Sentences with phrase «subsequent books do»

More common than not is what's known as the «death spiral,» where subsequent books do less well, so bookstores order fewer copies of the following book.

Not exact matches

I'll leave the final word to Kennedy, who in subsequent editions of his book addressed the rise of new - fangled sales channels like email and the web: ««What works» does not change significantly whether carving it on a rock, having it put on papyrus by a calligrapher, or posting it on a web site.»

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.

I think what is being discussed in the article and subsequent book have a lot to do with mutual respect more than anything else.

In subsequent years, Van Dyke continued his television work (he enjoyed a lengthy run on the sitcom Yes, Dear as Big Jimmy Hughes), did standup comedy bookings around the country, and emceed advertisements for various brands, products, and companies, including Big Lots.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

The plot of the book, of course, has little to do with the subsequent tale (Tolkien made cosmetic changes to the novel to align it better with the sequel — nothing too drastic), but The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goes out of its way to connect these long - winded cinematic adaptations to the ones that preceded it.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

Do you want to build a fan base for subsequent books?

And how do publishers decide which books — excluding those by famous people, and specifically fiction (nonfiction seems like an easier sell)-- will get the larger advances and the subsequent marketing push?

Not only did they plant the seeds for my first published novel, but while writing Viking Warrior Rising and the subsequent books in the series, the landscape and traditions that shape my immortal Norse warriors appeared vividly in my mind.

What do you do to promote your permafree title and keep the sales of subsequent books rolling in month after month?

But I didn't go ahead with that for the subsequent books because they were looking for world English rights.

Contrary to some of what was described at top, if readers enjoy the first book in a series, they DO very often go ahead and buy the subsequent books.

If your first (and second, third, etc.) book does not sell well, the chances of you getting subsequent deals decrease exponentially.

But both of them are employing what I'd call «investment marketing»: doing things on behalf of their books that build their capabilities to do more on behalf of subsequent books.

Although the results of my first ad were impressive, subsequent ad results haven't been quite as earth - shattering, partly because as a group, my series of books is doing better.

But I recall at the time of writing I did have a couple of vague ideas in the back of my brain about subsequent books in the Elemental Riders «world» — Earth Riders, anyone?

Don't let anxiety over what might happen with the first book interfere with the writing of subsequent books.

That said, subsequent promotions do not help as much and I make less money on borrows since I sell my books at $ 4.99 and $ 5.99.

The book and subsequent articles point out precisely the opposite: when you bought the house in the first place you did leverage, because you had no equity to balance the loan; your lender had the strangle hold on your ownership of the property.

He continued through a decade of relative warlessness, at least in Western Europe and the U.S. (one of his books, Soldiers: The Nineties, chronicled the amorphous roles of men in uniform during this time), but endless technological revolutions (when he started, Tillmans used to promise collectors reprints of his digitally processed images should they fade, and they inevitably did; now, they rarely do), and through a subsequent decade of drawn - out international tensions (soldiers have definite jobs again).

Svensmark's overstatements (and associated book sales) regarding GCR theory do not look like suppressed breakthroughs in retrospect, given subsequent evaluation of the claims did not go well.

For the same reasons as the absurd topics listed above, references to the «Slaying the Sky Dragon» Book and subsequent group «Principia Scientific» which have the misguided idea that the greenhouse effect doesn't exist, and have elevated that idea into active zealotry, WUWT is a «Slayer Free Zone».