Sentences with phrase «author contracts for»

For example: Author contracts for 20 reviews, and pays 20 x $ 2.50 = $ 50.00 + 10 % = $ 55.00.

If a publisher decides the manuscript is marketable, they will offer the author a contract for the rights to publish a book.

Not exact matches

«All of those founders had originally left to bring in a more professional leader or CEO - type,» notes Vince Molinaro, Managing Director for Leadership Solutions at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and author of The Leadership Contract.

Wylie's gambit seeks to resolve two issues: the assumption by publishers that existing contracts written before the advent of e-books automatically confer digital publishing rights, and the assumption that authors» royalty rates should remain at historic levels despite lower e-book production costs for publishers.

«So much of success is a function of personal leadership,» says Vince Molinaro, managing director for leadership solutions at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and author of The Leadership Contract.

The authors calculated the difference between actual financial performance (in areas such as EPS, profitability, and sales) and the target level set for each metric in the individual CEO's performance incentive contract.

✔ Closed over 450K in service contracts in last 6 months ✔ Assisted in closing over 250k in product contracts in last 6 months ✔ Create, Author, & Publish Marketing Collateral: Created eBooks, Product Comparisons, SWOT Analysis, & Point of View documents for partner products, services and strategies for both LCG and key corporate partners.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

No one exemplifies the benefits of a renewable marital contract better than Married with Luggage bloggers and authors Betsy and Warren Talbot, whom we interviewed for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

Our current contract — «until death» — might have worked when people didn't live all that long (according to the American sociologist and author Stephanie Coontz, the average marriage in colonial times lasted under 12 years); or when many women died in childbirth, freeing men to marry multiple times (which they did); and when men of means needed women to cook, clean and caretake, and women needed men for financial security.

In 1780, Italian scientist Luigi Galvani showed that a spark could make the muscles of a dead frog contract — inspiration for Frankenstein's author, Mary Shelley.

But the findings were enough for the paper's authors to call for further study of the issue in men who have contracted Zika to determine whether the virus affects the male reproductive tract over time.

Funding: The authors wish to thank the Technology Commercialization Innovation Program (Contracts # 121668, # 132043) of the Utah Governors Office of Commercial Development, the Scholarship Activities Committee of the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University, and Murdock Charitable Trust and NIH Grant Numbers P20RR020185 and 1P20RR024237 from the COBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources for support of the MSU mass spectrometry facility.

Author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (ABA 4th ed.

Author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (ABA 4th ed.

«Gravity» Author Sues Warner Bros. for Breach of Contract, Seeks Percentage of Film's Profit Tess Gerritsen claims that she is owed a «based upon» credit and a boatload of money.

Note that the same contract pays for NIEER to issue its own «pre-school yearbook,», which is practically indistinguishable from the federal report also authored by Dr. Barnett and his team, save that the «yearbook» contains lots more spin and advocacy than the NCES publication.

The author points out that as schools award contracts to computer vendors such as Apple, Dell, and HP, market interests influence the body of research on 1:1 laptop programs, and despite a great deal of research over the five years studied, there remains a lack of understanding of the value added by the 1:1 programs for students» knowledge formation and the teaching practices that support such knowledge formation.

A bill that would prohibit school districts from entering into financial contracts with the same firms that provide bond measure campaign services is being held over until next year as the author attempts to gain support for the proposal.

This RFP development Toolkit is the result of the author's work in which he was responsible for developing RFPs and resulting contracts in a difficult political climate as a State Assessment Director and as a consultant for several other states.

September 13, 2012 Jami Gold Writing Stuff advice for writers, agents, blogging, branding, contracts, epublishing, ethics, guest posts, Jami Gold, Jami's rants, paranormal author, perfectionism, professionalism, risk, RWA, self - doubt, Social Media and Authors

In the news this week were stories based on Kindle Unlimited earnings, the Indie Author Power Pack's push for the bestseller list, the importance of your book launch, the Nook Press push for print on demand and traditional publishing's view on contracts with indies.

Newly updated to include recent changes in the treatment of digital rights, the Model Contract examines publishing contracts clause by clause, empowering authors with knowledge and insight for their negotiations with their publishers.

A year ago, author Brenna Aubrey made the decision to turn down a traditional publishing contract for three books in order to go indie.

