May
29
Enhance book royalties by adding new back-end profits created by offering updated worksheet packages
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Thursday’s profit tip for authors
No matter how much effort authors put into their books, new ideas are constantly occurring. Often, these ideas are sparked by reader comments or questions during webinars or live training events. Rather than waiting for the next edition of your book, authors can immediately profit from these ideas by offering supplemental, [...]
Mar
12
How will Borders’ decision to display books with front covers facing out affect you, as author, agent, editor, or publicist?
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An article in the March 12, 2008, Wall Street Journal describes Borders Bookstores decision to display books with front covers facing out poses several interesting challenges and opportunities for authors, literary agents, editors, and publicists. Front covers, as Kathi Dunn and Ron Hobart described on a recent interview for Published & Profitable members, play [...]
Jan
28
Aaron Shepard’s Sales Rank Express helps authors track book sales at Amazon.com
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Monday’s planning tip
Aaron Shepard, author of several best-selling books, including Aiming at Amazon.com: The NEW Business of Self-Publishing, has updated his Sales Rank Express. Although primarily intended to help authors track sales of their books at Amazon.com sites around the world, authors can also use Sales Rank Express to evaluate the sales potential of future [...]
Jul
1
Is trade publishing obsolete?
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If you haven’t read Mike Shatzkin’s speech at the 2007 Book Expo, quoted in numerous blogs, including Published & Profitable Editorial Board member Matt Wagner’s, you should. One of speech’s provocative paragraphs read:
Change is seldom sought; it is usually forced. But in the media world, more than in most others, we are living in an [...]











