Shelf Life -
The shelf life of a book refers to how long an unsold book stays on the sales floor before it is replaced by another title.
Awards have been known to boost sales, through lengthening
the shelf life of a book.
Not exact matches
It won't replace a real
book, but the reader in your
life will thank you when they realize the convenience
of having a whole
shelf's worth
of titles in their bag.
Axovant Sciences» adjunct approach, top -
shelf leadership, and $ 320 million stockpile
of cash on the
books simply gives me more confidence in it than Anavex
Life Sciences, which recently moved its shares from the wild west
of the pink sheets to the NASDAQ exchange.
Megan, who's started a dialogue with Ellen Ruppel Shell (author
of the new
book Cheap), has some ruminations on the infamous maker
of shelves with short
shelf lives.
My ex-roommate's girlfriend has my copy
of Heidi's first
book, and so I have been
living without her amazing images and recipes on my cookbook
shelf for months now (scheming for its return, but not particularly hopeful).
Most
of our
books live in June's room, on the wall
of shelves there, but that's down the hall from the kitchen, and I wanted to have my most - used, best - loved, most - consulted
books within reach.
«This
book features meticulously researched and written chapters by more than 50 Culinology professionals on topics including the principles
of food science, food safety and spoilage,
shelf life extensions, packaging, nutritious food product development, commercialization and so much more,» RCA Executive Director Suzanne Bohle described.
For each kind
of produce, the
book lists nutritional information, seasonal growing patterns,
shelf life and storage information.
It has been tweaked from the recipe in her
book and uses high - quality ingredients, such as Expandex Modified Tapioca Starch that extends the
shelf life of baked goods.
I was about to go get those «intentional
living»
books off my
shelf to mail to you — SOMEone should get some use out
of them, right?
Sitting amid floor - to - ceiling
shelves overflowing with papers, boxes
of journals, and textbooks on oncology, AIDS, medical virology, biochemistry, and immunology, Duesberg responds to a question about one
book, Thou Shalt Not Think: The Brutally Frank Guide to
Life by David Jack.
Its a really interesting subject, and one
of those
books that has a very limited
shelf -
life - it covers a subject that is moving very, very quickly.
His latest
book, The Art
of Breathing: The Secret to
Living Mindfully was published in March 2018 and is on
shelves now.
I went and I bought the first edition
book from 1972, the year I was born, and I still have it on my
shelf, it's a reminder that the knowledge has always been there but people ignore it and because
of that I was fat for more than half my
life.
Consider the basic movements you do in everyday
life: reaching for a
book on the top
shelf, twisting to grab a cup
of tea or crouching down to tie your shoe.
The current
shelves are decent, but given the fact that these built in
book cases take up the majority
of wall space in the
living room means they are worth focusing on improving.
In this space he can rest, but also be welcomed to dream a
life full
of adventure thanks to
shelves stacked with
books, fun patterns, and a
life - size (well, almost) giraffe.
I'll be there as a panelist to teach authors on how I used social media to not only help my first
book, The Perils
of Cyber-Dating become a bestseller on it's launch date, but to extend it's
shelf life as a best - seller continuously for two years!
I used my own social media strategies to help the
book become a bestseller and to extend the
shelf -
life of the title.
The greatest strength
of Disney's
live - action remake
of its animated semi-classic The Jungle
Book is its top -
shelf celebrity voice talent, with skilled entertainers like Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Garry Shandling popping up for a memorable scene or two (alongside the likes
of Bill Murray, Idris Elba, and Ben Kingsley).
Their
shelves — always an important, revealing detail in Haneke's dramas — are bulging with music and art
books, literature, and CDs; the
living room remains centered on a grand piano which is slightly out
of tune.
Paul Chudecki dons goggles and gauntlets / Atlantic Alliance — If Austin's A90 could talk it would be with a pronounced mid-Atlantic accent / The Greatest Race — Marc Douzey uncovers some astounding pictures
of the 1914 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France / Cars in My
Life — A final peep at John Moulton's album / Special
Book Offer from our enthusiast's book shelf / The French Brooklands III — Bill Boddy continues the Montlhery story / Four into Three — Michael Worthington - Williams on Merrall Brown / SS to XK — In our free 20 - page supplement celebrating 75 years of Jaguar we look at the greatest of the marque's sporting road c
Book Offer from our enthusiast's
book shelf / The French Brooklands III — Bill Boddy continues the Montlhery story / Four into Three — Michael Worthington - Williams on Merrall Brown / SS to XK — In our free 20 - page supplement celebrating 75 years of Jaguar we look at the greatest of the marque's sporting road c
book shelf / The French Brooklands III — Bill Boddy continues the Montlhery story / Four into Three — Michael Worthington - Williams on Merrall Brown / SS to XK — In our free 20 - page supplement celebrating 75 years
of Jaguar we look at the greatest
of the marque's sporting road cars.
