Sentences with phrase «sell more books long»

Amazon reviews also affect ranking, so if you get 100 + reviews you'll stay higher up and sell more books long term.

I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie authors I know, after they hit the bestseller lists on Amazon).

So while it may not be a requirement for your first release, it pretty much is if you plan to be a professional author and sell more books long term.

Not exact matches

In a world where so many leaders will stop at nothing to get elected to another term, rope in another client, book another gig, sell more products, or grow the bottom line, it still takes honesty and integrity to breed trust and credibility — the cornerstone of strong, long - term business relationships.

Arsene Wenger no longer has to sell one or more of the better players in the Arsenal squad every summer in order to balance the books.

Does Real Madrid selling Khedira for a reported # 8m say more about his long term injury concerns or wanting him off books?

And as long as you're selling books, you're going to continue getting reviews, and more than likely the good reviews are going to outweigh the bad.

Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance) author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).

They're much more likely to work with you long - term (for several years if needed) to get your book sold.

However, I find that once an author starts selling books and getting reviews that the first reason starts to fade away because the validation then comes from the audience of readers which is far more valuable in the long run.

Start reading up on self - publishing, and it won't take long for you to find all sorts of articles listing the things you should do if you want to sell more books Heck, you'll probably find such articles on this site!

In theory, we might see more long - term sales on the poorer selling books as readers work their way through a catalog.

Personally, I think the higher royalties is better because they will make more in the long run if the book sells well, but sometimes, authors» financial needs make it important to have a big advance up front.

(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.

The report also found that customers prefer longer books, so books in the short reads categories that are 2 hours or more (65 - 100 pages) sell the best.

Longer books sell better on Amazon, but short reads sell too, and earn more per page.

To me, two of the more salient points are that you started writing in 1995 and sold your first novel in 2006, and that your income distribution is shifting to include income from royalties as you put out more books and they are out longer.

As long as there is restrictive DRM, you don't really «own» the book, you can't lend it (or at the best have extremely restricted lending), and you can't sell it, then the customers aren't going to be willing to shell out as much, or sometimes more, for the book.

They likely would cannibalize their own accessory sales by doing this, but in the long - term they would make more money selling Beats headphones with a cool book design on it.

If your goal is to make more money by selling art or books, I'd point out that quality is no longer any indication of success.

If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100 sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a large enough author platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100 sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).

Indie authors can give themselves the greatest opportunity to sell more books if they create interest long before the book is in print.

Endorsements are an essential part of a strong book marketing strategy and can go a long way in helping you sell more books...

If not, I'll need to look at new ways to bring in income and selling the services I currently give away for free might be the avenue I have to go down but I would like to hold off on that as long as possible as it's really not the vision I want for the site — there are already enough paid book marketing services and I don't want to add one more to that mix if I don't have to.

Mark went on to mention «If an author can earn the same or greater income selling lower cost books, yet reach significantly more readers, then, drum roll please, it means the authors who are selling higher priced books through traditional publishers are at an extreme disadvantage to indie authors in terms of long term platform building.

His new book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, explores the ways in which our culture and economy are moving away from hits (popular products and markets), which reside at the...

Obviously, a system that directly tracks the sale of each ebook (like the ISBN) is much more accurate, as long as all books sold have such a tracker.

So authors, especially children's authors, should keep your expectations in check by thinking of this as a long - term strategy to sell more books.

And selling one book or three or five no longer means you can sell more to the publisher because the sales force, not your editor is now in charge.

I also believe that given the choice between an author selling a copy of her book from her own website and selling a copy of her book from Amazon.com, she's better off in the long run selling that book from Amazon — even if she makes slightly more money in the short run from her own website.

We can sell our work to New York publishers to get the better market penetration that their systems offer, the big event push, or we can small publish our own book to get the long term cash flow and more money in the long run.

We continue to send our high profile authors on more traditional publicity tours so long as those venues are capable of selling books, and we will continue to advertise in print media.

And that's why more authors are asking: If publishers don't know what they're doing and rely on the author to sell their own books, why should authors endure the long, frustrating, seemingly impossible job of finding a literary agent and selling your book to a commercial book publisher?

Traditional publishing often takes several years, so it may seem impossible to time the market — but most trends last longer than you'd think, and it's pretty easy to determine whether you want to write something that hits more popular terms (the more you can match what people are actively looking for, the more free, organic visibility your book will get, and the easier it will be to sell.

In the long run, she will sell more books, because more people will know about her.

Her goal is not only to sell books, but to also build long and ever - growing careers for her clients, giving each of them close and thorough attention as well as being an advocate in all aspects of the publishing process, including licensing foreign rights, audio rights, dramatic rights and more.

Some books, over a long period of time, have sold many more books than the contemporary best seller.

In the long run, Amazon might make more money with such a billing program than when they sell 10 books for 99 - cents each and have 10 separate credit card fees.

On one hand, pricing longer books at a more premium value certainly improves your royalty income return per book sold, making it easier to recoup your initial expense.

It's no surprise to me that some traditional publishers think this way — they have long cared more about sales that reader satisfaction and relied for too long (forever) on being the only source of books while selling the idea that they have some mysterious and unknowable skill — and 90 % of books fail anyway donchaknow?

And we'll sell way more than them at that price too (as long as our books are visible — which is a whole other ball game, and the subject of our next book!).

I've heard from a number of fiction writers with very strong feelings on the subject, and so it seems we have 2 very different markets — the fiction one, where the long tail phenomenon of the Internet makes it possible to earn a living (or least some money) selling books, and the non-fiction one, which is much more fickle.

This doesn't mean that books won't sell well, but it's much more about the long haul.

They figure out in concert with the publisher how many copies they think the book should sell (big authors with long track records are somewhat more predictable than the rest of the universe, which is one more reason their books are so desirable to the publishers) and get an advance that is equal to a startlingly high percentage of the revenue that sales level would produce.

If you've sold them the first book in a series, they'll certainly buy the next one (as long as it's not way more expensive than the first book).

Oh, and it would give the Trads even more reason to price their backlog ridiculously, since I can't be the only one who's considered it for the really old e-books they're selling for four to six bucks — so you'd be, in the long run, shrinking your share of the pot by making it so that people mostly try the really expensive books and don't even try sanely priced books, thus never getting exposed to your writing and it not leading to them buying your books outside the program.

If one publisher insisted on the agency model, selling Stephen King's books for $ 9.99, they would make more money per sale, but lose more over the long run because another publisher would offer their books under the usual terms, letting the retailer set the price.

For those who need more information before they decide to buy, having a longer page with multiple Add to Cart buttons along the way will help you sell more books.

Unfortunately, I don't think Amazon has a good idea of the community of readers / writers, except as viewed through the abstract lens of statistics and used to sell more books right now rather than develop a long term plan which will encourage writing, reading and purchasing of books over the long run.

But luckily, most book promotional publicists charge way too much and don't know how to actually sell books these days (so I wouldn't hire one), and you can hire a much cheaper VA from the Philippines who can provide more value — as long as you know exactly what to ask them to do.