Do
you think average authors can just do reading on video or have you got any ideas for them for book marketing?
Not exact matches
John Rosengren is the
author of «Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win» about high school hockey in Minnesota, where the
average teenage boy
thinks about sex once every seven seconds and hockey the other six.
I'm guessing that my book sat somewhere around
average or low -
average compared to the other Kindle Press
authors / books, and while I do
think that my book cleared the investment that they made directly into it (advance, editing and promotion), it definitely didn't make enough of a profit for Kindle Press to compensate for the hours and hours of time and effort that goes into the open submission process of the Kindle Scout program.
I
think that's because the
average author isn't educated in the field and we don't realize that not all marketing is created equal.
I
think the great thing about Twitter is that the
average author is just being themselves with no hidden agenda.
I don't
think it's reasonable to reject the vast majority of
authors as «out of
average», when theirs is the more common publishing experience.
While it's true that, on
average, traditionally published
authors make more than self - published
authors, the numbers are closer than you might
think.
The
author might have
thought this made it more authentic but for the
average reader it was only frustrating and distracting.
I bet many
authors have this same
thought, particularly when the
average book trailer on YouTube might have a couple hundred views.
You would
think I'd be extremely proud of these accomplishments since the
average indie
author sells less than fifty copies, and I am... I am also saddened by what I discovered.
But because the article didn't mention the
average manuscript length, I
think that a lot of indie
authors will be misled into
thinking that those editing costs are valid for full - length novels.
However — if there's a lot more indie books published, that likely means the
average indie
author is probably selling more of their writing production — and that's a VGT (Very Good Thing), I
think.
As I said, I'm conscious that taking
averages is not accurate (though I
think it's helpful to gain perspective), because an
author in the top 100 will get many advantages to be in Kindle Select, and for her, it will be profitable to be there.
Michael Coe of Woods Hole Research Center, another
author, said «We tend to
think only about
average conditions, but it is the non-
average conditions we have to worry about.»
Since this report clearly says the distribution of cooler and warmer stations is important, then the
authors seem to
think that an
average temperature is being calculated.