Sentences with phrase «as at the major publishers»

I was glad to hear that he has good access to executives at Amazon, as well as at the major publishers, and that he reads sometimes on paper and sometimes on the Kindle that he purchased before reporting to work for Digital Book World.

Not exact matches

Religious publishers work hard at developing books for laypeople, and they sometimes have breakthrough successes, but they face the same marketing problems as the CHRISTIAN CENTURY - a limited budget makes it impossible to run ads in major «secular» magazines or to do a really big direct mail campaign.

Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor at a publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.

Meryl Streep stars as Katharine (Kay) Graham, the first female publisher of a major U.S. newspaper, and she delivers her most nuanced performance in years... that of a conflicted woman coming to grips with her immense power at a time when many men believed she lacked the capacity for making such far - reaching and weighty decisions.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

And so I think they view this as an important step in the right direction,» said John Sipe, a senior vice president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major textbook publisher.

The WOOL OMNIBUS was selling well enough for me to quit my day job and make a go of it as a full - time author, while at the same time, major publishers were making incredible offers for the rights to my book.

At the time, he was pricing his self - published books at $ 1.99, and the major publisher books were as high as the $ 8 vicinitAt the time, he was pricing his self - published books at $ 1.99, and the major publisher books were as high as the $ 8 vicinitat $ 1.99, and the major publisher books were as high as the $ 8 vicinity.

E-reader company Kobo unveiled a new lineup of Arc tablets, as well as its first digital - magazine store featuring content from major publishers, at an event Tuesday night in New York City.

More and more author are finding out that they make $ 2 on at $ 2.99 Kindle book which is the same as they make on at $ 20.99 printed book with a major publisher.

Almost every single novel from a major publisher has an audio edition that is released at the same time as print, often voiced by well known celebrities.

Available at a flat monthly fee of SGD 9.98, the service offers books from major publishers such as HarperCollins, Head of Zeus, Profile Books, Serpent's Tail and others.

Major publishing houses do not want to take on, or even look at, manuscripts by authors who are not already published (and they do not count Indi publishers as published).

In addition to major publishers, any authors and imprints using the Kindle Direct Publishing can enroll today so as to make their catalog available to buyers at program launch.

Eve worked as a literary agent at The Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency for five happy years where she developed, edited, and sold a wide variety of books to major publishers.

This entire situation could not come at a worse time, as major publishers are gearing up for the most lucrative time of the year, the march towards Christmas.

As Barnes & Noble was the major sponsor of the event, they had the exclusive right to sell books and ebooks at the event, meaning that Autography and other writers or publishers were unable to sell ebooks on site.

Since Marvel has its own subscription program, at a higher price, that leaves DC as the only major American comics publisher without a monthly subscription method to read titles.

Penguin explicitly communicated to Apple that it would sign an e-book distribution agreement with Apple only if at least three of the other «major -LSB--RSB-» publishers did as well.

And isn't it really the publishers who will be affected by a major retailer's inability to sell ebooks at comparable prices, effectively hurting the authors as well?

According to a New York Times article by David Streitfeld, publishers at a number of houses are concerned that Amazon's ability to pull in major bestselling authors, as well as take away the need for agents through its ebook publishing model, Kindle Direct Publishing, and through author submissions to its imprint.

In most cases a major Hollywood adaptation all but automatically puts a book in the NYT bestseller list for at least a couple weeks and it's relatively cheap for publishers to put out a new edition featuring the film actors / poster as a cover to draw in even more people who would otherwise have not read the book, especially since a popular film adaptation means the books will be shown face up on tables or in special displays all over the place.

The books, which look to be priced from around $ 7.99 to $ 14.99, will be available from at least five major publishers, with Steve Jobs giving credit to Amazon as it announced the launch.

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«We're working with a number of major educational publishers to transform their content for epub and kindle, and other devices,» continued Gross, «and it sure seems that all major publishers, as well as smaller [ones], have projects in the wings for at least moving some content over.

As a result, profits improved at all but one of the six major trade publishers that reported results for the period.

To introduce you as a new author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf space.

At a recent conference created for fiction writers — over 350 were in attendance — as each announced their «contracts» for the year — none were with major publishers; all very small presses.

