Sentences with phrase «many big name publishers»

These days, big name publishers are playing it safe by banking on low risk sequels or reboots and this has allowed smaller, more independent developers to step up to the plate and offer up some truly original gaming such Chair's Shadow Complex and Runic Game's Torchlight.

This has piqued the curiosity of many big name publishers leading to the development of Battle Royale alternatives for them.

As self - publishing matures, as the various distribution media for self - published works evolve, hopefully a way will emerge that helps assure a measure of quality without relying on the lumbering behemoths of big name publishers.

Is it easy to approach big name publishers with your passion project?

Getting signed by a big name publisher is the publishing dream of many writers, but what most people don't realise is that it's the opinion of your readers that really matters.

Facebook has announced that starting this Wednesday big name publishers will have their stories exist solely on the Facebook platform and not link to independent websites.

The trends are pointing towards a reducing dependence on big name publishers and even agents.

«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.

First, it continues the impression that all e-books are indie works, when the big name publishers are in fact all over e-books and you've made arguments against how they handle e-books.

The Anne of Green Gables story of four rejections is the reason why so many of us do not bother with agents and so called big name publishers.

Many of their authors are picked up by big name publishers like Simon & Schuster or McCleland and Stewart.

Think about those golden children of self - publishing who signed with the big name publishers and who have seemed to disappear into obscurity.

One final tip I'll leave with you today: study the bestsellers of your genre from the big name publishers.

Also remember that the agent is your voice to big name publishers.

There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big name publishers and chain bookstores.

But might those also be the same reasons why they would have hated it even had it been produced by a big name publisher.

Surviving big name publishers, if they can get divorced from the bean - counters who are killing them, may do something along those lines as well.

Books like Party Girl started out as self - published books before they were bought by big name publishers.

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.

For those of you who don't know, the IDPF ePub format is an open standard eBook format that is fast being adopted by many big name publishers including Penguin UK and O'Reilly as well as projects such as Feedbooks.com.

I haven't given up trying to find an agent to represent my novel to a big name publisher (I have queries and partials out) but when I allow myself to read agent statistics, I tend to question whether I ought to face those facts with my head rather than my heart.

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

Most big name publishers, the ones that can get you into bookstores, do not accept submissions from writers who don't have agents.

We also may introduce you to Big Name Publisher.

So one day, an author asked me about a self publishing program that said they would connect her with such - and - such Big Name Publisher about her self published book if she used their services.

MadeFire is making it a priority to bring on big name publishers to its ecosystem... [Read more...]

One of our novels was traditionally published for a while, not with a big name publisher.

Many big name publishers had their settlement approved by the Justice Department case against price fixing.

The entire library system is finding that many big name publishers are steadfastly against the notion of customers getting digital content for free because they feel it devalues the books.

Unfortunately the big name publishers like DC and Marvel aren't onboard with the concept of offering a user - friendly DRM - free option, but that's not really surprising.

You are so right with the big name publishers.

The biggest drawback with Kindle Unlimited is of course the fact that big name publishers aren't onboard with the program, so while 1 million ebooks sounds like a lot, there's not as many best sellers and popular authors as you might think.

There are other writers I enjoy reading who are also not on Twitter, which seems like a career - damning thing to do, although most of them are established writers with high level platforms in the form of big name publishers or national magazines and papers.

Whilst I will still have to market this book having a marketing team and distributors plus a big name publisher behind me will help reach a lot more people.

The only problem with this is that those authors demanding their rights back are the ones who have figured out that they can make money without having the «big name publisher» putting out their e-books.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

That said, as a blogger, I don't take many review requests in general, from either indie authors or big name publishers, but I have taken requests from both in the past.

Thankyou for showing me that it is not just me who feels that indie authors are as valid as the ones with the big name publishers.

I have been reading a lot lately about how much work is involved in marketing a book, and that's when you're published by a big name publisher!

While Humble got its start promoting indie titles that often didn't have big name publishers and were seeking not just sales but exposure, that's no longer the only sort of game the store sales.

It is a great opportunity to explore new authors who don't get the recognition from the big name publishers.

Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, big name publishers, leading edge developers and pioneers of digital distribution will all form part of a wide - ranging programme at the first ever London Games Conference on Tuesday, October 27th.

It won't be competing with big name publishers like Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard.

Big name publishers aren't going to give that stuff away for free.

Everyone knows video games have to make money somehow, but the question over how games make money became one of the central arguments in 2017, as various big name publishers brought one of the most popular ways to monetize mobile and free - to - play games — loot boxes — into the mainstream.

These examples, and quite a few others, clearly show that big name publishers are out of touch with what a large portion of gamers are willing to buy.

These days, big name publishers are playing it safe by banking on low risk sequels or reboots and this has allowed smaller, more independent developers to step up to the plate and offer up some truly original gaming such Chair's Shadow Complex and Runic Game's Torchlight.

If there's one undeniable fact in the modern video games industry, it's that big named publishers are trying to focus their efforts on digital game releases.

The Xbox has a lot of support from big name publishers and developers including: Atari, Activision, Lucas Arts, UbiSoft, Vivendi Universal, Rockstar Games, Capcom, Konami, SNK, Sega, Sammy, SNK, Namco, Tecmo, Midway, THQ, and Electronic Arts among many, many others.

Not exact matches

But what is so bizarre is that they differ so vastly, and they don't all apply to each publisher, yet the world's biggest names in publishing all saw a major blip that in some cases will have been rather concerning from an ad revenue perspective.