Sentences with phrase «time authors buying»

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«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

For example, the paper's authors explain, investors who bought Pfizer five years ago have seen their shares appreciate by 80 percent, while investors who bought 25 years ago have seen their shares grow by six times (adjusted for splits).

For March 2014, the national house price index was flat — which doesn't sound particularly alarming, until the authors point out that this is the first time in 15 years that house prices haven't increased in March, typically the kickoff of the important spring buying season.

«The way humans shop and buy has fundamentally changed so it's time for companies to adapt accordingly,» says author Dharmesh Shah, CTO of Hubspot.

Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.

Author Burton Malkiel believes that by buying and holding a low - cost, internationally diversified index of securities over time, an investor can exceed even portfolios picked by professionals with complicated analytics (aka «index funds»).

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If the author is selling me WENGER this time using fear tactics, well he failed I am not buying, for years we gave this man the benefit of doubt, when we did not win, we always excused him because of the other teams buying players splashing money, that till the board boasted having plenty of cash and willing to buy players.....

By implementing the quartet of policies by 2015, nations could buy «precious time while international climate negotiations continue,» says economist Fatih Birol, the lead author of a report released here yesterday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

«Previous lab tests have been done on pure gluten, but for the first time we have simulated digestion using real bread and pasta bought from the supermarket to see if these molecules are produced,» said Dr. Milda Stuknytė, one of the authors of the study.

«The benefits of buying time aren't just for wealthy people,» said UBC psychology professor and the study's senior author Elizabeth Dunn.

When you get big hits of wow — from buying a new pair of shoes, for example, or eating crème brûlée — the brain releases the reward chemical dopamine, but over time you need more and more of those hits to get the same effect, explains Robert Lustig, MD, author of the forthcoming book The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.

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There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

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(And the author of this recent NY Times article comes to the same conclusion about buying what you love.)

They're making dates, reservations, buying shoes, buying books, so it's just as logical if you're spending more time away from your home, that you're doing more form your mobile phone and dating fits into that as well,» said Julie Spira, author and online dating expert.

Those who buy one will get an e-mail the next time its author comes out with a book.

The authors give ResultSource money to buy thousands of books in a very short period of time from retailers that include Amazon.com.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

However, I have been burned several times by purchasing selt - published crap that read like it was written in crayon and recorded in somebody's bathroom, and which was only featured in its proudly unedited form on Audible's list because the «author» bought his way in.

There are Indie authors who could buy his house ten times and throw a party every night but he laughs at them.

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

They spend a lot of time marketing to new authors, using tactics designed to encourage people to «buy now» on their services.

When an author knows who their audience is, how their audience engages, and where they are buying, they know where to focus their time and attention.

I've found some gems in the free stacks... a lot of times I'll see a book offered for free because the author's like... 10th book is about to release, so they'll put their first release on sale to draw new readers in... I'm a total sucker then, because then I'll buy that author's entire back log.

The book buying public WILL see the next book by the N.Y. Times (R) Bestselling authors... they will likely NOT see yours... UNLESS...

(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.

He's also frustrated by the very medium of dead - tree publishing itself, since when consumers buy a book they're really paying for the author's ideas and a book is «a form that's hard to spread» and electronically he can reach «10 to 50 times as many people.»

Somehow, Amazon is hurting Hachette authors with lower sales, but at the same time Amazon's customers are revolting and simply buying these books elsewhere.

Despite the fact that friends typically can't support book launches, many first - time authors go around spamming links to their book buy pages like it's the most important news story in the world.

On one front, this is essential material for the first - time author pursuing a traditional publishing deal, as publishers are well known for sticking quite rigidly to genre requirements, for the purposes of selling their products (our books) to the even more hide - bound book shops, who aren't interested in buying a book unless they know where to shelve it.

What I often hear when I talk to first - time authors who have printed their book is that they had an idea of their finished book in mind but failed to fully considering the store that would sell it or the reader who would buy it.

Some self - publishing companies force authors to buy hundreds of books at a time, which can be cost - prohibitive.

Other times it's because the author is so prolific that we can't get accounts to buy that many print books from any single author in a year... so we publish them in e.

That's when the blogger has actually taken time to read your book cover - to - cover and gives their opinion about it and also includes links to buy it... Probably the next popular would just be a spotlight post where you, the author, would give the blogger all the information about your book, including a cover image and synopsis and buying links, and all they have to do is put it up on their blog.

It's a cash intensive business because we buy three books at a time and sometimes the author isn't delivering the book for a year.

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When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

-LSB-...] Posted by admin on Sep 5, 2012 Although it was not the first salvo in the unveiling of the fiasco that is author - purchased book reviews, David Streitfeld's article The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following on The Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Reviews?).

The customer can buy the same new title at the same time at several different prices, which reduces confidence in both the publisher and the author.

Now, a great many of the people who used to download free books to try with only an investment of time before buying anything else from the author are instead trying all the KDP Select books they want to without worrying about the cost.

The time is past for publishers to look to bean counters to tell them what authors to buy and what books to publish.

First, let me say that authors should take the time to support other authors at book signings, buy purchasing their books and leaving an Amazon review, by following their blog tours, by reading their blogs and commenting.

If you have five books in your series, that's five times as many chances that I'll discover you as an author (and buy everything you've written).

Despite accusations hurled recently over paid reviews, these companies maintain that the review is not actually bought (as the outcome and rating are not pre-determined or steered by the author or publisher), but that a reading fee is charged for the reviewer's time.

Or they're so awed that an author would actually thank them or even take time to say hi, that they leave the bookstore wanting to tell all their friends and buy all the author's books.

No online vendor or big box store can — or would — stock a huge variety of local interest titles, keep a tally of which books in the such - and - such series you have already bought and which you need to order, or offer that first - time local author a table alongside best - selling authors like Wendy Corsi Staub.

Indie and self - published authors should spend more time writing and less time spamming Twitter with a million «Buy My Book» posts.

Between the mysterious disappearing act that happens quite often with reviews posted to Amazon, the widespread news of authors buying favorable reviews from pay - per - star services, and the scandalous situation with author and reviewer bullying, reading consumers have had a hard time trusting any sort of reader feedback on a book.