Sentences with phrase «short shelf of books»
His studies of the American founding and of such iconic presidents as Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan are on the short shelf of books indispensable to an understanding of American political culture.
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A shelf full of books — eight novels, seven collections of short stories, three memoirs, and 11 works for children, to be exact — explore the same theme as his recent novel Shosha: the theme of cosmic exile, wherein God has forgotten his graciousness.
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.
The book hits shelves in a short 3 weeks (on August 16th) and I'm overwhelmed by a feeling of thanks.
Harlan Ellison has ranted about the extremely short shelf life of most paper books.
If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.
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.
Rrrrandy — You bring up a very important point: the short shelf - life of a traditionally published book.