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Author : Brent Sampson
Publisher : OutskirtsPress.com
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Product Description So You’d Like to Become An Amazon Bestseller? Don’t wait. Publishing insider and CEO Brent Sampson reveals revolutionary advice guaranteed to increase your book sales on Amazon. Learn the powerful secrets used by successful Amazon authors every day. This informative and practical “how-to” guide shares new techniques that are proven to work. Solutions Revealed! Discover step-by-step methods for improving your exposure on Amazon and increasing your authority. Secrets Exposed! Increase your profitability by learning the secrets to short-discounting Amazon with just twenty percent. Success Discovered! Learn top-secret tactics that earn authors tens-of-thousands of dollars in royalties every month. Amazon Approved! Find, understand, and control every Amazon possibility for maximum book sales. Customer reviews Sell Your Book on Amazon by .. Henry H. Banville (Monroe, CT, USA)
I recently used info in Brent's book, Sell Your Book on Amazon, to correct the description on Amazon for my book, Your Personal Math Tutor: An Engineer Looks at Math.It worked! I was amazed! His book is short (I read half in one sitting, taking notes) but filled with facts and helpful hints. There is plenty of room in the wide margins to write notes or asterisks for points that are of particular interest. I had a big laugh on page 142 where he says, "Math is a subject most authors dislike..." My book would change their minds! Even though I'll be attending many book fairs, I can see many opportunities for marketing through Amazon using Brent's suggestions. Thanks!
The tips in this book increase my book sales substantially. by .. Gang Chen (outskirtspress.com/examguide)
This book was very helpful to me, it tells you the tools that are already available on Amazon but you may not know how to use. It increases my book sales substantially.
Brent Sampson is the CEO of my publishing company, Outskirts Press, and I like the service that they provide. I used to have a book deal with a big publisher, but they wanted me to do a lot of revisions. If I were to make the changes that the big publisher requested, I'd rather not publish my book. I eventually cancelled the contract with the big publisher and selected Outskirts Press. It turned out to be a very good decision for me. Since its release, the sale for my book, Planting Design Illustrated has been constantly ranking as either #1 or #2 on Amazon on this subject.
Some people said that you need to spend 10% of your effort to write your book, 30% editing it, and 60% selling it. There is some truth to this. This is the advice of Brent Sampson also. I am trying to spend one year to focus on marketing my book, and I have to hold back my desire to write another book for a while.
Gang Chen, Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA
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Format : Large Print
Author : Graham Greene
Edition : Lrg
Number of Pages : 308
Publisher : Curley Large Print
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Product Description Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The author also wrote "The Power and the Glory", "Our Man in Havana" and "The Honourary Consul". Customer reviews Exciting Thriller by .. Erin Frances Schulz (New York, NY)
Graham Greene's "This Gun for Hire" is the story of a hitman that you love to hate. Slightly physically disfigured, tortured and full of anger, the hitman, Raven, sets out to seek revenge for a job for which he was not properly paid. He accidentally enlists of the help of his foil, Anne, and the two of them try to prevent a major political catastrophe. Raven's motives are mostly selfish, of course, and Anne's are purely altruistic, but their goal is the same. What makes this story unique, though, is Graham's character twists towards the end of the novel. Without ruining the ending, I will simply say that the line between good and evil is blurred and the motivations and beliefs of both of the characters change dramatically.
Although Graham's creation of the characters is a bit uncharacteristically over the top, at one point Raven's sympathy is demonstrated through his love of a kitten, the novel does flow well and you will find yourself caring deeply about what happens to a morally incorrect man. Both Anne and Raven become infinitely more real as they step out of their stereotyped shell and you will find yourself loving and hating both by the conclusion.
"This Gun for Hire" above all else is an interesting and exciting thriller (for lack of a better word) that is sure to entertain. If you can find it in the much older "Three by Graham Greene," copyright 1967, all the better because you will have at your disposal 2 more of his best entertainments.
A parable? by .. Philip Spires (La Nucia, Spain)
On the face of it, A Gun For Sale by Graham Greene is a genre thriller, featuring a crime committed by a confessed and declared villain, followed by a police pursuit. In the hands of a great writer, however, even clichés such as this can be transformed into thoroughly satisfying novels.
