Sentences with phrase «against books published»

It will be interesting to see how the publishing industry continues to evolve as it not only fights for profitability against books published outside of its purview, but also against movies, videogames, network television, streaming shows, and all the other entertainment items literally at consumer fingertips.

And, in fact even now, if you conduct a search on BookFinder.com for a book published by Amazon and compare it against a book published by just about any other self - publishing company (like Outskirts Press, for instance), you will see the major disadvantage to publishing through Amazon.

Not exact matches

And while some may warn against self - publishing your book, it's still a viable approach, if done the right way.

Alfie Kohn is the author of four books, including No Contest: The Case Against Competition and the newly published Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, from which this article is adapted.

Two interesting things happened this week in Jamie Dimon's world: two gutsy attorneys, Helen Davis Chaitman and Lance Gotthoffer, published a book comparing JPMorgan Chase to the Gambino crime family, explaining how the bank could and should be prosecuted under RICO statutes for serial frauds against the investing public.

Mayor Reed condemned the book and launched an investigation into its publishing and to determine whether Mr. Cochran had discriminated against his subordinates.

Unfortunately, as you'll find out when you do finish your book, getting anything distributed in the mainstream publishing market is like banging your head against a wall.

LifeWay's B&H Publishing released her 2012 book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess.

Her 2012 book, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess (B&H Publishing), remains a bestseller as it follows her family's 30 - day fasts to combat excessive consumption.

The published German text was carefully corrected against the original manuscripts, and Bonhoeffer's work on his book was correlated to references in diaries and letters to produce a detailed account of when and where he produced the manuscripts that remain, These are presented in the order he wrote them, with notes, afterword and appendices that connect the text to the books he was reading, the places where he was working, and other things that were happening in his world.

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

Burke, together with four other top Vatican officials, including Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the church's top doctrinal watchdog, has just published a book of essays against Kasper's proposal to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion.

It seems to me that both Against the Nations and The Peaceable Kingdom, the two books Hauerwas has published since which directly develop his views in Christian theology (he has published other books in the time on other topics), can be read in the light of them.

Pease Gadoua is a therapist and the founder of the Changing Marriage Institute; in 2014, she and Vicki Larson published a book titled «The New I Do,» in which they argue against the one - size - fits - all marriage.

This book has been published at a time when the news has been dominated by allegations concerning links in the past between Jeremy Corbyn and the Czech intelligence services and the confrontation with Putin over what appears to be the use of toxic nerve agent against a former Russian spy.

Jane Fae's book «Taming the Beast», an examination of the legal and regulatory measures taken by government against internet porn, is due to be published in November.

Kelly left the post at the end of 2013 and has since published a book touting his counter-terrorism work and achievements against street crime.

A GOP candidate running against Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Sunday sharply criticized the New York Democrat.

Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

In a book entitled It's Time for the World to Change, published last year, she charges the United States and the WHO with conspiring to use H5N1 as a biological weapon against Indonesia and other poor countries.

In his recently published book, The Case Against Perfection, Sandel concluded that President Bush's stem cell policy does not even make ethical sense.

While stressing that de Mattei's book doesn't reflect CNR's position on evolution, President Maiani has, in a media statement, defended the vice-president's right to publish the book, saying: «I'd like to stress both the fact that the intellectual research is an open enterprise, as well as my personal endorsement against any form of censorship.

Fischetti: Another historic, kind of, angle on this might be, well in the»70s [during the] so - called first energy crisis, E. F. Schumacher published this book Small is Beautiful, [which basically said, «big is bad» and I think it was mainly pitched against industry more than anything else.]

Over the years she has published a number of books including «Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer, and other Diseases».

I'm also the author of more than a dozen books and e-books, including a four - book series, published by McGraw - Hill, on the power of foods and nutrients to promote health and protect against disease.

Immunologist Aristo Vojdani, PhD, outlines the various health risks and disorders associated with food colorings in one of his many published papers, and in his upcoming book, When Food Turns Against You.

Hot on the heels of Charter Schools against the Odds, edited by Paul Hill, to which readers were alerted in the last issue of Education Next, come two new books, one (Courting Failure) published as the first in a series of Education Next Bbooks, one (Courting Failure) published as the first in a series of Education Next BooksBooks.

Diane Ravitch has been the titular leader of the grass - roots movement against corporate school reform since 2010, when her book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» was published and quickly became a bestseller.

Independent authors took advantage of a system stacked against authors, priced their books lower to undercut the traditionally published competition, and upset the apple cart.

This is a direct counteraction against the indie - friendly Amazon model that embraces authors and books of all publishing backgrounds.

While she does not shy away from calling out the bias against indie authors, she also asserts that it's never been a more exciting time to be in book publishing — and her passion and enthusiasm are contagious.

As the holder of exclusive rights, Dymocks could take punitive measures against authors they have a disagreement with by decreasing distribution or stopping it entirely for the author's book (s) and not allowing the author have that work published elsewhere.

As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high perceived value for their books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.

Traditionally published books don't have to fight against stigma, or convince readers that the book is high quality.

-- Despite (I'm assuming) no discrimination against self - published books, ALL of these books were published by major houses — Random House; Little, Brown; Free Press etc..

Not because the ads were bad or poorly designed, but the brick - and - mortar bookseller audience that reads them are predisposed against self - published books, especially POD like mine, due to the inability to return unsold copies and the inconvenience of dealing with an individual publisher.

The nonfiction book I published in April, 2017, Watching Their Dance: Three Sisters, a Genetic Disease and Marrying into a Family At Risk for Huntington's, has generated a profit of $ 9,015.00 that we donated to Huntington's Disease Society of America to help in the fight against the cruelest disease on the planet; Huntington's disease.

I'm just guessing, of course, but I think you'd have a hard time selling the books you'd already published (that hadn't sold well), but I don't think they'd necessarily hold it against you if you were showing them something new.

The most common argument against the validity of indie publishing is that all self - publishing books are unprofessional.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

The bad news bears are always loud in their opinions that traditionally published books are winning the publishing war and dominating market share against ebooks, and especially over self - publishing.

A three - judge panel on the Second Circuit ruled decisively for the software giant against the Authors Guild, a professional group of published writers which had alleged Google's scanning of library books and displaying of free «snippets» online violated its members's copyright.

eBooks, often heralded as the end of publishing as we know it, continue to fight against that idea by introducing great works to even more readers everyday, readers who will search for even more books.

An author emailed me yesterday to complain that his self - published book has been discriminated against by reviewers.

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Always remember that your book is competing against the big publishing companies.

IBPA has pledged to help reduce bias against independently published books with the Industry Standards Checklist for a Professionally Publispublished books with the Industry Standards Checklist for a Professionally PublishedPublished Book.

Yes the stigma against self - publishing can be very disheartening at times, but as long as your book is for sale you ARE a published author and should strive to make the best book possible because at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about.

Knowing how seriously the odds are stacked against me, AND that even if I do get published the odds are against being successful enough to get another book published... well, I may have to re-think my priorities.

It's not enough to be your own entire publishing team, but you also have to fight against public perception, and the possibility that you're the sought - after needle in the haystack but nobody can find you because there are too many low - quality books dragging your image down.