That will turn
potential readers away far more often than it will convince them to click on that image.
Don't scare
your potential readers away by trying to fit too much in such a small space.
Don't scare
your potential readers away!
The purpose of book cover design is to draw the attention of
your potential readers away from all those other tomes and novellas and sell them on the idea that your page - turner is the next book they need on their nightstand.
Not exact matches
Understand that
potential clients and
readers will run
away from desperation.
They have to tease
potential readers with enough information to persuade them to click, but not say enough to give the game
away too soon.
Because good reviews (and even bad reviews) can help
potential readers decide they want to purchase your book, giving the book
away to
readers who are likely to post an online review is the easiest way to accomplish this.
Don't let
potential readers (and sales) get
away from you by not offering multiple formats of your book.
Nothing will turn
away potential readers more quickly than work that looks like your blind, five - year - old niece did it.
Commit to giving
away your book to as many
potential readers as possible.
In some cases, self published authors, with a lot of books under their belt, will permanently give
away their first book for free, in the hopes of snagging
potential readers.
They don't care about losing
readers who disagree with them, figuring a strong position might attract just as many
potential readers as it might turn
away.
But you can't give it
away to
potential readers or clients as effectively.
Or giving
away too much info to
potential readers?
When you give
away a couple books, many people will start talking about it and you may end up with some good reviews and hence other
readers may become interested and become
potential buyers.
With the help of social media and millions of
potential readers being only a click
away, getting published and recognized on your own is easier than ever.
The role of design is to help translate the heart, tone, and essence of the writing into a visual metaphor that hooks a
potential reader and gets them to come closer, to read the cover copy, to learn more about the author, to take the book seriously, to get excited about what's inside, to preview the first few pages, and then let the words of the book take them
away.
So not only are front matter blurbs redundant —
potential readers already have access to them before they download a sample or «read inside» — but they they may hurt sales because they delay the
reader's entry into the text, and because they take
away from the amount of the actual book the
reader can peruse before buying.
In the past I have made brochures for
potential readers with all my books on them, but I tried to make those more aesthetically appealing in a tri-fold that hopefully wouldn't get thrown
away.
The
Reader Pocket has, I think, a much higher
potential to steal
away Kindle customers.
Obviously the only limit to what you can produce and give
away to
potential readers will be your own budget.
Now, with tablets and color eReaders, clickable ads can be a reality in electronic books — and a major
potential source of income resulting in cheaper eBooks for you, the
reader, and larger advances and royalties for your pal, the writer, so she can keep typing
away.
Millions of
potential readers are just a couple clicks
away from every book.
Even now, nearly a month after the app's launch, no new series have appeared, and it's not difficult to imagine the bulk of Kodansha's
potential readers wandering
away with nothing to read.
some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving
away potential readers and profiting from the content.
From the outset of this initiative, Jack did not want to intrude on the sale of newspapers by vendors at major intersections, so he chose street corners that were far enough
away from these locations but still had
potential to catch the eye of
potential readers.