First published in 1936, A Gun For Sale is set in a Europe over which war looms constantly and threateningly, casting a shadow of fear and even depression over all human interaction. Graham Greene appears to use this context to allow the book to make a significant, yet very subtle point, an assertion that conflicts, even grand conflicts like wars, are pursued by interests, instigated by an intention to profit. The grander the conflict, the greater the potential gain. As individuals vie for influence, prominence, control and dominance, so do societies, groups, companies, even countries. And some of the protagonists play dirty, rarely receiving the comeuppance of justice. When they do, we are gratified, sensing the same rightness that a happy ending might provoke.
A Gun For Sale has several important characters, more than a review can list. Raven is the first we meet, the blackness of his name immediately suggesting a functionality for the plot, for he is the anti-hero, the hired gun who completes the bloody assignment in the book's first pages. Hare-lipped and ever resentful of his disfigurement, both physical and, as a result of a painful upbringing, psychological, he suggests a figure that the reader might be invited to despise, perhaps a pantomime bogeyman of genre fiction, always accompanied by a threatening, trademark fanfare.
But Graham Greene is not that mundane a writer. We eventually come to know Raven well. Though we are never actually invited to like him, we eventually sympathise with his plight, if only by virtue of the fact that there are some apparent social heroes who in reality are a darned sight more deserving of our contempt. Raven is double-crossed and sets out to track down the perpetrator of his humiliation.
Raven leaves a trail and a policeman, Mather, takes up the pursuit. By chance Mather's girlfriend, Anne, boards the same train as Raven from London to Nottwich, an industrial town were she will appear in the chorus line of a pantomime. Raven and Anne meet and, viewed from the distance of the pursuer, become accomplices.
Mather's fellow copper, Sanders, is an interesting foil to Raven. Both are disfigured. Raven's problem is with appearance and he yearns to be rid of the hare-lip that disfigures his face, a disfigurement that Anne plays down, thus engendering his trust. The policeman Sanders, on the other hand, stammers. He is quick of wit, but not of voice, and is aware that his impediment has cost him promotion.
Mr Davis, also known as Cholmondley, amongst other things, is the greasy lackey employed by Sir Marcus. The latter is an industrialist, owner of a steelworks in Nottwich, a business that has seen better times. Mr Davis is a right cad, regarding theatre girls as fair game, regularly picking them up and persuading them into the grubby room he rents from a truly surreal couple in order to protect his reputation. The freemason Sir Marcus is barely clinging to life, but he retains sufficient pride, or malice, perhaps, to inflict untold suffering on others, merely to retain his own status in a future he does not have.
And so Raven pursues Cholmondley, who answers to Marcus. Mather and Saunders pursue Raven, and Anne seems to be on everyone's side. And it all works out.
But Graham Greene does much more than tell a tale. Through simple language and structure, and via a plot that would grace a b-movie at best, he penetrates his characters' psyches, locates them in social class and history, and manages with a deft lightness of touch to convey a remarkably strong sense of place, setting and context. Through his simply constructed prose, we see people, places and events from a multiplicity of perspectives and are left with a complexity of associations with every character. And that, precisely, is why cliché is left far behind.
Should be considered major by .. Bruce E. Henderson ()
Mine is clearly a minority opinion, but I think this novel is actually more complex and interesting than many other critics and readers do. I remember first reading it in a college British literature class and finding Greene's juxtaposition of a typical crime novel, the backdrop of international intrigue and the paranoia conspiracy of traitors everywhere, Raven's disfigurement, and what was for me a very moving relationship between Raven and Anne a wonderful and engaging read. I just reread it for a critical study I've been doing and, while I agree there are holes in the plot, I'm not sure they are anymore distracting than the series of coincidences that drive Brighton Rock. I read BR recently also, for the first time, and I see why critics rate it higher--the psycho-sexual pathology of Pinkie, the moral-religious issues of his "Roman" identity, but I have to say I find lonely Raven a more memorable character in many respects.
