Sentences with phrase «against big publishers»

Instead of worrying about marketing their titles against the big publishers who they no longer share a category with.

No, the one thing that's always defeated self - publishers going up against big publishers is lack of distribution.

I think Amazon is using Indies as leverage against the big publishers.

But if it is your strategy and you don't have the resources to go head on against the big publishers, the Known Unknowns in the fourth category are your strongest bets.

Indie writers rail against big publishers all the time, but publishers are in business to make money.

My concerns notwithstanding, I respect Amazon's passion for innovation (and I truly, truly approved of the Department of Justice's antitrust suit against the biggest publishers, whether or not Amazon benefited; the law is the law).

Not exact matches

The biggest losers in betting against the Switch are major third party publishers.

EA seems to share that opinion, but also pointed out that they have always competed against big releases, and instead of bothering them, the publisher considers this competition exciting.

In a recent New Yorker piece on the US Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five publishers, five big tech companies were named as largely holding the fate of publishing in their hands: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

If any key people from D Publishing / Dymocks are reading this, I have nothing against Dymocks (or publishers or booksellers, big or small).

The publishing world is still rebounding from the effects of the DoJ suit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers, and the effects of the judgement against the parties involved is still resolving itself.

Between rulings against the company for its involvement with colluding with most of the Big Five publishers, to having an outsider officer appointed to oversee... [Read more...]

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

It never works to go against what consumers want and the big publishers haven't gotten that yet.

The United States has a new poet laureate, Neil Gaiman is miffed with Amazon, and Judge Cote adds yet another case against Apple and the big five publishers.

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.

It sends a message and it will cut down on the annoyance of them having to deal with every big publisher's whining and fighting against ebooks.

RH's Madeline McIntosh actually spoke out against the idea of publishers» setting of retail eBook prices, so maybe there's hope that the biggest of the Big Six publishers will break ranks with the Apple Five.

Self - Published authors are often on a shoestring budget, and competing against the big six publishers with really great art is a hard task.

AG is not known for a reputation of supporting self - published authors, and some commenters see this as a move to provide a cheaper, faster solution for bigger authors and major publishers who want to get swift take - down notices against indie authors who still don't have the means to defend themselves.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

A US judge is still in the process of handling the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — along with five of the then - Big Six publishers — for conspiring to raise the price of ebooks in order to impact the market share that Amazon held over the industry.

This settlement isn't to be confused with the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for colluding with five of the then - Big Six publishers to artificially raise the prices of ebooks in order to draw some of the control over the market away from Amazon.

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

Of course, the irony of this is that getting your books into bookstores is one of the traditional BIG pluses of conventional publishers — making this one more talking point in the case against conventional publishing.

And I got tired of beating my head against the wall trying to get someone else to care or put any of that supposed «big publisher muscle» behind me.

(If you want to do the more traditional stuff, libraries and bookstores, you're competing against traditional publishers with much bigger budgets and better connections.

Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big - name authors go indie.

Since they are big name authors, if they are going through a publisher, they tend to have enough clout to push back against editor suggestions, so said drivel gets through.

News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle - based law firm that initiated the class action lawsuits against Apple for its role in the anti-trust violations and price fixing collusion with the now - Big Five publishers, has filed a suit against Google, alleging anti-trust violations that led the search... [Read more...]

This ultimately will help Overdrive in their plight against the big six publishers that seem to all be pulling out of having their books available as digital downloads for free.

The Big Five publishers unveiled a new weapon in their arsenal against online retail giant Amazon.com this past week: best - selling author and renowned cyborg James Patterson.

As has been hinted at for weeks, the Department of Justice has filed a civil suit against Apple and the so - called «Big Five» publishers: Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster.

The antitrust proceedings against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers are in various stages of resolution.

The first stage in the Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers was to secure settlements from the publishers involved.

Unlike suits brought about on behalf of consumers — such as the lawsuit brought against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for artificially overcharging customers for ebooks — this one is focused on the people who bought stock in Barnes and Noble based on information that the SEC now feels might have been false.

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.

GoodeReader reported last week on the current state of anti-trust investigations against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.

Consumers who are expecting some payouts as a result of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers will be waiting a little longer for their refunds.

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.

Now that Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple was, in fact, guilty of the price fixing allegations that the Department of Justice brought against it and five of the Big Six publishers, Apple's punitive fate is still being hashed out.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department in the USA launched an investigation against Apple and the big six publishers.

As part of the settlement terms in several states» Attorneys General lawsuits against some of the Big Six publishers over alleged ebook price fixing, Amazon customers received some welcome news today: they would be receiving account credits on eligible purchases.

What began life as a class action lawsuit filed by Seattle - based law firm Hagen Bermans on behalf of consumers quickly became a Department of Justice investigation against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.

The results of this quarter's report have led to a startling look at what has happened to the Big Five publishers since winning their hard - won battle against Amazon to be allowed to set their own prices.

There has been an almost conspicuous lack of comments from the parties involved in the DoJ and class action lawsuits still pending against Apple and some of the Big Six publishers.

One big plus for Amazon is it doesn't become the isolated example of a retailer standing up against Publishers» demands for higher prices.

«We (he and his agent) both understood from the beginning that it would likely be against my best interests to take the sort of deal that would be offered (by Big 6 NYC publishers), but we also dreamed of a future where publishers and authors had a different sort of relationship... And so we pursued an impossible dream hoping that the strangeness of our demands (for a print - only deal where he kept his digital rights) might pave the way for future demands from other authors.»