Sentences with phrase «big publishers want»

Besides, if big publishers want to price their books at whatever, then I can do the «unknown, but an inexpensive risk» pricing on mine, and with my lower overhead, I do well with this tactic.

Big publishers want novels because they are more economically viable.

The music industry learned that the hard way, and it seems like big publishers want to relearn the lesson the same way.

Now, the Big Publishers want her because of... yep, her Indie success.

In fact, the actual value of the publishing industry was quite a mystery, and that was how the big publishers wanted it.

Not exact matches

Her publishers, audience, husband, and her ex-best friend (who plays Monica on the big screen) want her to keep cranking out Monica books.

Maarit Rossi in Finland wonders if all classrooms might need a common «global curriculum,» and Carl Hooker in the United States writes, «if we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students.»

«If we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students,» writes Carl Hooker (@mrhooker).

Here's my thinking in a nutshell: Let the big publishers collude to keep ebook prices high all they want.

It may sound like a big job but indie and self - published authors need to think more like a publisher and therefore as a business if they want to get their work to a larger audience.

If Book Expo wants to become a trade show where authors big and small can get a chance for their books again, then it has to help publishers make these major shifts.

I wanted to learn more about how authors break in with bigger, advance - paying publishers.

Every publisher, big and small, wants to hit the best - seller lists and win the major awards.

«Libraries are standing there with fistfuls of cash in their hands and saying to the big publishers, «We want to buy your ebooks,» and the publishers are saying no or they're charging way too much for their books.

The big problem with the unlimited model is that publishers want to be paid for the full amount of the book's purchase price if a customer reads a certain number of pages.

In an age when so many of the «big stories» in publishing are about amazing self - pub successes, people are asking more and more, «Why would I want a traditional publisher?»

Be wary of all the businesses that have started up and want to charge you big dollars to self - publish (even some agents and Big 6 publishers are jumping into the newly lucrative arebig dollars to self - publish (even some agents and Big 6 publishers are jumping into the newly lucrative areBig 6 publishers are jumping into the newly lucrative area).

Big publishers can produce whatever they want, but with big distribution comes big response from the reader community; trade publishers depend on Amazon reviews as much as indies Big publishers can produce whatever they want, but with big distribution comes big response from the reader community; trade publishers depend on Amazon reviews as much as indies big distribution comes big response from the reader community; trade publishers depend on Amazon reviews as much as indies big response from the reader community; trade publishers depend on Amazon reviews as much as indies do.

I think a publisher would have to offer me a very big advance to make me want to publish traditionally.

I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.

It never works to go against what consumers want and the big publishers haven't gotten that yet.

Hopefully, the absence of some major authors from eBook stores will be temporary — but in the meantime, you could be forgiven for thinking that publishers really do want to hand all the cards to Amazon — they're the cheapest and, for whatever reason, they are now the ones with the biggest range of books, some of which UK readers can not, right now, buy electronically in a format compatible with their own devices.

And if an author were a big enough author and a publisher wanted them badly enough and they felt it was an issue, it would be negotiation point... but I have to tell you in the 23 years I've been at Kensington I've never heard of an agent even bringing this point up once.

I'm not a big fan of reading manga / comics digitally but I really want to see it succeed to the benefit of readers, creators and publishers alike.

I wanted to clue - in my non-writer friends and followers to an epic soap opera - like battle between bookseller Amazon and publisher Hachette Book Group, one of the Big 5 remaining traditional publishers.

I also heard from an author negotiating with one of the then Big Six that the publisher was interested but wanted the YA novel pulled out of YA and wanted a rape scene added.

People are publishing books on their own because they choose to — because they see opportunities in the market and want a bigger share of the pie than publishers offer; because they want full control of their book; for some, because they just want a relic of their work to share with friends and family.

Editor at BIG 6 publisher loves it, wants to take to acquisition meeting.

So now the spin explains why Amazon is not a demon for wanting to raise prices but Big 5 publishers still ARE demons for wanting to raise prices?

AG is not known for a reputation of supporting self - published authors, and some commenters see this as a move to provide a cheaper, faster solution for bigger authors and major publishers who want to get swift take - down notices against indie authors who still don't have the means to defend themselves.

Baen Books is the only close to big publisher who I know is doing it right: all e-books are sold at a maximum price of $ 6.00, the author gets more dollars out of that price than he does out of the hard copy sales, and there's no DRM locking the text down and keeping the user from moving what he has purchased to whatever platform he wants to put it on.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

If you want to be published by one of the «Big Five» publishers — the New York houses that represent the large majority of what you'll find in your average bookstore — then you do need an agent.

There are multiple reasons for self - publishing, the first usually being that the author doesn't want to jump through hoops to find an agent, an editor, and then shop around the big name publishers.

It almost makes it seem that if writers can make a big platform, they can go with a small press, but if one wants to sell fiction (like most of us), it's still better to go with the big publishers.

Traditional publishers - no matter if they are big or small - do not want to publish poetry books because simply put they will not generate a lot of money and that is what they are really after when they decide to publish a book.

If you've written an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

(If you want to do the more traditional stuff, libraries and bookstores, you're competing against traditional publishers with much bigger budgets and better connections.

Readers want all kinds of books from all kinds of sources, not just the bestsellers that come from the big publishers.

This is a big drawback, and I agree completely with the many writers who want to see Amazon change this policy — a policy which, btw, they are NOT apply to traditional publishers, only to indie writers.

Because, of course, only the big name publishers know what readers want.

But there's skill that's more important than any other for authors who want to get a top publisher and a big book deal.

However, the lawsuit alleges that Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually engaged in illegal price fixing specifically in order to take down Amazon, and yet, a U.S. Senator wants the suit dropped?

Big publishers need to make money and I don't fault them for wanting more for the money they ay auroras and for work they have to do.

That's because bookstores & the Big 5 publishers had an oligopoly in the market and you could read anything you wanted, as long as it was what * they * wanted you to read.

The Big Four publishers failed to see the future of writing and ignored the voices of readers who wanted something different.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

But publishers have a big sea of writers to draw from, and someone needs to serve as your swim instructor, telling you who are the sharks and who are the dolphins, and helping you to determine which you want to swim with.

Imagine all the new possibilities for highly trained librarians and family literacy workers in general if we want families to discover, enjoy and absorb books despite such obstacles as e-book price gouges by big publishers.

«[The big publishers] don't want to undercut the 1,800 Diamond retailers out there in the world, and I get it,» he said.