As an indie publisher, you have to explore other opportunities to make your ebook
publishing efforts more profitable on the long term — you can't simply rely on one big distributor.
As an indie publisher you have to explore other opportunities as well, how to make your ebook
publishing efforts more profitable on the long term.
Not exact matches
It takes much
more than just coming up with a good domain name and
publishing some content pages; it takes an ongoing
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It takes much
more than just coming up with a good domain name and
publishing some content pages; it takes an ongoing
effort to drive traffic towards your site.
If your book was already
published or self -
published more than 120 days ago, it is not too late to get it selling, it just will take
more effort.
The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept
published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian
efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to
more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.
As part of Facebook's cleanup
effort, Zuckerberg
publishes a Washington Post op - ed allowing that the company's privacy options «just missed the mark» but also underlining that the company's goal is to make the world
more open.
One of the project's
more recent
efforts has been to rescue from general oblivion the never -
published third volume of Bentham's Not Paul, but Jesus.
This post was originally
published in 2015, but I've made 10 batches of these dairy - free snickerdoodles this fall in an
effort to make the recipe even
more foolproof and delicious.
Even
more revealing: An experiment
published in the Journal of Social Science and Clinical Psychology found that students who were faring poorly in college did even worse following
efforts to boost their self - esteem.
«That's why we think it's right to
publish this candid assessment which gives praise where it's due and calls for
more effort where it's needed.»
These findings, which are
published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), indicate that
efforts to carefully evaluate risk factors prior to surgery need
more attention, particularly for older minority patients.
Now, an international research team under the leadership of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has
published a roadmap for
more targeted conservation
efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online, the findings suggest
more efforts are needed to educate clinicians about the appropriate use of antivirals and antibiotics in the outpatient setting.
Nosek has been at the forefront of
efforts to clean up his field — he and
more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies
published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.
In a
more softly worded statement, Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS, which
publishes ScienceInsider, said: «The continued retrenchment of the U.S. administration from active participation in international diplomacy
efforts and dialogue is deeply concerning to the scientific community.»
Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in
more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study
published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an
effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just -
published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are
more associated with the disease than other genes.
Indiana is at the forefront of providing mental health screening and services to juvenile offenders, but
more efforts are needed to improve the services provided to detained youths, according to Indiana University School of Medicine research findings
published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
In a report on their HIV epidemic - economic model,
published online in October by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers say that
efforts to encourage people with HIV to follow up regularly with their provider and maintain long - term drug therapy may be
more fruitful in preventing HIV transmission than
efforts to increase HIV testing alone.
Based on the results
published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically
more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield», that coordinates a concerted
effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.
Published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study describes an international, grassroots
effort to collect and analyze data from
more than 400 geographic coordinates across the tropics, a region that comprises 40 percent of the Earth's surface.
Chinese researchers contributed just 1 % of data to the global Human Genome Project, but Qin hopes China can play a
more significant role in the ongoing Human Proteome Project, a global
effort that
published a draft map of the human proteome online in Nature on 28 May.
Based on the results
published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically
more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield» (www.leishield.org), that coordinates a concerted
effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.
Publishing your recipe shouldn't take
more effort than creating your delectable masterpiece.
The study,
published online March 16 in the journal Addiction, highlights the need to direct
more veterans» suicide prevention
efforts to those with drug or alcohol problems.
In another study,
published in July, researchers looked at 245 women in a six - month weight loss program and found that those who slept
more than seven hours a night, and those who reported better quality sleep, were 33 percent
more likely to succeed in their weight - loss
efforts.
Joshua Padilla is an online marketer, focusing his
efforts on creating
more commercial friendly websites, whether for commerce,
publishing or education.
The New York Times has it too, and they
publish first, prompting Nixon to obtain a federal court injunction in a preemptive
effort to protect his own secrets — secrets that were far
more important to him than the First Amendment.
Thanks in part to these grassroots
efforts, Room to Read can boast some astonishing results: During its seven - year existence, the organization has opened nearly 5,000 school libraries and about 400 schools, donated
more than 1.4 million English - language books,
published 146 local - language titles, and touched the lives of roughly 1.5 million students in developing countries.
A review
published in January 2003 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of
more than 100 books, articles, and briefs on turnaround
efforts concluded, «There is, at present, no strong evidence that any particular intervention type works most of the time or in most places.»
Studies
published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other
efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching
efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even
more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.
At a time when schools are relying
more and
more on digital resources, the announcement this month that Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease
publishing the print edition of its 32 - volume set and focus
efforts on its digital offerings was unlikely to cause much angst among students and teachers.
The Trillium imprint
publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest in an
effort to help the citizens of the state learn
more about the unique history, the diverse culture, and the natural environment of the state of Ohio.
Traditional
publishing houses are sweating, and authors who went through the grueling process of courting them, and waiting (and waiting and waiting) are now feeling the sting, as people who do it themselves are surpassing them by making
more money for their
efforts.
Their
efforts have brought on the big 5
publishing companies... [Read
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That feeling of satisfaction is what drives a lot of authors, especially self -
published authors, many of whom are in it for the creative
effort more than the likelihood of fame and fortune.
«At a time when individual
publishing houses are
more actively engaged than ever in exploring viable solutions to e-lending, we are disappointed that the new leadership at ALA chose this path, with this particular timing, to criticize those
efforts.»
They've gone through the traditional
publishing route, and now they want to see if they can take control of their literary
efforts and make
more money.
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publishing effort she co-founded as a Kickstarter project (now
more than fully funded) called Plympton, that is partnering with the Kindle Serials program to serialize fiction for digital readers (not -LSB-...]
there's a part of me that's really glad I'll be entering
publishing in this time of change, where the author appears to have
more choice and
more control if he / she is willing to take the bull by the horns and invest the time and
effort into learning the ropes.
Now, as we look at Wendig's willingness to challenge the «culture» of self -
publishing — and at Howey's
efforts to widen that culture as a field welcoming even to the hesitant — we may not hear agreement all the time, but we get, surely, a
more worthy debate.
It was
more of a collaborative
effort than anything, and I felt they were true partners in my book, which is a good thing when you are
publishing something creative.
How to Secure a Traditional Book Deal by Self -
Publishing (Jane Friedman at Writer Unboxed): «It's not any easier to interest an agent or publisher when you're self -
published, and since new authors are
more likely to put out a low - quality
effort (they rush, they don't sufficiently invest, they don't know their audience), chances are even lower their book will get picked up.»
This year's campaign was supported by Indigo Books & Music, the largest book retailer in Canada, as part of its
efforts to draw attention to the need for
more environmental paper in book
publishing.
So, in the dark recesses of my mind, all I can hope is that our authors find some kernels of marketing insights from this blog and can apply concepts I introduce here to their writing,
publishing, and marketing
efforts in the name of making them
more successful.
Although the self -
publishing alternative becomes
more valid and tempting every day, many traditionally - minded authors still fail to consider author publishers as their peers, and often disregard all independent
publishing efforts as vanity
publishing.
During this month of historical awareness, hopefully
more concerted
efforts will be made to open the doors of self -
publishing to a far underserved group of readers.
Finally, if the industry would stop taking an Amazon - against - the - world stance to book
publishing and selling,
more cooperative
efforts could happen, which will benefit everyone from the publishers down to the average reader.
It will take some trial and error before you sell
more books in response to your
efforts, but it will be worth it, because remember, reader engagement is the key to longevity for your
publishing career.