Turner: The typical business book sells 4,000 copies
Jamie Turner · Genius Way to Go From Freelance to $100k/Year with Jamie Turner of Sixty Marketer Episode 22 · Mar 1, 2016 · at 12:41
Author and speaker Jamie Turner discusses publishing benchmarks and keynote speaker pricing tiers with Nathan Latka.
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“So the typical business book sells 4000 copies. That's an honest figure. 4000 copies.”
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