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Posts Tagged ‘book sales’
Self-publishing Guest Post: Transacting Book Sales
Posted: November 3, 2010 by selfpublishingadvice in Book DoctorTags: book sales, on-demand, POD, Self-Publishing
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Book Sales and Self-Publishing
Posted: May 11, 2010 by selfpublishingadvice in UncategorizedTags: bestseller, book sales, Self-Publishing
In my time writing and working in publishing, I’ve interacted with many authors. As you may imagine, discussion often involves author goals and determining the best publishing options to meet those goals. Who doesn’t want to sell books? Some authors have even made poor decisions the first time around; it helps them realize that it [...]
Self-publishing Advantages – Fill in the Blank…
Posted: September 17, 2009 by selfpublishingadvice in Choosing a Publisher, Self-PublishingTags: book sales, print, publishing, retail, Self-Publishing, wholesale
I sat down today to a quick brainstorm outlining the advantages of partnering with a top notch custom self-publisher, but came up just shy of double digits. Help! Self-publishing Advantages top 10 list: 1 – Authors are required one-time only upfront investment… 2 – Authors only have to purchase books they know will sell… 3 [...]
Statistics Suggest Good News for the Self-Publishing Author
Posted: December 17, 2008 by selfpublishingadvice in Choosing a Publisher, Self-PublishingTags: Amazon, book sales, Books in Print, Bowker, royalties, Self-Publishing, Writing
Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information management, recently released 2007 book publishing statistics compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that U.S. title output last year increased slightly from 2006 to almost 300,000 books. That’s over a quarter of a million books published in one [...]
Copywriting done right in Self-Publishing
Posted: December 12, 2008 by selfpublishingadvice in Choosing a Publisher, Self-PublishingTags: book sales, copywriting, marketing, Self-Publishing
Okay, copywrite is not actually a word. Copywriting is, and an equally important element in self-publishing your book as successfully as possible on the market. Copywriting, as spelling would imply, has less to do with copying anything and more to do with writing. So what is copy? Copy in this case as a noun is, [...]
