Sentences with phrase «while big publishers»

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While big publishers are claiming that eBook sales are declining and print is returning (based on their own sales), most indies argue the exact opposite.

While big publishers complain that ebook sales are declining, indie sales are on the rise (maybe big publishers should reconsider their high $ 10 - $ 15 prices, for starters).

While big publishers have larger budgets and more influence with bookstores, indie authors get to keep all their profits.

While the Big Publishers Snooze, Little Indie Studios Are Changing the Face of Wii U by Menashe As I was working on my upcoming article, 70 + Upcoming Wii U Games We \'re Excited For, I started...

Most of the independent publishers are ready to embrace and use digital comics, while the bigger publishers, while getting involved, are still figuring it out.

That said, innovative uses of the technology may not require that level of investment, while bigger publishers could conceivably downscale some of their PC / PS3 / Xbox 360 titles already running on the Epic middleware.

Not exact matches

Despite having a lineup of top - selling games, Take - Two, one of the world's biggest video game publishers, lost nearly $ 185 million last fiscal year while rivals Activision Inc., THQ Inc. and top - selling Electronic Arts Inc. of Redwood City all managed to post healthy profits.

While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.

He keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to our business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

A recent snapshot of e-book prices found that titles in the Kindle bookstore from the five biggest publishers cost, on average, $ 10.81, while all other 2015 e-books on the site had an average price of $ 4.95, according to industry researcher Codex Group LLC.

«The big incumbent publishers are all trying to transform themselves into software companies,» MacInnis explained, «and the notion of the print book is not going to be around for a while.

In mid-year 2014, indie - published authors as a cohort began taking home the lion's share (40 %) of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers combined slipped into second place at 35 %.»

While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).

Laurence keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to The Pigeonhole business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

While only partially relate - able to Hugh's post, I'd like to briefly recount a recent experience with one of the Big 5 publishers * coughHatchettecough *.

The top «big time» publishers now produce less than a quarter of eBook purchases on Amazon, while indies are close to 45 %.

And the emergence of Amazon, the biggest of the big - box retailers, has exacerbated these effects while introducing a slew of new headaches for publishers of every size.

Tuesday brought the announcement that Hachette Book Group (one of the Big Five publishers) will be buying the Perseus Books Group imprints, while the distribution arm of Perseus will be sold to Ingram.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

While the company website is a little stark right now, make no mistake that the people behind Publisher's Weekly are going to unveil something big.

No major online company could afford to lose a big client and thousands of popular bestsellers, while the competition agrees to the publisher's terms.

While print sales are an important revenue source for publishers and traditional authors, indie authors and debut traditional authors are showing an even bigger lag behind their ebook sales in terms of income.

While there is a lot of junk on Smashwords (and from big publishers), there is also some really good stuff.

An Iraq war vet, a newspaper publisher, a physician's assistant and a couple of spunky teens (among the novel's most engaging characters) try to foil Big Jim's plans while the world watches — at least, at first.

A while back it was popular at many of the bigger publishers out there to release apps that they called «enhanced ebooks».

While some fault the big publishers» agency model for creating more confusion about ebook valuation, it is safe to say that the problem has multiple causes and no clear solution in the short run.

While it's owned by Penguin Group, a traditional publisher and one of the «Big Five,» Book Country is truly an independent entity that helps authors looking for traditional paths to publish their work, as well as indie authors.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

The biggest difference here is that you will ultimately need to choose a single audition for moving forward with your production, while a publisher could choose multiple manuscripts.

While this might not be as big a deal for giants like Ingram and Amazon, who do their own private data gathering, for small and medium - sized publishers, as well as self - published authors, this data is of immense value.

While bigger names from some of the bigger publishers often get some help in the PR department, authors generally have a lot of work to do in order to get their books in front of audiences.

The hubris of publishers (in any format) ripping off good writing while agents and tradition houses troll the indie and SP market to find «the one» that will make it big.

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

While in some cases I would rather buy (non fiction), at 14.99 I look to the library first now... after that self published and independent options that don't come from the big 5 publishers.

While reprint publishers have been the biggest contributors by introducing hundreds of thousands of recycled works to the market, traditional publishers have also contributed as many, if not more, books than indie authors.

While waiting on that big publisher to decide on my submission, I jumped into self - publishing with a cross-genre series I knew most publishers wouldn't be interested in.

Many publishers and companies were in attendance and the big discussion going on was the fact that eBooks are gaining in leaps and bounds, while traditional print publishing is beginning to suffer.

While bigger names from some of the bigger publishers often get some help in the PR department, authors generally have a lot of work... [Read more...]

While legal proceedings move at a snail's pace, it's not surprising that the ongoing lawsuit filed against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers is still slowly unfolding.

While children's books have been big business for publishers for a long time, figuring out where children's ebooks fit into the confines of digital publishing isn't as straightforward as ebook publishing for other types of books.

While the US courts hear arguments about alleged price fixing and anti-trust issues between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.

The publishers noted that while they continue to sell e-books under the wholesale model, they have «benefitted significantly» — along with authors, booksellers and consumers, — from the ability of the Big Six publishers to adopt the agency pricing model with Amazon, since those arrangements, «contributed dramatically to increased competition and diversification in the distribution of e-books.»

«While I understand that the purpose of the Writer Beware Blog is to warn and protect authors, I would like to point out that the biggest financial loser in most of those scenarios is the publishers / co-owners of the small press.»

While we hear a lot about services for self - publishing authors these days, we don't always hear specific details of how a Big Six house (Macmillan) or a highly regarded new - media publisher (Open Road) means to add value for authors.

While Pubsoft was built with large and small publishers in mind, the Big Five publishers often have more resources at their disposal.

And he predicts «a mess» for e-book pricing if the federal court approves settlement terms for three of the Big Five publishers while the other two and Apple fight the Department of Justice antitrust suit in court.

While a big traditional publisher could get your books onto the shelves of Wal - Mart or Target, a huge percentage of books on shelves in brick and mortar retailers end up pulped.

Pre-orders and publisher push (ie, anointing Author A as the next big thing while Author B is not given the same push) determine print runs as well as the number of books sold vs. the number printed for the previous book by that author.

But while it is fair to say that some of that price decline is due to more competitive pricing of bestsellers by the big publishers — including some very aggressive pricing like Simon and Schuster's current $ 3.99 price point for Stephen King's 11/22/63, that's only part of the story, and it may be the less important part of the story.