Sentences with phrase «sold by book publishers»

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She did it in part by selling off a 7.8 % stake in TV broadcaster Mediaset and replacing the CEO of the group's core business, Mondadori, Italy's leading book and magazine publisher, where she is pushing an aggressive digital transformation.

Seven different books by Jesus scholars have been on Publisher's Weekly ten best - selling lists in the 1990's.

Within a few months of its modest first printing (10,000 copies), and even though it was scarcely noticed by reviewers, the book began to sell so briskly the publisher moved to multiple reprintings.

We wrote our book that summer and when we tried to sell it, book publishers didn't know who we were - while we were working moms, we weren't experts in the parenting market and so, we began to build our platform by hosting high profile events for working moms featuring women at the top of their game balancing work and family.

The writer relates how he sold the book based on a 100 - page sample, and had Hollywood throwing money at him within two days of its acceptance by a publisher.

License Continuation Post-Termination: This sneaky little clause can wreak havoc for those whose self - published book has been picked up by a traditional publisher — meaning that the self - publisher can keep selling your work for a full year after you've terminated your contract.

Guest Post by Nina Amir Before sharing an excerpt from Nina Amir's new book, The Author Training Manual (Develop Markets, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Pu...

Step Four: If the publisher makes an offer, by then you will have some sales history on the book to see how it is selling.

By that, he means that you should not count on any help from the publisher in selling the book.

Publishers and authors can submit their content and make it available to Kindle customers by using Amazon's new Digital Text Platform (DTP), a fast and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload and sell their books in the Kindle Store.

However, authors of such books can certainly make themselves more attractive to literary agents and publishers by bolstering their platform, since having influence and a large following is one indicator of an author's ability to get exposure and sell books.

But a retailer needs to sell the books that people want, and in January 2010, Amazon ceded to the agency model used by Macmillan and other publishers.

The next post discusses the benefit of having your book sold and distributed to bookstores by a traditional publisher or by a self - publishing service provider that is affiliated with a traditional publisher.

Fearing a future where books are sold almost exclusively by one retailer, publishers have already tried to break Amazon's stranglehold.

Originally bookshops had to buy their stock at a price set by the publisher, and then they sold the books at a price they wished to sell them.

I was told by my ex-small press publisher that in order to sell 1,000 books I would need 20K + engaged followers across every social media platform you can name.

Publishing expert Alan Rinzler explained in an interview at Forbes, «By definition, the old model of the author platform was the writer's public visibility and reputation that the publisher's publicity department used to promote and sell the book... We insisted on a stellar track record in book sales and appearances on radio and TV.

As a publisher, we also feel a responsibility to our booksellers; which is why each A&M title is supported by an extensive marketing plan designed to sell books.

As you consider the traditional publishing route, understand that publishers exist to make money by selling books in volume.

The Book Publisher's Handbook by Eric Kampmann The Self - Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book by Dan Poynter The Complete Guide to Self - Publishing by Tom and Marilyn Ross 1001 Ways to Market Your Books by John Kremer Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self - Publishers by Tad Crawford Getting It Printed by Mark Beach and Eric Kenly Beyond the Bookstore by Brian Jud Publishing for Profit by Thomas Woll Red Hot Internet Publicity by Penny Sansevieri

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Hundreds of Print on Demand - POD companies are willing to help with your book, selling you a package with one of their ISBNs, publishing your book, and paying you a royalty on your book sales.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

The Kindle can only download books from Amazon's store, while Sony's Readers can display texts sold in the «epub» format - an open standard supported by the International Digital Publishing Forum that numerous publishers use to make e-books.

The classic books include: AuthorYOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms by Judith Briles How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & BooBoos by Judith Briles 1001 Ways to Market Your Book by John Kremer How to Make Real Money Selling Books by Brian Jud APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawbooks include: AuthorYOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms by Judith Briles How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & BooBoos by Judith Briles 1001 Ways to Market Your Book by John Kremer How to Make Real Money Selling Books by Brian Jud APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy KawBooks by Brian Jud APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki

The online bookstore, offered exclusively to BooksJustBooks.com customers, helps small publishers sell books on the Internet at a fraction of the cost charged by other online stores like Amazon.

Best - selling author and award - winning publisher, Valerie J. Lewis Coleman serves experts and professional speakers to magnify and monetize their message by publishing quality books.

People vote with their wallets, and despite your opinion, the data and facts say the opposite, that Indy books are selling just as well if not better than those published by main stream publishers.

Despite efforts from different major publishers to sell books directly through their own websites, even in the face of pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.

The book was particularly to address the rapidly expanding group of self - published or independent authors — but what author doesn't want to sell more books, even those commissioned by traditional publishers?

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

Getting published by a traditional press might give a writer a bit more «legitimacy,» but the writer still has to put as much if not more work into the process, especially post-publication when the book is suppose to sell and make the publisher a lot of money.

«Authors and publishers have been selling books on Facebook for over six years now by setting up shops with 3rd - party services, and now Facebook wants to get into the act.»

This new model would change the way that books were priced as well as shifting to an «agency» basis whereby Amazon instead of receiving a discount and selling the book at a price of their choosing, would sell books at a price set by the Publisher and receive a commission of 30 % on that price.

Keep in mind that ISBNs are sold by country: authors in the U.K. can buy them from Nielsen Book, while Canadian publishers get ISBNs at no charge through the government.

There's an insane amount of competition for consumers» attention, and only the luckiest, most heavily promoted, and best ebooks will sell in large quantities (by large quantities I mean in the hundreds or thousands; again a reason why publishers, in my view, should not be spending a lot of money creating and distributing ebooks if they expect a return on investment on most of their books).

If the publisher can convince them that they're likely to get more readers or sell more books (and the publisher will, by nature, be more interested in the latter proposition), they might jump on it, knowing that they're dealing with Scenario # 2.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The standard agency commission doesn't just pertain to domestic book sales, but any and all of the book's subsidiary rights sales, whether sold by the agent, author, or publisher.

The sale books you see up front in a B&N store are discount books, published for those shelves only, or high - discount books sold by the publisher for that table.

The mindless idiots on reality shows selling garbage books to the mindless idiots who watch such shows is a typical garbage niche genre that is currently being exploited by traditional publishers none of which has any redeeming literary value whatsoever.

HarperCollins is one of the publishers who initially tried to take some power over online sales of e-books, even launching its own online store to sell books — including the widely beloved Narnia series by C.S. Lewis — directly to readers in 2013.

The agency model was created by Apple who made it a requirement for any publisher who wished to sell books through Apple's iBooks app.

You had to find an agent, and that agent had to be sold by you to represent you, and then that agent had to resell your book to a publisher.

Publishers are concerned that so many successful new titles are sold for $ 9.99 or less on Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic book reader and Fictionwise, an e-book retailer owned by Barnes & Noble Inc..

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronPublisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronpublisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

The previous post in this series discusses the benefit of having your book sold and distributed to bookstores by a traditional publisher or by a self - publishing service provider that is affiliated with a traditional publisher.

Distributor — Distributors are companies hired by publishers that will warehouse, fulfill and sell your book.

The buzz continued that Penguin Random House would open its own e-commerce store since it represents half of all the books sold by U.S. publishers.

If you are fortunate enough to be acquired by a traditional publisher then it typically takes another year to develop a marketing plan, announce your book, and sell it.

As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the price range of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.