Sentences with phrase «rely on good book»

If you don't have $ 100,000 - $ 250,000 lying around to buy your Bestselling Author status, you're going to have to rely on good book marketing strategies to boost your sales and get you on the list of top sellers.

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Families traveling with children, who have come to rely on movie and game - filled tablets for entertainment, should make sure to pack «some good old - fashioned unplugged entertainment, such as books, puzzle books, and coloring pads,» said Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, family travel expert at About.com.

«One of the things that the china beige book plans to do is to give people a real picture of not just the growth dynamics, but also the labor market, the credit dynamics, the macro implications of Chinese growth, indications of future Chinese demand, implications of commodity markets around the world, we try to give the people a much better picture on what's actually happening instead of just relying on official data and press release».

John Oh, I can imagine a better being than Christian God: one that wouldn't rely on a flawed ancient book riddled with scientific inaccuracies and contradictions to «reveal» himself.

Well, your first problem is relying on a book of 2000 year old nonsense to tell you how to live.

Well devin, at least I don't rely on a book written 2000 years ago for my truth.

Readers may well be impressed by Brown's claim that he relied on 39 books.

With my first book, I mostly relied on family and friends with varying degrees of cooking experience to take the recipes for a test run, but this time I'd like to open it up to you as well, if you're interested.

Those who rely on film adaptations of classic books to pretend they perused the page have better shots at getting away with it if they're fibbing about titles like «Lord of the Rings,» «Pride and Prejudice,» and «Jane Eyre,» which each received high - profile movie adaptations within the last 15 years.

Gunn relies on serious, wordy dialogue to explain the war between two alien races, the Kree and the Skrulls (a staple of the Marvel comic book universe), as well as the plot mechanics behind the sphere.

Selecting science books for your classroom involves asking the right questions and relying on some good authors This month our attention turns to...

When children read these books without being taught good decoding skills they are forced to rely on their memories, picture cues, repetitive text, wild guesses and other poor reading behaviors to gain fluency.

Under the leadership of Ken Michaels, President and COO of Hachette and Chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the company is focused on better providing value to authors by investing in services, capabilities, and agility, rather than relying strictly on volume and size.

Story2Go, first interviewed by Good e-Reader at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, launched at the time with an inexpensive iOS app that allowed authors and creators to essentially build their ebooks with simple drag - and - drop and uploading features, then rely on the bigger guns to actually distribute the book to a variety of app stoBook Fair in 2013, launched at the time with an inexpensive iOS app that allowed authors and creators to essentially build their ebooks with simple drag - and - drop and uploading features, then rely on the bigger guns to actually distribute the book to a variety of app stobook to a variety of app stores.

This might be a good time to rely on a writers» group or promotion support group — writers can band together to add each others» books to relevant lists (as long as you do it considerately, without spamming!)

I've also been realizing that since nowadays publishers really rely on authors to promote themselves / their books, I might as well publish my book myself and take a higher percentage of the profits since either way I will be doing the promotion myself.

Selling books is a complex game because there are third - party retailers involved, but the best marketers do not rely on those retailers to do the marketing and visual product displays for them.

But, I can't rely on the bag of tricks they share as «writer's gold» in their blogs, memoirs and books on writing best sellers.

The first and third book are much better than the second one, although I hope this volume is the end of problems for Ben Holiday that rely on villains that were introduced in the first few chapters of the first book.

Running a successful promotional campaign for selling your books relies on creating a system that attracts well - qualified leads and guides them directly into your marketing funnel.

I've never had more than a couple hundreds books on a device so I can't speak for how well it handles 36 GB worth of content, but I imagine it would be pretty difficult to find stuff without relying mostly on search, recent titles, and collections.

With regard to editors, it doesn't always follow that a professionally edited book is a good book; I've read a few that are bang average, though it's right that an author shouldn't rely on their own editing and proofreading skills.

Maximizing your book discovery and subsequent sales relies on a few best practices.

Amazon is building up a semiclosed ecosystem, which will work best if consumers rely on it for access to not just books, but music and movies as well.

Best selling authors rely on professional metadata optimization experts to promote their books.

If you've decided you're tired of relying on Amazon for your sole source of e-publishing income (or maybe you're not doing well at Amazon, and you're hoping the other stores might take off for you), then you may have looked at Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and wondered how the heck you can get your books noticed over there.

How to get people to spend more at the personal level rather than simply rely on library books, especially since even well - funded libraries can't afford to offer all suitable books?

That might mean good business for the book industry as eager reading consumers simply press Buy, but it signifies bad business for libraries who rely on patron checkouts to justify their role within their communities.

Honestly, Blackberry World is fairly woeful when it comes to comic book reading apps, so you will have to rely on our own Good e-Reader BB10 App Store to fill the void.

Most of the higher priced books spend a bundle on advertising to get better known and to increase sells, but I have a low / no budget for this and rely on word of mouth to keep the price and headaches of accounting down to a minimum.

They rely a lot on reviews to make the best books rise to the top, right.

We all want our books to do well, and many of us don't have preexisting connections to published authors or the publishing industry so we need to rely on each other.

We owe it to our readers to be truthful as they rely on our reviews to help them make book selections that they may enjoy reading as well.

We will be relying on the books themselves, as well as Amazon and Facebook advertising to drive traffic and sales.

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As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

It has better highlight and notation features, has more options for organizing collections of books, doesn't require using an external browser to search for and purchase books, syncs titles automatically to iTunes rather than relying on access to Amazon's servers, and it just has a more book - like feel to it.

InDesign is the best tool we have at present, but there's still a long way to go until some of the typographic niceties we rely on in print are actually available in a Kindle book without a lot of hand - coding.

That's not quite the same as the various best seller lists that rely on the handwavium that is Bookscan, the Neilsen rankings of books.

I hope each book will be better, so the audience will know I'm someone they can rely on.

A number of publishers, such as Osprey Publishing (parent of Angry Robot), F+W Media, and O'Reilly Media, make books available without DRM, but this does not translate to the library channel, which relies on DRM as the mechanism to control one of its quintessential functions — the loan — as well as to impose the one - book, one - user lending model.

In the good old days, before self - publishing was seen as a viable option, authors had to rely on big publishing houses to market their books and audiobooks as well as through word of mouth.

However, I try to provide a few brief comments of what I liked and disliked vs. relying solely on the «star» rating system without providing a spoiler and I appreciate reviews that do the same as most of the time it gives me a good gauge of the book.

With more and more people self publishing and setting their own prices for their books, however, Australians may get better prices that way, instead of relying on the big publishing houses to lobby for rescinding the laws the «protect» them, even though it's clear the laws are killing their business.

But I'm still getting a few hundred to a thousand a month with Pentecost which is a good trickle as some of those go on to sign up and then may read the other books in the series — without relying on any other marketing strategy.

Whether pre-orders are a good idea when you're in KDP Select and you're relying on borrows (which can't roll in until the book is live)

For other uses, such as travel guides and books that rely on graphics and photography, custom apps or (gasp) websites could be a far better solution.

Most of the writers I know teach, or have other day jobs to support themselves, so the best way to avoid eating ramen noodles is to not rely completely on your book advance to pay your bills.»

Joanna Penn is one of the guides I rely on to help me navigate the maze, make better marketing decisions, and sell more books.

Good candidates for a Fixed Layout conversion include Illustrated children's books, Cookbooks, Coffee table books, Graphic novels, Textbooks and technical manuals... and any book that relies on a heavily - designed, static presentation, full - page images, or text that overlaps with images.