I'm just guessing, of course, but I think you'd have a hard
time selling the books you'd already published (that hadn't sold well), but I don't think they'd necessarily hold it against you if you were showing them something new.
The difference, though, is that if you're self - published, you are getting 8 times more money
every time you sell a book.
If an author focuses on a particular audience, he will have an easier
time selling the book.
Every time I sold a book under a pen name, I became a new writer.
I'm going to figure this over a ten - year period from
the time you sold the book, not counting the time it took the book to sell.
A publisher will have an easier
time selling your book if you have some sort of speaking platform in place.
Every time I sold a book, I hoped to have a happy customer, but I wasn't kidding myself.
We know many
times selling books is a domino effect and personal recommendations are one of the most popular ways people learn about and buy books.
Not exact matches
You create something once — a program, a
book, a video... and
sell it many
times.
For what it's worth, Amazon currently
sells books by a number of other serial killers and mass murderers, including the likes of John Wayne Gacy, David «Son of Sam» Berkowitz, and the most infamous mass murderer of all
time, Adolf Hitler.
Many
times in your
book, you're genuinely anguished at the prospect of
selling a company for a lot of money.
At the
time, Google claimed to be
booking just $ 80 million in revenues from
selling search advertising.
(Apparently, he wasn't
sold on the idea that the internet would be a big deal at the
time the
book was initially published in 1995.)
As per the
Times article, «Amazon
sells about one in four printed
books, according to industry estimates, a level of market domination with little precedent in the
book trade.»
Some of the authors mentioned in the New York
Times story worried that they'd
sell fewer
books if the company put higher price tags on them.
These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and
sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal
book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed
time.
I was first introduced to John through the hit movie The Secret and then his New York
Times best -
selling book The Answer.
Then, whenever someone asked me for advice, instead of telling them I didn't have
time, or trying to
sell them on coaching or consulting they couldn't afford, I could point them to the
book.
One of the best -
selling books of all
time, The Purpose - Driven Life helps people of all ages and backgrounds determine their purpose, but is especially well - suited for those of you who observe the Christian faith.
Pamela Yellen is a financial investigator and the author of two New York
Times best -
selling books, including her latest, The Bank on Yourself Revolution: Fire Your Banker, Bypass Wall Street, and Take Control of Your Own Financial Future.
To date over 500 million copies of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series have been
sold, making it the all -
time bestselling
book series.
Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half
times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «
Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the
book.
Furthermore, many institutional investors close their
books at the year - end, a deadline for taxation and performance reporting, a
time seen leading to dollar
selling pressure, analysts said.
At the dinner, I was seated next to a sponsor for two hours, and the Chairman introduced us by saying «Neil's a New York
Times bestselling author who's
sold a million
books and Nancy wants to be a writer.
New York
Times business reporter and author Charles Duhigg uncovers the psychology behind what makes customer and employee behavior turn into habit in his best
selling book, The Power Of Habit.
Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best -
selling «business»
book of «all
time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.
Shifting over one million copies worldwide, her sales would have been considered stellar had her previous
book not
sold fifty
times as many copies.
So, you're 42 year - old and you've written seven of the greatest -
selling books of all
time.
That's why business professionals may want to take a few lessons from Steve Alten, who has published 16
books (15 thrillers and a comedy), has cracked the New York
Times bestseller list four times and has sold millions of copies of his b
Times bestseller list four
times and has sold millions of copies of his b
times and has
sold millions of copies of his
books.
Recently, I finished reading a
book by New York
Times best -
selling author, Dean Graziosi called, Millionaire Success Habits.
He interviewed more than 50 of the world's top investors for his last
book «Money: Master the Game,» a New York
Times best - seller that's
sold more than a million copies.
He is the author of four New York
Times best
selling books, «Crush It!»
There are
books on short -
selling, as well as tomes on
timing the markets.
And the next
time an app asks you to share your address
book, there's a 99 - percent chance that this app is going to mine your address
book to get new users, spam your friends, improve ad targeting and
sell email addresses to marketing companies.
He is the million -
selling author or editor of 31
books, including the New York
Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There — a WSJ # 1 business
book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Y
book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business
Book of the Y
Book of the Year.
Shawn is the author of New York
Times best -
selling books The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013).
Jay Baer is the New York
Times best -
selling author of five
books that help you get more customers or keep those you've already earned.
His latest
book is The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile
Selling, Real -
Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business now in a new revised paperback edition.
Mega best -
selling author Jack Canfield features Ruben Gonzalez's incredible story three
times in his new
book, «The Success Principles.»
Today, it is considered the greatest self - improvement
book of all
time, with more than 30 million copies
sold worldwide.
I am sure my
book gets pirated more
times than I'm able to
sell it.
He is the top
selling author of over 70 books, including Eat That Frog, a New York Times Best Sellin
selling author of over 70
books, including Eat That Frog, a New York
Times Best
SellingSelling book.
The blog has also expanded into two New York
Times best -
selling books and a multiplatform social media presence.
This
time with my friend David Meerman Scott, best - selling author of numerous books including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Real - Time Marketing & PR and a new book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kin
time with my friend David Meerman Scott, best -
selling author of numerous
books including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Real -
Time Marketing & PR and a new book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kin
Time Marketing & PR and a new
book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kindle.
He is a renowned business strategist, keynote speaker and the New York
Times best -
selling author of five
books.
Think that's gonna
sell your stupid
book that's been written at least 100
times?
John is a world - renowned financial writer of New York
Times best -
selling books including Code Red, Bull's Eye Investing, Just One Thing, Endgame, and most recently, The Little
Book of Bull's Eye Investing.
Well, utilities
sell at about 1.5
times book value and most banks are
selling well under
book.
The average Russian company is
selling for just 7.5
times earnings and 20 % less than its
book value.
Munger recognized that «Grahamites... realized that some company that was
selling at 2 or 3
times book value could still be a hell of a bargain because of momentum implicit in its position, sometimes combined with an unusual managerial skill plainly present in some individual or other, or some system or other.