In addition, if you go with a company like CreateSpace (a subsidiary
of Amazon), you don't have to worry about the «
shelf life»
of your memoir since you can always order copies
of your
book.
Choosing a format (print or electronic) for your self published
book could determine the
shelf life and accessibility
of your work now and into the future.
(Besides fewer dollars per sale, a traditional
book has a literal
shelf life; once your publisher wants to give that
shelf space to their next writer, most
of your
book's trad - published benefits are * dead * unless you get famous enough to re-impress them, and / or you understand how to get your rights back.
Unlike those
books lining the
shelves in your
living room, the ownership
of books in the amorphous digital realm is much less clearcut.
Physical
books live on
shelves and move in packages that are neatly labelled with all kinds
of useful information.
If your
book doesn't sell in the first four months
of bookstore
life, it gets remaindered, and disappears from bookstore
shelves.
You don't actually stock or sell the
books on your
shelves in real
life — but if any readers take up your recommendations and buy a
book you've suggested, the real -
life bricks - and - mortar store that you've recommended will be sent a share
of the profit (the rest, presumably, being absorbed by the website's founders).
Harlan Ellison has ranted about the extremely short
shelf life of most paper
books.
Shelf Life Time an unsold
book remains on the
shelf of a retail store before being replaced by fresh or better selling stock.
I knew nothing about Sedaris when I first found his
book in the bookstore (I
live in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, where
book selections are pretty limited but sometimes, if I'm lucky, I might find some «gems» in one
of the
shelves).
Print
books have a fairly low
shelf life, the average title is sitting inside
of a bookstore for about three months before its cycled away for the next batch.
A
book that was once
live but has now been taken down, for example, won't come as a surprise to the author who removed it from Amazon's
shelves, so why dedicate so much
of the screen to informing an author that his
book is available for purchase?
You have to sell a heap
of books to make a decent
living, and the truth is,
shelf space has shrunk insanely over the past five years.
E-
books are «forever» (unlike
books like category romance, which, according to Debbie Macomber, have the
shelf -
life of cottage cheese).
-LSB-...] Cover Cafe's post, Future
of Publishing: Why Print
Books Have Plenty of Shelf Life Yet, details four facts about print books that keep them alive in our hearts and on the she
Books Have Plenty
of Shelf
Life Yet, details four facts about print
books that keep them alive in our hearts and on the she
books that keep them alive in our hearts and on the
shelves!
Libraries (physical or on the internet) are amazing places with a wealth
of information, but just because you pick one random
book of the
shelf doesn't mean that it is going to change your
life.
It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower
of perfectly good unread
books next to my bed, not to mention the
shelves of books in the
living room I've been meaning to reread.
I hope you all remember the palace in beauty and the beast and the big
shelves and those beautiful
books just like that here we are
living in the virtual world
of books that is Goodreads so here we can play games on
books, have loads
of trivia and discussion.
One
of my favorite things about the
life of a
book - lover is discovering new writers — and not just writers who are new to me (although, that's always a welcome surprise) but writers who are new to everybody: new to readers, new to publishing, new to bookstore
shelves.
What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the
shelf -
life of new
books in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 %
of hardcover and paperbacks end up in landfills; (4) the timeframe between
book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested in authors who only have one
book up their sleeves.
Most
books today — even those which receive huge advances
of money — have a bookstore
shelf -
life of only eight months.
The Wreath Recipe
Book inspires readers to design an array
of living sculptures to hang on your wall, door or ceiling throughout the year — or, alternatively, to use the same ingredients to make arrangements for
shelves and tables.
I still have
shelves full
of books in my
life and I still like the comforable familiarity
of turning printed pages before falling asleep at night.
The second was a culmination
of so many things — realizing the work
of promoting my novel was my responsibility, that
books are only on the
shelves for 2 - 3 months (if a bookstore even elects to carry a debut novel), and that if my first
book didn't earn its advance (which I understand most don't), my writing career would be short -
lived.
Obviously, a
book about a technology topic has a shorter
shelf life than the biography
of a historical figure, but readers don't lose interest in that tech
book in three months.
With romance novels dominating so many
shelves at bookstores, the idea
of writing romance
books for a
living is appealing to many.
Author Steve Almond explores DIY ways to promote, market, and extend the «
shelf life»
of a self - published
book.