If you send them to a landing page, it'll take at least 2 clicks, so you'll
sell less books through that link... Personal opinion: send the back matter readers to a nice landing page.
I'm
selling less books now than I have at any point in the last two years, and I've written eight more books since then — books readers consider my best.
Not exact matches
Calacanis says the move is
less about
selling books and more about building out the company's online retail ecosystem.
PRICE RATIONALE: Since this is a business in which
books sell for 50 % of their original price or
less, it's no surprise that this deal feels right.
Ballantine
Books published Finney's bestselling How to Be a Budget Fashionista: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for
Less in 2006, and in 2012 she
sold her multimedia network to Midwest Media Company for an undisclosed sum.
In
less than two years, Reisman's Indigo
Books & Music turned an initial $ 31.6 million investment to start e-reader and e-book retailer Kobo into $ 165 million when it
sold the startup to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakutan for $ 315 million late last year.
We'll probably
sell a few
less books five years from now than we do now, for example.
The average Russian company is
selling for just 7.5 times earnings and 20 %
less than its
book value.
Because AIG
sells for
less than
book value, each share it repurchases increases the
book value of the remaining shares.
Though he'd had two
books published to some critical acclaim in the mid-1990s, together they
sold less than 3,000 copies.
It is for this exact reason (along with many others) that Amazon
sells digital
books for
less than the paperback
books.
I wish that Logos would become competitive here and
sell their digital
books for significantly
less than the paperback
books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.
They authored this
book and have
sold over 2 million copies.This
book has helped potty train many children in
less than a day inlcuding my two boys!
In 1974, they published their findings in a potty training
book titled «Toilet Training in
Less Than a Day»; this
book has went on to be extremely successful (
selling over 2 million copies) and has come to be reguarded as one of
Yet, in looking for inspiration, most scientists find management and business leadership
books — with their bottom line of
sell,
sell,
sell —
less than palatable.
Bailor's best
selling book, The Calorie Myth, exposes the fundamental flaw upon which the diet industry has been built: the «eat
less + exercise more = weight loss» equation simply doesn't add up.
Nobody
sells any
books telling you to eat
less.
«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could
sell a single
book copy, much
less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»
my publisher at Morgan James Publishing; and Valerie Allen, my publicist, we were able to create a best -
selling book with The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online in
less than one year.
Inspired by Heidi Murkoff's multimillion -
selling - self - help -
book for expectant mothers — holding the same name — «What to Expect», the film, will be much
less prolific.
For a
less Hollywood take on the life of Charles Darwin, pick up the best -
selling book on which Creation is based, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution, written by Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes.
It doesn't really sound like the makings of a best -
selling book, much
less a blockbuster movie, but that's exactly what The Martian has become.
Also the author of The New York Times best -
selling book «Suck It Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek,» Munn and five other women in November accused film producer and director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, and she has become an active supporter of the Times Up Initiative, led by women in the entertainment industry to provide legal defense funds to help
less privileged women protect themselves from sexual misconduct.
(The subtitle of his
book is Why the Future of Business Is
Selling Less of More.)
Established
book agents are a lot
less likely to persevere with your
book if they aren't able to
sell it immediately.
The average traditionally - published
book sells less than a thousand copies.
Two questions: (1) Why would you even care about
selling your
books to libraries, much
less their lower - priced digital versions?
But the
books released into the summer downturn of sales are expected to
sell less.
Than again, as long as new
books are
selling, maybe that becomes
less relevant.
However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the
book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99
books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for
selling a good amount of
books (though far
less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.
I've
sold far and away more
books on Pubit, but that's largely because of the platform I've built and people going to look for me directly THERE for their Nooks (Smashwords is
less well known).
So if an author agrees to
sell the Kindle
book for 20 %
less on Amazon (per B&N demand), then B&N can price match the author's
book down 20 % on B&N... in which case the author must drop her Kindle price to 20 %
less than that... and it becomes a revolving door requiring the author to price her
books ever lower?
Every
book sells for a different price, but most don't
sell for
less than 9.99.
So, the question is: can we
sell as many
books at the
lesser discount — at $ 1.99 — as we can at 99 cents?
Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of
less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced
book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful
book by a best -
selling writer for
less than ten dollars?
Genre fiction
books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be
sold for
less —
less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult
books (younger audience, smaller wallets).
In order to
sell more
books Patterson is going to double his workload and start writing four novels a month that are 150 pages or
less.
I have self published two adult coloring
books that are highly sought after and have
sold very well in
less that 3 months (they made it to store shelves in under two weeks).
That slime
sells a lot of
books... and so your conclusions in this article have even
less relevance than your opinions.
It gives you far higher per -
book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose ebooks are
selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital
books should cost
less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
Even if you don't
sell a
book from the campaign, for $ 25 or
less, you can get a good amount of information about who's interested in your
book... which can help you with your overall marketing strategy by letting you get more focused on the people who really want what you're writing.
Looking to the gender of the authors of the
books reviewed, cross factoring this with data on the price, genre and how the books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written by
books reviewed, cross factoring this with data on the price, genre and how the
books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written by
books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion:
Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written by
Books written by women that are released by mainstream publishing houses
sell, on average, for 45 %
less than those written by men.
Independent authors who
sell their e-
books for
less than $ 2.99 (# 1.84) receive 35 % of that figure, taking 70 % for
books selling for above that price threshold.
It may not
sell many copies at first, but my plan is to keep working on other
books and put them up for sale, and I think it can only help to have more than
less books available.
You'll finish this class feeling inspired, far
less overwhelmed, and ready to
sell a lot more
books to the right audience.
That is especially true when I can and have found indie authors and small press authors who
sell their
books at half that price or
less.
Selling your
book at wholesale pricing does mean you make
less per sale, but the tradeoff is that your
book is available to a wider audience and through more diverse channels.
You can always promote a
book you're
selling retail via social media, but are
less likely to stir up your social media interaction with a product that someone has to purchase.
As a result, Amazon would seem to have
less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to
sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical
books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.
Some publishers
selling 30,000 copies per year are comfortable receiving
less than $ 1.00 per
book in compensation.