Sentences with phrase «return for more books»

The question would be if their readers would return for more books after reading that initial inexpensive e-book.

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One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

The Bank of Georgia, a leading bank in the Eurasian country, has had a return on equity of more than 20 % for a number of years, despite trading at book value.

For more charts like the one below, see the second edition of our chart book, Putting a Face on America's Tax Returns.

Even a relatively mundane corporate tax return for a Canadian corporation with a few dozen employees and domestic operations can easy run into 100 pages, and frankly our tax legislation and compliance obligations are far less onerous than those of our US cousins (by way of example, our Tax Act is one phone book, the IRC is three, of more or less inpenetrable gibberish).

Once I realized that the book was little more than just a call for the church to return to the Jesus of the Gospels, I really enjoyed the book.

For me, the past few months have been all about making two more books, and I've realised my limits and decided to return to blogging more fully again, when the last pages of the third book is sent to my publisher.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

This book goes well beyond basic tips for using a breast pump or building up a freezer stash of... MORE milk before returning to work.

At 6 p.m., Megyn Kelly, Albany Law School alumna and NBC News anchor, returns to the law school campus to sign her new book, «Settle for More,» gymnasium, Albany.

Even more painful, he writes, is the inspiration for the book's title: a permanent ban on returning to the United States, where his young daughter lives with his ex-wife.

Simone Missick played a role in Marvel's The Defenders but she'll be returning to Netflix for Luke Cage Season 2 with an updated comic book look.Read More»

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

Ostensibly, these youngsters are still being educated and will return to their regular schools.In truth, most of these students are ghosts; they disappear but are still carried on the attendance rolls for purposes of state support.Every urban district has thousands of such ghosts; some tens of thousands.If all the ghosts on the books actually showed up, no urban school district would be able to cope without a new bond issue for building significantly more schools.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

After checking out you'll be directed to a form to fill out with each book's information or if you need more time to get the info together, simply return to the site and click on Submit Book Info in the top navigation and you'll be taken to the form where you can submit the information for up to two covers that will be emailed directly to me so that I can get the covers to you as quickly as possibook's information or if you need more time to get the info together, simply return to the site and click on Submit Book Info in the top navigation and you'll be taken to the form where you can submit the information for up to two covers that will be emailed directly to me so that I can get the covers to you as quickly as possiBook Info in the top navigation and you'll be taken to the form where you can submit the information for up to two covers that will be emailed directly to me so that I can get the covers to you as quickly as possible.

Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than, say, an indie bookstore, which will just bitch about not being able to return unsold books.

It would, in fact, be much more than double, because the - returns - for these titles would be hideously expensive to pack up and ship, given that it would be what, 1 or 2 books per return?

You also have to decide whether you want to pay even more money for the returned book to be sent to you; otherwise, it's destroyed.

, there's also a point of diminishing return, where in fact you are lowering the perceived value of the book more than the low price can make up for.

I skimmed the article and will return to read more thoroughly, but I did a «find on this page» search for the word «poetry» or «poem» to see if there's specific formatting or issues concerning poetry books in ePub.

Now that customers will have to fill the shopping cart to enjoy perks like free shipping on books, it might be more of an incentive for residents to return to their locally owned businesses, at least for their reading purchases.

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Martin's booth was happy to give me the book for free with the hopes that I might return for more if I use it in the classroom.

While the cost of purchasing a book will surely still prohibit some writers from submitting, the model not only ensures that writers will get something in return for their submissions, but that they will be more familiar with the press's aesthetic before sending their work.

These two factors combined lead to a higher return on investment for every marketing dollar you invest which means a faster - growing platform and therefore more book sales.

Archway Publishing has developed the Booksellers Return Program to help your book meet industry retail standards for stocking and be provided the opportunity to be more competitive in the marketplace.

but we do have fines for none returned books but it isn't more than maybe 10 Bucks.

I could note any numbers of especially intriguing information in this book: [return][return]- Rapist roosters are becoming more prevalent because as chickens have been bred for bigger breasts, they have lost other important genetic material such as mating dances.

Instead, not only did Faleena Hopkins trademark her series and one of its main words — «Cocky» — she had her lawyer send cease and desist letters to other authors who had dared to include the word «cocky» in their book titles; a quick search of the Amazon Kindle store returned more than 700 results for the word.

The returns system and costs of overhead forced publishers to start charging more for their books to cover the costs.

He is more than willing to give something up without asking for anything in return because the result is typically a new raving fan who goes on to buy his books again and again.

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If I mistakenly thing the book will be worth reading and end up by buying, just to discover a few more chapters in that I can't stand it, I return it for a full refund.

Without Harry Potter and other leading franchise titles upping the ante, print book sales in the United States returned to a more standard year for the industry in 2017.

If the energy returns for the shelved book in the future, I'll give it more thought.

But, if you're creating demand and readers are out there looking for your book, then instead of returning books, you should see subsequent orders for MORE books come through!

This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market paperback, the need then to raise prices on mmps as they moved more heavily into the bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped because that's cheaper than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)

Which means buying more books that we know we won't sell, books we know we'll return for a full refund (minus shipping).»

You can do this deliberately, such as having a «list share» or «you buy my 99cent book and I'll buy yours» — and you can do some of that also, but you'll make a better impression if you just help people without asking for anything in return (if they do return the favor, they'll do it because they want to and it will be more effective).

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If you feel more comfortable, you could offer them a free copy of the book once it's completed as a gift for participating (you can even ask for their feedback during each step of the book creation process in return!)

I doubt any established publisher would be as gauche as to pay cash money in return for book reviews but they do have a more subtle, codified model of rewards for reviews, from free books to parties.

It's a game of diminishing returns... more books for less money and higher costs to market for a quality product.

More importantly, if you want people to pay money for your book, then you owe readers a return on their investment.

Publishers wanted to encourage booksellers to buy more books and take a chance on unknown authors, so they stupidly started allowing stores to return unsold inventory for a refund.

Certainly, it would not be wise for an author to spend more on developing a book than will ever be returned.

Having to print, bind, ship, store in a warehouse, store in a store, display on a store shelf, take back returned copies, and all of that ancillary stuff — it costs roughly $ 2 - 3 per book for a hardcover, more like $ 1 for a paperback.

If a book has five 3 - star reviews consisting of one - liners similar to, «It was okay but I wouldn't read it again» and one 5 - star review of 250 words following the above standard formula for literary reviews, potential readers are more likely to listen to that one review of quality over the others — returning a modicum of respect to the medium.