Sentences with phrase «big publishers who»

7,000 game developers have signed up for Ouya accounts, from big publishers who create multi-million-selling titles like «Halo» down to the smaller independents.

Activision and Electronic Arts are the last big publishers who seem to be caught sleeping on the system's success.

Instead of worrying about marketing their titles against the big publishers who they no longer share a category with.

But venting bile at big publishers who have every intention of bringing their games up to ship shape may be misplaced, he said.

It's only good for the industry if you consider «the industry» to consist of the corporate entities involved — ASI and the big publishers who partner with it.

Since Ms. Sporkin works for the big publishers who live and die by the sales of their high - ticket paper books, that response is about what one would respect, right?

I agree with what Andreys saying, and I do feel the big publishers who are pushing for this are working togather to try and wring more profits out of ebook sales and / or push people back to buying more dead tree copies.

I'm pretty sure that the big publishers who unpublished writers are trying to publish with have, in some way, «brainwashed» them into believing that self - publishing is the wrong way to go.

So, in this corner, we have the big publishers who either haven't entered the library market or are sounding a retreat.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

On one side you have self - destructive madmen like the big publishers who have done the following lovely things to their ebook retail partners:

Activision and Electronic Arts are the last big publishers who seem to be caught sleeping on the system's success.

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.

That means either a small / medium publisher or a big publisher who considers the book to be a prestige project.

They take risks on translated and form - defying fiction of all sorts and stand out from the bigger publishers who appear to court the latest trends in genre fiction, with eyes firmly placed on bestseller lists.

You might get anything from low four figures for a niche publication with a small publisher, or up to six figures from a big publisher who thinks your book has major commercial potential.

I suppose they can get that from a big publisher who is pouring promotional and co-op dollars into a new «best - seller» but small presses simply can not afford to do that, and won't.

Not exact matches

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

Schusser, who joined Apple in 2004, has demonstrated an ability to work with music labels, studios and publishers — the companies that determine Apple's content acquisition costs, as it seeks to compete with big spenders such as Netflix and Spotify.

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

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

Liz Tuccillo Film release date: Feb. 12 Starring: Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Leslie Mann What it's about: From the co-author of the mega-popular book - turned - movie «He's Just Not That Into You» comes the story of a single 30 - something book publisher who lives in the Big Apple.

Tom Hanks stars as Post editor Ben Bradlee, and Meryl Streep plays publisher Katherine Graham, in what's sure to be one of the big prestige movies of the season, and second this fall (after the Liam Neeson - starring «Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House») to focus on the power of the press amid presidential scandal.

«I am also trying to work with the big publishers as distributors, either SM, whether Anaya, Santillana... who are living their own battle, which today is the digitization of content: How to bring that content to the world of ipads and tablets.

These are the same publishers who continue to use an advance and royalty system that screws most of their authors big time.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

Think of big publishers as mutual fund investors who own bundles of stocks.

Compared to the major record labels (who are analogous to big publishers) who push junk to top 40 radio stations (analogous to bookstores), big publishers do a remarkable job at introducing high quality products to the market.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

Next Big Book's Alex White spoke to Good e-Reader about what publishers can learn from tracking this kind of online reference, specifically as it relates to their first major customer, Macmillan, who signed a three - year deal with the company.

It has to hurt — you work hard for the «prestige» of being accepted by a big publisher, and then all of a sudden, some guy who revised his work using meetup.com groups and hired an editor off the internet, then used a cheap program to format it, and a cover off fiverr.com... he's making more money than you are.

By putting this stuff out there, you insult all writers, all publishers — big and small, agents, and all others who strive to make the publishing industry an inviting business to work.

The Big 5 or any traditional publisher will give the author no say and choose an illustrator who can imagine what no one else could possibly imagine from the words, and they might draw a child bouncing on a bed with crumpled sheets as waves, and the pet dog, representing the shark, jumping in the bed as well — creating a far more rewarding reading and visual literacy experience for the reader.

«One of the biggest issues facing publishers today is knowing a lot about the people who are buying their books,» Weiner told Mashable.

Publishing Perspectives spoke with three publishing practitioners who will discuss this challenge at this year Frankfurt Book Fair's October 8 CONTEC 2013 Conference during the panel discussion «Big Data / Little Data: The Practical Capture, Analysis, and Integration of Data for Publishers.»

I owe these writers, and the publishers who believed in them and introduced them to the world, a big debt for enriching my formative years.

Hugh Howey thinks it's the publishers who have gotten too big — and too out of touch — not Amazon.

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.

So when you curse the fortunes of those hide - bound majors, understand you're aslo denouncing the small publishers who together compose the big ones.

Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has helped indie authors, as well as the «Big 5» book publishers, reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.

The Select royalty in December was a bit of a shock to self publishers like myself, who expected a high payoff based on the big bonus Amazon added to the December pot.

Though I tend to be a do - it - yourselfer and a cultural outlier who eschews most anything big, corporate, and mainstream, I've come to respect big publishers.

«Author Marketing Club comes as a boon to those who wish to be independent authors in the already overloaded tough world of literature, competing with big name publishers with deep pockets to promote their stable of established writers.

I do talk to the CEO's of the biggest publishers but I can assure you that when we happen to see each other at charity functions or industry functions the people who run publishing companies don't sit around taking about how long their company takes to revert rights to authors.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

Acronyms like ePUB, mobi, XML, DRM, iOS, and words like Apps, Android, e-Ink are still one big jumble for most publishers, who are overwhelmed and confused at the same time.

We don't have the marketing connections and budgets of big publishers or even small presses, so it's a struggle to put our work in front of the readers who might enjoy it.

In any case, those who self - publish successfully are either those who have already made a name in the traditional field, or if they are one of the few who made it big from the start, eventually get signed up by traditional publishers anyhow.

I have less and less patience with people who claim that Amazon has or is striving for some kind of evil monopoly that will subjugate authors and readers when all the evidence to date is that they will treat authors better than any publisher and provide readers with cheaper books, a bigger selection, and a better customer experience than any other retailer.