Sentences with phrase «author services companies do»

Author services companies don't really offer anything except their logo (which is often ugly).

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He told the tale to authors Jeannette Hanna and Alan Middleton for their book Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape, explaining that the staffers didn't have to ask their bosses for the green light because the company's ethics - driven culture puts a premium on do - the - right - thing customer service.

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

There are also dozens of «self - publishing» companies that do not represent themselves or their services in a clear or honest light, and after signing with these companies, many authors pay the price of poor design, distribution, customer support, and exposure.

The two companies do very little to promote their services via the standard PR channels and most authors are blissfully unaware they even exist.

The Alliance of Independent Authors has released its recent guide to all things self - publishing, and this year awarded its inaugural service award to Smashwords and its founder, Mark Coker, for the work the company has done in furthering the cause of indie authorship.

An indie author is an author who maintains complete creative control by self - publishing his or her book through companies such as CreateSpace or Book Baby, both of whom offer editing, proofreading services - for - hire, along with cover and page design services or do - it - yourself templates.

As I said earlier, a lot of the festivals I would attend had companies selling authors services that I didn't think were necessary.

These are «vanity publishers» and should be distinguished from the above companies that offer services to the independent author and do not pretend to be a publisher.

A clarification is needed here: Companies such as 1106 Design sell services to authors, but we don't pretend to publish the book, nor do we lay claim to any percentage of the royalties!

Not all service providers are the same — Most companies who are set up to help authors with self - publishing do good work at a fair price.

We offer services and quality that most other self - publishing companies don't; we pay authors more than most self - publishing companies do and, most importantly, we're fair and transparent!

Many self - publishing companies don't offer either of these services, or offer them at a very high cost, so an author self - publishing a book has to either spend a lot of money or do without these services altogether.

If you're doing this yourself without an author services company, as I do, the main costs for self - publishing are:

While we don't offer any embedded video services for ePub at this time, Lulu is a technology company at heart, so we want to provide all of the tools to let authors publish in any way they want to best suit their needs.

While hiring a cover or interior layout specialist from a professional service provider is always recommended, we understand that not every author has the funds to do so, so over several years my company and team members have purchased, assessed, reviewed and compiled the most useful resources at Authors Wish, a one - stop shop for DIY authors to locate affordable and practical tools for their DIY self - publishing jAuthors Wish, a one - stop shop for DIY authors to locate affordable and practical tools for their DIY self - publishing jauthors to locate affordable and practical tools for their DIY self - publishing journey.

If you choose to use an author services company to help you do these tasks, it's likely to cost a lot more, so weigh up what your goals are and what you're willing to learn to do yourself before you commit.

The authors are alleging that the company fails to pay royalties and sells services that don't actually have any merit.

Whereas some self - publishing companies and «vanity presses» rip authors off by charging up front for service and then charging additional royalties as high as 55 % of net profits, BookBaby is one of the few companies in the industry that does not take any additional fees; the author earns royalties from the different platforms that BookBaby distributes to, and retains all percentages after the retail platforms» fee.

One of the rare companies who does not operate that way is BookBaby, who charges a minimal fee for services and connects authors to qualified, vetted professionals for services they do not provide in - house.

We initially avoided those paid services because of the history of some other companies out there who seem to exist merely to exploit authors and sell them things they don't need.

The author can also have some of these done by outsourcing it to companies that offer these services.

Infinity does not have the same reputation as FastPencil, but like any self - publishing service company, authors must do thorough vetting before signing on.

«In addition to our do - it - yourself author services, we have created a licensable platform that is customizable, making it easy to build a business, whether you are a publisher looking to publish a series of books on your own imprint or an enterprise looking to deploy a publishing solution company - wide.»

Sattar, who heads up the author - services marketplace BiblioCrunch, does, yes, have some reason to encourage authors to avail themselves of such services; it's what her company does.

... I love that she likens book launch to a startup company... The fact that you can buy some of these services very cheaply is irrelevant for the author who wants to produce a quality book that can compete head to head with those from traditional publishers... I have little sympathy those who complain about the costs of putting out a book now... You don't need to spend this kind of money to self - publish a good book successfully...

You see, one of the major things we discovered is that while the DIY (do - it - yourself) and full - service self - publishing industry has gotten really good at helping authors publish books, most full - service companies (and basically all DIY platforms) aren't very good at helping authors market books after publication.

The need and the reasons your company has introduced this within Author Services and done so recently?

There are author services companies available that can do the formatting, cover design and upload your book for you.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known as the publishing predators); or one of the pay the other pay to publish services that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Ingram Spark or Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

You do not need the «help» of a vanity press or «self - publishing» company; writers can contract out specific services like editing and design, and even an author coach to guide you through the publishing process.

An important clarification, DeFiore says, is that the typical agent he's describing is not bundling such «author services» and selling them to the client, as is done by some self - publishing companies.

, we do respectfully request, if you make any alterations after we've delivered the final product to you, that you remove any reference to Indie Author Services from a book's copyright page or anywhere else our company might be mentioned, as the design no longer reflects our work.

So is there a place for new companies to offer services to self - publishing or independent authors, and do to so fairly and with dedication and skill?

I visited two publishing companies in my city who do similar services for individual authors.

Gaughran also focuses on the evils of author services companies behaving badly, doing his part to ensure new authors don't fall victim to overpriced scams.

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All information will be held confidential, and look forward to hearing from you all, and making our voices heard to stop this company of scam artists from promising future authors services in which they do no intend to deliver.

This was pretty good, but I felt it gave too much credit to author service companies like those under the umbrella of Author Solutions without giving them the kind of critical analysis that the folks at Writer Bewaauthor service companies like those under the umbrella of Author Solutions without giving them the kind of critical analysis that the folks at Writer BewaAuthor Solutions without giving them the kind of critical analysis that the folks at Writer Beware do.

I see a flatter business model — where specialisms are outsourced to smaller companies that can offer specific services (see above — the big company with the best editors doesn't necessarily have the best cover artists), and nothing is more than one step from the author 3.

You can do a search in Google for the companies you're considering and find testimonials — good and bad — from authors who've used the services.

I'm not saying that ghostwriters who have done only self - published books aren't qualified — some of them are — but traditional publishing houses have standards that are typically much higher than those of self - publishing authors and companies that offer those services.

While there are many, many companies out there which will take advantage of an author, by doing homework, an author can find a publisher that will provide the exact services that they need to produce a beautiful product.

And on a darker note Mr. Doe told me: «Buying an author services company gives Penguin access to the sub-slush pile, which is the realm of self - publishing,» he said.

But, if authors don't want to tackle those on their own, there are now plenty of companies out there which offer those services.

You don't have to study the waters for long to see that most companies are taking the «self» out of self - publishing — they are optimizing services for speed and profit, rather than focusing on developing authors and their books.

Random House's investment arm has an investment in Xlibris (or did — I don't know how, or whether, Author Solutions» acquisition of Xlibris might have changed this), but that's not the same as a publisher setting up its own self - publishing service as a division of the company, and referring rejected writers to it.

Written by authors, for authors with no bias towards any service, this goes through how you can evaluate premium self - publishing companies and how to do it yourself.

Joanna: If people don't want to do everything themselves and are going to use a company, then there's a watchdog service by the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Imagine how it would be if Penguin was to reshape its business so that Author Solutions (or whatever it is renamed) provided the editorial resources (staffed no doubt by Penguin editors) to Penguin as one client among many (perhaps with privileges the others don't have) it would change the way the company thinks of editorial services.