unlikely noir thriller by .. Orrin C. Judd (Hanover, NH USA)
Murder didn't mean much to Raven. It was just a new job. You had to be careful. You had to use your brains. It was not a question of hatred. He had only seen the minister once : he had been pointed out to Raven as he walked down the new housing estate between the little lit Christmas trees--an old rather grubby man without any friends, who was said to love humanity. -Graham Greene, This Gun for Hire Raven is a hired killer with a harelip. His profession and his deformity combine to give him a passion for privacy. But when he's hired to kill a socialist minister who's active in the peace movement and ends up also shooting an elderly woman from his household staff too, he's suddenly one of the most sought after men in England. And when the man who hired him, Mr. Cholmondeley, pays him off in counterfeit notes, he becomes an easy man to track. In addition, his strong sense of professional ethics lead him to try and find Cholmondeley and whoever's behind him, rather than simply hiding out. Through a circuitous set of circumstances, Raven is helped in his search by a young woman, Anne, whose boyfriend just happens to be the lead detective on his case. She recognizes how dangerous Raven is, but feels sorry for him and, with Europe sliding into war, thinks she can use him to strike back at the shadowy forces who wanted the peace loving minister dead. Though it lacks the universal moral tension of some of Greene's better work, this is an entertaining noir thriller. The plot depends on a few too many fortuitous twists, but if you take it in the spirit of say The 39 Steps or a Hitchcock movie, the implausabilities aren't unbearable. Perhaps the most interesting reading of the book is as a forecast of the central ethical dilemma of WWII. Think of Raven as the USSR and of Anne as the Allies. She accepts Raven out of sympathy for his physical and spiritual deformities and assumes that he, despite his amorality, can be twisted to serve her own noble purposes. In the end, a lot of folks die as a result of her naiveté. GRADE : B-
Flawed, but frequently sensational early Greene. by .. darragh o'donoghue (dublin, ireland)
'A gun for sale' is considered a minor Graham Greene work, two years before his acknowledged first masterpiece, 'Brighton Rock'. Admittedly, the book is hugely flawed - the plot becomes increasingly implausible; the dialogue is sometimes false; the characterisation, especially in the central relationship between Raven the runaway hitman and Anne, sometimes doesn't quite ring true. But there is so much that is excellent - the mixture of dusty, fish and chips realism with almost whimsical fantasy, precise detail clashing with a nightmare-world of physical grotesques; the brilliant control of language, in which a deliberately limited vocabulary is used to imprison characters in a social and implicitely metaphsical destiny. The first half is a superb, almost intolerably nerve-wracking, thriller, and the second, as Raven seeks revenge during a practice gas raid, is dottily surreal. The allusions to fairy tales, history , poetry, popular music, drama, philosophy etc. open the book from its generic base, and makes it infinitely richer than it first appears. It should be read anyway by anyone who loves the cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville, who based his masterpiece 'Le Samourai' on it. A flawed, yet fascinating work.
