Sentences with phrase «of backlist books»

I always get excited when I see that entire series of backlist books have been released as e-books.

I'm grateful every single day that I walked away from NY when I did — and that I own all rights to all 9 of my backlist books.

There are a few reasons this isn't as far - fetched as you may think — lots of backlist books being released as ebooks, indie authors continuing to sell books at $ 1, smaller publishers and new publishers taking advantage of Amazon and Apple's 70 % cut model.

Aimed at already - published authors, Open Road Distribution will work with independent published authors, literary agencies and independent agents with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who want to digitize and distribute their content.

All of our backlist books reverted from traditional and brought back through WMG Publishing have new copyright and publishing dates on them.

Some published authors even put out special editions of backlist books that include illustrations or two - color printing.

Not exact matches

Which is why I'm also starting to say — don't worry about marketing or selling until you have a backlist of at least 3, preferably 5 books.

I'm one of the rare consultants to help books hit the New York Times bestseller list three different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and backlist.

While it looks as though a few people MAY have listed the same books as indie - only titles (which I described as frontlist, never - traditionally - pubbed books) and backlist titles (previously trad - pubbed, now indie), I can't be certain of that, so I've counted them separately.

Backlist is more important than time or marketing, so publishers that give up at book two or three or four of a series are doing it all wrong.

The reason we're able to promote backlist titles is because of a revolutionary change in our operational philosophy: We no longer see our own books as competitors.

I've read a lot of books in my lifetime and often own an extensive backlist of certain authors.

In 2017, 60 % of all print book sales were for backlist books, which is up by 2 % over 2016.

S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy said that while sales of e-books rose by one percentage point in the quarter, sales of digital audio had a huge quarter driven by sales of both new and backlist books.

Smashwords» marketing of this month - long event allows authors to select which of their books to include, and therefore encourages backlist promoting.

In early 2013, Macmillan started a public library pilot program with a select group of backlist ebooks from its Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint.

«Macmillan's Minotaur Books imprint has a rich backlist built on best - selling mystery and crime series by the likes of M.C. Beaton, Nevada Barr, and Laurie King,» said Heather McCormack, collection development manager, in a press release.

It's interesting to note that two of the top five books — The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Milk and Honey — are both backlist titles, having been published in September 2016 and October 2015, respectively.

Carol spread our tablecloths over the rented tables, then arranged flowers and stacks of books — giveaways of backlist overstock and display copies of our forthcoming fall list — while I started to hang the posters.

I've been able to take my backlist and re-cover the books to illustrate and emphasize my brand of books.

Granted this was for a book originally e-published, but I hear, all the time, of people taking their backlists, scanning them in (if they are out of print) and voila.

When he writes more books, people will buy more of his backlist — but he gets nothing from that.

In fact, a strong backlist of books can help promote the sale of a new book and can increase book sales in general.

But you came into e-publishing with a name, a reputation, a backlist of enjoyable books available... and your name and reputation came not only from your own promotional efforts (and they are outstanding!)

I, like Joe, have a large backlist of titles, have had agents, several, and have published with maybe eight of the publishers in NYC and guess what - there are legitimate writers publishing ebooks every two hours right now and soon I hope to have every book I ever wrote — around fifty on ebooks.

Tweak your pricing or offer discounted backlist titles for limited periods of time or as a bonus when readers buy your newest book.

In old - school publishing, a backlist is a portfolio of older books, or for self - publishing, it means a author who has one or more older books to promote.

It's been super easy to set up and I love the «Add books» feature — it makes it easier to build up a library of books — your backlist — and feature that on the site.

Friends trying to go hybrid or get rights back for thier backlist or books that are out - of - print that they don't want to take a 25 % net ebook deal on and the big 5 is not letting them out.

Some of my favorite authors have been around for over ten years, and most of them have a huge backlist of books.

The vast backlist of DC Books meant the Wink would have access to a large selection of books from the sBooks meant the Wink would have access to a large selection of books from the sbooks from the start.

I think it can be a great tactic but only for someone who has a significant backlist of books.

Dohle's letter made clear the company's position that «the vast majority of [its] backlist contracts grant [Random House] the exclusive right to publish books in electronic formats, as well as more traditional physical formats.»

When those books go out of print with DAW, I certainly plan on self - publishing them myself in order to keep my backlist available.

The idea being that you're rewarding loyal readers and, once you've won a reader over with one of your books, they're more likely to buy your backlist at full price.

This can include writing a new book, successfully launching a new book or working on the promotion of their backlist.

I'm not generally a fan of launching 2nd, 3rd, 4th books at a discount (the exception to this is romance, where low pricing for the length of a series may be your strategy, then raise the price on backlist).

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist — both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and authors who wa... -LSB-...]

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

Typically, digital versions of many comic books were relegated to older backlist titles or lesser popular characters and storylines, a way to try to boost interest in flailing issues or outdated themes.

I have reached out to Overdrive to comment on whether or not the Penguin books are frontlist or backlist titles, or a mixture of both.

In this time of difficulty for book discovery, offering your content — especially backlist content — to readers is a way to entice them into getting to know the rest of your list.

A number of those readers are voracious readers and want new books and new authors because they have already read the established author's backlists and there aren't enough new books being published through traditional channels to keep their reading habit supplied.

As part of the agreement, Simon & Schuster will make available its entire backlist of thousands of books, including works by authors ranging from Ernest Hemingway to Stephen King.

What would happen, say, with the original manuscript of a book out of your backlist that you've always wanted to publish as an ebook?

It was a ton of hard work, but, four years later, I'm really starting to see it pay off as I approach 30,000 book sales across my backlist.

They kept the book on their backlist, but did no active promotion after the first half of 2004.

Overdrive is my first port of call for best - selling authors, classics recently published books as well as a massive selection of backlisted titles.

Getting more books out there is the best way to build your backlist and pursue your goal of becoming a full time writer.

Commit to creating a backlist of books — instead of creating the 150,000 first master piece, is there a natural split that would automatically kick off your book # 2?