Sentences with phrase «single author sales»

Indie ebooks (including single author sales) account for around 40 % of the total US ebook sales

Not exact matches

Ask successful authors what single method guarantees book sales, and the answer isn't «great editing» or a «knock - em - dead cover», but the power of their email list to enthuse readers, make their books visible and generate reviews and sales.

Authors with short works for sale on Amazon can suggest their story for the Singles store by sending a link to their book's detail page to [e-mail].

Every participant in the Thor program receives a single title website where the content is author controlled and sales tied into Amazon.

However, as you can see in the details on this page, I've designed AMC Premium for the author that wishes to take their book marketing and sales to the next level using the tools that the best selling authors use every single day!

Mark Coker presents Author R. L. Mathewson On the Secrets to Her Success posted at Smashwords Blog, saying, «This author's book was selling a respectable 5 or 6 copies a day at the Apple iBookstore, and then a single update of her cover image sparked an explosive increase in sales, topping out at over 1,500 copies Author R. L. Mathewson On the Secrets to Her Success posted at Smashwords Blog, saying, «This author's book was selling a respectable 5 or 6 copies a day at the Apple iBookstore, and then a single update of her cover image sparked an explosive increase in sales, topping out at over 1,500 copies author's book was selling a respectable 5 or 6 copies a day at the Apple iBookstore, and then a single update of her cover image sparked an explosive increase in sales, topping out at over 1,500 copies a day.

But today, BookBaby announced that it will pay its authors for sales made in its new BookShop weekly... yes, every single Monday.

That accomplishment affords them the privilege of paying $ 90 per year in membership dues to an organization who is working with publishers to bring down Amazon, the single largest retailer who makes the majority of sales happen for the majority of authors.

Since the national organization is now admitting self - published authors (who meet a minimum income requirement for sales on a single title) into their Published Author Network, the chapter contests have relaxed their rules.

The problem with this is I have yet to meet a single author who does not envision making money from the sale of their book.

But when you look closer at ebook sales, the percentage controlled by self - published authors is much higher... These indie authors are becoming, every single year, a more potent voice in publishing.

For these authors, a single borrow can be worth four or five actual sales.

Then, we consolidate sales from many different sources into a single monthly statement for each author.

In any case the savvy author will not be restricting themselves to one single aggregator but will explore each and use them all to maximise global reach and maximise global sales.

* Opportunity available for those print book authors whose eBook sales [of a single title] have reached 1,000 units in the past year.

Most authors can never hope to reach sales in the hundreds of thousands for a single month, but there are more than a few who sell anywhere from 800 to 20,000.

As I said before, the aggregators of sales by hundreds of authors benefited where the single author did not.

Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, CreateSpace, Apple, and other retailers are included, as is OverDrive, placing important data in one single location for authors to track and check on their sales activity.

The in - store promotion is for «those print book authors whose eBook sales [of a single title] have reached 500 units in the past year.»

B&N defines as: the program is for «eligible» NOOK Press authors, defined as «those print book authors whose eBook sales [of a single title] have reached 1,000 units in the past year.»

Paidcontent also interviewed several Kindle Single authors, and found that some have already raked in tens of thousands of dollars from sales of the short - form e-books.

I know a YA author who reached 10K in sales in a year for a single title.

And 35 cents is what some traditional authors make on the sale of a single mass market paperback.

If you do break into the thousands - of - sales range (single book, within a year of launch), it is a sign that you've moved beyond your direct sphere of influence — people are buying your book because they like the novel (not the author).

In addition to sharing overall sales information about the Kindle Singles program, Amazon allowed Kindle Singles authors to break their non-disclosure agreements and share their sales figures with me.

Author: Frank D. Gilroy Bio: Author of the 1965 play «The Subject Was Roses,» which won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Kindle Single: «Lake,» $ 1.99 (11/2011) Sales: 12,500 as of February 2012 Estimated royalties -LRB-[price * number of copies sold] * 0.70): $ 17,412.50

Nielsen BookScan does not provide single - day sales, but Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James is the only author this year to have hit over 100,000 units in a single week in «e» and «p» this year; the previous author to do it was Alex Ferguson in December 2013.

What is more surprising is if we look at the daily revenue to authors, the earnings based on indie - published titles combined with Amazon, and uncategorized single - author publisher significantly downplays the previous champion of gross sales in the previous chart.

If we assume that Amazon has even as high as 70 % of the market for indie ebook sales, authors may be giving up 30 % of their potential earnings in order to reap 13 % more from a single outlet.

This year, we compared authors making over $ 100,000 in a single year vs. authors who earn less than $ 500 / month from book sales.

10 startups want to create lending websites for Kindle owners, but not a single startup is willing to create a tracking tool for authors which lets them see which of their actions actually result in sales.

That means that for customers who want to spend 15 $ in books, in the second case 2 $ will go to the author (one single sale), while in the first one, the author'll get 10 $... With such a royalty rate, if the author sells as many books when self - published as when publisher - published, why have the customer pay 13 $ more?

Previous analyses of book sales and author earnings have left out Amazon, the biggest single book retailer.

In Lukeman's example, he cites 10,000 sales (in a year, single novel) as a «success» on an advance of $ 3,000 for the author, but a «failure» on an advance of $ 200,000.

Howey and Guy mean by «definitive» is, as Vanessa Amorosi's song has it, «absolutely everybody» is in their sights now: they've moved beyond their earlier surveys» focus on bestsellers to create a wider data set, which they describe as «a complete picture of Amazon author earnings — ebook, print, and audio sales combined — for every single author, traditionally published or indie, who is making any significant Amazon sales today whatsoever.»

Howey's also gathering user - submitted data, so it'd be interesting to see if we could run the same Amazon Sales Rank methodology for a single book for an extended length of time (i.e., not for a single snapshot) and then bump that up against what the author actually reports getting for the period in question.

So I created Author Marketing Club for the author that wishes to take their book marketing and sales to the next level using the tools that the best selling authors use every singlAuthor Marketing Club for the author that wishes to take their book marketing and sales to the next level using the tools that the best selling authors use every singlauthor that wishes to take their book marketing and sales to the next level using the tools that the best selling authors use every single day.

The second step involves sales: On - the - shelf stocking opportunity in stores is «available for those print book authors whose eBook sales [of a single title] have reached 1,000 units in the past year.»

Authors, particularly self - published authors, often go to great lengths to promote the sale of single copies of theirAuthors, particularly self - published authors, often go to great lengths to promote the sale of single copies of theirauthors, often go to great lengths to promote the sale of single copies of their books.

The big caveat here is that if we assume Amazon has even as high as 70 % of the market for indie ebook sales, authors may be giving up 30 % of their potential earnings in order to reap 13 % more from a single outlet.

What They Left Out The information they don't have comes from sites who do not report e-book sales, and the hundreds of indie publishers, from small press to single authors, who also do not report sales numbers to the AAP.

I genuinely hope every single Hachette author calls in and asks for their sales figures and that Hachette gets them the info as quickly as they did Preston.

Amazon's success with Kindle Unlimited, which now offers over 1 million books almost exclusively supplied by indie authors is going to gut the market for single copy sales at Amazon.