Sentences with phrase «of the book titles compete»

So in other words, 78 % of the book titles compete for 20 % of total book sales.

Not exact matches

Even a niche that seems specialized — like soapmaking, the subject of a self - published book by Shepard's wife, Anne Watson — faces dozens of competing Kindle titles.

At the same time, sales of the first book in her «Cocker» series — which the author claims to have trademarked before issues takedown notices to competing authors who'd used the word «cocky» in their book titles — are still solidly in the 2000 + range, with Top 50 rankings for two categories and Top 200 rankings in a third.

Commitment to Marketing — Unfortunately, simply having your book available on Amazon is not enough to inspire sales when there are millions of titles competing for the attention of readers.

And let's face it — with all the books currently on the market, there are a lot of titles competing for your readers» attention.

To become more familiar with the potential categories for your book, research competing or comparable titles on Amazon; for each, scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the categories the title is listed under.

Face it: Your book is competing with millions of other titles — many by Big Name authors from major publishers — for the attention, consideration, and purchasing dollars of your target reader.

The list of 12 books competing for the title of best novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom contains a few surprises:

Well you're competing with millions of titles on Amazon and your book isn't ready (yet) so the immediacy isn't there.

One of the things a book cover needs to do is make your book look distinctive, make it stand out from the thousands of competing titles.

Certainly it's competing with the bright red Self - Publishing Confidential cover (which is an effective color AND an effective title); but my book has three things going for it that my «competitors» don't — and by competitors, I mean the other books listed in this particular search, all of which are vying equally for the customer's attention and dollars.

The pitfall to avoid: When studying competing titles, make sure you don't look at old titles or just titles by a favorite author; look at recent releases by a range of authors in your genre to determine how to publish a book that can compete in that particular genre.

The title of your book will be competing with not just single - word titles but all the titles containing that word.

Then comes the centerpiece of this section: for each competing title, explain how your book challenges it, updates it, or enhances its ideas.

When competing similar books sell well, their sales help to stimulate sales of other similar titles through customers - also - bought marketing tactics.

50,000 titles are the estimated number of books sold during their initial operation competing against the local Sony and Kobo stores that offer 65,000 titles in their catalogues.

Take a look at the titles and descriptions of the books you'll be competing against and see if any words or phrases keep popping up.

Evernote allows you to easily organize all types of contents and formats into logical notebooks, such as book projects, competing titles, author websites, etc..

With the rise of self - publishing, there are many more new books competing for the same audience — more than a million new titles are released each year!

One reason for lack of interest may be that your book is competing with 100s or even 1000s of other titles.

Because so much of the audiobook market uses subscription models (where listeners purchase flat - rate credits that can be applied to any book on offer), it can be hard for shorter books to compete against full - length titles at the same price through those distributors.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

With so many competing titles and promo options out there, what eBook marketing tips will help to get your book in front of the most readers?

Your book is competing with hundreds, even thousands of titles in your genre and reader niche, and sometimes, only the cover will stand between a sale and an unmotivated browser.

Borders competed with other companies who shared its model of having massive book superstores with thousands of titles.

Discover the shortlists for the three categories of the Waterstones children's book prize 2016 - illustrated books, younger fiction, older fiction - where six books compete within each category to be crowned category winner, with the three category winners then vying for the overall title of Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2book prize 2016 - illustrated books, younger fiction, older fiction - where six books compete within each category to be crowned category winner, with the three category winners then vying for the overall title of Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2Book of the Year 2016.

Barnes & Noble competes with other companies who share its model of having massive book superstores with thousands of titles.

Without the presence of A-lister titles like The Hunger Games this year, it seems the holiday season can still be perfectly entertaining when top - earning authors like Jeff Kinney, Suzanne Collins, and Rick Riordan are competing against one another on Amazon's Best Sellers in Children's Books.

The most important thing to remember about the sales of a particular title is that book sales in general are governed by two competing power laws, sales per title and purchases per buyer.

This newfound «accepted wisdom,» propagated by the press who love to chart the demise of the publisher whilst celebrating the rise of shiny tablets, pads, and e-readers, puts a downward pressure on book prices (especially ebooks «competing» with self published titles) and recklessly ignores the important role that publishers do play, not in the conventional distribution role, but in the creative process itself.

With thousands of self - published titles in the marketplace, not to mention competing with titles from traditional publishing, how do you make your book stand out?

The title of Michaels» book comes from a 1969 memo from a tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.

In a broker - initiated scenario, a prime location could more easily be snapped up by a competing retailer or restaurant, says Robert Buckner, author of a forthcoming book titled «The Science of Site Selection» and a vice president at MapInfo.