Sentences with phrase «sell the book because»

A few of his peers hailed him as a genius, but many bookstores refused to sell his book because of its explicit content.

There are endless stories of the difficulties authors have had selling a book because it didn't fit into a particular niche at the time, but once that book goes on to be successful then suddenly there are a flood of other books.

Storytelling sells books because people get caught up in the story and the feelings around the story.

Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer's Digest and current columnist for Publishers Weekly defines author platform in her wonderfully succinct way, as «an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.»

Traditional publishers are highly motivated to sell your book because they've invested tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to produce your book.

Vanity publishers aren't motivated to sell your book because they make almost all of their money off of the authors who pay them to publish their books.

That way, when the publisher calls on the buyer at Barnes & Noble, they can say, «The author has this fabulous thing planned, and it'll help sell books because...»

The only dependable expression of the link between book publicity and book sales, unfortunately, is a negative one: if you don't promote your book, then you'll probably sell no books because nobody will know about it.

Yet, for all his grammar perfection, he couldn't sell a book because he couldn't tell a story.

The old Google Books system was not indicative to selling books because it basically used the same interface as Android apps.

Simply put, if you want to learn the difference between selling no books because yours is lost and Amazon, and selling lots and building a killer platform, then read this book!

However, it can still help sell the book because it will ensure that potential readers know exactly what they are getting into before picking up your book.

I'm thrilled that ANY author is publishing / selling books because that means readers are buying books.

Speaking is one of the best ways to sell books because people are getting to know, like, and trust you.

The author platform is, «an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.»

The logic also impresses me: we want to support local authors so we are going to not sell their books because not selling will be better for the authors in the long run.

But by far the easiest explanation is: an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.

«The name of Penguin sells books because people go to shops and think «Someone at Penguin has chosen this book».

I have read reports from 2 authors this week who were able to use a BookBub ad in conjunction with having their books in KDP Select (one using free days, another 99 cents) and both of them had very good results and the borrows that increased for them did help them also sell books because of longer term visibility.

And loving your book is a key ingredient to selling your book because word - of - mouth is only grown out of love.

Not exact matches

In both Dalio's and my cases, the benefits we enjoyed came about precisely because neither of us had set out to get clients, only to help people (and sell books, of course).

In essence, publishers only cared about books that had the potential to sell a lot of copies, because that's the only way they make money.

That's pretty amazing because if other big names follow suit, the whole book - selling dichotomy will change dramatically.

Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

Start building a powerful and visible personal brand even before you begin writing your book, because it is going to be the most valuable asset you have to evaluate your audience, find your voice, sell your book, get reviews and get noticed by the press.

We went after it because 20 million books were sold.

If you are selling products via another platform, writing a business book makes sense because it will generate new sales leads.

It is not a substitute or replacement but a modern companion to the original best - selling Think and Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill because the people and principles are timeless.

Because you can earn thousands of dollars selling your consulting, coaching, products, programs and books — even if your audience is small.

When I wrote the book Low Profile Selling, I wanted to get away from the term «closing» because it's considered by some as too hard - sell.

When we wrote this summary guy there was a little bit more for ourselves than really selling it to be quite honest with you because we wanted to basically ensure that every word and every chapter this book is something that we fully understood.

Because AIG sells for less than book value, each share it repurchases increases the book value of the remaining shares.

Munger recognized that «Grahamites... realized that some company that was selling at 2 or 3 times book value could still be a hell of a bargain because of momentum implicit in its position, sometimes combined with an unusual managerial skill plainly present in some individual or other, or some system or other.

And I can say that because, especially back then, back in the «90s apologetics books didn't sell.

LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).

The truth is, I want to sell a lot of books because I want to make a living doing what I love.

Was it all just a bunch of Americans trying to make a living by selling books about things that were very important just because they declared them to be so?

«They won't let me use the word «vagina» in my book because we have to sell it to Christian bookstores, which apparently have a thing against vaginas.

Yet none of the voices from the journalistic and political establishments dared criticize Imus because he sells their books big time.

This doesn't make sense, because the book of revelation says» and no one could buy or sell unless they had they had the number of his name»» the number is 666 ″ how can you buy or sell going to a local church on a Sunday?

However, the Mesa Police Department consulted experts who gave an estimate of $ 40,000 because pages had been taken out of the book and sold.

The New York Times best - selling book Freakonomics was a hit because it was written by «a rogue economist exploring the hidden side of everything» and Peter Thiel, in his best - selling book Zero to One, says «successful people find value in unexpected places.»

Various Usborne books on art, science, history, and cooking themes; I sell these, though not very proactively and mostly because I want them for myself, at a discount.

Some firms can fend off acquisitions because families, universities or religious orders own them, but even they are affected by the workings of the «complex,» especially by the difficulties of selling through chain stores, which have little interest in books that, however high their quality, appeal to a limited audience.

I'm telling you this because we'd of course love to see the books in more stores, but that depends on how this first round sells.

I love your argument that the Bible is real because it's the best selling book of all time....

They're called Mormons because Joseph Smith knew that even he couldn't sell a religion based on something called The Book of Moron.

So are God's words changed and sold as a fact... just because someone won getting a book published.)

For the young pastors in the group, this smacked of self - promotion, and Malphurs seemed to sense this, because when he was done, he said, «Well, enough of selling my own books.»

I've been on the fence about buying the Milk Bar book because I know some recipes can be time intensive but I think you just sold me on it!