It is difficult for a book to be conceived, written, typeset, and published. Can you sit back and relax after publishing? Publishers care about sales, and readers care about quality. As a book author, they care more about the content. Here are some aspects that authors need to pay attention to most:
1. Sort out errata
After the book is published, it can be revised according to the feedback from the publisher and readers, and the errata content of the book can be sorted out as soon as possible, published on the website, and continuously summarized to prepare for the book's reprint.
2. Query sales
1. Online book query
Book sales can only be obtained through internal institutions to obtain accurate data, which is not easy for ordinary readers. Book authors can obtain data from the editor in charge. If you want to know the sales of other books, you can use estimation methods and measure through channels, such as in Dangdang, Jingdong , Amazon, Tmall and other e-commerce platforms. Some publishing houses have WeChat mini-programs, and sales can be checked through internal systems.
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2. Offline book query
Taking computer books as an example, most of them are sold through online e-commerce channels, and the proportion of sales through offline stores is very small. Use the Beijing Xinhua Bookstore website ( http://pub.xhsd.com.cn) to check the sales of books in channels within six months .
The figure below shows the ranking of Unix/Linux network log analysis in the Xinhua Bookstore system.
3. Feedback from readers
If you have energy, it is best to establish a reader QQ group or WeChat group for each book. On the one hand, the readers were contacted and the questions were answered, on the other hand, the sales situation of the books could be grasped. If the e-commerce and Douban will be mixed with the ingredients of the Navy, this is the real dry goods.
3. Book Review
Speaking of book reviews are a reference for readers to the quality of books, whether it is external binding or writing content, the industry more recognized is Douban's book reviews, which not only provide many online store sales links, but also readers' evaluation of the works, works The comprehensive score is more credible than the e-commerce platform.
4. Collections and references
After the new book is officially published, it will first be sold on major e-commerce platforms, then it will enter the traditional offline Xinhua Bookstore, and after a few months, it will enter the library acquisition channel. Major domestic scientific research institutions and key university libraries purchase books with high market attention and academic content every year, especially the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Tsinghua University libraries have strict control over the academic value and practical value of their collections. If a book has a high number of collections and citations in the libraries of scientific research institutions and key universities, this can fully demonstrate the value of the book. Check the collection of several best-selling books below.
1. Separately check the
library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences http://www.las.ac.cn/
Tsinghua University Library http://lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/dra/
Peking University Library
https://www.lib.pku.edu.cn/portal/
http://pku.summon.serialssolutions.com/
Books in the University Library of Taiwan Province, China
Some colleges and universities in the library of Taiwan University of China require *** login for inquiry.
2. Professional website
If you are engaged in professional book creation and skillfully use the following Web systems, you will surely be able to provide you with great help.
a. National Library Reference Alliance http://www.ucdrs.superlib.net/
b. China Higher Education Digital Library http://www.cadlis.edu.cn/
C. Obtain the literature from http://yide.calis.edu.cn/ (Subsystem of CALIST)
d. Kaiyuan Knows the Sea http://www.yidu.edu.cn/
e. Bookask search https://www.bookask.com/
f. Reading show http://www.duxiu.com/
Through the reading show system, we can easily check the national collection of books, the total number of journal references cited and the number of book references. The data cited by books may lag behind the collection time, and this inertia will only gradually appear after 1 to 2 years. Let's check the collection and citation data of several computer bestsellers that have been reprinted several times.
If you need to view the details of the collection of the book in the national university library, you can click the value at the arrow position.
If you log in with a reading account, you can also have more detailed data analysis, such as the distribution of provincial and municipal library collections.
Special circumstances: For the libraries of domestic military academies, foreign access is prohibited. Some academic libraries only allow *** access. For example, the collection information in these institutions is not released to the public. If you want to know the relevant data, you must go to the campus library to inquire.
g. Superstar Discovery
h.CALIS Joint Bibliographic Retrieval System http://opac.calis.edu.cn/ (Affiliated to China Higher Education Document Assurance System China Higher Education Document Assurance System)
V. Inquiry books are cited
Excellent books are valuable (academic and practical value), and only the content in your book recognized by your peers is the greatest manifestation of book value. Let's briefly talk about the query methods quoted between books and magazines. The content that can be queried through the reading show website above is still limited. If you need to query the quotations of books and works in the papers, you can use the "Learning Pass" APP, enter the book name in the "Find Information" on the homepage, and enter the cited literature. Found it, let’s take an example.
Regarding the citation of book monographs, it is still not possible to know the details in Reading Show and Chaoxing. The security circle is relatively small. With a little attention, you can find the information cited by "Book<->Book" in the book, such as the following two The books are all books compiled by experts from scientific research institutes and university professors, and all quote my works.