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Author : Brent Sampson
Number of Pages : 184
Publisher : Outskirts Press
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Product Description So You'd Like to. Become An Amazon Bestseller! Don't wait. Publishing insider and CEO Brent Sampson reveals revolutionary advice guaranteed to increase your book sales on Amazon. Learn the powerful secrets used by successful Amazon authors every day. This informative and practical "how-to" guide shares new techniques that are proven to work. Solutions Revealed! Discover step-by-step methods for improving your exposure on Amazon and increasing your authority. Secrets Exposed! Increase your profitability by learning the secrets to short-discounting Amazon with just twenty percent. Success Discovered! Learn top-secret tactics that earn authors tens-of-thousands of dollars in royalties every month. Amazon Approved Find, understand, and control every Amazon possibility for maximum book sales. Hi, I'm Brent Sampson. Are you holding a manuscript in your hand that you wish Amazon was selling? Or do you already have a book on Amazon that you wish was selling better? In either case, Sell Your Book on Amazon will help you. You will experience what I have seen first-hand as the president of Outskirts Press - that marketing success on Amazon can be the difference between hundreds and tens-of-thousands of dollars a month. Amazon provides a phenomenal and global platform from which to sell your book. In fact, the opportunities may seem almost too colossal! But now, Sell Your Book on Amazon unveils it all for the first time. This book provides an easy-to-understand approach to increase your book sales on Amazon by exploring the steps you can take immediately. Table of Contents Foreword by Dan Poynter Introduction Get Your Book Listed AuthorConnect & Author Profile Pages Book Sales Page Listmania! So You'd Like to. Guides Additional Amazon Possibilities Pricing & Profitability As Penny C. Sansevieri of Author Marketing Experts says, "Finally! A book that helps you demystify Amazon. If you have a book to sell, you simply must own Sell Your Book on Amazon." Want proof? How did you get to this Amazon sales page? Maybe you clicked on it from a competitor's page or received a personalized email. However you got here, here you are! Sell Your Book on Amazon shows you ALL the ways to increase your book's exposure and make the tactics working for this book work for you, too. Authors who know how to use Amazon's own system to their advantage simply sell more books. Once a book finds success on Amazon, it appears higher in the search results, leading to MORE exposure and more sales, and so on. It's the Amazon "virtuous circle" and the key to unlocking that brass ring is in your hands. Introducing the exclusive TACTIC RANKING SYSTEM! Marketing tactics are only as valuable as the profits they generate. Sell Your Book on Amazon ranks every technique so you can quickly and efficiently locate the marketing secrets that will lead to superior results: ***** Highly recommended. Receive the greatest exposure compared to time spent. **** Very recommended. An acceptable investment is required for a profitable return. *** Somewhat recommended. Check your profit margin. The expenditure may exceed the benefit. Do you know how to beat Amazon at their own game? Do you know how Amazon Marketplace listings can offer "55 used copies" of your book when you haven't even sold that many? Do you know how to remove a 1-star review from your listing and get more 5-star reviews? This book tells you how to do it all, plus so much more. It's a tremendous value with a wealth of information at your fingertips. Start increasing your book sales instantly by ordering today. Customer reviews Great book for navigating your way on Amazon by .. Ken and Norah Fritz (West Richland, WA USA)
This book has really opened our eyes on how to market on Amazon. It's a great community for both the buyer and seller. The book's main focus is how to expose merchandise to potential buyers. For example, check out the link below and you will see that we have written a radio directory for the traveler or PC operator. If you are an author, make your book visible with a link after writing a book review. See it works?! You know about our book, now people will know your book. With an avalanche of marketing ideas, this book has information on: writing an author biography, the usefulness of book reviews, author connect, the power of blogging, and creating lists on listomania. If these words are teasers, then read the book. Brent explains how Amazon is set up and by understanding it's infrastructure, you can accelerate book sales. It requires work but it's a worthwhile endeavor. Amazon is a little difficult to navigate but Brent Sampson's book is a chart to insure your books sales won't hit a rock. Rather, you'll be on course to becoming a best seller.
- Ken Fritz author of The United States Radio Directory: A Traveler's Favorite Companion 2008-2009
Must-Have for Anyone Selling on Amazon by .. Jaimey Grant (Michigan)
This book is an invaluable tool for authors wanting some inside information on how the Amazon system works. Increased sales start with increased exposure and increasing your book's exposure on Amazon can be tricky. With tips and guidelines covering everything that was available at the time of publication--2007; some things have obviously changed--this book can help any author increase exposure of their print-on-demand or self-published work.
Brent Sampson has an easy-to-read, witty writing style that is refreshing in what basically amounts to a "self-help" book. He uses a simple ranking method to rate each tip he gives, 1 star=can be expensive & not recommended - 5 stars=inexpensive & highly recommended. He includes diagrams and figures and explains in simple detail each aspect of Amazon from the importance of each section on the Book Detail Page to the value of So You'd Like to...Guides. By implementing only a few of his suggestions, I have seen a marked increase in exposure to my own books (Betrayal, Heartless, Spellbound, & Redemption), as well as my profile page. I'm truly impressed!
Thank you, Mr. Sampson! by .. Joseph L. D'Agostino (Hershey, PA)
The most beneficial tactic that I was inspired to incorporate into my publishing and marketing process was one that Mr. Sampson subliminally suggests pretty much throughout the whole book: Just do it!
