Sentences with phrase «think selling more books»

I think selling more books would be a pretty good long - term marketing goal, but doing that successfully is the rub, right?

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I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.

«The first book I sold was on yoga,» says Gaustad, 50, who opened Sportspages in 1985, «but the second book was a Rothman's Football Annual [a kind of Baseball Register for English soccer], which is what I more properly think of as a sports book.

This week on the podcast: We'll hear a little more from Alan Weisman, author of the best - selling book, «The World without Us, which is at its core — gigantic thought experiment, what would happen if human beings suddenly disappeared and we'll talk to Scientific American editor in chief, John Rennie, about some big doings at the magazine.

If scholars (against all odds) are motivated to write more relevant articles, pen more books that might sell, and to be more aggressive about communicating findings and insights in a fashion that attracts interest from new and old media, I think that's great.

I love Room on the broom and I was amazed that this best selling childrens book did not have a lot more more teaching materials attached to it, and so I decided I would spend a week focusing on developing a set of Thinking Hat Reading resources to go with this book.

I thought Facebook was the best way to sell more books.»

If you want to sell more books, think like a winning football team.

And I think that there have been a number of really significant markers, the most recent being that Amazon just announced last week that it had sold more electronic books than hard covers in the last three months.

It may not sell many copies at first, but my plan is to keep working on other books and put them up for sale, and I think it can only help to have more than less books available.

Personally, I think the higher royalties is better because they will make more in the long run if the book sells well, but sometimes, authors» financial needs make it important to have a big advance up front.

I do think it means a little more when you're selling most of your books at 5 dollars instead of 99 cents as some of the indies on that list have done.

Sometimes in this stage you get an editor who thinks they are a writer and tells you how to rewrite your book into something they think will sell better, or is more to how they would have written it if they had enough courage to be a writer.

I think I've sold a lot more books by using better book metadata and following best - practices for SEO on my book pages on my website.

Think of this: 100 % of all eBooks and audiobooks, and more than half of all print books, are sold online.

I thought to myself: «It makes more sense to be a Pottery Barn selling a few books than a bookstore selling a few pots.»

«They're always thinking how to sell more books,» says Carolyn Reidy, chief executive of Simon & Schuster Inc. «If they can figure out how to marry what is in their stores with what's online, they can survive.»

Setting aside that I think the idea that a talking book feature creates any sort of enjoyment whatsoever, while you yourself have the right to enjoy hearing creative works read on that Kindle in all it's robotic stentorian tones, it's probably the case that Amazon ain't got the right to profit from selling to many peoples (the public) the device or «the work through the device» made more valuable / sellable because those people (whether separate or apart) can listen to the Kindle read it aloud.

I think she will sell quite a lot more than 6 million books this year, especially since she's probably going to publish several more books this year.

However, writers rush in with one thought: sell more books!

Pricing your book is something we don't often think of as a trigger for book marketing, or how to sell more books, but it definitely is.

Librarians are beginning to argue that we aid discovery — meaning people become aware of certain books and then those books sell better (cf The Help, a sleeper until libraries promoted it) but more importantly I think is that without libraries far fewer people would read for entertainment and the total market for the book product would be relatively tiny.

With all the discussion about self - publishing books and how published authors can reap their backlists in order to sell more books, I thought it appropriate to bring in someone who has become a bestselling author using today's technologies.

I do think that there are probably more people out there trying to sell their novel who are looking for resources for how to sell books which is why this is true (at least from my perspective).

I want to get a 100K advance, which will force the publisher to do more marketing for me because they're more invested, and will also force me to think about how I can sell more books.

If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100 sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a large enough author platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100 sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).

I think people make up their minds whether a book is of interest pretty fast, and mentioning the same book to the same people umpteen more times does not sell it to them.

I mean, I'd like to sell more books in the US, but in the UK it couldn't have gone any better I think.

I thought it was fitting as we wind up the year to comment on this, and to point out that as much as we whine about the impact of Kindle Unlimited on our sales, and on the dearth of decent ad sites, and the constantly shifting marketplace, more of us than ever before are earning decent, and in some cases, magnificent, incomes, from writing and publishing, without any help from the traditional channels that used to have the book selling business locked up.

