Sentences with phrase «as book publishing houses»

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For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

As a result, as Trump was writing the book, there was no way she could have predicted that, by the time it was published, she would have quit her job as CEO of Ivanka Trump to work in an official White House rolAs a result, as Trump was writing the book, there was no way she could have predicted that, by the time it was published, she would have quit her job as CEO of Ivanka Trump to work in an official White House rolas Trump was writing the book, there was no way she could have predicted that, by the time it was published, she would have quit her job as CEO of Ivanka Trump to work in an official White House rolas CEO of Ivanka Trump to work in an official White House role.

So far as book publishing is concerned there were practically no Jews in the business prior to 1915 and today Viking, Simon & Schuster, Knopf, Covici, Friede, and Random House do not rank in size of annual list with such non-Jewish houses as Macmillan, Scribner's, Harpers, Houghton Mifflin, Appleton - Century, Doubleday, Doran, and the like.

He credits the growth of his business, in part, to the stabilization of print and new practices in the publishing industry, such as Penguin Random House's so - called rapid replenishment program to restock books quickly.

They also established a house to publish his many books as well as her writings.

Great Illustrated Classics publishes abridged versions for children of otherwise adult books such as The House of the Seven Gables and Robinson Crusoe.

For a vegan recipe as mouth - watering as any that will be eaten by those wearing the green this year, we turned to our good friends at the Spiral House in Saugerties, New York, and their recently published book, For Goodness Sake: Plant - Based Recipes from the Spiral House Kitchen © 2015, featuring recipes by Chef Diane Hagedorn and photographs by Andrea Barrist Stern.

They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation's approach to childbirth.

The infamous Der Stürmer publishing house put out a book of fables for children which included the very same tale from Aesop as Trump - «The Farmer and the Viper» — and, like Trump, they added a post script to the story which made it abundantly clear what it meant:

The arrangement has come under scrutiny, with a report in the International Business Times that says Cuomo signed legislation favorable to Newscorp, which owns the publishing house that published Cuomo's book, as well as Fox News, shortly before he signed the book contract.

As an Agency, BookEnds represents a large variety of books to publishing houses.

It comes with a nice booklet too, but is even better when accompanied by the new monograph, Jiří Brdečka: Life — Animation — Magic, likewise issued by a publishing house bearing the name of his classic Western parody, Limonádový Joe, which was a book and play written by Brdečka before he was a party, as co-screenwriter, to its wonderful 1964 adaptation to film (dir.

Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell, Noah Emmerich, Bruce McGill, David Andrews, Sam Shepard Director: Doug Liman Screenplay: Jez Butterworth, John - Henry Butterworth (based on the books, «The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir» by Joe Wilson, and, «Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House» by Valerie Plame) Review published January 8, 2013

Wolff's book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,» published in January, quickly became the hottest seller in the country after an excerpt published in New York magazine portrayed the Trump administration as wildly mismanaged and run by chaos.

She also worked as Children's Literature Editor, General Interest Books Division Director and Communications Director for Santillana, an international Spanish publishing house that specializes in K - 12 educational materials.

And if you win, this signals that your work is of the same caliber as a book published by the big publishing houses.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

Before joining the L. Perkins Agency, Latoya was an editor for over thirteen years working at publishing houses such as Kensington Publishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain Ppublishing houses such as Kensington Publishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain PPublishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain PublishingPublishing.

Jaffa Books was founded in 2011 by publisher Jacob Coates as an alternative option to the major publishing houses.

Brian DeFiore started the agency in 1999, after close to twenty years working in mainstream publishing houses, including stints as an Editor at St. Martin's Press, as VP Editorial Director at Dell / Delacorte, as VP and Editor - in - Chief at Hyperion, and as SVP and Publisher of Villard Books / Random House Publishpublishing houses, including stints as an Editor at St. Martin's Press, as VP Editorial Director at Dell / Delacorte, as VP and Editor - in - Chief at Hyperion, and as SVP and Publisher of Villard Books / Random House PublishingPublishing Group.

Mark's authors have been published with major publishing houses such as Harper Collins, Thomas Nelson, and Penguin Books, resulting in millions of books Books, resulting in millions of books books sold.

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

«With their new pricing formula, Penguin Random House is recognizing that libraries are key players in the publishing industry, both as major purchasers of books and e-books, and promoters of literacy.»

Other publishing houses that Mark Malatesta has secured contracts with include Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

«Not every author can make the NY Times bestseller list» says Mark, «but every talented author deserves to reach as many people as possible... whether it's with a traditional publisher like Random House or through self - publishing supported by smart book marketing.

I am now looking for a professional editor - as in the kind I would get if my book were to go through a publishing house.

Not just books, but * authors * have been treated as fungible widgets for decades, a process that has gotten worse as the old publishing houses got bought up by soulless corporations that make the «Zon look like a feel - good co-op run by gentle hippies.

Since Ernest Hemingway got his break when the enlightened owner of a small book shop published his first work, the concept of independent writing as opposed to the preferred method of the large publishing houses the (contract or book deal) has always been with us, as has self - publishing which has been around forever.

