Brian Jud says since more than half
of all book sales come from outside bookstores it's important to target these markets.
95 %
of my books sales came from speaking.
By Judith Briles In looking back over my multi-decade publishing and speaking career, here's where 95 %
of my book sales came from: speaking.
Since more than 90 %
of book sales come from the extensive distribution network, it is no wonder Smashwords has become a sought - after alternative to reach a wider circle of readers globally.
In looking back over my multi-decade publishing and speaking career, here's where 95 %
of my books sales came from: speaking.
Not exact matches
The overstatements
came because the company essentially
booked the
sales of some drugs twice.
Judy Robinette was Inc.com's # 1 business
book writer
of 2014 when she
came across an Entrepreneur article written by Matthew on doing a soft
sales close.
As recently as 2005, 90 %
of sales for its metal roll forming business
came from the U.S. Around that time, company founder Joe Repovs read Thomas Friedman's
book on globalization, The World is Flat, and became convinced that Samco had to look beyond North America.
But there's little chance Amazon will
come to have in apparel the crushing dominance it has established in, say,
books, because
of the way clothing
sales are fragmented among so many retailers.
One day I was browsing through the
books at a publishers» overstock
sale and
came across the autobiography
of a Pentecostal evangelist who held tent revival meetings in the small Midwestern city where I grew up.
It would take an entire
book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved
of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children
came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte
sales and «carnival food» menus.
(A significant amount has also
come from large donors, including Offit, who has donated all the royalties from the
sales of his
books challenging the anti-vaccine movement to ASF — an amount he estimates in tens
of thousands
of dollars.)
When it
comes to virtual learning, I would like to make the case that most Americans have read Clay Christenson and Michael Horn's new
book, Disrupting Class or my account
of virtual learning in Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, but
book sale figures suggest that something larger must be at work.
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Once the big day has
come and gone and the initial rush
of sales has (hopefully) happened, once you've told everyone you already know that it's out there and numbers have begun to stall, how then do you continue to spread the word without continuously tweeting «buy my
book, here's my
book, oh by the way, buy my
book?»
Disclaimer: NovelRank
book sales estimates are based on fluctuations
of sales rank and thus there are many factors (another blog post
coming soon) that can cause for more
sales to occur than is estimated by NovelRank.
Yeah, there are a lot
of problems with this... not the least
of which is that a one shot pull doesn't show the «range
of rankings» for a
book on a given day, or that
sales at rank x are different in March then they are in December, or that a
book won't stay at the same rank for a year, which is where the train
comes off the rails.
The emphasis on print over e-books
comes after Nielsen reported earlier this year that e-books comprised just 23 %
of book sales for the first half
of 2014.
Do you think any POD Publisher would sell an ad in the Sunday New York Times if their payment for this ad
came from the
sale of books sold?
Today is the on -
sale date for one
of my favorite
books so far this year: Christopher Coake's You
Came Back (Grand Central).
A lot
of the anger directed at Amazon in this instance
comes from the notion that somehow
books are more sacred than other objects that are for
sale.
Interestingly, Flipkart holds a sway over 40 to 45 percent
of the printed
books market, something that could
come under strain once ebook
sales pick up.
I have a feeling that this is based on some data that tells them that new devices generally lead to increased
book sales as well, because new users
come with good intentions
of reading more and spending more on reading...
«Offering
books in the Windows Store is one
of the highest potential
sales channels to
come to the market in several years; it will be a great opportunity for our publishers to get their
books into more readers» hands across multiple devices.»
The UK has long experienced a greater level
of transparency in terms
of actual
sales figures than the US market, and several authors have
come forward to outline exactly what they've earned from the
sales of their
books.
For Labor Day weekend, a group
of authors have
come together to offer our
books for
sale at only 99 cents.
(In fact, a couple
of September's
sales came from me, because I had a loooong plane trip and realized your
books would be perfect.
In the last post I quickly detailed out how I saw indie writer after indie writer shoot themselves in the foot with their publishing when it
came to
sales of their
books.
A couple
of years ago, Amanda Hocking
came on the self - publishing scene with several YA ebooks priced at 99 cents (for
book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent
books) and had legendary
sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.
British publishers have also been exploring the market for electronic versions
of books in the hope
of enjoying strong
sales when e-book stores and reading devices achieve critical mass in the
coming years.
I mean, sure they'll publish a
book about prayer if the author has the credentials, platform, and, preferably, thousands
of church members to help catapult
sales, but if a simple living recipe
book about losing weight and saving your marriage while decluttering your home and raising happy kids
came along by a Christian author with a huge cooking blog platform, they won't say no.
I will also email you when I have a new
book coming out or one
of my
books goes on
sale.
Receiving a pile
of downloads during the free days used to help boost a
book's
sales ranking and visibility when it
came off
of the free days, though Amazon has nerfed that particular «feature» this year so that it's less effective (though not totally ineffective).
I feel the «key takeaway» from this article is the importance
of email marketing when it
comes to driving Kindle
book sales.
These
book promotion services aren't necessarily to get that first push
of sales but to keep generating
sales after your personal network has
come through.
His comments
came after the retailer said
sales of physical
books has increased by 5 per cent during December, compared with the same month in 2013.
When thinking about launching your
book, it's common to solely focus on the Launch phase as this is where the majority
of sales come from.
I recently interviewed an up - and -
coming steampunk author who raised over $ 90,000 to fund the production costs
of his
book (his original goal was $ 4,000, so, even after he produces and ships all those
books, he ought to have
come out
of the deal with a year's salary in addition to whatever he makes on
sales once the
book goes live).
A note
of caution: if your
book style does not fit industry standards for your particular genre or looks too different from its immediate competition, you may be putting yourself at a disadvantage when it
comes to
book sales.
(Also, the more speaking you do at libraries, the better your bookstore
sales will be, because at least some
of the patrons who
come hear about your
book at your library talk will then go out and purchase the
book at their local bookstore.
After you sign your
book contract, your agent will offer support through every phase
of the publication process including editing, galley proofs, cover design, production, distribution,
sales, marketing, publicity, licensing, and dealing with any legal issues that might
come up.
But, there are a number
of pieces that must
come together to generate
book sales.
One
of his comments was that the majority
of his income for many
of his very well - written award - winning
books came from the awards themselves, and not from the
book sales.
There is no magic bullet when it
comes to marketing, but in the proper circumstances, as I described in my article, giving your
book away can attract new readers and increase
sales of your other
books.
That's a tall task, because it depends on how strong the publisher is at direct
sales to both consumers and bookstores, who else distributes the
book, and where the majority
of the
sales come from (i.e., independent
book stores, chains, supermarkets, specialty stores).