Sources at some publishing companies were resistant to the idea that it would undervalue their content being sold on other platforms.
Not exact matches
That same day, Reuters
publishes a story quoting anonymous
sources at Oaktree Capital, Tribune's No. 2 shareholder, urging the
company to negotiate with Gannett.
This article originally ran
at Environmental Health News, a news
source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media
company.
This article originally ran
at The Daily Climate, the climate change news
source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media
company.
Many self -
publishing companies make you pay to get your
source files or don't provide them
at all.
But when you combine multiple
sources to arrive
at averages, you have a much better chance of getting an accurate sense of the «best self
publishing»
company.
Note that if you're using a full - service
publishing provider, as described earlier, then that
company will generally
source all of the needed assistance — or,
at least, provide whatever level of help you paid for in your service package.
With the state of traditional
publishing at the moment, with the slush out -
sourced, with editors tied by sales force demands, with
companies barely holding on and trying to make changes to electronic sales, very few high - quality books with top stories are getting through.
Since our services fall in the realm where comparative research is important, I recently compared four
sources to arrive
at an average score for 20 self -
publishing companies, and those results are here, where Outskirts Press received an average of 33.41 points out of a possible 40.
Publishing is an industry that's too static, it needs to adjust and change with the times, and there could be a lot of value to publishers in looking
at how other content creation
companies, whether they're news media outlets or bloggers or people in other industries like technical writing, can learn from those other content creation
sources and adapt to the new environment we're living in.
The second piece is that we've actually built in, to our technology, the ability — it's almost like an automated fraud detector, and my partner, Mark, had to deal with this issue back
at Rent.com, in terms of the property management stuff, so he's got experience in building this piece — but the basic idea is that we have a baseline from where our
company is starting from, based on those
published attributes, and if that changes dramatically, or if things start to disappear because they're getting negative attributes, say because it's made in China, and then they pull that off, that'll actually get a worse score if they don't
publish the
source of where it's made vs. if they
publish that it's made in China or made internationally.