I think the hybrid contract is going to become more prominent — you look at authors such as Hugh Howey and James Oswald who have retained their eBook rights and have sold paperback rights to major publishers.

In reality, whether you self - publish or go conventional way — arguably it's your ability to get visibility, build your author platform that counts the most and publishers look at that ability as one of the major factors, books themselves almost come secondary.

Right now, I think if you look at the major publishers who are involved in the publication of what the industry refers to as trade book, bestselling fiction and non-fiction works, they have very different positions with respect to e-book borrowing from libraries.

The company is seen by many as a tax - avoiding bogeyman that is destroying not only publishers and wholesalers but independent bookstores in particular and Main Street in general, and while there are major economic forces at work here that would probably lead to the same conclusion without Amazon at the head of march, Amazon has to realize that it should do everything possible to avoid being seen as the online version of Walmart.

Often you'll see figures that indicate that ebooks account for about 25 % of all book sales for the major publishers, as in this recent graph from Nielsen, presented at London Book Fair in March 2017.

With major publishers continuing to look at «digital first» comics and smaller publishers like Monkeybrain realizing that the digital format is as effective of a way to distribute comics as attempting to appeal to customers in - store, the industry is continuing to move towards a digital era in which online distribution is as viable as selling to fans in - store.

Sara is an attorney who has worked as an associate at a major New York law firm as well as acted as in - house counsel both for book publishers and at nationally distributed magazine.

A fifth publisher, HarperCollins, limits library lending to 26 check - outs per e-book, after which libraries may repurchase the title to continue lending it.15 The firm recently ended its relationship with OverDrive and is testing a new lending system with the 3M company.16 And the sixth major publisher, Random House, places no restrictions on its digital titles.17 At the same time, Random House recently raised its prices for e-book sales to libraries so that the cost for some titles as much as tripled.

Justice also says publishers required assurances from Apple that multiple companies were agreeing to their contract requirements at the same time: «Penguin explicitly communicated to Apple that it would sign an e - book distribution agreement with Apple only if at least three of the other «major -LSB--RSB-» publishers did as well.

If the e-reading platform wars do turn out to be a land grab for a mature, low growth market, publishers will find themselves at a major disadvantage as businesses.

While I have a biased opinion [Harper Collins was among the first major publishers to work with Shelfie, or BitLit as it was called at the time], I think this is to their long - term advantage.

During his time as lead designer at Side - Kick, Elad designed games for major publishers, including DeNA, Disney and Rovio.

Caspar Gray, now working in Developer Representation at The Arsenal Agency, had previously worked for more than a decade as acquisitions point man for major publishers Eidos and Square Enix.

Over at big sister website Gamasutra, sometime GSW columnist J.Fleming has posted an in - depth history of major publisher Activision - and, as the intro notes, the massive company now in charge of franchises from Guitar Hero to Tony Hawk and beyond:»... started with just four game developers leaving Atari in 1979.»

There's also a troublesome trend of games being sold as if they were crack: Major publishers will provide a mere taste at release — at $ 60 a pop, mind you — so you'll get hooked and feverishly buy into whatever DLC they throw at you.

It's growing, to be sure, and has cultivated a strong brand image as a publisher of grindhouse action games and other niche genres — but for a commercial event at the scale of E3, Devolver is not a major player.

As we all know, this «national» standard, though compiled by a group of law students at the McGill Law Journal, is commercially published by one of our major law publishers.

At the time I started publishing, any information about the sector was either tightly held by management at the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger oneAt the time I started publishing, any information about the sector was either tightly held by management at the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger oneat the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger oneat law firms, and even then, only the larger ones.

To tackle the issue, the CLIC and major Canadian law publishers developed the Standard for Case Identification (1987), which is at the origin of the «Indexed as» entry used in case tables.

Although we at SLAW should not likely favour one of the major legal publishers over another, with Hein it is hard not to love their databases since, as one colleague put it, «they are so darn nice to deal with».

Recently the Resume Place, publisher of the Military to Federal Career Guide, 2nd Ed, interviewed Dennis Eley, Jr., Wounded Warrior Coordinator at the OCHR San Diego Operations Center, about the major barriers these vets face as well as the solutions.