Not exact matches
That's because the
book publisher, for an unspecified price,
paid for the campaign's email list in order to blast out the
promotional note.
Underscoring their professionalism, the couple registered as an LLC with the state, printed
promotional cards with the
book's cover image, and
paid $ 800 to create a video
book trailer that they posted to YouTube.
And since every new
book needs reviews, and a Goodreads Giveaway is free, it
pays to make early and regular use of this important
promotional tool (btw, this is for print
books only, no eBooks allowed).
We sell advertisements for the site and for our e-newsletter, and we offer
paid promotional services like PW Select and
book fair marketing.
I'm also a
book blogger, offering honest reviews, free advice,
promotional book swag, and some
paid professional services through my blog.
Very little (or none) of your budget should go toward
paid advertising, other
promotional services or print runs of the
book.
For example, these companies will often promise that if you
pay for their expensive
promotional packages, they will make your
book a New York Times or Amazon best seller.
Except for the essential classics and occassional
promotional free ebooks, it is the
paid titles in the
book stores are the one that you are most likely to be at the top of the reading list.
Promotion of a
book produced by a vanity publisher An author should bear in mind that the typical contract between the vanity publisher and author does not spell out what percentage of the fee
paid by the author will be for
promotional purposes.
Author Tax Tip: If you are a self - published author who
paid an all - inclusive fee to publish and promote your
book, make sure you check to see if
promotional items are included in your package.
In exchange, you get various
promotional opportunities, plus you're enrolled in KOLL (the lending library), so you get
paid each time someone borrows your
book.
Break that down, and that means that the mean payment per
book — in this special
promotional period where they're
paying more — is $ 3 per month.
I then ordered another 20
books for the
promotional event at my old high school, only to be told after I had
paid for them plus postage, that I would only be receiving half the amount I'd ordered as the price had gone up.
The worst thing is that, as with the Kindle Owners» Lending Library (which also requires participation in the KDP Select programme), there is not a flat fee
paid to the author for each
book read, but instead there's a pot of money chosen by Amazon (at the moment $ 2million, as a
promotional thing — normally closer to $ 1million, but offered at their discretion; they could make it ten cents if they wanted) which is split between all the authors according to the proportions in which their
books are borrowed.
Also, there are
paid promotional opportunities to pitch your
book, in email lists and ads that are targeted.
This last week I did something I have meant to do for a while, but haven't had the time to contemplate doing: I
paid for advertising, and coordinated a big
promotional push for one of my
books.
Since most of those sales resulted from
paid promotions I ran, I likely lost more «sales» than I would have made had I been in the KDP Select program, since any KU members that were on the
promotional email lists would have been more likely to download my
books (since they could do so for free), even though the
books were already discounted to $ 0.99.
I have New York Times bestselling author friends with major publishers who have to
pay for their own
book tours, their own way to writing conferences, their
promotional material, even additional editing.
**** THIS HOSTEL IS FEMALE ONLY - MALE
BOOKINGS WILL NOT BE HONOURED AND DEPOSIT WILL NOT REFUNDED ****
PROMOTIONAL OFFER:
Book minimum 5 weeks and
pay # 27.60 per night instead of # 48.87
Book minimum 1 - 4 weeks and
pay # 40.42 per night instead of # 48.87
If you are using a
pay - to - print or vanity press service, your ISBN may not be registered in your name or region and your
book (s) may not be eligible for SaskBooks»
promotional services.