Because sales numbers are compiled over a week, it's smart to strategically make
the week of your book launch count.
In fact, one author I spoke to said that her readers help insure that she gets 50 - 60 reviews within two
weeks of a book launch.
Not exact matches
In the newest iteration
of its service, this
week TaskRabbit is
launching «Instant Matching,» which lets you
book a job within five minutes and have it completed within 90 minutes.
In thinking about my
book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, in an American context — which I've been doing a lot
of lately given its U.S.
launch this
week — I've been reading up on something called «exceptionalism.»
To celebrate the
launch of my
book, if you buy it before September 17, 2017, and then send an email to me stating that you bought the
book, I will send you some bonus materials next
week.
I've also noted that the event with the Parish Resource Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on April 18 will serve as something
of a
book launch party for Searching for Sunday, which releases that
week.
I was in Berlin last
week for a few days to
launch the German edition
of my
book, which was so much fun!
The release date is October 19th (only a couple short
weeks from now, and just in time to save your waistband from the holidays), and when the
book goes live, a bunch
of us contributors are going to be hosting a
launch party on our sites... and you're invited!
With the
launch of the new Best
of Bridge Sunday Suppers
book a couple
weeks ago, I've been talking a lot on TV, radio and various interviews about the idea (and significance)
of Sunday supper —
of getting as many people as I can around the table for dinner to regroup and reconnect and get ready for the
week.
You may have spied me at Deliciously Ella's
book launch last
week — it was a lot
of fun, and pretty surreal to get to speak to one
of my biggest inspirations!
We will be in London next
week to
launch the
book with a bunch
of events and press meetings.
Smith was talking to us ahead
of the
launch of his new
book — The Deal: Inside the World
of a Super-Agent — which was released earlier this
week.
Goals are gearing up to
launch their Kick Off Festival
week, and teams
booking a pitch on or after the 6th September will be given a guaranteed scratch - card on their arrival, with prizes ranging from new shin pads and goalie gloves, to pitchers
of beer for celebrations (or wound licking) after the game!
The Ivorian striker is set to
launch his autobiography «Commitment «later this
week, and England's Daily Mail gave us a taste
of what the Chelsea FC legend has penned down in the 336 - page
book.
Liverpool FC were delighted to this
week host the official
launch of a
book celebrating one
of the club's greatest servants — Ronnie Moran.
The
book launch coincides with National School Lunch
Week and National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day, when parents are encouraged to visit their children's cafeteria, snap a photo
of their lunch, and upload it online.
Next
week at Labour conference, Uncut will
launch a
book, «Labour's manifesto uncut: how to win in 2015 and why» that gives a fully costed, centrist vision
of a progressive Labour alternative.
In the vanguard
of this is UK - based publisher Carlton, which this
week launched what it claims to be the world's first augmented reality (AR)
book series — Fairyland Magic and Dinosaurs Alive are out now; Sharks: Monsters
of the Deep will follow soon.
This
week the Academy
of Culinary Nutrition
launched its annual From Scratch cookbook for a cause, and I'm proud to have a version
of my nourishing savory oats included in the
book!
After walking the Balmain runway, Rosie takes advantage
of one
of the perks
of being a supermodel, nabbing a sequined, striped jumpsuit by the brand for the CR Fashion
Book Issue Nº5
launch party during Paris Fashion
Week.
I would have been in Milan with my Tod's girls Martha, Carolina and Noor for the
book launch of Timeless Icon, and also had the chance to meet Tod's new creative director (announced this
week), former creative director at Valentino, Alessandra Facchinetti.
There is now just one
week to go until the
launch of GDI's Power
Book 2016.
Only a few
weeks to go, and Konami has released this official
launch trailer for Silent Hill:
Book of Memories!
Following the successful
launch of Rovio's Angry Birds Transformers mobile game, IDW
launches a new comic
book series this
week from writer John Barber (Transformers, Transformers vs G.I. Joe) and artists Marcelo Ferreira and Livio Ramondelli, and we've got a preview for you right here... You got TRANSFORMERS in my Angry Birds!
