Sentences with phrase «sell small numbers of books»

I realised they didn't do anything for me I couldn't either do myself or hire done (and contracting someone was MUCH cheaper than giving away 60 % of my royalties for 5 years — the only way this is a bargain is if you plan to sell small numbers of books, something no author should have in their plan.)

If an author wants to take self - publishing seriously, it would probably be better (and more dignified) to sell a smaller number of books, but keep a larger amount of your profit.

Not exact matches

Good vs. Bad Communicators: A small number of agents offer representation via email but don't offer to get on the phone for a meet - and - greet... and / or you never hear from them after that until if / when they sell your book.

Unfortunately, with a small number of bookstores and libraries to support local book sales, there are challenges for publishers selling within the country.

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There are a small number of books that sell fabulously well, and then a narrow long tail.

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Certainly, Amazon has issues too, however, the big traditional publishers, Barnes and Noble, and the group of literary agents connected to this model have made a very good living from working with a relatively small number of authors that sell a lot of books.

And then there's the fact that many people here don't view Amazon as a bookseller at all because many people using Amazon don't buy books; it sells vast numbers of things to vast numbers of people, but buying books is fairly small fry.

What is significant in people who do buy books is that deep discounting on a small number of titles results in distrust because the general public doesn't realise that these books are being sold at a loss, and therefore question why other books are not similarly discounted.

Bear in mind it's entirely possible that Amazon sells 1.74 times as many books at $ 9.99 than at $ 14.99, but then Amazon deals with gross numbers of product, while publishers deal with somewhat smaller numbers, and the author, of course, deals with only her own list of books.

This can be dangerous — it's easy to get tricked by the savings and order more books than you could possibly sell — but if you have serious plans to hit the con circuit or otherwise know you can regularly move a small number of books, increasing your print run by 100 or 150 copies can be worth it if it lets you bring the cover price down, even if selling through them takes a few years.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of that, it's important to keep in mind that ebooks are still only a relatively small percentage of overall books sold — somewhere between 15 - 25 %, depending on who you talk to and which numbers you go by, and Amazon sales as a percentage of total books sold is 27 - 30 %.

Additionally, with print books, retailers contracted with a publisher to buy a certain number of copies and then returned those they couldn't sell for a small percentage back.

I'm not a breakout success in any genre, and my books are rarely in the top sales ranking on Amazon, so this demonstrates what you can do with a long term approach of building a back - list that sells small numbers consistently on multiple platforms.

You may have a small percentage of self - published authors who break out with readers, but you can just as easily find authors who were picked up by publishers who would never have sold an equal number of books on their own without the help of a brand and professional support.

If we don't see its demise, we clearly are seeing smaller numbers of books sold in these stores, more diversification of products in an effort to broaden the customer base, and experimentation with attractions such as restaurants.

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