Yvonne has ghost - written and co-written several top selling non-fiction titles, including: Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed — A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great - Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington (Solid Rock Books) by Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush; Fighting for Your Life: The African American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (Amber Books) by John Elmore, Esq.; Led by the Spirit: A Sharecropper's Son Tells His Story of Love, Happiness, Success and Survival (Strickland Books) by Robuster Strickland; Let Them Play... The Story of the MGAA (MGAA Books) by John David; A Journey that Matters: Your Personal Living Legacy (Lyceum Group Books) by Erline Belton; The Messman: A World War II Hero Tells His Story of Survival and Segregation on the Battleship North Carolina (Quality Books) by Yvonne Rose and John Seagraves; and FREEZE: Just Think about It (More Than A Pro Books) by Levar Fisher.

I don't for a second think that means I'd be able to sell more books than him.

The argument that I think Hugh keeps making isn't that if you self - publish you will succeed (if success is selling lots of books), but that the same amount of effort put into self - publishing will be more productive than if you had chased after a traditional publishing deal.

So authors, especially children's authors, should keep your expectations in check by thinking of this as a long - term strategy to sell more books.

So, did I think that helps me sell any more books?

I think Hugh Howey said it best when someone asked him why he was «limiting» his potential readership (and I'm paraphrasing here) by going all - in with Amazon: If going all - in with Amazon means selling a lot more books (just because they're the biggest gorilla in the room) than going wide, how is that «limiting» his readership when he's actually being read by MORE peomore books (just because they're the biggest gorilla in the room) than going wide, how is that «limiting» his readership when he's actually being read by MORE peoMORE people?

The books under contract thing does offer a nice bit of security — I sold one completed book, and then later my editor asked if I had thought about doing more in the same universe.

While it's important to seek out some reputable endorsers and reviewers who have a large group of readers, I don't think self - published authors realize the number of readers they need to pull off a self - published book that sells more than 25 - 50 copies.

And I think the literary author might have the feeling that the commercial author was more well - known, selling more books than she was, and that might have made her feel insecure.

People tend to think selling their book means hyper marketing methods: tweeting your book a hundred times a day, spamming... Read More

I think I've sold more books from lulu directly then from amazon or any other retailer.

I always thought a non-compete clause was more along the lines of you can't write another book and sell it to anyone else.

You'll feel more comfortable once you make your decision because one of the things that I have seen so many times happen to other people is their partners get so invested in their creative career, that if they don't make huge money right away and sell a boat load of books right away they start to withdraw and get disappointment because they were thinking of it like writers in a movie or on TV, like Castle.

Selling your books from your own website won't solve all your self - publishing challenges, but many more authors are thinking about it.

Over time we see consistencies in errors, so I thought I'd share these with you, so you can update your book listings and sell more books.

Traditional publishing often takes several years, so it may seem impossible to time the market — but most trends last longer than you'd think, and it's pretty easy to determine whether you want to write something that hits more popular terms (the more you can match what people are actively looking for, the more free, organic visibility your book will get, and the easier it will be to sell.

In February, Bertrams, the UK's second - biggest book wholesaler, was sold to private equity backer Aurelius for half the sum it originally bid for the business (which itself seemed like a knock - down price for a business with sales of more than # 200m); last week the UK's biggest high street book chain Waterstones was sold to activist investor Elliott Advisors for a sum thought to be considerably less than its Russian owner Alexander Mamut once wanted; and this week the UK's biggest printer of black and white books, Clays, with sales of # 77m, was sold to Italian printer Elcograf for # 23.8 m.

If you think of it as KU buying books at wholesale, and thus selling way more of them because of it, things start to look a lot better.

If they'd been able to sell more than a handful of my books across several years» time, I might have thought twice.

And she answered «I just want to find what will work to sell more books» I think that's a common feeling for a lot of authors.

Take these two approaches for example and let me know what you think will sell you more books.