Sentences with phrase «big book publishing house»

«I'm currently the administrative assistant for a senior editor at Big Book Publishing House and I basically run his calendar and his office.

Not exact matches

The challenge: Finding growth in the digital - books arena at a time when big publishing houses are muscling in.

All of the royalties from sales of this Crown House Publishing book will go to the Big i Foundation.

And if you win, this signals that your work is of the same caliber as a book published by the big publishing houses.

Writers who self - publish — and even those who contract with traditional publishing houses — often dream of a big ROI (return on investment) for paid book advertising.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

His new Diversion Books, which is a separate business from his literary agency, is similar to AmazonEncore, «somewhere in between the big houses and the lonely road of self - publishing.»

If you traditionally publish with the big publishing houses, at the very least you should get a well designed, well edited book.

True, some self - published books do climb the bestseller lists because of the low price; several self - pubbed authors have been snatched up by the big houses.

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

Personally, I am currently selling short stories through small press, self publish novellas, and publish novels through big houses or small press depending on the book.

Because the big 5 publishing houses never put out a book where they saw dollar signs, and the content was of dubious quality.

Secondly — writing a book is a big accomplishment, whether or not a large publishing house is behind it.

The point is it doesn't matter if a book is self published or put out by an imprint or a big house it can be good or bad depending on your point of view.

India based publishing house Westland has doled out what can easily be termed the biggest advance any author in this part of the world has ever received for a book series that has yet to come into existence.

And it the book sucked, I'm not going to feel better about having wasted my time and money reading it just because it came from a big publishing house.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

All of my self - published books are designed to embarrass big publishing houses.

Many readers rely on big publishing houses to filter out low quality books — even though trade publishers regularly print celebrity crap with impunity.

Bob's books were previously published by the big publishing houses, but now Bob's focus is on self publishing.

Compared to a book published by one of the big five conventional publishing houses, its sales were minimal.

And there's the overtake by Big Publishing of smaller and independent houses, of course: Krüger has no love of a house that can put out more books than its publisher can read:

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I can understand it if you're with a big publishing house and were given an advance on your book sales.

As the stigma of self - publishing vanishes, more and more self - published books are making it big and getting picked up by traditional publishing houses.

Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»

While a big publishing house may not be interested in your book (Techniques for Creating Miniature Vampire Cheese Sculptures) because of its limited market, you can self - publish and use the Internet to promote your book to your built - in readership in your niche worldwide.

Let us do the heavy lifting and produce a high - quality book that looks like it came from a big New York publishing house!

If your goal is to be published by one of «The Big Five» (The Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster), yes, you will need agent representation.

Readers deserve and expect quality printed books that are indistinguishable from those published by Random House, HarperCollins, and the other big publishers.

«I knew I had to research, research, research everything because I knew I wanted total control of my book and not deal with the time it would take to publish with a big publishing house,» Bisram says.

Whether you are self - publishing your book or publishing through a big publishing house, you will need to do the work.

That means all the stuff a publishing house would normally do for you — from small things like proofreading and line editing to bigger things like design, publicity, promotion, and getting your book on the shelves in brick - and - mortar stores — that's all gonna be on you.

The big publishing houses are acquiring the necessary skill sets and it is up to you to make sure your book looks every bit as polished as theirs.

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She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

Kobo partnered up with Indigo / chapters books are forming many popular publishing deals with big companies such as Random House.

And at the same time the big publishing houses are running into the same problem that self - published authors have had for a long time... how do they get their books in front of consumers?

The bigger problem for authors are the publishing houses themselves because with the decline in paper books, it simply makes no sense for an author to turn over the majority of her profits to one of these places and * that * costs the author far more than piracy.

As a self - published author, your book is your platform, and assembling a quality team can help you create a masterpiece — a book that will be on par with books from the big publishing houses.

Amazon also isn't selling The Checklist Manifesto tonight, which is the only Macmillan book to make the list (you'd think as one of the «big six» publishing houses Macmillan would have a better showing, but maybe they've been focused on things other than publishing popular books).

Now, everyone from big publishing houses to independent authors have the opportunity to create great books.

I've been losing some auctions for books I'd like to publish to bigger advance offers from Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and others.

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NYT, with non fiction (even James Altucher didn't get on though he sold more books than 99 % on the NYT list)-- unless you go with the big publishing houses.

Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish other material «for fun» in different genres, or at different lengths and with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill in the gaps between big books with their traditional house.

There's stories online of authors being published by a traditional big house publisher who feel their covers didn't represent their book well, but had no say in the matter.

Getting published by one of the Big 5 book publishers is the goal of many authors, as being published by a major publishing house is perceived to have some advantages over smaller presses or self - publishing.

It will be interesting to see what the other big publishing houses decide to do, I have a feeling your going to see the companies who do nt push for equivalent ebook to physical book pricing will have higher sales and in the end make more money off of ebooks AND «dead tree» books as well thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.

With the rise of online book selling and of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.