Don't
worry about book sales — worry about creating potential customers for your company's product or service.
As I talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning
worrying about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting sucks.
So having come to the conclusion that this self - publishing business was going to be a lot harder than I had thought, I submitted my novel to a boutique digital publisher that does very well in my genre, thinking about how nice it would be for someone else to
worry about book sales and visibility.
Then don't
worry about book sales numbers, just write down how much each title (book) has earned you each month.
He tells us not to
worry about book sales too much and focus on larger issues.
Not exact matches
Authors under contract with Hachette publicly complained
about a drop in their
book sales, causing them to
worry about a loss of royalties.
Online
booking means you can service as many customers at one time as you need to, and never had to
worry about dropping a
sale because your phone line was busy or unmanned when someone tried to call.
It's going to take a lot of effort to put together your own tour, but you can do it, save yourself, the money, and not have to
worry about whether or not your
book managed to get any
sales from the tour itself.
In this episode, Steve talks
about using it as a way to gauge potential
book sales in a niche and when to not
worry about it.
A: When I'm writing a
book, I don't
worry about potential
sales, potential audience, or potential marketing scenarios.
The promotion the trad pubs take care of is the catalog and
sales force to get your
books into the brick and mortar distribution channel, which indies don't
worry about.
Because at the end of the day, they haven't really ever given a shit
about everyone else in the
book trade... My
worry would be that by selling Kindle devices, we would be converting customers to using Amazon for their physical
book sales as well as e-books.
It is
about a
worry that her husband's legacy will be undermined if
sales are split between ebooks and hardcovers, preventing the last
book of the Wheel of Time from hitting number one on either list.
the thing I have loved the most
about goodreads and these blogs is hearing from authors that they're having the same problems as me... it does suck having to read such great
books and
worrying that I'll never be as good... or seeing my friends making
sales when mine is going nowhere... but I know sometimes it's just the luck of the draw... it's hard sometimes to not compare... but sometimes it's good to know we're all so much alike
Hachette
Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch wrote an wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal and stated that e-book sales have plateaued and he is no longer worried about them destroying the book selling busin
Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch wrote an wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal and stated that e-
book sales have plateaued and he is no longer worried about them destroying the book selling busin
book sales have plateaued and he is no longer
worried about them destroying the
book selling busin
book selling business.
If I'm successful in getting enough
sales, an agent or publisher will snap me up and they can
worry about producing the print
book.
So yes, sign up for it, but don't
worry about the bookstores,
worry about online
sales and selling a lot of
books in a short time period with a massive launch, guest posting and content marketing.
Don't
worry about how your first
book does in
sales, especially if you are an independent author.
Plus, if you drive any and all traffic you have to Amazon then as a new author you can take advantage of Amazon's internal
sales algorithms to have your
book rank higher for more exposure, without the need to
worry about delivering the e-
book.
Responding to a question
about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital
Book World, said they are
worried that lending will result in reduced
sales.
I think what most writers (self - published or traditional)
worry about when it comes to
book publicity is that there seem to be no tried and true strategies that will guarantee robust
sales.
Writers need to come out with the next product, not
worry about social media popularity or even
book sales.
Jeff Bezos says we
worry too much
about change - Kindle owners read more
books and recent figures appeared to show that physical
book sales were not being harmed by the digital switchover.
A lot of us
worry about quality of
books in the self - publishing arena; could you break down what you foresee the editor's role will look like in a few years, if you think they will freelance, and whether the world will come back around to trying to guarantee that e-
books available for
sale will, if nothing else, have proper grammar and sentence structure and punctuation?
His questions funnel you into clarity
about what you really, deeply give a shit
about, then the
book goes on to convince you that dude, quit
worrying about stupid
sales rank or follower count or whatever metric - du - jour you're using to judge your worth.
If you
worry about your Kindle
sales plateauing in the US, think
about the other territories elsewhere in the world, especially on mobile phones, that have just started to open up to digital
book sales.
Growth investors are less
worried about the dividend growth, high price - to - earnings ratios and high price - to -
book ratios that growth companies face because the focus is on
sales growth and maintaining industry leadership.
Secondly, it takes four months to do the
sales and marketing simply because, the team in charge of that at any large publisher's won't have just my
book to
worry about, they'll have many others as well.