Sentences with phrase «pay offers authors»

Michael Larsen's 50 Shades of Pay offers authors ideas and tips for Making Money as a Contenpreneur

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Unfortunately, only a very small number of companies offer full - time working mothers any kind of paid - leave options, which according to Jessica Shortfall, author of Work.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

Two Duke University economists, Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook, authors of Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, offer conclusive evidence that lotteries are not an easy way to make everyone a winner but rather a heavy tax which hits hardest those who can ill afford to pay.

As fans and critics wait to see what Rob Bell does next after leaving Mars Hill Bible Church last October in the wake of all the hubbub over Love Wins, his website gives a fresh glimpse of what the pastor and author is up to now: offering fellow pastors (and others) the chance to pay $ 500 to pick his brain.

Katko, R - Camillus, has authored a bill that would set up a voluntary program offering paid family leave for any employee who wants to take time off to care for a newborn child or a family member.

Lead author Professor Marian Rizov from Lincoln International Business School at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings offer compelling evidence that increasing wages for the lowest paid workers improves productivity, and that this effect applies in companies of all sizes and across most low - paying sectors.

(The company already has 300 open access journals; 1300 others operate on a «hybrid model,» charging subscription fees but offering authors the option of paying $ 2000 to make a paper accessible immediately.)

In addition to journals which are fully 100 % Open Access, there are other journals which operate via subscriptions as mainstream journals do, but which offer open access to the electronic versions of their articles after a delay of usually a year, or selectively for individual articles provided the authors have paid an additional charge to «open up» the articles.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

** So rather than encouraging authors to sharpen their skills and become better writers, they're instead offering a way for aspiring authors to pay to print a story that isn't ready for prime time.

Publishers could find that the high advances they've been paying — usually offered to bestselling authors to keep them in the fold, and to authors who have sought - after new manuscripts — are being regularly miscalculated.

Like Amazon price match, Radish doesn't want to see an author offering their book for free on another platform while Radish readers must pay.

You know, a publishing house that could offer royalty advances, but might also require the author to pay some of the costs, up front, and to provide a pre-launch list of people (maybe a thousand or more) who have ordered advance copies of the book.

The arrangement is also potentially a lot more expensive for authors, e.g. Archway offers Simon & Schuster copy editing for $ 4000 beyond what you have already paid (for that price I did it myself for The Russian Embassy Party).

Instead of plotting to offer their work for free what self published authors ought to work on is improving content so people will actually PAY for their work.

Electronic publishing and distribution world for independent authors, offering the highest pay - out rate for eBook distribution in the industry.

Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered with the new Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.

Authors carve the creative control over their work, and they've come to realize that self - publishing affords them an almost equal chance for income potential as a traditional publishing deal, as evidenced largely by the fact that 24.8 % of those who responded said they'd published through a traditional publisher who offered a royalty split, but who did not pay them an advance.

After seeing a number of worthy manuscripts from authors who didn't have the means to pay for top - notch editing or publishing services, the founders went looking for a crowdfunding option that would provide those funds while also offering backers the incentive to invest in those titles.

EBook formatting is not a trivial task, and because a lot of authors have approached me since the release of my tutorial series, I have decided to offer eBook formatting and creation as a paid service, and I would be happy to help you with your project also.

I'd spent hundreds on Review Services, then I found Author Marketing Club offers its own Review Service and you can use it daily, essentially making it unlimited, rather than paying $ 50 for 100 contacts that may never even call you.

Authors pay a monthly subscription depending on how many products you offer.

Harlequin used to offer a pay - for critique service that did utilize Harlequin editors, but my understanding of the DellArte deal is that all the services are provided by Author Solutions staff, NOT Harlequin's.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

If we're an indie author, our designer should be willing to send the files if we offer to pay for their time.

RWA needs some way of determining which publishers offer authors the best possible chance of making a decent - paying career of writing, because it doesn't want to allocate space to FlyByNight Press simply because they published 1,000 titles last year (with none earning more than a few hundred dollars).

(You can take that statement however you like...) The likelihood that a first - time author would tell a publisher, «You need to pay me at least $ 1,000 or no deal,» when offered a long - sought - after contract is pretty slim.

