You can't expect to
sell hundreds of books your first week if no one has an inkling of who you are.
I usually
sell hundreds of books on that one day and I drop the price to 99 cents.
Amazon.com sells millions of books every day (because the top 200,000 or so sell at least one copy per day, and the top books
sell hundreds of books per day, adding up to millions overall).
I have thousands of people now on my email subscriber list and I can send out one email or a series of emails over 3 days and I can
sell hundreds of books during a book launch.
A successful ad won't
sell hundreds of books a day, but hey, turning $ 10 into $ 70, or making a few sales a week for a book that wasn't selling anything, is nothing to sneeze at.
«Why should I sell my book to a library, where it can be read by hundreds of people, when I can
sell hundreds of books to those same people?»
These efforts paid off and Manaher
sold hundreds of books.
Taryn Fagerness Agency has
sold hundreds of books to foreign markets including work by Jennifer Armentrout, Howard Zinn, Charles Mann, Tamara Ireland Stone, Neal Shusterman, Matthew Dicks, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and many more.
But I was still reading the blogs of these successful self - publishers who were apparently
selling hundreds of books a month, so I became dissatisfied with my trickle of sales and searched for tips on how to rocket my books to the top of the Amazon charts.
I know that I've
sold hundreds of books through the use of my HUNTER business card.
I have
sold hundreds of books now and have been getting feedback from distant relatives and cousins everywhere around the globe.
Not exact matches
Russell Brunson has built a following
of over a million entrepreneurs,
sold hundreds of thousands
of his
books and co-founded software company ClickFunnels, which helps tens
of thousands
of entrepreneurs quickly get their message out to the marketplace.
I want to, in the next 10 years, get to this place where we can
sell end - to - end trips — and have
hundreds of millions
of people every year
booking end - to - end experiences where the home [stay] might be a minority
of what we're doing.
Over the last 15 years, I have discovered valuable secrets about the publishing industry that have helped me in writing my own
books — secrets that have then helped me to
sell hundreds of thousands
of copies
of those
books.
A publisher pays the author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few
hundred thousand dollars, and then invests an enormous amount
of resources in producing and marketing the
book without any guarantee that it will
sell.
There's now a foolproof way to guarantee a
book sells hundreds of thousands
of copies: Get the president to tweet about how much he hates it.
And McColl will reveal the critical part
of this formula and why an email sales letter can make the difference between
selling a few
hundred and a few thousand
books.
Love Wins (Collins), a
book in which Bell made a defence
of the view that all people would one day be saved through Christ,
sold hundreds of thousands
of copies.
Chan's first
book Crazy Love has
sold hundreds of thousands
of copies in the States, and Forgotten God, which focuses on the Holy Spirit, is expected to do similarly well, along with a DVD series Basic.
For instance, Dave Hunt, author
of best -
selling books such as The Seduction
of Christianity, writes: «The most significant event in almost five
hundred years
of church history took place March 29, 1994....
Their
book, To Train Up a Child has
sold hundreds of thousands
of copies and, under the guise
of «biblical discipline,» encourages parents to beat their children into submission, withhold food, and hose them down outside when they soil themselves.
Public evangelicals like Shane Claiborne and David Platt have fascinated crowds and
sold hundreds of thousands
of copies
of books about these principles.
Dr. Jodi Mindell, author
of the best -
selling book Sleeping Through the Night, has helped
hundreds of Parents.com Community members get their little ones (and themselves!)
The duo has written 11 children's
books that are now
sold in 10 countries, and conducted
hundreds of interviews for parents on topics like safety, divorce, special needs, discipline for TheMotherCo.com.
Thousands
of copies
of our
book have been
sold, and
hundreds of people have reported results back to us.
For more than 30 years, I've been a health coach for millions
of Americans — as a writer on Prevention magazine; as the editor - in - chief
of Prevention Magazine Health
Books and Rodale Books; and as the writer of 10 health books that have sold more than 2 million copies and hundreds of articles about health, appearing in national magazines like Prevention, Health, Self, Men's Health and Natural Solut
Books and Rodale
Books; and as the writer of 10 health books that have sold more than 2 million copies and hundreds of articles about health, appearing in national magazines like Prevention, Health, Self, Men's Health and Natural Solut
Books; and as the writer
of 10 health
books that have sold more than 2 million copies and hundreds of articles about health, appearing in national magazines like Prevention, Health, Self, Men's Health and Natural Solut
books that have
sold more than 2 million copies and
hundreds of articles about health, appearing in national magazines like Prevention, Health, Self, Men's Health and Natural Solutions.