Sure, you can send out review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a publishing contract — they first need to get their work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all about.

Being involved in every stage of putting together a non-fiction book proposal, offering substantial editing on fiction manuscripts, and coming up with book ideas for authors looking for their next project is as much a part of the work at DGLM as selling, negotiating contracts, and collecting monies for their clients.

I just signed a contract with Thomas Nelson / Harper Collins for (what I've been told by several people) is a very large advance for a first - time author.

Hi, I learnt my lesson with Xibris who is under the wing of Penguin House they were over the top with praises but got nothing right they didn't follow any of my instructions for my artwork or cover the did nt edit my manuscript as I paid $ 3500 for and received delay after delay after 8 months which they promised 6 weeks and my book would be in my hand and on shelves, I pulled the plug and cancelled payments through my bank and received all my money back I sent all 9 consultants emails on my termination of our contract due to their unprofessional ism and prying on new authors Plus I sent 9 written termination letters as stated in their contract I now have learnt research every publisher outlet in legitimacy saves on the heartache

I think this is a terrible contract for authors and it is the decent thing to do to warn people about what they may be considering getting into.

All aspects of your rights, your copyright, and the language used on publishing contracts today is explained clearly and simply for the publishing author.

We will also send letters to the authors of these works and apologize for not printing that trade paper we told them they would get in their contract but then didn't after we saw their hardback didn't sell so well.

I think a lot of indie authors have a misconception that if you get a traditional contract, the publisher will handle all the marketing for you.

The Model Contract examines publishing contracts clause by clause, empowering authors with knowledge and insight for their negotiations with their publishers.

But another significant group of authors choosing to self - publish are mid-career writers whose contracts for certain titles have expired.»

Though I think there's a bit of a difference between what one might reasonably expect from a corporation, on the one hand, and what one might expect from an organization calling itself the «Authors Guild,» which bills itself as «the nation's leading advocate for writer's interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts, and free expression.»

iUniverse and Author Solutions willfully breach the contract's royalty provisions every quarter for every customer.

My contracts were for non-fiction, which is a different animal to fiction — most non-fiction authors are writing for small niche markets, unless they are lucky enough to be either famous, or writing about something with huge appeal, like cookery or self - improvement, so potential sales figures are tiny in comparison to the fiction market.

Good vs. Bad Contract: Most successful agents have author / agent agreements that look (for the most part) the same.

Frankfurt / Ljubljana, 20 February 2018 — The Frankfurter Buchmesse's Guest of Honour 2022 has been chosen: Today, the contract for Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (19 - 23 October 2022) was signed by the Director of the Slovenian Book Agency, Renata Zamida, and Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, in the presence of the Slovenian Minister of Culture, Anton Peršak, and numerous authors and publishers.

Panel discussion exploring the international movement for fair book contracts set in motion by the Authors Guild's Fair Contract Initiative.

I think they play a valuable role in reviewing contracts and managing subsidiary rights (film and foreign, for example) for traditionally published authors.

For many authors who've pursued or considered pursuing traditional publishing contracts, a huge part of the overall appeal is two things:

It's especially painful to read even the short excerpts from Sean Penn's book because his publishing contract validates the notion for authors that they only have to finish their stories, not write cleanly, diligently, with an ear for the reader and the love of the written word.

This quote is interesting in that, being an experienced self - published author, Lyons should recognize that there are hundreds of talented freelance editors at her disposal for self - publishing, and a contract with Minotaur Press didn't suddenly tap into a specialized resource.

Traditional houses have been placing ads in the back pages of printed books if an author's contract allows for it.

In their blog post announcing the Macmillan acquisition, they state that, «Authors who want or need more support will be able to join additional paid tiers for a revenue share — or may have the opportunity to transition to a traditional publishing contract.»

A standard trade book goes for about $ 15.00 Your standard contract - an author makes about 10 - 12 % per book.

It is the height of absurdity to say that someone who can't possibly make a living, largely because of onerous contract terms such as non-compete clauses, publishing with for example Hachette is an author but someone who self - publishes isn't.

Then the author gets their % from what the publisher gets, for instance, 40 % of the 70 % or 35 % (whatever the contract between publisher and author reads.)