Sentences with phrase «growing numbers of authors»

While speed is not always an author's friend — as it can lead to grave mistakes in the writing, editing, and even cover art — there is a growing number of authors who've recognized that sitting on a manuscript only alienates readers.

Louise is one of a rapidly growing number of authors taking the literary game into their own hands, and self - publishing ebooks (digital books) through companies such as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Apple iBookstore and Smashwords.

So with this much change in such a short amount — and the widely acknowledged respectability that a growing number of authors have brought to the process — why is self - publishing still mentioned with an apologetic air?

A growing number of authors held out hope that Amazon would intervene on the author bullying issue after Amazon acquired book review and discovery site Goodreads, but that hasn't come to pass.

With the growing number of author — entrepreneurs that has come with the expansion of the self - publishing industry, the need for something like this is significant.

I did hear (unsubstantiated) rumors that 25 % of attendees were actually authors and hopefully that means an even better event next year with more space allocated to the growing number of authors who want to learn more about the industry.

Aside from the growing number of authors who have opted to forgo the traditional industry altogether, still more published authors are reviving the characters and story lines from their previously published works with the intention of taking their stories straight to e-reader on their own terms.

«There are a growing number of authors who simply want to go directly to readers with their books.

(To be fair, a growing number of authors have realized the potential of e-book sales, and are now buying back the digital rights to their backlist or waiting until the rights revert to them, then self - publishing their backlist titles.)

Although there are plenty of publishers who haven't learned from the recent history of the music industry and are afraid of lifting DRM from their Kindle editions, a growing number of authors and publishers are taking a more forward - looking approach.

But there's a growing number of authors and other entertainers around that do things the way I like (of their own volition — that's how I learned about the practices),

Given that a growing number of authors are e-only — or at least start as an ebook before moving on to print — this offers a new way to reach Goodreads» huge pool of readers.

But alongside them are a growing number of authors who have become editor / designer / marketeer / sales director for their own ebooks.

Not exact matches

The authors said Kalanick had become «a giant liability to the car - hailing company for a growing number of reasons, from sketchy business practices to troubling lawsuits to a basic management situation that was akin to really toxic goat rodeo.

Canada has also not moved to align itself with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the author (known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.

He has been joined in recent years by a growing number of colleagues, including prolific authors N. T. Wright and John Dominic Crossan.

John Hoberman, the University of Texas professor and the author of «Testosterone Dreams,» is among a growing number of thinkers who envision, at some point, another way of dividing up sport: the doped and the undoped.

While the authors note that the recession is a huge issue, there are other, more disturbing social trends facing men, including the rise of men having children outside of marriage, the increase in men having children with numerous women and the growing numbers of divorced fathers.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

An extensive case study revealed that graduation rates from science have nearly tripled since PRISM's inception, that the number of students pursuing graduate degrees has grown nearly ten fold, and that students receive author credit on journal articles more often than at other institutions.

«This study demonstrates that despite high rates of Tdap vaccination, the growing number of adolescents who have received only the newer acellular pertussis vaccines continue to be at higher risk of contracting whooping cough and sustaining epidemics,» said lead author Nicola Klein, MD, PhD, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center.

When the stress has passed, the number of misfolded proteins drops, the enzyme Lon would stop destroying the normal protein, and cells would start growing again, the authors found.

One way in which the real world is not perfect, however, is that as the size of apparatus grows and the costs escalate, some experiments have started to use the number of authors to determine each collaborating institution's financial contribution, others to decide the number of hours an institution must spend on manning the apparatus.

Its author, Charles Kerpelman, says the number of storms and other potentially disastrous events has probably remained constant, but the world's growing population means the chances of large numbers of people being killed, or of serious economic damage, have increased.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

As the world's population grows, and the proportion of elderly people increases, the number of people living in suboptimum health is set to rise rapidly over coming decades, warn the authors.

A growing number of funders are paying author fees on behalf of the scientists they support, but this approach is still far from becoming mainstream.

«The growing number of cancer survivors in the U.S. makes it increasingly important to understand the unique medical and psychosocial needs of survivors,» said Carol DeSantis, MPH, American Cancer Society epidemiologist and lead author of the reports.

The study authors propose that increased spread from person to person will be responsible for the growing number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases.

«Even so,» the authors add, «cutting - edge gene therapy - based strategies in reconstructive procedures [are close] to setting valuable milestones for development of efficient treatments in a growing number of local diseases and injuries.»

Overall, he notes, the number of open - access papers has been growing by about 2 % a year, and the absolute total jumps each year as journals and authors make batches of old papers free.

A growing number of hypertension patients use mobile - health technologies to track and manage their conditions, the authors write in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension.

«The way most industrial processes are designed today is by doing an exhaustively large number of experiments to find out how crystals grow and at what rate they grow under different conditions,» said UCSB chemical engineer Michael Doherty, an author of a paper that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«This mutation is one of a growing number of deCODE discoveries of relatively low frequency sequence variants with large effect,» said Kari Stefansson, deCODE's CEO and senior author of the study.

The authors of the new study claim: «We anticipate, along with a small but growing number of scholars, that ecological grief will become an increasingly common human response to the losses encountered in the anthropocene.»

The number of authors has also grown over time.

According to a growing number of experts, those exhilarating, Instagrammable moments don't permanently raise the setting on your day - to - day blissometer — and by chasing fleeting highs, you may be missing the opportunity for true joy, with a small j. «We live in a culture that tells us we're supposed to be euphoric all the time, but that feeling isn't sustainable,» says life coach and sociologist Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star ($ 16; amazon.com).

According to the New York Times best - selling author, «The number of people that are genuinely gluten - sensitive can not be growing as fast as the market niche is growing.»

Nonetheless, the authors write that «although documenting efficacy of probiotics is still emerging, a growing number of consumers and health - care professionals are interested in trying probiotics,» and that people might «also be interested in increasing the levels of live active cultures in their diet.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

There are a growing number of grammar problems in American classrooms that affect not only a student's ability in math and English but also may contribute to the achievement gap according to the authors of Code - Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with rising pupil numbers, teacher shortages are growing, particularly in poorer areas and at secondary level, according to the authors.

Our authors raise awareness of the growing number of children now living in poverty (22 percent in the United States) and examine what might be done to bridge the widening income achievement gap.

«As the number of low - grad - rate schools grows in some states, it is necessary to take a closer look at when and where these schools are part of the solution or a wrong turn on the path to 90 percent graduation rates for all students,» added Jennifer DePaoli, senior education advisor at Civic Enterprises and the report's lead author.

According to an analysis of U.S. ISBN data by Bowker and ProQuest, the number of self - published authors grew by nearly 60 percent between 2011 and 2012 and by 422 percent since 2007.

As publishers become accustomed to the process and build confidence in the protection of their authors» works, librarians are excited about the opportunity to offer a growing number of digital titles to their patrons.

The number of authors turning to self - publishing has grown dramatically in recent years, says Jeremy Thompson, managing director of Troubador, one of the UK's leading self - publishing houses.

Although Authors United notes it has seen «fewer titles published by the major publishing houses each year» the number of new titles published annually has actually grown twelvefold since 2002, soaring to a whopping three million in 2010.

Readers have a growing number of tools to customize what they consider literary fiction selections — these are books that meet their standards, interests and literary definitions, not a publisher's or even an author's.

In fact, I think the number of literary choices for customers is actually going to grow because authors now have the opportunity to take control of their publishing destiny through self - publishing.