Sentences with phrase «print author copies»

As I continued my research, I began to see patterns of real abuse — companies that insisted on setting the retail price for an author's book low while charging 50 percent or more of the list price to print author copies.

Even without the NaNo coupon, author copies don't cost much (CreateSpace prints author copies at a lower price).

Not exact matches

Jack is the author and co-author of more than 150 books (66 are bestsellers) with more than 100 million copies in print in 47 languages around the world.

He is author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing, has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into nine languages, and peaked at # 17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list.

For those of you who haven't heard of her, Rose is an accomplished UK - based cookbook author who focuses on vegetarian recipes - three million copies of her books in print.

Dr. Sears is noted by TIME as «The Man Who Remade Motherhood» and author of many parenting books, including The Baby Book: «First published in 1992, The Baby Bookis now in print in 18 languages, with more than 1.5 million copies sold.»

The chapters presented here are © their respective authors and are licensed under the Open Publication License, meaning that you are free to copy and redistribute them in any electronic or non-commercial print form.

You are welcome to print copies for personal use, or a limited number for educational purposes, as long as credit is given to AdLit.org and the author (s).

I could see where if you have a radically different product (print books) than the pirated ebook, familiarity with the author's work which was a function of reading a pirated copy could boost paper sales.

(Authors can also publish print copies through Amazon's CreateSpace program.)

Authors purchase publishing â $ œpackagesâ $ with varying levels of service options including (but not limited to) editing, cover design, and a certain number of print copies of their work.

Many aspiring authors choose self - publishing as a way to see their work in print â $ «to give copies as gifts, to have a bound copy to help in finding an agent, or simply as a keepsake.

That put a heavy financial burden on the independent writer not published by a traditional publishing company, because with offset printing an indie author would have to pay to print thousands of copies of their book that weren't guaranteed to sell.

Now, if print publishers would just match the royalties that authors get from electronic copies — 70 per cent vs. 8 per cent — I bet you'd see the decline of e-books faster than a speeding bullet.

Where to buy INCEPTIO (print, ebook, audiobook): http://alison-morton.com/inceptio/where-to-buy-inceptio/ If you'd like to buy a print copy signed by the author click here.

Print on demand is perfect for most indie authors because it's hard to judge how well your book will sell, and ordering copies before they're sold can be a massive expense.

If I ever lose my ereader, I still have the backup print copies of books by my most admired authors (the people I buy in both formats)

Being a published author is easier than ever thanks to the Amazon's Kindle, you no longer need large piles of cash to print copies, and anything uploaded online is instantly accessible to anyone in the world.

It also includes complete creative development, including editing and design, softcover, hardcover and ebook, 60 % author royalties, all ISBNs, 20 copies of your book, high - quality printed books by LSI, a marketing program, as well as coaching and training of the author in a collaborative manner.

She is the author of 75 + novels and novellas with over five million copies in print.

Katherine Pancol is one of France's best - known contemporary authors, with millions of copies of her books in print in thirty languages.

Swedish journalist and author David Lagercrantz continues the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy with this authorized sequel, and according to the publisher, 100,000 copies sold on day one, and it has already gone back for a second and third printing.

Because of the greatly reduced financial risk and investment, POD is by far the preferable way for most independent authors to produce, distribute, and sell print copies of their books.

You may also want to include a casual author bio, book summary, contact information, and an offer for a free review copy in either print or e-book form.

After working with fellow indie authors in NIWA for a few years now, I've decided that it's stupid that I don't have print copies of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple other places that carry books published via CreateSpace / KDP).

But, ever thinking of the company's welfare, the rep quickly offered to print a few hundred copies of the book for the author.

The group's application of new technologies and publishing on demand reduced the cost of publishing a book to a fraction of what it had been for previous generations; authors now have the ability to publish a book in as little as six weeks and print as few as a single copy.

Because of the greatly reduced financial risk and investment, print - on - demand is by far the No. 1 way for self - publishing authors to produce, distribute, and sell print copies of their books.

It is, however, very annoying to hear everyone lamenting the treatment of Hatchette authors, when B&N, Target, and most indie bookstores refuse «on principle» to stock print copies of books published by any Amazon Publishing imprint.

If you become a verified Goodreads author, you can create a giveaway for a print copy (or more) of your book, which will reach potential readers.

A self - published author could get printed copies, make an ebook, market online, sell books by hand, everything.

Casey Demchak's (@caseydemchak) guest post on The Book Designer, 7 Secrets to Writing Persuasive Back Cover Sales Copy, might seem to apply only to print authors — ebooks don't have back covers, after all — but it doesn't.

The Ingram Spark system is like that, convoluted and rather a pain to navigate, but they do a very nice print product so we continue to use them for hard copy, but now upload our own e-books to Amazon and B&N as those are the only two that deliver sales for my author's books.

To celebrate the publication of «Plaint for Provence» - Book 3 in The Troubadours Quartet author Jean Gill has asked MysteryReads to select 7 winners for a print copy of the first edition of «Song at Dawn», Book 1 in the prize - winning Troubadours Quartet.

I don't think the desire for a print copy is as universal among new authors these days as it used to be, but it's interesting.

Other self - published phenoms have eventually sold their books to traditonal publishers, but authors like Amanda Hocking, the first self - published million - copy Kindle seller, sold both print and digital (in her case, to St. Martin's Press).

An author may be asked to subsidize or pay the full cost of his or her print Authors who do so should own the physical copies outright, having paid the manufacturing fees, and should not be required to pay a «percent - off list price» amount arbitrated by the publisher when they need to order copies.

Many authors actually compose each installment on a cell phone, and «publish» it without ever printing a copy.

It makes it so that authors only pay to print copies that have already been purchased, eliminating the need for a full garage or rented warehouse space of unsold inventory.

At the same time the author / publisher is promoting and selling these printed copies, the printing file is loaded into the Thor (POD) system.

As an indie author, it's significantly cheaper to pay for copy - editing of a shorter novel, and the production costs of printing the final books are also more affordable.

Imagine that she'll have a print run of 8,000 copies (based on a number of authors I've talked to, this is about right — if you're getting more books printed than 8,000, and your advance is $ 3500, you're being seriously low - balled on the advance figure), and she'll sell 6,000 of those in the first year at 8 % of the cover price of $ 7.99, giving her $ 3835.20 in print earnings.

On Monday, June 27, the company announced that authors participating in the program who have sold 1,000 copies of a single e-book in the past year will be eligible to sell their print books on the local, regional, or national level through Barnes & Noble.

If I expect to use a publisher that will print about 5000 copies of my book and at the rate of $ 1 per book for the author, you are saying I should expect to break even, right?

With that type of competition, and promotion left to authors, it's no wonder the average print book today only sells about 250 copies per year.

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Recently, young adult paranormal author Amanda Hocking made headlines throughout the publishing industry after her nine digitally and self - published YA titles sold over one million copies, which resulted in a four - book print deal with St. Martin's Press.

While outlets like CreateSpace function to list a professional - grade print copy on Amazon's retail website, others like the addition of print services from Nook Press simply make print - on - demand copies available for the author to purchase.

While Big Five print titles, for example, may sell more than the average indie author's work, a self - published author has to sell far fewer copies than a traditionally published author to earn the same amount of income.

The author (in most categories) must be an American citizen, the book must be available for sale in print, it must have first been published that year, and the person submitting the book has to send four copies of the book and a... [Read more...]