As the stigma of self - publishing vanishes, more and more self - published books are making it big and getting picked up by traditional publishing houses.

Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»

In another new twist, PLC organizers and recognized publishing thought leaders Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader will be joined by analysts and executives from both inside the industry and out to discuss the most political and fraught subjects facing publishing today: the future of Amazon and B&N, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various publishing start - ups, and much more...

If using someone out of house, tell her as much as you can about your publishing business, and let her know who your competitors are so she can check out what they are doing — you'll want to differentiate yourself from them, while making sure your book fits into its genre.

These days, authors whose books are being carried by major houses as well as those who are self - publishing, need to know how to promote and market their books.

Dohle's letter made clear the company's position that «the vast majority of [its] backlist contracts grant [Random House] the exclusive right to publish books in electronic formats, as well as more traditional physical formats.»

At the meeting, Juergen Boos said: «A new spirit of optimism can be observed in Italy's cultural scene right now: The Italian book market underwent a period of dynamic upheaval and drastic change in recent years — including the consolidation of publishing houses as well as new bookstore concepts and the new book fair Tempo di Libri in Milan.

The bookshop and reading room at 972 Fifth Avenue positions itself as New York's only French bookshop, and has brought books from some of France's best - known publishing houses into its huge new catalog of ebooks.

With this being what they are, just as I released the book, the eBook market exploded and within months it became obvious that print is on its way out, while the Kindle and Nook now generate the majority of today's book sales, particularly when you're not published by a New York publishing house.

Once your book has been published on either Create Space or Lightning Source or via a publishing house, it takes 6 to 8 weeks for your book to be listed on the Book Depository, as long as it's listed on Neilson's or Ingrams with a unique Ibook has been published on either Create Space or Lightning Source or via a publishing house, it takes 6 to 8 weeks for your book to be listed on the Book Depository, as long as it's listed on Neilson's or Ingrams with a unique Ibook to be listed on the Book Depository, as long as it's listed on Neilson's or Ingrams with a unique IBook Depository, as long as it's listed on Neilson's or Ingrams with a unique ISBN.

If your book manages to make it through their process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author their ever was), you'll still see less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

Book agents also sometimes act as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of books with foreign publishing houses, theatrical producers, film and TV producers, and magazine publishers (interested in publishing an excerpt from an author's boBook agents also sometimes act as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of books with foreign publishing houses, theatrical producers, film and TV producers, and magazine publishers (interested in publishing an excerpt from an author's bookbook).

I think it was Mark Lawrence who said recently that authors that go through a publishing house looked at the advance as the thing, and that advances usually ran around $ 10,000 or thereabouts, because most books published sell around 500 copies or so, and so you can't depend on getting any royalties over the advance.

«A writer's work has value and should be paid for» As our #FutureChat recap comes to the ether, my Bookseller colleague Philip Jones, inCornerstone in joint venture with Unbound, is reporting that the UK's Penguin Random House imprint Cornerstone will take over publishing trade editions of books crowdfunded on the Unbound platform.

Literary agents (also known as book agents or publishing agents) act primarily as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of their books with large domestic publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, and sometimes small - or medium - sized domestic publishers like Peachtree Ppublishing agents) act primarily as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of their books with large domestic publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, and sometimes small - or medium - sized domestic publishers like Peachtree PublishingPublishing.

For example, as Helen Sedwick's and Orna Ross's recent book How Authors Sell Publishing Rights says, «Within most trade - publishing contracts -LSB-...] the publishing house will request [rights in] perpetuity, unless the book goes out of print, which rarely occurs in the POD / e-book ePublishing Rights says, «Within most trade - publishing contracts -LSB-...] the publishing house will request [rights in] perpetuity, unless the book goes out of print, which rarely occurs in the POD / e-book epublishing contracts -LSB-...] the publishing house will request [rights in] perpetuity, unless the book goes out of print, which rarely occurs in the POD / e-book epublishing house will request [rights in] perpetuity, unless the book goes out of print, which rarely occurs in the POD / e-book era.»

At Hazlitt, Random House Canada's platform for digital publishing initiatives, the approach to promoting an ebook is the same as promoting a print book.

The big publishing houses are acquiring the necessary skill sets and it is up to you to make sure your book looks every bit as polished as theirs.

The Martian Started as a Self - Published Book (All Things Considered, NPR): «Self - published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishiPublished Book (All Things Considered, NPR): «Self - published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishipublished authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishing house.

Unlike that traditional model, where a large publishing house generally has to apply an infallible, top - down policy over, say, whether or not to use full stops to punctuate abbreviations, I can create the style DNA of a book as more of a consultation, informed by the author's preferences.

Mark's authors have been published with houses such as Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Penguin Random House; gotten 6 - figure book deals; appeared on the NY Times bestseller list; had their work optioned for TV, stage, and feature film with companies such as Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks; won countless awards; and had their work licensed in more than 40 countries, resulting in millions of books sold.

The third major publishing house in two days has decided to delay the electronic - book publication of some titles next year, as the debate over the timing and pricing of e-books heats up.