Sentences with phrase «print book sales did»

Absent ebooks, total print book sales did shrink about 8 %.

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The labels don't matter, Christian, Muslim, Buddist... at least they have beliefs and stick with them rather than using God to pump up book sales (or maybe she just likes to see her name in print) Here's a thought.

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.

As a side note, this book is MOST LIKELY to fit his data calculations, because it's been out for a long time; it's self - published and has been out long enough that there are essentially zero print sales; I haven't been trying to promote it much, mostly because I don't control the first two books in the series, and so there are very few big jumps; and I had a new release about two months ago, so the book in January is at about the «average» rank in its release - to - release lifecycle.

The definition right from their website is, «is a self - service, do - it - yourself online tool that allows you to upload your ready - for - printing PDF book files and make your trade paperback book (s) available for sale online.»

You can now track your Kindle book sales on Amazon.de by going to the book tracking page on NovelRank and adding your URL, just like you did for the print editions.

eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 % of all books sold, which means the majority of the market is in printed books.

I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their sales of ebooks rise while pricing them at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.

How do the sales for your print books compare to the ebooks?

This past weekend, the Wall Street Journal, ran an article titled, Don't Burn Your Books — Print Is Here to Stay, with the subtitle, The e-book had its moment, but sales are slowing.

For those parents, if you don't sell print books, you won't make a sale at all.

Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available for sale.

If publishers are «terrified» of e-books it's mainly because a) they don't understand the technology, b) they don't believe that people actually want to read books on electronic devices, and c) the high - level manager in charge of print sales wants to protect his turf.

Sales figures from the end of last year show that while they don't dominate the marketplace as they once did, print books are showing a good amount of resiliency during the precipitous rise of eBooks... Continue Reading →

You acknowledge that we have no obligation to market, distribute, or offer for sale any Printed Books & Digital Books, or to continuing marketing, distributing or selling a Printed Books & Digital Books after we have commenced doing so.

I've got a thousand or more copies of that book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another print run — and I need to decide if sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more books, or if I need to go to a small digital print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount as per our contract).

«Royalties» — we don't call them that, because we let you set your OWN profit margin — the only money we receive from sales of your book is the printing cost (and some handling & freight fees).

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.

When Amazon orders a new print book of Patterson for example... don't you think they base the order on the previous sale?

And the increase in e-book sales did not take a bite out of print books — at least, not in the aggregate.

Also, enhancing the digital experience like the new Jeff Buick novel One Child is doing is a great way to leverage digital sales as well as create buzz for the printed book.

By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of book shops through low sales, over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.

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We want to publish our books for our fans and not deal with this at all, but in order to do that we have to make money from the sales of our books to pay for the licensing, the printing, and not to mention to provide financial support to the many employees and freelancers who work so hard to bring these books to you.

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Why do you think print books are still the overwhelming majority of sales?

It's obvious to me that you don't understand the fundamental business model of the Big Five publishers which rests entirely on the sale of print books.

This practice has become so bad that often a book will be deemed out of print within a month of the release date because it didn't have the orders the sales force was expecting.

Some of this is sunk cost, some is ongoing, but unless you believe (as I do) that for now the best way to sell ebooks is to give them away in order to increase print - book sales, then there's no good reason to charge these costs to the ebook's balance sheet.

Sometimes they'll plan a small print release on a title they expect to do well, and other times they'll do a print run after a book hits so many sales in electronic format.

This weekend I was using my new Kindle Fire HD to do some web surfing and I made a surprising (and welcome) discovery: my print book is for sale on Barnes & Noble.

Spent over ten years using cheap and free e-books as marketing for print books, but they still wanted to get into Amazon, and were willing to make major changes to their e-book sales program to do it.

First, sales of the print editions have increased in the time that the eBooks have been available through Pottermore, most likely asserting that digital does not actually mean the death of print books.

The story, which was based on sales figures from the Association of American Publishers, implied that much of the hype around e-books had evaporated — with sales falling by 10 % in the first half of this year — while good old printed books were doing better than everyone expected.

«First, these figures don't look at sales of print books, which will still be a major part of the earnings from a Big five publisher.

For my more mainstream books, with a larger readership, I'll probably make print books because it doesn't take me much time and effort and it might work to boost sales.

The drawback to this method — for print sales — is that few retailers like ordering from Amazon (it's their competition and the terms are unfavorable), and you earn far less profit on print book sales when they do happen outside of Amazon, at least when compared to IngramSpark.

Amazon, which does not divulge exact sales figures for the Kindle or e-books, said that for every 100 print books it has sold since April 1, it has sold 105 e-books.

Amazon said the figures included sales of printed books, which did not have Kindle editions, but excluded free ebooks.

While there is no doubt that ISBN numbers serve a distinct purpose, such as making a print book trackable in terms of sales data, many self - published and hybrid authors have discovered that their needs don't coincide with an ISBN number.

Occasionally your publisher may make a deal with a particular book chain to do a special printing of one or more of your books as an «introductory offer», or other specially priced deal to increase your sales.

I do know that the first printing sold out within a month, and a few indie shops that carry my book tell me sales are steady.

It's understandable that publishers don't want to cannibalize their print sales, but as far as I'm concerned, smart pricing gets books into more readers» hands.

However, the success of Kindle Books should be taken in context, because this announcement relates only to sales through Amazon.co.uk and doesn't take into account print books that may have been purchased elsewBooks should be taken in context, because this announcement relates only to sales through Amazon.co.uk and doesn't take into account print books that may have been purchased elsewbooks that may have been purchased elsewhere.

One very interesting aspect of this book in particular is that Amanda wrote it not much more than a month ago, final edits were done in late September, and it is now up for sale at Amazon with print to follow in a few short weeks.

Demand: If you're a niche genre writer, then self - publishing is already a great choice for you — but you can delve even deeper into the marketability of your book's genre by doing a little research into the sales breakdown of e-books vs. print books of works that are similar to your own.

Does this mean that a printed back cover without these glowing recommendations will hurt book sales?

But do print reviews really drive book sales these days?

and helping out the authors, greed kills sales, making millions holding funds then charging per sale is the height of theft (iBook) We need a book selling site for Indie Authors who did spend time and money on print, those who believe their book at > 99cents will make millions will of course have no trouble printing on receipt of those millions and then join the site.