Sentences with phrase «of author revenue»

So, Indie / Self Pubishers have a higher percentage of books in the top 5,000 titles, but they receive a smaller overall percentage of author revenue?

Not exact matches

Dalhousie University economist Marina Adshade, author of an upcoming book based on her blog, Dollars and Sex, warns not to expect a windfall of tax revenue from a regulated sex industry.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

For most, self - publishing revenue remains humble; one survey found that half of all self - published authors bank less than $ 500 for their efforts.

Many first - time authors are surprised to discover that although publishers don't help market your book, they still take the vast majority of earned revenue.

Says Edgar A. Falk, author of 1001 Ideas to Create Retail Excitement (Penguin), «Food centers can build revenue and goodwill, encouraging people to spend more time and money in your store.»

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

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«Each one percentage point cut to the corporate income tax rate costs the federal government about $ 2 billion in annual revenues,» wrote the authors, one of whom was CLC chief economist Andrew Jackson...

He is the author of The Recession - Proof Business: Lessons from the Greatest Recession Success Stories of All Time, Extreme Revenue Growth: Startup Secrets to Growing Your Sales from $ 1 Million to $ 25 Million in Any Industry, and Bookmercial Marketing: Why Books Replace Brochures in the Credibility Age.

A product developer and manufacturer, she is a nationally recognized author and trainer, a former sports coach (a family of Olympic trainers), a Natural Health Practitioner, infant & parenting counselor, community leader, volunteer, wife, and mother with a record of excellence in forecasting product trends, implementing key strategies, launching initiatives that propel growth, establish rank and generate increased revenue streams for products.

Ashley Sage - Taylor Armstrong — Distribution Channel, Rank & Revenue Specialist on Amazon.com and Author of The Adventures of Starlight and Sunny: Book One in, The Adventures of Starlight and Sunny Series,?

Within five years, Zappos would hit $ 1 billion in revenue and Hsieh would author Delivering Happiness, a # 1 New York Times Bestseller, which would catapult him into being one of the most influential business persons in the world.

In his book Predictable Revenue, author Aaron Ross talks about how forward - thinking sales companies like Salesforce.com moved to a specialized sales role model of selling (for example, Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, etc.).

He is the bestselling author of Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $ 100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com, which has been referred to as «The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley» and has ranked # 1 on Amazon's telemarketing list for the past two years.

Accordingly, in Congress in 1913 he authored the Underwood Tariff, which reduced tariffs and introduced income taxes as a permanent feature of the nation's revenue.

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The authors observed: «A major finding of [the 1994 study] was that school food authorities... subsidize the cost of nonreimbursable meals with overall excess revenue generated from all reimbursable meals.

Therefore, the report's authors could not analyze whether the revenues generated by the sale of competitive foods covered the cost of those foods.

Clea Kolster, lead author and PhD student with the Grantham Institute at Imperial, said: «Revenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil rRevenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil revenuerevenue.

Such keystone actors among corporations, the authors say, can be defined by the following characteristics: a) they dominate global production revenues and volumes within a particular sector, b) control globally relevant segments of production, c) connect ecosystems globally through subsidiaries, and d) influence global governance processes and institutions.

He's the author of «The Revenge of Brand X: How to Build a Big Time Brand on the Web or Anywhere Else» and founder of i-legions.com, which builds revenue - generating Branded Communities (R) for major brands.

«David Siegel, Author Of A Book Called «Pull: The Power Of The Semantic Web To Transform Your Business» Main Continued Increases In Revenue And Traffic On «Are You Interested?»»

Based on internationally successful tabletop miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop (~ $ 200 million revenue 2010), the screenplay for Ultramarines has been written by one of their best - selling Games Workshop Black Library authors Dan Abnett, who also writes for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Though both states succeeded in passing legislation allocating a more equitable share of local tax revenue to charter schools, the authors note that partisan conflict and legislative force led to a flawed process — as well as potentially jeopardized implementation of the new law — in Florida.

[8] The study looked at correlations between changes in tuition and a number of variables, including state appropriations — although the authors used «sticker price» to measure tuition, not actual tuition revenues, which might affect the results.

Finally, the author recommends funding the WPCP through the state's general - purpose revenue, paying for statewide school vouchers through state taxes instead of placing the burden on taxpayers living in communities where students receive vouchers.

Using over 20 years of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on revenue and expenditures for schools, the authors explore the relationship between substantive and sustained school finance reforms and improved student outcomes.

To increase authors» revenue flow, one of the approaches he suggests is to sell the foreign language distribution rights to their books.

Under this proposal, Amazon would keep 30 percent of the revenue, and the author and publisher would each get 35 percent.

At HarperCollins Christian Publishing, we are proud to have a world - class Rights and Licensing Division that is positioned to create the broadest possible reach and explore the full array of revenue opportunities for our authors» content.

They receive 100 % of their revenue from authors.

I know why a lot of indie authors are scared to go with KDP Select, but the added revenue more than offsets what you'll lose pulling from the other markets.

In 2011 Author Solutions generated revenues of approximately $ 100m, growing at an average annual rate of 12 % over the past three years.

SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell.

Yes, and the other thing to keep in mind is that, in traditional publishing deals, authors receive the «thinnest fraction» of their book's total sales revenues.

In a letter to Hachette authors and agents, posted by CNN's Brian Stelter, Pietsch wrote that the company will get «full responsibility for the consumer prices of our ebooks,» and that «the percent of revenue on which Hachette authors» ebook royalties are based will not decrease under this agreement.»

* Paying authors 50 % of net instead of 25 % would shift a third of that 30 % — or 10 % of their overall revenue — from their bottom line to their authors» bottom lines.

In my previous blog post I talked about how self - published authors need to rise to the challenge of exerting greater control over their works to ensure they maximise all potential sales and revenue streams.

The reason why the publishing industry is seeing less revenue generated from e-books is because of the spam indie authors are producing.

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

Most of the authors I cherish are long dead and, I can assure you, not missing the added revenue too much at all.

To say that (based on a lack of revenue), «indie authors and self - published authors who claim they are real authors» are laughably delusional, is not only utterly offensive, it is a patently inaccurate interpretation.

if you live off of your revenues with your 6 books, you are a professional author.

If your primarily source of revenue derives from the written word, you are a professional author.

This is creating a new kind of online criminal that abuses the system and creates a new revenue source at the expense of valid authors.

With the announcement that all KDP Select titles would be included in the all - you - can - eat service, authors were initially excited about the prospect of a new revenue channel from the exclusive program; it didn't take long, though, before some of the top names in self - publishing noticed a significant drop in their KDP - based income.

New authors will find it difficult to get a revenue system, but authors who have a strong track record of ebook sales will have no problem.

Pubslush allows authors to take pre-orders for their books in order to generate the revenue they need for professional publishing services, while Pentian lets donors share in the royalties of the book for the first three years, giving authors the funds they need to generate titles.

Because only a small percentage of authors earn a living from their books, most need to develop additional revenue streams.