all
formats of a single title, or information on ten of that title's top competitors.
Now, the term «sales» in this particular case is not proportional to the number of books read, because we deal with fixed fees, and not
prices of single titles.
Worse still, these minimal technical benefits could come at the cost of having to produce two individual
versions of a single title.
The third phase comes to a head in Avengers: Infinity War, an ambitious undertaking that brings an incredible number of characters together under the
aegis of a single title, aiming for cataclysmic results.
The world record for most
translations of a single title signed by the author in one sitting belongs to Paulo Coelho (Brazil) who signed 53 different language editions of his bestseller The Alchemist on 10 October 2003, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm, at the Frankfurt Book fair, Germany.
The Society of Authors includes self - published writers among its members if they have sold 300 copies
of a single title in print form, or 500 copies in ebook form, within a 12 - month period.
B&N defines as: the program is for «eligible» NOOK Press authors, defined as «those print book authors whose eBook sales [
of a single title] have reached 1,000 units in the past year.»
While there may well be rock stars of the eWorld who sell in those kinds of numbers, none of the ePubbed authors I know sell anywhere near that many
copies of a single title.
During a recent Amazon press release it was announced that 150 KDP authors had sold over 100,000 copies
of a single title.
The in - store promotion is for «those print book authors whose eBook sales [
of a single title] have reached 500 units in the past year.»
To get into the Top 100 of all books on Amazon, you need to sell at least 500
of a single title a day (15,000 books a month).
(It's «long enough to fit the Empire State Building sideways,» and stocks at least two copies
of every single title that's in print.)