Obviously, anyone who purchases this book is one who has a book that he or she wishes to publish. As such, that writer will more than likely be a newcomer to publishing, and perhaps be geared toward the "print-on-demand" method, as I was. Well, that's perfectly acceptable, and there is no dishonor in that. Your work will speak for itself; if it is worthy, if will merit acceptance.
Regarding the techniques and applicability of those techniques to the ever-evolving Amazon site, the new publisher simply needs to be on his or her toes and be flexible (for example, "Search Inside/Look Inside"). Being sharp and attentive, however, is expected of anyone who wishes to self-publish and self-market. Mr. Sampson, in his energetic way, prompts that approach. For me, this book was very informative, and it was a definite confidence booster.
Joseph L. D'Agostino, author of "Modern Music Systems: a new perspective on music scales, clefs, and chords"
For all authors, not only Print on Demand Self-Publishers by .. LOTONtech (www.lotontech.com)
I stumbled upon the techniques described in this book myself, before reading the book. Contrary to what some reviewers have said, the techniques DO work -- as the sales rank of this book shows -- if only because "any publicity is good publicity".
Yes, in an ideal world, readers would inadvertently market your books via their Listmania lists, reviews, and so on; but you need to give the process a kick-start yourself as the author / publisher. Some readers might be put off by your self-promotion, but they would never have found your book in the first place without your own marketing efforts.
I think the techniques are legitimate, and not SPAM, providing you: DON'T review books you haven't read, DON'T include your book in Listmania lists of totally unrelated books, and DON'T engage in Sock Puppetry (pretending to be someone else).
As for the book itself:
The margins are wide and there are fewer words per page than most books. I wish I'd thought of that, as a way of increasing my page counts. The information is presented clearly, as you can see from the 'customer images' (which is another good marketing technique, and a nice touch).
Since it focuses on Amazon, this book is perhaps most relevant for authors who are self-publishing using CreateSpace -- because CreateSpace lists your books only on Amazon.com. Authors who have wider distribution (e.g. using Lulu) can think about how the same techniques apply to other retailers like Barnes and Noble. B&N have Essentials Lists, for example.
And now to explain the title of my review:
As Dan Poynter and others have noted in their books: even if you publish your book via a traditional publisher, YOU the author need to market your own book -- perhaps using these techniques. Unless you are already famous, most mainstream publishers will not market your book effectively. I know, because I've been there.
And now, my review would not be complete without:
Tony Loton, author --
Book Publishing DIY: The Do It Yourself Guide to Self-Publishing using Lulu and CreateSpace
Sell Your Book on Amazon: The Book Marketing COACH Reveals Top-Secret "How-to" Tips Guaranteed to Increase Sales for Print-on-De  by .. C. Chipman (Los Angeles, CA)
This book is helpful in the aspect that it tells you what to do to get your book on Amazon, but nothing in it is "TOP SECRET." My sales were not increased, as it guarantees.
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Edition : 37
Number of Pages : 2566
Publisher : LTB Gordonsart, Inc.
List Price : $125.00
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Product Description Since 1968, Art Sales Index has been at the forefront of the art industry, providing international auction results for Fine Art, including: Oil paintings, works on paper, drawings, miniatures, prints and photographs (above $3000), and sculptures. Related Search : works paper , miniatures prints , photographs sculpture  |
Edition : 1st
Number of Pages : 144
Publisher : NAPL
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Product Description Strategies for convincing customers while maintaining cordial relationships. Learn the walk-away, the set-aside, the trade-off, the stall, when silence is golden and how to leverage power-plus what you should know before you start to plead your case. Related Search : sales business , negotiation skills , unleashing print  |
Author : Dick Gorelick
Number of Pages : 49
Publisher : Graphic Arts Technical Fndtn
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Product Description Fundamental changes are occurring in the buyer/seller relationship, and these changes are customer driven. This second monograph in the PIA Account Development Series helps evaluate these changes and provoke ideas for unique customer benefits your own organization might provide. Related Search : evolution print , representative account , sales changing |
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