Sentences with phrase «against the publisher on»

We believe that Capcom must win out against publishers on the global stage, such as those in the U.S. and Europe, in order to grow in the medium - to long - term.

Not exact matches

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled expanded criminal charges against three men in connection with a massive 2014 cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and the hacking of several other major financial companies and financial news publishers.

At the same time, some publishers — notably Elsevier, who is suing a paper - sharing site called SciHub — are doubling down on the fight against exceptions to paywalls.

On Wednesday, he admitted he was the secret financier behind the wrestler Hulk Hogan's successful invasion of privacy lawsuit against the gossip publisher.

The bureaucrat on Monday denied the accusations and said he would file a lawsuit against the magazine's publisher.

Against Goldhagen, Littell wants to defend «senior scholars» who have spent decades pressing the case for serious research of the Holocaust «long before any young writer or eager publisher could capitalize on the brute fact that today «there's no business like Shoah business.

Plagiarism accusations levied (and later apologized for) by radio host Janet Mefferd against Driscoll first focused on material found in A Call to Resurgence (Tyndale House Publishers), but later expanded to include overlapping paragraphs between Driscoll's...

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Kelvin MacKenzie told the then News International boss, Rebekah Brooks, and Sun editor, Dominic Mohan, he was quitting as a columnist in 2011 because he thought they had kept the full extent of phone hacking from him, according to evidence presented as part of a civil case against the newspaper's publisher on Thursday.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

A coalition of federal lawmakers has spoken out against the new duties, including U.S. Reps. Brian Higgins and Elise Stefanik, who issued a joint statement on Thursday citing concerns over costs for consumers and potential job cuts for employees of newspaper and book publishers.

But finally they just wore down the moderates on the board, and they ended up with a standard to replace that old, bad strength - and - weaknesses one that been used against evolution with a phrase that is still going to be used to beat up the publishers, still going to be used to try to get evolution taught as bad science in the state of Texas.

The New York Times initially published excerpts of the report against the government's wishes, but The Post focuses on the dilemma faced by Washington Post owner / publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) over whether or not to follow the Times» lead, especially after the attorney general orders the newspaper to stop publishing its series.

The film, set in 1971, centers on The Washington Post's editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and its publisher Kay Graham (Streep) as they face off against the U.S. government over the publication of the «Pentagon Papers,» a series of classified military documents leaked to the press by a military analyst.

«Fuck Konami» is an old saying on the internet, but usually, it's commenters who are lashing out against the publisher.

Sydney, 12th July 2017 — Video game publisher Maximum Games, in partnership with developer Spiral House, today announced that Troll and I — the adventure that pits the dynamic duo of Troll and Otto against a Scandinavian forest of wilds — will be available on Nintendo Switch on August 15, 2017.

Based on a Henry James novella and filmed against a lush jungle backdrop in Venezuela, a young American publisher sets out from New York City, to search for the lost manuscripts of a famous deceased poet.

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.

Authors have a lot to benefit on the financial front as well, what with the nearly 70 percent royalty that they earn against the 5 - 10 percent that traditional publishers generally offer.

With the help and cooperation of fifteen major anime production companies and manga publishers, the Japanese government started a huge extermination operation against 580, and counting, foreign sites which have illegally uploaded anime and manga contents on the web without the copyright holder's permission.

In North America, the trends are basically reversed with publishers exclusively relying on DRM to safegurd against piracy.

The DOJ case against publishers in the USA is having reverberating effects on Canadian based Kobo.

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.

I'm sure there are some defensive self - publishers who will insist on claiming that you're against all self - publishing because you are criticizing the bad apples among them.

The intention of the clause is to protect the publisher against paying the author for books that are sitting on store shelves but may eventually be returned to the publisher.

The publisher will pay you an advance against royalties, and once the advance is earned back, you will earn royalties on further sales.

Try not to sign any publishing contracts with cross-accounting schemes, where payments due on one title may be charged against debits from another of your titles by the same publisher.

The term «agency pricing» may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

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.

It's not fair to criticise publishers too much on their lack of innovation and change (it is fair to criticise them harshly in this fight for higher ebook prices because that is simply going against business common sense, on top of the democratisation of reading).

LSI is still on the horizon, a half - aspiration, but I may never feel like scaling the wall they have up against tiny self - publishers like me.

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

The fight against Google Advertising has been taken to European courtrooms for several years, with publishers in Belgium, Italy, and France bringing copyright cases against it for displaying and aggregating snippets of content in search results and on services such as its Google News aggregator.

We can speculate that publishers will reduce prices on eBooks from the 9.99 price, and perhaps use Amazons strategy against them to gain market dominance.

Fortunately, the long - held prejudice against digital magazines is being alleviated by publishers such as Time, Inc., as they begin to offer genuine pricing on subscription models.

While the publishers have settled their suits prior to the DoJ case against Apple for a total of $ 166 million, Judge Denise Cote, who presided over the DoJ lawsuit, still has to rule on the actual damages Apple will pay.

I wanted the same terms I would get from any of my other publishers; advance against royalties, half on signing, half on publication.

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.

While all publishers would like to have their books on the bookshelves of all the stores, the reality of small press publishing is against it.

Pursuant to Section 2 (b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act («APPA» or «Tunney Act»), 15 U.S.C. 16 (b)- (h), Plaintiff United States of America («United States») files this Competitive Impact Statement relating to the proposed Final Judgment against Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»), and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette and HarperCollins, «Settling Defendants»), submitted on April 11, 2012, for entry in this antitrust proceeding.

Both European and US authors working directly with Amazon can now access a royalty of 70 % of the cover price on their titles (as against c. 7 % working through a publisher) which increases the chance that authors may choose this route.

The amount of the advance against royalties is based on many factors: the size of the publisher, the historical performance of similar books in the marketplace; the author's track record and author platform or both; and the topicality of the book.

This roughly means that the great DRM - debate isn't even a top three issue for most publishers, while opponents of digital rights» management, who argue against the artificial incompatibility of an ebook across multiple devices, have shown that DRM - free books are no more likely to be pirated than those that have impose constraints on them.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books in New York City, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the publishers for both the DRM conspiracy and a separate allegation that they were in violation of the Sherman Act — the same Act that factored in an important way in the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — for trying to gain a monopoly on the industry.

The right - wing wan na be bad boy refused to refund it, and went on to file a lawsuit against the publisher for $ 10 million.

Of course, the one company with the power to push back against the publishers is Amazon, and I do think this episode gives additional color to Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's own subscription program that, crucially, pays authors based on the number of pages read.

Some of your books might get «in» based on Amazon's ability to put in books against publisher's consent... and if so — bully for you as I think you'll do well financially.

We reported earlier in this year in March that the EU conducted raids on various book publishers and this investigation marks headway on internal paperwork seized to gather a strong case against book publishers.

His step - mother, uber - socialite Dede Wilsey, threatened legal action against his publisher (after excerpts had run in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle) in an attempt to stop publication of the book on the basis that there were more than 30 «actionably defamatory statements of fact... which constitute libel per se» (and that was just in the excerpts!).