Sentences with phrase «of books a year»

So he started buying directly from schools and booksellers, and today the company processes more than four million pounds of books a year — sorting through 50,000 books in a busy week.

GAAP operating expenses for the quarter were 67 % of revenue — down from 73 % of revenue for the same period in the second quarter of 2016, while non-GAAP operating expenses were 58 % of bookings — down from 68 % of bookings a year ago.

College students reading for the classes can churn through a number of books each year.

I receive a lot of books every year and review a fraction of them.

So, Bo, you are retired, as you said yourself, from film biz and you read a hundred of books a year (or around that number).

Help your students gain a deeper understanding of the book The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin with chapter strategies and guided questions.

They try hard to produce at least a couple of books a year, maybe more.

Many book deals encourage authors to release a set number of books a year and indies need to engineer their own ebooks, do their own layouts and generate the books to ePub and Kindle friendly formats.

I bought both of these books years ago, just recently purchasing them in Kindle format.

Worldofbooks — This site has been around for the last ten years and ships millions of books each year.

Imagine that she's going to sell 2,000 digital copies of her book a year, every year, for five years, at which point it tails off and she sells only 500 digital copies of her book a year for the remainder of the life of the contract.

That she sells 2,000 copies of the book a year for the first five years (the lower price point combatting whatever marketing * cough * the publisher may or may not do for the book), and 500 copies a year for the next 30 years of comparison.

Here's why you need to understand that as an author: Your publisher is going to release a LOT of books this year.

I read and hear about hundreds of books a year, and here I share the most life - changing insights from books spanning creativity, personal growth, business, and cooking.

«Library throws away thousands of books every year.»

The members of the Amazon editorial team read hundreds of books a year.

While this book was a World Book Night title in 2012, it was not a part of this year's WBN celebration; however, Kissel, Baker, and Lott distributed their purchased copies of the book this year on April 23rd to coincide with WBN.

These are the types of books that I feel are very profound and are normally on my top list of books every year.

Would a similar study guide help you sell more copies of your book each year?

NEW IN 2017: Humanities Tennessee is thrilled to partner with Watkins College of Art to bring Handmade & Bound to the Southern Festival of Books this year!

I read hundreds of books every year due to a very long commute and try to stick to the classics.

If you read a ton of books a year this might be for you... but if you're a one - book - a-month reader or want a wider variety than what's up on KU... yeah, that.

Not only will it follow the old traditional template where she picks a number of books each year and bookstores across the world put her seal of approval on it, but the digital aspect is going to be enhanced.

I've owned every generation of the Kindle and read literally hundreds of books a year and I will not miss a dedicated keyboard at all.

Something I've noticed over the years is the difference between successful authors and authors who sell only a handful of books a year.

We have been reviewing hundreds of books every year since founder Alex Rigby first launched the website in 2013.

We have been reviewing hundreds of books every year since we first launched in 2013.

Ma'am, the problem you see in the different narrative is that there are (broadly) two categories of readers: 1 - dedicated readers for whom buying and consuming books is a regular ongoing activity year - round, which means reading dozens of books a year.

While the traditional, stately progress of an author in Old Publishing might have been something on the order of a book a year, our digital disruption (an energy of distribution, remember) has brought us binge entertainment.

Reg has sold more copies of his book this year than more than 90 percent of U.S. titles sell in a given year (Nielsen reported in 2008 that 91 percent of titles sold fewer than 1,000 copies).

Reg has sold more copies of his book this year than more than 90 percent of U.S. titles sell in a given year (Nielsen reported in 2008 that 91 percent of titles sold fewer than 1,000 copies) Nielsen's figures include books published by services like Author Solutions, which typically sell fewer than 200 copies (by the admission of your own CEO, in this 2009 New York Times article).

With a fairly high price tag, but an impressive spec sheet, the Aura HD was pitched at a «discerning group» of readers, Hasan told us, the sort of people who are reading every day and buying hundreds of books a year.

Not exact matches

So much so, that she was able to snag a book deal and start making lots of money off of her 5 - year - old blog, Momma's Gone City.

«There are a number of core lessons I have pulled from this book over the years.

For example, I clump most of my necessary phone appointments during a month into one day and book my Phone Day in each month a year ahead.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

As you'd expect from the founder of Facebook, he started a book club of sorts called A Year of Books on — you guessed it!

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

Facebook's CEO highlighted 23 books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Rutbooks in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda RutBooks» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.

«Chesapeake Requiem,» a forthcoming book by Earl Swift, paints a timely portrait of the 200 - year - old crabbing community as it faces extinction from rising water levels.

In their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owner.

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»