Sentences with phrase «advantage over authors»

Mark Coker further shares the experience when Smashwords reached a deal with new vendors how authors who opted in had «a fan - building advantage over authors who delay».
However, as we know from our experience opening up distribution in 2009 and 2010 to new channels such as Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Apple, authors who are in first have a fan - building advantage over authors who delay.
If we can get our books into the major libraries around the world, it'll give out authors a long term advantage over authors who aren't in libraries.
It's optional but it does give you a couple of marketing advantages over authors who choose not to join.

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Brooke de Lench, Youth Sports Parenting Expert, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more inclusive.
Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.
«Using two very different experimental set ups, we found that women have an advantage over men in specific aspects of multitasking situations,» said Gijsbert Stoet, author of the paper.
«The convenience and ease of being able to use frozen sperm taken by biopsy in ICSI offers many advantages over fresh sperm,» said Kenan Omurtag, MD, the study's first author and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
«Metalenses have advantages over traditional lenses,» says Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at SEAS and senior author of the research.
«Dual modality is the path forward because it has significant advantages over single modality,» says author Rongguang Liang, associate professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona.
«It appears that the herring will have an advantage over other more sensitive species in a future acidified ocean,» said Michael Sswat, a researcher from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, who was the lead author of the study.
Dr. Donovan Bailey, senior author of the study and professor at New Mexico State University, said this approach has several advantages over previously established methods for enriching either nuclear or organellar DNA for genome sequencing.
The study, authors note, offers several advantages over previous research on soda taxes in other nations.
It appears to offer «measurable advantages over other ablative therapies for focal prostate treatment, namely that we can visualize our treatment as it is happening,» according to the study authors.
The advantages of a preprint journal club over a journal club reviewing published papers are 1) lab members read the latest material (often posted within the previous week or two), 2) they feel that reviewing a paper is not an empty exercise (because the paper is already published), but something that actually helps people, 3) they learn about improving manuscripts, and 4) authors get more feedback.
The author suggests that you need to be choosey, trying out more than one site and taking advantage of the free membership which all these over 40 dating websites seem to offer.
The author concludes that although the advantages gained and maintained during years of participation in activity - based science programs is not sustained in years following, the more activity - based approaches result in gains over traditional methods in a range of outcomes.
In a Digital Book World 2014 full report, titled What Advantages Do Traditional Publishers Offer Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publAuthors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publauthors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publishing?
Control and management of your metadata is one of the chief benefits of being a self - published indie author and this control gives you a huge advantage over larger publishers, and even what you can achieve using a vanity press.
Authors skilled in multimedia have an advantage over those who release only in traditional print form.
In recent years, however, many authors — especially those with speaking platforms through which they can sell books directly — have realized that printing their own books has some distinct advantages over commercial publishing.
Today's authors have a huge advantage over those of even 6 or 7 years ago.
Is is quite the hefty cost, but having a solid trailer will really help you gain the advantage over thousands of authors.
Interestingly, access to data is one chief area where self - published authors have a slight advantage over their traditionally published peers; sales data for most online retailers is updated at least hourly, whereas most traditionally published authors wait for quarterly sales reports from their publishers which are usually prepared one quarter behind.
Authors must exercise the most caution when signing with small presses; some mom - and - pop operations offer little advantage over self - publishing, especially when it comes -LSB-...]
Authors: Hire An Agent's «Agent» to Sell Your Book Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase bookAuthors: Hire An Agent's «Agent» to Sell Your Book Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase bookAuthors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase bookauthors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.
Having this inventory of books gives these authors a distinct advantage over other authors.
As an author from the US, UK or any other country where ACX is accessible, you might have an advantage over many German authors if you wanted to bring a German audiobook to the market right now.
Here's the big advantage that an author like Barbara Freethy has over new authors.
Getting published by one of the Big 5 book publishers is the goal of many authors, as being published by a major publishing house is perceived to have some advantages over smaller presses or self - publishing.
Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase bookAuthors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase bookauthors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.
Cover art should incorporate media elements that would allow authors to be distinctive and give them an advantage over the competition.
Many authors are based all over the world and would want to take advantage of this new platform.
I've been very active and vocal in informing authors about how self - pubbing has advantages over legacy publishing, and how legacy publishing tends to screw the majority of authors.
Additionally, Unbound functions as a traditional publisher once the crowdfunding phase is over — having marketing and editorial support from experienced industry professionals is a huge advantage as a debut author.
The single biggest advantage that digital publishing has brought to DIY authors may be the enormity of control over the content.
It is interesting to see authors take advantage over the torrent sites that they KNOW lots of people use to get books.
Hope Clark presents Marketing Fiction — selling the make believe posted at From the Writer's Desk, saying, «A reputation serves as most of the author's platform, which many consider an extreme advantage of nonfiction authors over fiction, those who choose to live in the land of make - believe.
Speed to market is one of the most commonly cited reasons to self - publish, and indie authors certainly have an advantage over traditional publishing here.
I believe one of the greatest assets to any author now and in the future, will be «freedom and flexibility `, having the control over your platform, books and intellectual property to take full advantage of opportunities that will arise.
And yet I was simultaneously in an exchange with this author who earnestly felt that Kindle Worlds somehow gave fan - fiction writers an unfair advantage over original writers.
A reputation serves as most of the author's platform, which many consider an extreme advantage of nonfiction authors over fiction, those who choose to live in the land of make - believe.
Brenna Ehrlich, a 25 - year - old blogger - turned - author, explains the advantage books have over blogs: «It's going to be in bookstores for awhile.»
Writing competitions are a big part of our Winner Circle (with over 300 contests in our competitions calendar) because they offer dual advantages to authors.
Said publishing expert Jane Friedman in Publishers Weekly, «Authors skilled in multimedia have an advantage over those who release only e-books or print books.
Authors who educate themselves have an advantage over those who don't.
He told The Bookseller self - publishing had come into a «golden era», with the costs of digital printing improving dramatically in recent times, actually giving self - published authors an advantage over traditionally published authors.
If Kobo is able to add complexity to this tracking then this will be another advantage they will have over Amazon which requires you to go to Author Central to get the rest of the info.
He said self - published authors had an «advantage» over traditionally - published authors because they retained control of their own price levers, manipulating r.r.p, and by extension, their own royalty.
As far as book promotion is concerned, indie authors have a number of advantages over their traditionally published counterparts.
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