Authors Selling Direct: Ecommerce for Authors tells you how to grow your own author business rather than help the retailers grow theirs. Learn from a multiple USA Today Bestselling fiction and non-fiction author who has been involved in ecommerce for decades. Morgana Best is a Klaviyo Partner, a Shopify Partner, and a Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors. Authors Selling Direct: Ecommerce for Authors replaces the book, Stop Making Others Rich. The groundbreaking book, Authors Selling Direct:Ecommerce for Authors, offers a new perspective to authors, showing authors an alternative to the retailers, and introducing the untapped potential of owning your own online bookstore. This paradigm shift is not just about selling books. It's about taking control of your sales process, maximizing profits, and owning the customer. Imagine not worrying about shipping. Print books are automatically handled for you. No more time-consuming trips to the post office. The book tells you about automated processes for Print on Demand and book delivery, and about delivery for ebooks and audiobooks with customer service taken care of for you. When you have your own ecommerce store, you can unleash the power of your backlist titles. With your own store, it matters not to the customer whether your books are ten years old or one month old. With your own ecommerce store, "Rapid release" becomes a thing of the past. You can write in whatever bizarre categories you like. No more category constraints. Authors Selling Direct: Ecommerce for Authors tells you the importance of owning the customer. It tells you how to increase your earnings with automated cross-sells and upsells. The book explains the huge difference between Facebook Traffic ads, the ones you have no choice but to use for the retailers, and Facebook Sales ads, the ones you use for ecommerce. What's more, having your own ecommerce store gives you complete control over returns. No more dealing with third-party policies that might not always be in your favour. Learn why ecommerce email and SMS marketing is nothing like the email marketing systems authors use for selling on the retailers. With an ecommerce store, you can set up automated reviews. No more worrying about your ARC team or searching for reviewers. And no more concerns that a retailer will remove reviews. One of the major benefits of having your ecommerce store, as outlined in the book, is the security of next-day payments. No more waiting for 60 days for payments from retailers. Authors Selling Direct: Ecommerce for Authors has you covered if you've ever been confused about international sales tax. It explains the complex world of international sales tax in simple, understandable terms, helping you navigate this tricky area with ease. Discover insider tips for correct store set up. Anybody can set up a store, but stores need to be set up correctly. Authors Selling Direct: Ecommerce for Authors is a game-changer. It's not just a book; it's a roadmap to a more profitable and stress-free authorship. This is the future of authorship, and it's time to embrace it.

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A unique look at how the publishing industry works; given through a series of interviews with leading industry professionals.

Looks at the internet from a writer's point of view and discusses how to: email; join writers' circles and reading groups; locate agents, editors etc, find bibliographical references; exploit electronic writing as a new art form; evaluate new publishing opportunities; resource creative writing courses.

How the revolution in on-demand software applications - available over the Web - is powering the new knowledge economy. By Subrah S. Iyar, co-Founder and General Manager of WebEx.

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.

In this book, the world’s foremost experts on pricing integrate theoretical rigor and practical application to present a comprehensive resource that covers all areas of the field. This volume brings together quantitative and qualitative approaches and highlights the most current innovations in theory and practice. Going beyond the traditional constraints of “price theory” and “price policy,” the authors coined the term “price management” to represent a holistic approach to pricing strategy and tactical implementation. They remind us that the Ancient Romans used one word, pretium, to mean both price and value. This is the fundamental philosophy that drives successful price management where producer and customer meet. Featuring dozens of examples and case studies drawn from their extensive research, consulting, and teaching around the world, Simon and Fassnacht cover all aspects of pricing following the price management process with its four phases: strategy, analysis, decision, and implementation. Thereby, the authors take into account the nuances across industry sectors, including consumer goods, industrial products, services, and trade/distribution. In particular, they address the implications of technological advancements, such as the Internet and new measurement and sensor technologies that have led to a wealth of price management innovations, such as flat rates, freemium, pay-per-use, or pay-what-you-want. They also address the emergence of new price metrics, Big Data applications, two-sided price systems, negative prices, and the sharing economy, as well as emerging payment systems such as bitcoin. The result is a “bible” for leaders who recognize that price is not only a means to drive profit in the short term, but a tool to generate sustained growth in shareholder value over the longer term, and a primer for researchers, instructors, and students alike. Praise for Price Management “This book is truly state of the art and the most comprehensive work in price management.” - Prof. Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University “This very important book builds an outstanding bridge between science and practice.“ - Kasper Rorsted, CEO, Adidas “This book provides practical guidelines on value creation, communication and management, which is an imperative for businesses to survive in the coming era of uncertainty.” - Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, Chairman and CEO, KT Corporation (Korea Telecom)

Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.

Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature’s connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures. Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and how the international circulation of new literary genres created new opportunities for novelists to move between markets. Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.