But, for the costs we pay Create Space, they should work to offer these requirements to self publishing authors, even if it's at an additional, one time fee.

We offer services and quality that most other self - publishing companies don't; we pay authors more than most self - publishing companies do and, most importantly, we're fair and transparent!

I'd like to see companies that offer those one - time services (editing, cover design, marketing, etc.) where they author can either pay up front or choose a royalty option that earns out.

Alan Rinzler: There was a piece in the New York Times that Perseus has started a self - publishing division, joining Bloomsbury and many other companies in offering authors a self - publishing resource where they get 70 percent of the royalties and the author is the publisher — and they provide some services if you pay for them, just like iUniverse or Exlibris or Author Solutions or Lulu or Aauthor is the publisher — and they provide some services if you pay for them, just like iUniverse or Exlibris or Author Solutions or Lulu or AAuthor Solutions or Lulu or Amazon.

Besides all of the free advice and tips you'll find on this website, I also offer paid options to work directly with me on your book campaign or author career.

And a lot of that is due to KDP Select, the program that lets authors make their titles exclusive to Kindle, and which offers a $ 6 million annual fund to pay them based on the total number of qualified borrows.

With almost all of the paid services, the cost of a listing will depend on both the genre of the book and the level of discount the author is offering: free books, for example, will commonly be cheaper to promote than $ 3.99 books.

Of course paying for consumer reviews is bad practice, but we at Self - Publishing Review offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for example.

There are a wide range of services that are (or are not) offered by these companies, including professional editing services, custom graphic work, book cover options, personalized photos, marketing methods, distribution services, fees, and perhaps most importantly, royalties paid to you, the author.

Amazon has taken on the challenge of fighting for consumer dollars by offering purchasers the option to pay less for a top - of - the - line e-reader, but the trade - off is advertisements strategically placed at the bottom of the home screen and as the screen saver, replacing the popular artistic images and author portraits that currently indicate the device is asleep.

As for another large group of people who have not paid to read eBooks, there is probably a large percentage of them who have downloaded legally «free» copies... like ones you have written about in some of your 4456 posts — not only from independent current authors, but from the huge quantity of public domain books offered on large sites like ProjectGutenberg.org — many of which come pre-loaded on some eBook reading devices.

In the same way that you can't offer professional advice to friends or family, because it's not worthwhile if they didn't pay for it from a strange professional, even many reader friends will be unimpressed or actually hostile toward your books — perhaps because it breaks their idea of authors being strange, artistic, ethereal beings hunched over a typewriter in a stone tower or something, I du n no.

You can join the waiting list for Mark Dawson's Advertising for Authors, a paid course that is the best on offer, in our opinion.

However, PA does give authors the «opportunity» to pay to terminate their contracts, and I've heard from authors who got pay - to - terminate offers shortly before their contracts expired.

USA Book News offers paid up Author U members a $ 10 discount when entering book awards contest.

Some small presses, in addition to offering traditional book deals that work on a traditional model, also have a separate plan where authors have to pay.

Not necessarily to give in to whatever Amazon are asking [1](although Howey does specifically ask Pietsch to accept Amazon's offer of a fund to pay authors and royalties lost as a result of Amazon's actions), but to step up and compromise, somehow.

Describing itself as «the essential guide to self - published books and the people who write them,» Indie Reader offers authors industry - related content, the IR Discovery Awards, advertising opportunities, and paid honest reviews.

What I'm missing here is why would the authors, or estates of authors be paying a commission for putting a book up as a Kindle edition, when this is most people can easily do themselves I think it makes sense to assume that Wylie has negotiated better terms with Amazon than it offers to self - publishers.

One of the biggest disadvantages of self - publishing is that it can be very costly, and — for most authors, it offers very little pay.

This begs the question of how Pronoun can produce a profit, and the only answer so far is that it plans to offer premium service packages that authors pay for.

The best hybrid publishers are those that conduct some level of gatekeeping or curation (i.e., not everyone who knocks on the door is accepted as an author), offer some value that authors would have a hard time securing on their own (such as brick - and - mortar distribution), and pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.