Sentences with phrase «taking chances on books»

They do not want to invest money to take a chance on a book that might not end up to be good.

It's not as high as the $ 4.99 or more mark, but you're still making around two dollars a book and the lower price point is going to attract new readers who will be willing to take a chance on your book.

But note that readers are less likely to take a chance on a book with no reviews or with a poor cover at the $ 3.99 price point.

Some might argue that having a professional review as part of the book's description on Amazon (and elsewhere) adds a sheen of professionalism and leads to more readers taking a chance on the book.

I have taken a chance on some books I wasn't sure about and liked them.

If I'm in a bookstore and looking at a title by an author I've never heard of before, then there are three things that make me decide to take a chance on a book.

Having strong book reviews from well - known sources is also another measure of proof for libraries to take a chance on a book.

It's that a new publisher will not want to take a chance on a book whose rights aren't unambiguously free and clear.

And if you believe in your writing, you can not let the negative book reviews kill your sales and dissuade potential readers from taking a chance on your books.

5K of those I paid for, so they're basically worthless, but 2K should be new readers who are taking a chance on the book — and now that I'm ranked so highly, I hope I'll get several thousand more in the next 2 days.

More importantly, it means we'll take a chance on books that might not seem to be worth the cost of a paperback.

How will you communicate across the Interverse to compel them to take a chance on your book?

After all, not everyone who decides to take a chance on my book will be in my target, and I wanted to anticipate how it might be received by these readers.

I was a new and unknown author and precious few readers were willing to take a chance on my books.

This tells book retailers they can take a chance on your book and return it if the book doesn't sell.

People might take a chance on a book by an author they've never heard of, but they are much more likely to support an author they've met in person where they enjoyed the interaction.

New authors with little to no existing fans will find it hard to convince readers to take a chance on their books at this price point

Book reviews are crucial to book sales, but nobody wants to take a chance on a book with no reviews.

People are willing to take a chance on a book if LOTS of other people have already read it, and if there's controversy about whether it's good).

They were some of the first to take a chance on my book, and I can't thank them enough.

There's probably an agent out there who is desperate to work with you — but that won't happen unless you convince them to take a chance on your book.

Yes, getting book reviews takes a lot of work and effort, and it kind of sucks to ask people (especially strangers) to take chance on your book.

Not exact matches

Book publishers fetishized the physical object, and then offset the risk tied up in all that paper by taking no chances with whose words they printed on it.

Fortunately, in most cases (we hope for your business), you can rely on an accountant who isn't cooking the books, or taking chances when he or she shouldn't.

Elneny was everywhere he was the boss of the midfield he ran after the ball he closed down players very well I do nt know what match you were watching but I suggest you watch it again and keep an eye on elneny and what he is doing debuchy was commanding and even took a yelow for the team have a look at the stats and how many balls we intercepted and how many fowls the game was pure tactics west ham had no chance this is the level of football for me it is top level because you go out there you control the game you boss it you win it for me the team effort was 100 % the work rate was 100 % and if you want to learn football this match is a text book match to observe learn and execute

Tottenham have the chance to keep their dreams of booking a place in the next round of the Champions League when they take on French giants Monaco on Tuesday.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

5) It's easier to take a chance on buying a book.

Ben goes to his room and lays on his bed flipping through books and I take the baby to my bed for a quiet nursing session and a chance to relax laying down.

Take books for example, if you tried to compete with the Amazons and Barnes & Nobles with their massive budgets and affiliate networks you would have a hard time, however if you focused on first edition books or philosophy books you stand a much better chance.

So while Disney was hoping that John Carter could be the next big franchise film, and they took a huge chance on a relatively little - known book series, I am guessing that Carter will join Prince of Persia and The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the potential Disney franchise graveyard.

Comic - book movies have mostly focused on the superhero world as of late, but in the early 2000s Hollywood was taking bigger chances on darker...

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Unlike traditional publishers — who only take on a book if it has a chance of doing really well, either because the author has an established platform or because the book is in a very popular genre — I work on a lot of projects that probably won't be as successful.

After spending thousands of hours on a book, the value of a subtle yet intriguing book cover is what ultimately makes the difference whether a reader will take a chance on your work.

And I've learned a lot of reviews just flatly lie — they applaud books that I then take a chance on and find out they're horrible.

You'll have an entirely new set of eyes on it, giving your book a second chance to take off and make great readership numbers.

POD simply doesn't work well for self - published fiction, because at the typical price of a printed book, few readers will take a chance on an unknown quantity.

Unless there is a history of sales or a clear book marketing plan from the author to get books off bookstore shelves, most stores won't take a chance on a new author.

I am not interested in any further reading of this book (with or without seeing the documentary) but I would probably take a chance on a novel written by someone else picking up some part of the theme of this book.

The early history of successful self - publishing in the Amazon system is largely a story of books whose bargain prices tempted readers to take a chance on something new.

During her acceptance speech, Catton, who at 28 is also the youngest author ever to win the prize, admitted that the book «was, from the start, a publisher's nightmare» and thanked her publishers for taking a chance on the novel.

There are many great and experienced editors in traditional publishing who can help a book become better for the author, but at this point, with traditional publishing in the state it's in, I'll take my chances on a couple of friends reading the book.

From those of you in my very first class at Hopkins who workshopped that first chapter and encouraged me to keep going, to the bloggers and reviewers who took a chance on an indie book and have shown AMD&B so much love already, and all of you who read, listened, and supported this book at every stage: thank you.

These great new books were released Nov 2011 - Feb 2012 by Indie authors, priced right so that taking a chance on a new author doesn't have to break your wallet.

If a book isn't returnable, bookstores are less likely to take a chance on it.

The theory being readers will take a chance on a free book by an unknown or little known author which they may not otherwise consider.

Why should they take a chance on reviewing your book over another?

It doesn't take too many experiences of having paid good money for a book that's full of typos and bad writing to turn you off on «taking a chance.»

Some say that this behavior by book agents in the early 20th century was responsible for the trend of publishers beginning to print fewer titles and take fewer chances on newer and / or lesser known authors... another trend that continues today, and continues to be debated.