Sentences with phrase «sales going to the bookstore»

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Sales representatives visit bookstores; ads appear in this magazine and others like it: catalogs go out to academics and pastors.

Unless a book has incredible advance sales or the author is very well known (and many times not even then) bookstores are not going to contact an author to do a book event.

Even with twenty or thirty copies on the shelves of independent bookstores near and far, you are going to make most of your sales directly from your website to your online followers.

Publishers are focused on selling as many copies as possible right after the book goes on sale to avoid returns from bookstores.

Once your book has steady sales, is climbing the bestseller ranks, is getting new and valuable reviews, then you can think about going with Lightning Source — although if it's good enough to be in bookstores, and your sales are strong enough, a publisher will come to you, making it a mute point.

Barnes & Noble reporting slight gains in comparable sales in its core book selling business after years of declines that had led many to wonder whether the largest remaining bookstore chain might suffer the same fate as Borders, which went out of business four years ago.

The CEO of the largest bookstore in the UK, Waterstone's, went so far to say that Kindle sales have fallen off a cliff and nobody is buying them anymore.

Even though most of your sales are going to be online and you may not actually put the book in many bookstores, or do many life events, you want your book to look as «normal» and professional as possible.

Publishers are focused on selling as many as possible right after the book goes on sale to avoid returns from bookstores.

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

, where ebook sales have stagnated, where bookstores are on the verge of extinction, where wholesalers and distributors are disappearing all the time, and where the major publishers focus on celebrities alone, selling books is no longer the way to go.

I started up a little, part - time, used bookstore on the internet and for a couple of years, business was okay, but what I found as I tried to stock up on inventory was that it was not fun going to used book sales and stepping over other book sellers blocking the aisles with their hand - held scanners and boxes of «don't touch these, their mine» used books.

If you want to be a REAL author and have your book for sale in a bookstore, go on book tours and have an agent, submit your book to a publisher and see what they say.

The Kobo Wireless e-Reader just went up for sale few weeks ago and has integrated support for Kobo's online bookstore, it also has the ability to download newspaper subscriptions, offering free subscriptions to check it out.

This slim book was found at a used bookstore's going - out - of - business sale (alas), read by my mother, and then passed along to me.

* sigh * So once again, no book haul in this post — not because I didn't get anything (I may not have time to go to an actual bookstore, but you wouldn't believe how many emails about Kindle sales I get!)

Before, niche romance and erotica authors had to conform to their publishers» desired subject matter to get that coveted paperback on a bookstore's shelves — now, readers can barely keep up with the ever - increasing «girl - on - centaur» and «boy - on - merman» creations going on sale daily.

So, instead of buying the e-book, or even the print book, they wait for it to go on sale through Amazon or another online retailer or they go to the second hand bookstore or borrow it from the library.

re: Amazon killing book stores, I just heard that they have a program now where bookstores can sell Kindles, and get 10 % from eBook sales going to the devices they sell.

Under Tivnan's and Philip Jones» direction, the staff then goes on — «with the same overall impetus of driving sales» — to break out Top - 5 lists for specific bookstore sections — those «ticklers.»

These companies employ sales people who go out and convince bookstore buyers to try out new books.

I've been there, at the bookstore, going through a catalog with a sales rep.. You want to know why sales reps sell more books?

The product line, named the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, combines Samsung's existing hardware range with customized Nook software, with the first seven - inch device set to go on sale in the United States in early August through Barnes & Noble bookstores.

(9) «We're going to save the editors (and hire more) and get rid of the sales reps. Yes, our books will have lower orders at bookstores.

They kind of, sort of, go to the back of the bookstore, in that they quickly disappear off most lists if they don't have a great sales rank.

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

I go to Amazon or another Internet bookstore and when I try to purchase a new ebook, I all too often get the message, «this book is not (yet) available for sale in your country.»

So generating data about book sales from Amazon isn't likely to be very accurate — except the fact that many bookstores are going out of business because people prefer to A) buy online where things are cheaper or B) buy an ebook.

If you're trying to market and sell a book, get on podcasts, get in bookstores, share your book with influencers, all of those things, a one - page sales sheet can go a LONG way.

On a somewhat related note, how did you achieve the good fortune of having Judge Kozinski write the introduction to your new book, how are sales of the book going, and is the book available for purchase at bookstores or is it only offered for sale online via law.com?