One of the great mysteries of publishing is
whether used book sales are good or bad for the book publishing industry.
Not exact matches
In today's publishing world, more and more people are
using freelance professional
book editors, people unencumbered by the responsibilities of selling your
book like agents and publishing house editors —
whether to
book chains,
sales teams, or (in the case of agents) editors at publishing houses.
We've all
used lists of recommended
books,
whether generated automatically based on
sales figures and algorithms, or by a bookish retail worker.
You may have heard of a «profit and loss projection» (more properly called a «cost -
sales projection,» because actual «profit» depends on factors unrelated to individual - copy
sales)
used in determining
whether to acquire rights to a
book.
This illustrates a key point about soliciting testimonials you'll
use on your cover, website, and retail site
sales page: You want to ask people with a connection to your
book's topic or category,
whether it's nonfiction or fiction.
These promotions,
whether you do a freebie or you
use a Kindle Countdown Deal to make it a bargain price for a select number of days, allows you to be able to 1) reach new readers and 2) hopefully get some more reviews for your
book to be able to grow your readership and make more
sales of your
book.»
If you're
using this bio digitally, don't forget to link the title of your
book to your
sales page,
whether that's Amazon or your author website.
Since unit
sales and gross
sales are independent of
whether the 25 % or 40 % figure is
used, we can take gross
sales (the aggregate of all
books cover price) as unit «1» and Mr Shatzkin's «revenue» as «X» and test
whether traditionally published authors are in aggregate paid more than royalties would dictate.
In that paper, the authors found substantial outperformance through the
use of only one or two value - based variables,
whether they be price - to -
book, price - to earnings, price - to - cash flow or price - to -
sales.
However, with
used books reportedly now representing one - third of
book sales online,
whether that is due to better pricing or a lowered expectation of what a
book represents to the ultimate
book user / reader / collector, it's probably best to stay focused on your own goals and expectations.
The returns you get are a product of the difference in the entry and exit valuations, and the change in the value of the factor
used to measure valuation,
whether that is earnings, cash flow from operations, EBITDA, free cash flow,
sales,
book, etc..
As with so many other aspects of its business, the online retailing giant
uses rock - bottom prices to drive additional
sales,
whether it's Kindle
books, Prime subscriptions, or anything purchased on the Amazon website from the tablet itself.