Next
week sees the
launch of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s new Kick - Ass comic
book, which revamps the series and features the introduction
of a new female lead, Patience Lee, a mother and military veteran who takes on the mantle
of Kick - Ass, inspired by the heroics
of high schooler Dave Lizewski.
The crisis was the subject
of heated parliamentary debate last
week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea
of public services contracting,
launch a convincing investigation
of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception
of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts
of interest, and about the impact
of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its
books.
In just 3
weeks of launch, Skoda Auto India managed to bag over 1000
bookings of the Octavia sedan.
I
booked the Ignis on the first
week of the new year which was one
week before the
launch.
In a span
of six
weeks of launch, the Hyundai Xcent has received over 16,000
bookings with around 6700 cars delivered in April.
In the news this
week were stories based on Kindle Unlimited earnings, the Indie Author Power Pack's push for the bestseller list, the importance
of your
book launch, the Nook Press push for print on demand and traditional publishing's view on contracts with indies.
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week Crikey published my response (requires registration) to the Publishers
Launch conference that ran on June 4th, the day before the juggernaut
of Book Expo America.
This as -
of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more
books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type
of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last
week, Rooster announced the March 11th
launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized
books at a fraction
of the cost
of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.
Rick Riordan
of Percy Jackson fame is
launching a new series, the latest Sookie Stackhouse
book is is out and more — it's a big
week for reviews and features on BookPage.com!
I'm sorry, but I was so excited when I learned that Bonnier was
launching an English - language version
of its Swedish & Finnish Type & Tell platform during last
week's London
Book Fair.
Eagerly awaiting Bonnier's English - language version
of its Type & Tell platform, I counted down the days until its
launch this
week during the London
Book Fair.
I'll share my strategy for using AMS ads in the next article on marketing your self - published
book, but you'll want to start your ads during that first
week of launch.
If you
launch a
book for a
week at $ 0.99, you'll get a lot
of visibility and traction in Amazon's marketplace.
A successful
launch sells your
book over a couple
of weeks to really cement your rankings.
Your
launch will stretch over two
weeks of getting those reviews and strategically pricing your
book.
Offer an advance review copy (ARC)
of your
book at least two to three
weeks before your
launch.
To celebrate the
launch of our new InDesign templates and the last
week of NaNo we have
Book Design Templates here to offering easy to use formatting templates for authors.
6) Price Well —
launch the first
book of your new series at 99cents; get some early reviews on there by handing out review copies before
launch; buy some ads for the first couple
weeks at that 99cent price point.
B&N also plans to enhance those services in the
weeks ahead with the
launch of in - app purchases, which will finally put it in line with offerings from other purveyors
of apps like Apple, Google, and, specifically, its arch nemesis in the
books category, Amazon.
Here's a few updates from our
launch this
week, which surprisingly enough does have a lot
of book marketing and promotional lessons in there.
We're in the final stages
of getting our stuff ready for the Frankfurt
Book Fair next
week, where we will be celebrating our 1st birthday and
launching a new conversion tool for publishers.
The announcement follows Kobo's European expansion last
week, which includes plans to
launch local content stores in Germany, which it identified as the largest
book market outside
of the U.S..
The second project was set up in partnership with Mobipocket, a company specialized in the distribution
of digital
books, to
launch a library
of digital
books that members could borrow for two
weeks.
Amazon actually discounted those DC graphic novels more heavily than comiXology, pricing them at $ 3.03; the only two
books on the list that cost more than that are The Hedge Knight, a George R.R. Martin that just came out this
week (and has already been on the best - seller list for
weeks on the strength
of pre-orders) and the first volume
of Neil Gaiman's original Sandman series, which has also been on the list for
weeks, no doubt because
of the new Sandman prequel series that just
launched.
While these numbers were high enough to
launch the
book directly to the top
of the NYT non-fiction bestsellers list, they were not even close to the sales figures for opening
week of her previous title, Living History.
Following Amazon's
launch of print
book distribution and sales last
week in Brazil, not everyone has words
of praise.