Sentences with phrase «sell more books then»

If you're an author who's trying to sell more books then focusing on your book's description is a great place to start.

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I started my company, Nearly Normal Cooking, improved my flour formula and started selling the new gluten free all purpose flour blend and a few baking mixes in 2007, and have written 2 more published books and numerous e-books since then.

«The Family of Man,» which included two of Grossman's photographs, debuted at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in January 1955, circulated internationally for eight years, and then sold more than 4 million copies in book form.

Frankly, the life of Beatrix Potter isn't the most riveting story ever told - she came from a wealthy family, wrote some best - selling books, became even more wealthy, and then retired to the countryside.

I can point to moments of good fortune in the life of the book, but then, so can other authors whose books sold either far more or far fewer copies than mine did.

You then need to market your book after you have published it in order to sell more books.

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.

If you want to attract more readers to sell more books, the logical choice then becomes to brand your author name as the most direct link to those books.

But it was published, and the book sold well and won an award, and then my publisher came to me and asked me to write another book with the same characters and four more after that.

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.

And then you'll sell more books.

This won't mean much for newbies just starting out, but if you're talking about their cut being in the thousands, then suddenly it might seem more worthwhile to put in the extra work to sell the book individually to each site.

If you promote yourself effectively, then you'll sell more books, which will theoretically give you more time, money, and energy to write more in the future.

Since then, the book has sold more than 70,000 copies, reached no. 1 in the Kindle bestseller list, and made her # 70,000 virtually overnight.

I'd challenge Preston or any of AU to let their contract with Hatchette expire and then tell them they have to continue to produce and sell their new books because they are more than mere products.

«If you eliminate Red Hood, then according to Bookscan, the new book sold more print copies in its first week than any of my previous books... What does this all mean?

But then D2D sells more books through iBooks than iBooks does.

If you sell only a few more copies of your book as a result then the software has paid for itself.

Those reserves get smaller with each statement and should eventually go down to zero — but it does mean that there are more books sold then the author is paid for — at least in the beginning.

Then, some will join the mailing list, and you will be able to sell more books to them later because they now like and trust you, because they were able to learn more about you from your free giveaway.

It doesn't make him any better, any more then Harlan Ellison or Orson Scott Card are any nicer people for selling huge quantities of books.

If you are unfamiliar with the royalty structure on most major retailers, then you may be asking yourself: How is it that authors earn more money at $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they do at $ 0.99 - $ 1.99, when they sell fewer copies of their book?

In part 1 and part 2 of this blog post series, I explained how I landed my first traditional book deal, signed with an agent, sold more books, and then ultimately decided to leave traditional publishing behind!

If you eliminate Red Hood, then according to Bookscan, the new book sold more print copies in its first week than any of my previous books, just edging out Mermaid's Madness.

While I spend a lot of time addressing online marketing, the offline component is one you shouldn't overlook and if book events are where you want to focus, then bringing in some ideas to help you sell more books is something you should consider...

Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their ebooks, and Amazon will pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money on Amazon right now.

Librarians are beginning to argue that we aid discovery — meaning people become aware of certain books and then those books sell better (cf The Help, a sleeper until libraries promoted it) but more importantly I think is that without libraries far fewer people would read for entertainment and the total market for the book product would be relatively tiny.

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.

This obviously is in an authors best interest to promote the fact their book is on Prime, because in many cases, lending your book out for free makes you more money then selling it for.99.

I would more happily hand over a percentage of royalties to someone who would take on that onerous duty than to an agent who could sell my book to a big house, which would then by all appearances still expect me to put in that marketing time.

Your book is positioned, prepared, read and sold in by many layers of representatives, at the publishing company — editorial, publicity, design, marketing and sales, printers, shipping, and then in the marketplace with press, book retailers, library buyers and more.

If there's one question that is eternal and ongoing in our author community, then it's how to sell more books.

Then building on that exposure to create relationships will help you sell more books.

Hocking started selling books, first a few a day, then as she uploaded more of her work, she managed to sell 26 books in one day in May.

If the large publishers are hoping for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in book sales, then a self - published author who has sold more books, say 5,000 copies, is a bit of a dilemma.

I knew a self - published author who was making quite a good income for several years, but then it dropped, and she claimed it was the ever - more - crowded field, especially with people selling their books for $.99.

But then they might actually do a better job of selling their authors books and give us indies more competition.

It would be different, perhaps, if the book were not written yet, because then the selling your voice argument would carry more weight, but girl, you're just trying to sell something you want too much for someone to accept, and it's too hard to say «Please Like Me» or, in your case, your book.

If the answer is «sell more books,» then a good book cover is one that sells more books.

The more you sell, the more those costs become apportioned across all the books and those costs then can become insignificant on a per copy basis.

I would say Apple would sing a different song with i - Books and it looks like Apple has already pre-sold more iPads then Amazon sold Kindles in all of December leading up to their biggest sales record.

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.

I would say Apple would sign a different song with i - Books and it looks like Apple has already pre-sold more iPads then Amazon sold Kindles in all of December leading up to their biggest sales record.

Indigo plans on moving more into the lifestyle range and plans on selling more content online then just books.

Salvatore's first published novel, The Crystal Shard, introduced the world to the dark elf Drizzt; since then, his books have sold more than 15 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 14 languages.

Even back then, the kind of books I was intending to write were fetching so little in advances that I would have done better selling a couple - to - four articles at my old feature rate (we're talking 2500 word features, too — so, I'd make more for less work writing and selling four of those as WFH or open license pubs than I would for writing an 80k word reference book for writers, for example).

Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, published by Hachette's Little, Brown division in the UK, was more diplomatic, telling the programme: «Many of my books have been sold through Amazon and if people wish to buy books through Amazon then I am happy to see that.

So unlike in the past when a typical print book would sell for the first 3 - 6 months or so and then disappear from bookstore shelves, an book with an ebook version can take 5 to 10 or many more years to earn out, but it is fairly certain that it will eventually do so.

And then he also goes to a key point Owen was touching on: even in stores in locations that are in no danger of being closed, fewer and fewer books are being sold: more and more other products are coming in.

Then you'll be able to use this relationship to set up events, and sell more books!