Sentences with phrase «sale of old books»

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One of the oldest tricks in the book of sales is the cold call.

A few days after the September 11 attacks, I bought an old copy of his The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power at a used book sale.

One of my favorite things to do is hit up a good used book store or library book sale and buy stacks of older food magazines to raid for recipes.

After all, most authors early on were advised of the old publisher's axiom that each equation cuts a book's sales in half.

Helped a publisher restore a key author relationship and boost sales of a 2 - year - old book using free content.

Publishing expert Alan Rinzler explained in an interview at Forbes, «By definition, the old model of the author platform was the writer's public visibility and reputation that the publisher's publicity department used to promote and sell the book... We insisted on a stellar track record in book sales and appearances on radio and TV.

Which you probably aren't: unless you do a ton of clever promotion and marketing — which you aren't going to do, because you don't know how, and even if you hire a publicist, they'll focus on TV and radio and old school methods that don't actually impact book sales.

This plan is derailed by three occurrences: thirty - six - year - old sales representative for Knightley Press, Amelia Loman makes her first visit to Island Books to present the publisher's Winter List (and is treated rather shabbily by A.J.); A.J.'s escape valve, a rare and valuable edition of Tamerlane, a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, is stolen; and a bright two - year - old girl named Maya is left in his bookstore.

Sales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while ebook sales have been decliSales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while ebook sales have been declisales have been declining.

And those of you who don't like Amazon, they own very, very little of the sales market compared to the old American News Company, that basically controlled all magazine, most comics, and most book distribution in this country in the first half of last century.

It doesn't work because most book publicists charge thousands of dollars and use old school book marketing techniques that aren't nearly enough to actually boost sales (you can get featured press in huge newspapers and without selling more copies).

Three - quarters of Americans 18 and older report reading at least one book in the past year, a number which has fallen, and e-books currently make up between 15 to 20 % of all book sales.

Amazon uses an algorithm similar to the NYT, actually — it ranks each book based on current velocity of sales, weighting recent sales heaviest, and older sales less so.

You're going to be starting all over, and it won't work if the older version of the books is still for sale on even the smallest venue.

This is not the self - publishing of old, where vanity presses convince you to buy boxes of books that sit in your garage which you end up giving away at garage sales.

The point the distribution platforms are making is that reader consumers are going to get tired of sifting through the 99cent spam «ebooks» and get fed up with being duped by piracy masquerading as genuine titles, leading to a drop in ebook sales in favor of «good old fashioned» (re: reliable) print books.

I'm all for changing the cover and title — but have you ever witnessed an actual «rebirth» of a 2 or 3 - year - old book... have its (amazon) sales rankings do an about face?

But I've seen some of those same people have their sales eventually dry up into nothing, and instead of giving something new for their readers, they keep shopping and pushing that same book, trying to recapture that old miracle.

In fact, the predictive nature of the Amazon ranking system is what makes it possible for a newly - released book to outrank an older established title, even though the actual sales figures for the latter far exceed the former.

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.

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

For those of us who fought the old system, who fought traditional publishing for decades to get our books to readers, that simple ten - copy sale meant everything.

A 1990 New York Times article, The Media Business; Publishing's Backbone: Older Books, noted that approximately 25 to 30 percent of a publisher's revenues could be attributed to backlist sales.

Brian Hibbs takes a look at the emerging digital comics market, likening it to the newsstands of old and explaining how - if done properly - sales of digital comics can help boost the bottom line of comic book stores.

We don't know influences like promotions, whether a book is new or old, whether people buy on specific days of the week or time of year, what a book's sales life trends like.

That front - loading of sales is old school book marketing.

Target exactly when your books appear on Amazon — without spending a lot of time or money Sell more books (old ones and new ones) See more continuous sales, rather than a spike that plummets Get a higher Amazon Best Seller Rank and category rank Increase your pages read (if you're in Kindle Unlimited) Build a bigger email list AND get more traffic to your website, products, or services

While they're still inspired with your expertise, they can easily whip out the old credit card, type in their ordering information, and download your book before the wind is out of their sales.

The shift with KU is one I've noticed in particular, though it's odd because I'll see a spike in sales from some of my older books / short stories and it won't show the «borrow» from KDP for days sometimes, basically until someone passes the 10 % mark.

They offer their services of putting together a book with editors and cover art at a tiered percentage that's up to 50 % after X sales units, but the author is still at a disadvantage because an author gets paid in a six month cycle with the same old royalty accounting.

They no doubt fear that low e-book prices undercuts the sales of physical books in the storefronts of their old friends.

However, since the advent of online book sales I've found that the old saying really relates now only to people and situations, because book cover design is doing the best job it has ever done to convey something of the book inside and affect the potential reader's decision making.

Self - Published Books That Sold To Publishers In one of the first sales of its kind, John Scalzi sold Old Man's War -LSB-...]

San Antonio, Texas About Blog Seeking children's books of old from library / yard sales, used book stores, ebay, etc..

According to legend (i.e. a poorly sourced claim on the internet), Salinger made a contract rider diktat that none of his subsequent book covers could have cover images after one sales - savvy cover designer transformed a seven - year - old girl to a blowsy, busty blonde.

What / Why: «David Curcio's STUDIO SALE / FUNDRAISER will feature TONS of my work — old and new — with 50 % of proceeds to be divided between THE GIFFORD CAT SHELTER and BOSTON CHILDREN»S HOSPITAL TOY AND BOOK DONATION PROGRAM, because quality of life is what matters right now, for all of us.

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I called the museum shop, which has an endlessly interesting selection of books and exhibition catalogues for sale from the museum's own library, but which does not, it turns out, have any 28 - year - old Richter exhibition posters lying around.

I think you are going to miss a few sales to grumpy old men with this round - about «createspace» web page, and now I've got a new on - line account with someplace I really don't need one, never heard of before, won't get the book for 3 weeks, if and when I do get it.

Sunday night, worn out from a day of skiing, my younger son and I put on an old Three Stooges video my wife had picked up earlier at a used book sale and watched «Disorder in the Court.»

San Antonio, Texas About Blog Seeking children's books of old from library / yard sales, used book stores, ebay, etc..

(Of course you will say no) It is one of the oldest tricks in the book, and one of the most often implemented tricks trotted out by greedy and / or financially desperate commissioned sales peoplOf course you will say no) It is one of the oldest tricks in the book, and one of the most often implemented tricks trotted out by greedy and / or financially desperate commissioned sales peoplof the oldest tricks in the book, and one of the most often implemented tricks trotted out by greedy and / or financially desperate commissioned sales peoplof the most often implemented tricks trotted out by greedy and / or financially desperate commissioned sales people.