Sentences with phrase «agency dealt with all publishers»

Her agency dealt with all publishers and maintained an office in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Insiders tell us a deal with a publisher hadn't been reached by the time the agency backed away from the Weiner book.

The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so - called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model.

Then, after you helped me get a well - known agent with Hartline Literary Agency (for my previously self - published murder mystery), he got me a deal with an American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) approved publisher.»

Taking also into consideration most (but not all by any means) manuscripts arrive at a publishers via a literary agency, who deal with an even vaster backlog.

Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.

If Amazon had wanted to go head - to - head with Apple a few years ago — a giant who enjoyed monopoly control over both the online music business and the market for related hardware like the iPod — it might have offered record labels the opportunity to cut a deal that would have guaranteed them higher prices, just as Apple has done with publishers and the agency - pricing model.

Some authors (who've gotten NO positive responses from literary agents and / or hundreds of rejections) have written new Query Letters that Worked... resulting in full manuscript requests, representation offers from top literary agencies, and book deals with major publishers.

An example of this would be a literary agency that only deals with domestic rights, teaming up with an international literary agency to help sell translation rights for your book to publishers in other countries.

Our agency deals closely with all major and independent publishers.

The agency, it turned out, had made a deal with the publisher.

The rumblings about Apple (s aapl) and the possible anticompetitive nature of its deal with book publishers over «agency model» pricing have turned into an all - out roar, with the news that the Department of Justice has warned the various parties about an impending antitrust lawsuit.

A few publishers offer unsuspecting authors a «traditional publishing deal» — where the publisher pays publishing costs and industry - standard royalties on sales — paired with a «mandatory marketing and author training contract» that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing agency) thousands of dollars for marketing and «author training» services.

A February 10, 2010 presentation by one Publisher Defendant applauded this result (emphasis in original): «The Apple agency model deal means that we will have to shift to an agency model with Amazon which [will] strengthen our control over pricing.»

Since Apple was coming into the e-book market late and was trying to mount an attack on Amazon's (s amzn) entrenched market share, the deal with publishers to institute what is known as «agency pricing» seemed like a good idea: It gave Apple plenty of content (plus 30 percent of the revenue from each book sold), and the publishers got to control the price of their books, something they weren't allowed to do with Amazon.

There are also literary agencies who prefer to deal directly with publishers.

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Literary agencies have refused to sign e-rights deals for countless backlist books with traditional publishers, even though they and their clients, no doubt, see real benefits in having a single publisher handle the print and electronic rights to a book.

The injunction also prevents Apple from simultaneously negotiating new no - discounting agency deals with the major houses, instead forcing the tech giant to negotiate with each publisher separately, in exclusive windows, staggered six months apart.»

One day, however, not long after Ellen signed a two book deal with her publisher, she received a self - addressed stamped envelope from an agency still engaging in the business of paper and pen correspondence.

While no official announcement has been made — that I have found — sources in the know say that Amazon and Simon & Schuster have inked a new deal with puts in place a modified version of the agency pricing model.According to Publishers Weekly, the new deal will take effect the beginning of next year.

2) Apple made some kind of deal with the big publishers to not allow small publishers in the iBooks store that weren't using the agency model.

Hachette won the first round, doing a deal with Apple and forcing Amazon to accept an agency agreement, rather than a flat rate that gave publishers more control over prices.

Retail outlets and agencies of one kind and another are another channel increasingly impaired by changing customer habits, loss of margin to the publisher, remoteness from end - user customers and, except in relation to specialist intermediaries, a structural failure and disinclination to deal with subscription - based and electronic products, at least until quite recently.