Selling books is hard… I don’t care if you’re Simon and Schuster or a self published POD author. The competition to sell books is FIERCE.
With this in mind, many authors have an unrealistic expectation of “success”.
One way to rephrase this question is “How many books will I have to sell to break even?”
If you’re [...]
Things have really settled down on the Amazon/Booksurge front and I wondered if this whole “consumer outcry” was having any effect on Amazon’s web traffic, so I headed over to over to Compete.com and entered amazon.com in one box and for kicks and giggles entered barnesandnoble.com in the other.
For those of you who don’t know, [...]
When you fish, you want to place your baited hook where the fish are… because that way you’ll catch more fish.
As an author, there are two avenues to promoting and selling your work: bookstores and online sales. To plug that into our “fishing for book buyers” analogy… as an author you can choose [...]