Sentences with phrase «other authors price»

Amanda Hocking and many other authors price the first ebook in a series substantially below the sequels, with prices of free to 99 cents common.

Not exact matches

Moreover, authors can also self - publish through Amazon and other outlets, also at whatever prices they desire.

THE STORYTELLER»S SECRET From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't Author: Carmine Gallo Review Issue Date: December 15, 2015 Online Publish Date: December 6, 2015 Publisher: St. Martin's Pages: 272 Price (Hardcover): $ 27.99...

As the study authors admit, other factors, such as the removal of «bonus items» including cookies, and an increase in meal price, may have come into play.

Other study authors are Assaf Gordon, of NYGC and the Whitehead Institute; Tal Shor, of MyHeritage and Technion; Omer Weissbrod of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science; Dan Geiger of Technion; Mary Wahl of Whitehead Institute, NYGC and Harvard; Michael Gershovits, Barak Markus and Mona Sheikh of Whitehead Institute; Melissa Gymrek of University of California at San Diego; and Gaurav Bhatia, Daniel MacArthur and Alkes Price of Harvard and the Broad Institute.

Higher health - sector prices (eg, hospital care and prescription drugs) are thought to be the main driver of expenditure differences between the USA and other high - spending countries, and the authors highlight the progress that the USA has made in reducing the disparity between its health care spending and other high - income countries.

Catherine Price is an author and science journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in The Best American Science Writing, the New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications.

Instead, what I witnessed was a thought - provoking character piece that fits in well with other works by author Richard Price (Shaft, Clockers) in seedy urban thrillers with a bent toward social commentary.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

The only pieces you must include when publishing on IngramSpark or other platforms are: cover image, trim size, price, description, author bio, keywords, and categories.

When everyone is pricing sub $ 4.00, price promotions will become less effective — If readers have an unlimited supply of high - quality books from their favorite authors at under $ 4.00, it means factors other than price will gain importance.

For one thing as a first time author the price is reasonably low, on the other hand the book - at least the kindle version is only now slowly getting noticed.

He periodically posts about some of the other self - published authors who are following the same path, pricing reasonably and moving thousands of units per month.

While the price is a few dollars less, the small press section is usually just to the south of Outer Mongolia so nobody ever makes it there, other than other authors.

Promotional pricing (sales), even going free briefly, has less influence on total earnings than I'd have expected, though a few authors have reported that putting one book free has increased sales of their other books, especially if it's a series.

Because the author never deals directly with the POD company or knows where the books are being printed, they remain unaware of the difference between the actual fees charged by the POD company and what the self - publishing company says is the printing charge, distribution fee, and the author royalty.As with any other product, the greater the number of middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer, the greater the price paid by the consumer.

Self - publishing has not only democratized publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for authors to publish at low or no cost, own all the rights, control the pricing and timetable for publishing, and get their books listed for sale and distribution on major outlets and platforms — e.g. Amazon, kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google and more.

With more than 1 million titles, including all the latest books from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader bookstore offers the same books as any other online retailer and with comparable pricing.

While choosing between the two custom cover concepts we present to authors is the most popular use of this Market Research Option, other uses include title selection and pricing scenarios.

Mostly we just use that to enforce the various stores» particular quality control rules or pricing quirks, but there's one thing we do that's a lot more exciting for our authors even if they don't notice it: During the delivery process, we create store - specific links to your other books.

Promoting one book on an author mailing list can lead to sales of your other, full - priced books.

Smashwords also has some perks that make me wish the outfit had made more inroads into the ebook market on its own merits (as a seller and not just a distributor), such as the ability to issue coupons, to offer affiliates a greater percentage of the sales price, and the fact that authors receive a higher royalty rate there than at any of the other stores.

Other people will use the freebies section, much as they would use a library, to try new authors without risking an $ 5 or $ 8 price tag.

As an indie author, you can also make edits to your book cover, your price, and other important details based on reader feedback before you move to a final version, and this is not something traditional deals typically allow.

Self - published authors can only compete if they are able to price their books similarly to other books in their genre.

Some subsidy publishers allow the author to set the retail price; others will set the price based on a standard scale.

The sweet spot It seems to me, as pointed out by Catherine Ryan Howard and others, that the sweet price for a novel published as an ebook is currently $ 2.99; sweet as in a decent return for the author, a cheap offer for the customer and not demeaning to the work.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

Amazon is also notorious for undercutting — it will lower the price on a book without consulting the author / publisher and undercut other businesses (this is particularly challenging for self - published authors).

Notwithstanding the language in the contracts, Ellora's Cave has stated that it believes it is entitled to calculate and pay (and has in fact calculated and paid) royalties to Josephson — and, upon information and belief, other similarly situated authors — based not on cover price, but on the actual sales price of the works.

The special editions, which will include author interviews and other material, such as reading guides, will carry a list price slightly higher than the hardcover edition.

Releasing both hardback and paperback at the same time or near each other probably makes sense, as do much lower eBook prices, especially for debut authors.

Ebooks sold through Gardners will earn authors 60 percent of the list price after VAT — the same rate Smashwords authors earn on books sold at iBooks and other major retailers.

These authors, and many others, have learned that low prices attract readers which beget even more readers.

So you need to buy your own stock at print price direct / wholesale price Other self - publishing companies see this as an opportunity to mark up printing prices (by an average 50 to 150 percent) and make more money from authors than actual sales.

ONIX — Online Information Exchange The information feed through which all book metadata (author, publisher, price, pub date, description, etc.) passes from a publisher / creator into the information centers of third - party retailers and other relevant data aggregators.

1) Indie authors take note: Amazon is, among other things, a machine designed to optimize product prices in order to gain share and sales.

With eBooks prices foreseeable coming down, as smaller publishing houses can sell books cheaper than any other store, authors, and smaller publishing companies can get wider exposure which is a boon to everyone from the reader, to the author.

The other variable, though, is the difference between the author's list price for the print book and the price of the ebook.

But Random and its imprints and authors have benefited hugely from the price flexibility that Amazon and other retailers have been allowed, especially since the publisher and the authors get paid based on full list price even if a title is discounted below wholesale cost in the Kindle Store and elsewhere.

Amazon has chosen to attempt to intimidate publisher, authors and readers alike by significantly reducing purchase price discounts of my books and those written by other Hachette authors,» noting that the «similar items» suggestions appeared on his books.

Also on Facebook, author Jeffrey Deaver wrote that «Amazon has chosen to attempt to intimidate publisher, authors and readers alike by significantly reducing purchase price discounts of my books and those written by other Hachette authors,» noting that the «similar items» suggestions appeared on his books.

I know other authors have experimented a bit more... Right after I made the decision to change the price, I read John's post about experimenting with his prices.

In fact, we've had authors order OTHER authors» books at wholesale prices when they knew they were going to be attending a major book event, because anytime you buy low and sell high you have a profit - generating opportunity.

Many authors get bogged down in things like distribution, price point, social media platform, and a host of other things.

2) BARNES & NOBLE (claims to have 27 % of the ebook market, must create account on «Pubit», only U.S. authors for now, market very limited, free to publish, royalties 65/30, can change price at any time, can publish to other platforms)

Established authors who have several titles sometimes rotate one title at a time through KDP Select because they can get a significant number of new readers from the program who then go on to buy their other titles at regular price.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

If the reader has enjoyed and benefited from the book, they may be interested enough to look up the authors» other, more high - priced offerings, such as online classes or consulting.

While you may believe that the content in your book justifies a higher price, remember that you are competing with thousands of other authors who may be just as qualified as you are.