Sentences with phrase «spend on buying book»

The money you may be tempted to spend on buying book reviews can be either saved or spent in other aspects of your book promotion campaign.

Not exact matches

Do not buy my books, kit, or coaching, or spend money on a patent or prototype.

This means that over the last 30 years of buying and reading books, I have spent at least $ 45,000 on books.

The book sounds great — I confess I bought the first substitutions book and haven't really spent much time with it because I bought it on holiday and when I got home it disappeared in the pile of goodies I had bought.

We buy cheap average to balance the books and then spend a fortune on a player to appease fan unrest instead of constantly improving our squad we constantly patch it up!

I bought books on mountaineering, and I spent one whole day in Zurich trying to buy climbing shoes, but nobody knew what I was talking about.

Let's face it, you could go out and buy any book on psoriasis (you may have already) and all you're usually left with is a book that will likely spend the remainder of its life collecting dust on your bookshelf or jumping from garage sale to garage sale.

I bought every health book out there, watched all the shows, and spent hours on the Internet researching protocols for my health and body.

But seriously I spent forty something dollars the last time I bought books and I will definitely be buying again soon... That is seriously about 1/4 the price of an ereader WASTED on real paper books....

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

Along the same lines, parents (53 %) are also more likely than the public (46 %) to think money should be spent on reducing class size rather than increasing teacher salaries or buying new books and technologies — unless they are told the relative cost of each policy.

If I were repairing a 10 year old car, I'd buy a used one too rather than spend nearly 20 % of the book value of the car on a brand new replacement part.

Last year I read 45 ebooks and 8 paper books, but I actually spent more on those physical books as I did in the Kindle store (a total about # 70 on the paper ones, and # 44.82 on ebooks — all the ebooks I've bought and not read yet [if I ever will, as I continue to buy faster than I read] pretty much equal the total spend though).

(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.

However much time you spend on getting people to your book sales page, they won't download a sample or buy the book if the cover isn't enticing enough.

For example, let's say your books cost $ 10 for people to buy on Amazon, you'd only have to sell 30 extra books to make back every penny you spend on the course.

Spending a lot of money on your first book is like buying all the toys for your first kid, and making the second kid you never planned to have use hand - me - downs.

Buy the Voyage and spend the $ 90 on books.

I read an interview where they said most authors will buy 100 copies of their book and spend $ 3000 - $ 4000 on marketing.

I could spend hours just perusing the wide selection of books that are available and make mental notes to either buy this on Amazon and purchase this one today!

No sideloading means I won't be buying any more nook books as long as this policy endures, and I usually spend a couple hundred dollars on ebooks every year.

It seems like spending money on promo doesn't necessarily get people to buy your book, it gets people to look at it.

Consumers save money if they would have bought the $ 14 book anyway, and maybe they spend the saved $ 4 on one of mine, or on more books in general.

Personally, as something who spends about $ 4,000 a year on books (please don't rat me out to my wife...) I prefer the ebook format and I've taken big fat history tomes, sold them as used books, and bought the ebook version so I can read without breaking my wrists.

And the people who spend $ 5000 on an author website and buy 50K Twitter followers may not be selling any books at all.

If money is a challenge — at least get your book edited; have a professional cover designer create your cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space — at least you've get the visuals of a solid book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).

Most parenting books spend their time advising parents on how to «improve» their children, with modest lip - service to the roles that the parents themselves are modeling - probably because most adults don't much like being criticized and they're the ones buying the books!

I read so much, in fact, that one of my exes used to complain that I spent all my money on booze and books, which inconveniently couldn't be bought at the same locations.

On the other hand, I already spend a couple of hundred a month with them, and this might cut that down depending on their inventory (I just discovered an author and read 14 books by her this past week; only 1 of those is in the KU inventory) and I can always buy something if I'm sure I'll want to re-read iOn the other hand, I already spend a couple of hundred a month with them, and this might cut that down depending on their inventory (I just discovered an author and read 14 books by her this past week; only 1 of those is in the KU inventory) and I can always buy something if I'm sure I'll want to re-read ion their inventory (I just discovered an author and read 14 books by her this past week; only 1 of those is in the KU inventory) and I can always buy something if I'm sure I'll want to re-read it.

I find I tend to buy under the ten dollar mark on epubs, though I have no problem spending far more than that on a «dead tree» book.

(For a publisher doing a profit and loss in Traditional Publishing, a book is bought, but expenses have already been spent on the book before the author is offered a contract.

I've been known to unfollow people who spent all their tweets on eith «buy my book!»

Every month Amazon send out the royalty money, and I'll bet a good percentage of it comes right back as the authors spend it gifting books for promotion and buying stuff from Amazon they'd never have considered if they weren't on the site all the time.

I don't spend a lot of money on books, and I don't often buy books from new authors.

This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with more digital books said to have been sold in the US this year than hardbacks we can all see that a publishing revolution is on us.

They are on Twitter to promote themselves, not by constantly spamming people with buy my books links, but also not to spend most of their time in private conversation.

If I was going to buy an ebook reader this holiday season, I would clearly spend the extra $ 100 and get the Nook Color over any basic ebook reader just because it delivers so much more content in a rich colorful manner, making it an even more ideal device for reading not only books, but magazines, newspapers and content on the Web.

I think writers, wannabe - writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.

The fee you'll pay to get your book reviewed by me is only a fee for reading your book and to buy it on Amazon Kindle store if you spend a minimun of 45 euros.

If we're buying books, we want to spend our money on the good stuff.

That's dollars he won't be able to spend on additional books... Consider this: if a customer buys 5 self - published books, 3 of them beeing rubbish... He'll stil have bought 2 good books instead of one, with 4 $ going to the good authors nstead of 2 $... And after he'll have posted reviews on the 5 books, the 3 rubbish ones will have less chances of beeing bought by other customers, whereas the good ones will sell better, thus enhancing the good author's sales.

Posting on forums asking people to buy your book simply shows that you've not spent the time in understanding how social media and marketing works.

Now, this means he could go on a crazy spending spree and buy books through his reader that I'd be paying for, so you have to trust the folks on your account.

One of the several reasons I haven't bought into the Amazon ecosystem... I don't choose to share how much I've read of a book, and at what times, and how long I spent on each page.

(Which raises another good point: if there are people out there willing to buy printed books and laboriously scan them, why wouldn't they spend less money on a legal digital file and just screencap it?

Non of the crap above helped my kindle fire ive spent fays trying to fix it I cant even buy books Wasn't that the point of the kindle fire?Its stupid that you cant buy books on something made for books.

It's the idea that dear Suzanne's inability to control her impulse spending issues is Amazon's fault because they forced her to go to Barnes and Noble to buy a book she needed and forced her to spend a boatload (that wasn't the word I was originally going to use, but I'm trying to be polite here) on impulse buys.

With a new title costing $ 10 compared to $ 25 - $ 28 in hardcover, I find buying a book on the Kindle to be very satisfying — it scratches my itch and leaves me with a feeling of «I saved money» (even though I'm spending money on a book I might not have purchased otherwise)

According to Library Journal's 2012 Book Buying Survey, print books account for on average 61 % of libraries» spending on materials, compared with 20 % for media and 4 % for e-books.

However much time you spend on getting people to your book sales page, they won't download a sample or buy the book if the cover isn't enticing.