Picking a Best-Selling Title … Scientifically? (Not!)
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by Diane Eble
I’m writing an article (which will actually end up as an ebook, I think) on how to title a book so it’s a best-seller. Came across this tool: the Lulu Titlescorer.
It’s supposed to tell you what chance your book title has of becoming a best seller.
Note: This is supposed to be for novels, so keep that in mind as you read on.
Of course, I put the two titles of two of my books in: Abundant Gifts, and MotherStyles.
Got a score of 10.2 percent for each. 
Skeptical, I put in “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”
Guess what? That too got a score of 10.2 percent! Phew!
Now you couldn’t stop me.
“Think and Grow Rich” — 20.1 percent! Hah!
Okay, so let’s go to fiction, just to be fair.
“Left Behind,” one of the best-selling fiction series in the world (before Harry Potter)–20.2 percent.
Okay, let’s go for the big kahuna. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” … drumroll, please … 14.6 percent! (ALL the Harry Potter books got this score, by the way.)
“The First Hundred Million” was a book that sold 100 million copies at the beginning of the 20th century. The author advertised it by title alone.
Its Lulu score? Let’s just say there’s hope for my books after all!
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Diane Eble is a book publishing coach who helps individuals and companies become leading experts in their fields through publishing and marketing books and other information products. For more about Diane, click the link at the top of the page.
Topics: non-fiction, Abundant Gifts, MotherStyles, Lulu, Publishing a Book, words, Diane Eble, fiction, words to profit, publishing coach, marketing |
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