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Can Originality Sell a Book?
Harry Potter wasn't particularly original -- see Anthony Horowitz Groosham Grange for a school to teach witchcraft in an otherwise ordinary world. The Hunger Games had precedents like Battle Royale. ...
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Is there still a market for solo adventures game books?
Yes - but it's a difficult market and you might want to check out similar genres
The traditional book market is likely declining in many aspects, but there are many similar types of media that are ...
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Increasing sales of my Kindle ebook
I can give you my personal experience. I wrote The Darkest Wand, Memoirs from Special Education, and Father Pimp. None of them are best sellers, but 2 made it to the top 50 list while on sale for free....
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Is there still a market for solo adventures game books?
The New York Times ran an obituary for R.A. Montgomery, creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, that referred briefly to the state of the market.
Bantam Doubleday Dell, by then a ...
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How fast do traditionally-published books sell after they have been published?
Your point about the first weeks of sales are right, especially due to the promotional blitz, TV/radio/blog interviews, early-release reviews, New York Times bestseller list (a big thing in some ...
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Can Originality Sell a Book?
Originality tends to be judged retrospectively, it is at the best of times debatable and most people would agree that it its not something you can manufacture on demand.
Similarly it is entirely ...
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Use of "salesy" secondary titles on Amazon
The data you are seeking is tightly held. Publishers and sellers don't really want you to know this. They even hide a lot of stats about sales figures on books.
Some Helpful Info
However, I ...
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In which countries do printed fantasy novels sell the most?
This is NOT a great or complete answer, just the start of one, as it's been unanswered for a bit.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/288746/global-book-market-by-region/
and https://www.statista.com/...
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In which countries do printed fantasy novels sell the most?
This answer is mainly speculation, but it's speculation based on what I have seen come out the pipeline from a few nations. Based on the sheer number of fantasy Light Novel series Japan publishes each ...
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Should an author have one website or two?
If you only have one book you've authored, it's best to just have the one site based on that book. You should include free info related to the subject of the book. This is to build a following/traffic/...
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Use Pen Name after Blunder?
Good luck with your writing career. I wouldn't worry about the blunder. Often, that sort of thing can make you sound more human and you can even use it as a marketing trick later in your career. ...
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How do I find total sales of my book?
Here's interesting marketing / sales data for my Tech book at amazon.
I recently paid for advertising and you can see that views of info rarely turn into actual sales.
Yes, that's right, the ad was ...
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Distribution, a competition with myself
You're assuming that the choice is between "sell a book through a channel where I make $1 per copy" versus "sell a book through a channel where I make $5 per copy" (or whatever the numbers are). But ...
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Distribution, a competition with myself
One of the most difficult challenges of being a self-published writer is having to do the self-promoting and the self-distributing that comes along with it. There are so many different options to ...
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Is there still a market for solo adventures game books?
Romance choose your own adventure app games seem to be popular. They're usually backed up with various mini-games like dress up, hair styling, make up, and other things that young girls and teenage ...
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Is there still a market for solo adventures game books?
Don't know what use this information will be after the other elaborate answers but... I work at a used bookstore and these types of books (especially the old choose-your-own-adventure books) tend to ...
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Where can I find people to collaborate with to edit/sell my work?
You probably won't want to hear this answer!
But I think you need to learn to edit and sell your own work.
There are hundreds of great writing and editing books out there and you need to devour them....
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Which are the fastest-paying literary magazines?
This link at All Freelance Writers - Markets lists not only markets, but (when possible) their turnaround time on pay.
https://allfreelancewriting.com/writers-markets/
With the "Fiction" limiter ...
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Comics marketing: focus on issues or collections?
individual issues 50¢
eBook ~ $2
printed book in stores ~ $5
direct sale ~ $7+
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but starting with observations.
Your marketing should focus on the one type of ...
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using a literary agent
Keep in mind, an agent has more functions than just to sell your book. Having sold a book to a major publisher without an agent, I can certainly attest that it is possible. However, in hindsight, I ...
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CreateSpace and Amazon Sales
If you choose to use CreateSpace, you have a couple of different options available to you. The first is to do as you asked and buy the copies yourself and then sell them through your own site or in ...
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How long can you host preorders for?
Don't know from experience, but a year out is pretty long... for pretty much anything whether it is games, movies, or books. The only time I have seen that much time during a preorder would be for ...
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