Sentences with phrase «readers keep buying»

My question is if they self - publishers do not bring anything worthwhile in the industry, how come readers keep buying these books?

As an author, I will write as many books as I please and keep striving to improve my craft so my readers keep buying my work.

And that's OK: their revenue comes from readers, and they want to make sure readers keep buying books, which means giving them books they won't be disappointed with.

Not exact matches

Then, if possible, add a glimmer of salvation, if only to keep readers» spirits up enough to buy your next book.

Keep in mind that a good company only makes a good long - term investment if it's purchased at a reasonable price, so readers should only buy when they consider valuations to be appropriate.

Keep in mind, I provide readers and subscribers with a more detailed playbook than just Buy / Hold / Sell picks.

Bodybuilders» exploits were very often exaggerated to make them seem «super human» to the keep the readers idolizing them and buying the magazines.

Our ardent reader, Jayesh Bhagchandani recently bought an Amaze i - DTEC diesel that has kept him happy over the past months.

But I would assume that an author would want a novel written and uploaded in enticing increments to pique the interest of the reader & keep them buying.

Generally this is 2,000 word chapters of original short genre fiction with cliffhangers that hook the reader to keep reading and keep buying.

Being forced to use the Kindle or Kobo reader is like buying a book and then being told that the bookstore will keep it for you, but relax because you can come back any time you like to continue reading.

Even sites like Amazon where consumers go to buy and often spend a lot of time comparing products and reading reviews - it's important to keep in mind that most potential readers will move on if your text is too cumbersome.

A blog or a website offers a great way to keep your readers informed of what you are up to and maintain their interest in your work, so they are more likely to buy the next book you write.

Even when they keep saying that Amazon gives them the bulk of their readers (the ones who say this), they also say to keep their product out everywhere — for those few readers who buy at Kobo or whatever.

It will take a decade or longer, but I'm sure movie studios and, if they actually become popular, eBook publishers, will go through a period of attempting to «protect» media files (translation: keep you from reading what you buy for a Kindle on any other eBook reader).

With Pubslush, however, we keep the book live on our site and readers can still comment and we switch the support button to a buy button, and we drive traffic over to Amazon when they book is available for sale.

I bought an e-book from them last week, but it wouldn't transfer to my Sony Reader even though it was an ePub — I kept getting «This device is not authorized» error messages.

Cory Doctorow says ownership is key: I'm paraphrasing here, but Doctorow, who has been right about a lot of things, has some things to say about digital comics in a video shot at New York Comic Con, including his opinion that readers should be able to buy digital comics and keep them: «You know, you buy the comic, and... [Read more...]

The concept could solve the problem keeping me on an Android tablet and preventing me from buying any e-ink reader: a substantial Amazon Kindlebook collection along with (Canadian) incompatibility of Kindle with public library OverDrive / Zinio collections.

Your book will have been off the market for at least a few hours (possibly longer), so it's important to keep potential readers up to date about where and how to buy a copy!

When readers buy a book, they tend to keep it.

So, on the writing front, having about 97 % of the first time readers returning to buy the movie optioned novels and many coming back to purchase all 9 novels in the series, even crossing over to my YA fantasy series just to keep reading can be used as a measure of success.

Now while these numbers might horrify you, keep in mind that deciding to price your book to suit your market will actually help encourage a buy, rather than discourage it — sending your potential reader off to find a book more within their price range.

Sure, you can have a message in your fiction but the fiction had better be compelling and entertaining first and foremost or the reader isn't going to keep buying your product.

You could keep it on the higher end for the first couple of weeks, so that you get the highest rate from all your friends and family who will buy it regardless of the price, then drop it lower to incentivise new readers to give you a shot.

I don't deny Amazon yanking out the books was a pretty dickish move, and I plan to keep on buying physical copies of books since I understand authors are as caught in the crossfire here as readers.

ComiXology provides a digital solution to that impasse that keeps the retailer in the loop: It allows readers to sample comics for free and buy them for their iPhone or iPod Touch, but it also helps them find the print comic in a brick - and - mortar store.

This will be an excellent way you can have your readers stay on your Blog, Store, or Website and keep them there until they make a buying decision.

I believe that authors who offer books up to their readers for a free read, now & then, are just angels in diguise to those of us who can not stop reading but can not afford to keep buying books.

In fact, we would rather you keep the price of your book low so that readers will actually buy it while you still make a profit off each sale.

And you keep checking for that vital piece of validation, that mystical piece of Amazon's algorithm that gets your book in front of new readers» eyes, or better yet, recommended for other readers» based on the other books they've bought — REVIEWS.

Perhaps in countries where FB2 format is readily available and ereaders are hard to come by, some may find a use for it, but here in the US where there are so many options, the jetBook Mini hardly qualifies as an ebook reader and is way overpriced to boot, especially considering you'll have to frequently buy AAA batteries to keep it running.

Whilst on one level it makes sense that Smith would want to keep up with Jones (he says, trying to spin a combination «keeping up with the Joneses» / Alas Smith & Jones crack out of the shaky assumption that everyone will understand Amazon also goes by the name Jones, which it doesn't), e-readers on the whole aren't exactly the kind of thing that Smith's regular customers would likely go for, by its own admission: CEO Kate Swann describes the chain's base as «lighter book readers», with figures showing the average Smith customer buys just three books a year, with particularly strong showings from non-fiction and children's books.

Stross goes on to point out that DRM allows Amazon's hold over e-books and keeps customers stuck to the Kindle, which means readers who buy books for their Kindles likely won't read on other e-reading platforms and will be reluctant to purchase from Amazon's rivals that use incompatible DRM.

This is (after looking over the cover) the hook that will make your potential reader either buy this book, or keep browsing.

I keep reminding publishers that when readers want to buy an ebook and can't because of distribution resrtictions, they're as likely as not to run right over to Usenet or The Pirate Bay and download the damned thing for free.

Readers who have bought them previously will get to keep their copies, but any new eBooks you upload from now on will be available only in the United States.

As Californians increasingly rely on online services to browse, read, and buy books, it is essential that state law keep pace and safeguard readers in the digital age.

Keep your powder dry for that new release, when every reader you reach will have more books to buy.

Everything seems perfect — Amazon is locking up 50 % to 70 % of readers and for decades and decades they will all buy Kindle books from Amazon (along with everything else) and Amazon will keep cashing in on Kindle book revenue.

Designing schemes and developing strategies that attract book readers and bookstores to buy books and titles from them is important to keep the spark going on.

-LSB-...] construct a writing career that spans decades and provides a decent income, it seems a good idea to write a series that readers connect with and keep buying over the long -LSB-...]

This not only looks like fresh content to readers of my blog who have also bought my eBook, but it keeps me safe from the Kindle gremlins who want to make my eBook «free» because they found the same content on my blog for free, or block my eBook due to «plagiarism» since the content inside my eBook is also on my website, of which both situations are against Amazon's Terms of Service.

When a reader buys a self - published book, Amazon keeps 30 percent of the royalties and gives the rest to the authors — meaning the company makes money whether the book is plagiarized or not.

Publishers know the best way to keep these readers buying paper books is to keep e-books priced so high that they are not an attractive option, because that is the last piece of value that a publisher can provide a writer.

Bloomberg reported that publishers would keep 85 - 90 % of revenue when readers first buy subscriptions through the program, as opposed to the 70 % they earned through subscriptions via the Google Play Store.

In the months that followed, I discovered editing a tabloid was a little more complicated if you were to keep 500,000 readers buying each week.