He self - published a
book for doctors called: Natural Progesterone: The Multiple Roles
of a Remarkable Hormone and
sold it out
of his garage, and soon was engaged in a voluminous correspondence with
hundreds of women, doctors and scientists from around the world.
I've also been a contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Hers Magazine, and I'm the author
of the popular internationally -
selling book, «The Truth about Six Pack Abs» which has had
hundreds of thousands
of readers in over 150 countries currently.
Our practice has
sold hundreds of copies and I can't recommend this
book highly enough for anybody to read either for themselves or to give to a friend or family member who has fatigue or suffers from stress.
As soon as the
book was released, it would consistently place among the best -
selling comic
books in the U.S., with
hundreds of thousands
of enthusiasts rushing to capture and devour Madureira's world.
Her best -
selling book, Building Moral Intelligence, and her Character Builders program for young children (Respect, Responsibility, Caring, and Peace - Making) are used in
hundreds of schools and organizations worldwide.
Publishers stand to make
hundreds of millions
of dollars
selling new Common Core
books and products, and there are lots
of things out there that say they're «aligned» to the Common Core.
Imagine a venue on scale with those
of the international auto shows, but stocked with
hundreds of vendors
selling classic and collector car parts, tools,
books, models, and plenty
of esoteric automobilia.
Affiliate marketing allows you, the author, to set up a network
of hundreds of highly motivated booksellers who will promote your
book for free and to
sell your
book on a commission basis.
And, to answer the question above about
selling hundreds of thousands
of books without a major publishing house — check out a post I wrote in August
of last year when I hit the 100,000 milestone in crime
book sales.
Many authors
sell maybe only a few
hundred copies
of their
books.
By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995
Hundreds of Print on Demand - POD companies are willing to help with your
book,
selling you a package with one
of their ISBNs, publishing your
book, and paying you a royalty on your
book sales.
If I'm handing over a couple
of hundred bucks for a
book which will make me about $ 300 if I
sell it without help, then I expect more than the «average» reader (a mythical creature) to look over my stuff.
Hoping my
book series, Beyond Your Potential, would be picked up by Hay House and blast off to
sell hundreds of thousands
of copies.
Hundreds of Print on Demand — POD companies are willing to help with your
book,
selling you a package with one
of their ISBNs, publishing your
book, and paying you a royalty on your
book sales.
But for every Hugh Howey there are tens or more likely
hundreds of thousands
of others who won't
sell 50,000 copies
of their
book, let alone millions.
It's why the majority
of self - published
books sell less than a few
hundred copies, not in a year but over their entire lifetime.
Hundreds of companies are ferociously competing to be your publisher - for - pay,
selling you a package with one
of their ISBNs that will put most
of the money you earn from your
book sales that you generate into their pockets, publishing your
book the way they think will make them the most money, and claiming the majority
of your
book sales» profits as if they've done anything that remotely resembles what a mainstream traditional publisher would do to publish and promote your
book, generate targeted reader interest, and earn every single sale to each individual reader.
No
book has
hundreds of staff reviews, so I assume you are referring to reader reviews, and it's certainly true with respect to them — by definitioon if a
book has a large number
of reader reviews it must be
selling, and such reviews are not always reliable.
There's an insane amount
of competition for consumers» attention, and only the luckiest, most heavily promoted, and best ebooks will
sell in large quantities (by large quantities I mean in the
hundreds or thousands; again a reason why publishers, in my view, should not be spending a lot
of money creating and distributing ebooks if they expect a return on investment on most
of their
books).
(cont'd)- I'm giving away
hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result
of doing so, won't see one thin dime
of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf
of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any
of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out
of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share
of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11
of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies
of my novels than I've
sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools
of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part
of the Rise
of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published
book competitions, and I read the * entire *
book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per
book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour
of my time spent reading and commenting In spite
of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage
of my fellow authors.
Most authors don't
sell millions or
hundreds of thousands
of copies
of their first
book (or second, or third, etc.) Many
of them don't even
sell thousands.
How, then, do you explain that the small epress I worked for is capable
of keeping track
of the percentages paid to authors authors and editors (typically 35 % for the author and 10 % for the editor) for several
hundred books sold through multiple retail outlets (all with different net payouts to the publisher) over a period
of four years?
Remember, as an author — or anyone
selling a
book — you will say and type your
book's title
hundreds to thousands
of times over the lifespan
of your
book.
Neither the Podiobook nor the Kindle
book that resulted in the deals announced last week were breakout hits, neither was
selling / downloading
hundreds of copies a week or anything, but in the case
of the Podiobook readers» enthusiasm tipped the scales and in the case
of the Kindle
book the author's extensive platform and media coverage did the trick.