Sentences with phrase «as more and more authors»

I think that as more and more authors go indie, parts of the publishing industry will start to shrink.

As more and more authors seek to be independently published, and traditionally published authors feel the pressure to spend on marketing even in the face of shrinking advances, savvy marketers and publishers alike are seeking ways that authors can raise the funds to cover the initial costs of editing, cover design, and marketing (i.e. author websites, training, PR campaigns).

Operating in lockstep in offering authors only 25 % of net is not just unfair but unsustainable, as more and more authors are going to jump to self - publishing.

As more and more authors found out about, and voiced concerns over, Amazon's «bullying» tactics, Amazon tried offering to pay the authors 100 % of its sales of their books while the price war continued.

The stigma surrounding self - publishing is slowly fading away as more and more authors chose to be in control of their own work and take the reins with self - publishing.

As more and more authors turn to self - publishing as a way to circumvent some of the challenges they face in more traditional publishing venues, many are taking on multiple roles without realizing it.

As more and more authors discover that they can cut out the middle man through many of the self - publishing services cropping up, a whole new breed of small - scale publisher is emerging, both in the U.S. and in Europe.

As more and more authors and publishers move to POD (Print on Demand) as a printing, fulfillment and distribution option, they still need review copies to be used for PR, marketing and personal use.

As more and more authors flood the self - publishing market, authors who can produce more and faster than I can, I confess I feel the edges of panic.

As more and more authors now attempt to go back to their publishers to gain access to the rights to their unpublished digital books, Rowling enjoyed smooth sailing in the world of ebooks as she had the foresight to keep those rights at a time when digital books were unheard of.

A significant opposition is indeed forming, especially via social media platforms, as more and more authors are finding out about this news.

Standards continue to rise as more and more authors set their sights on the SPFBO.

Not exact matches

The author uses a theatrical metaphor, backstage, to describe the configuration phase, its steps being more distant to the customer, such as the profit model, structure, and process.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

The study's authors found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played more shrewdly and made better decisions than those who had eaten.

If you're more like me and less like the authors of Fortune's outstanding blockchain and cryptocurrency site The Ledger, this newfangled stuff is more often than not clear as mud.

I'm a self - published author, and while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.

He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

«As these, and other AI applications gain more experience in the field, their ability to learn and act will continually lead to improvements in precision, efficiency and outcomes,» say the authors.

As Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, points out, by paying it forward, you are more successful without expecting a quid pro quo.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

As an author, I know that with every book I write I learn more about myself, both my strengths and my weaknesses.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

Head of content at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric books out there, such as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Neon Roots has worked with more than 100 clients, and that roster includes companies such as Spotify and Epson, and figures such as Snoop Dogg, for whom they created the much - lauded cannabis - culture app Merry Jane, and author - speaker Tony Robbins.

As a leadership professor, coach, and author, I suggest looking more to learn from champion athletes than to demean them.

In their book The Power of Moments, authors Chip and Dan Heath give more insight into what is required to deliver these types of experiences, defining moments, as they describe them:

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

The relationship began to get a bit more complicated in late 2013, however, when Ravikant announced that AngelList would allow well - known individual investors such as Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 - Hour Workweek) and Gil Penchina (ex-eBay exec) to create «syndicates,» or pools of committed capital, allowing them to make larger investments on a deal - by - deal basis.

As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa ClaAs much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Claas we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

From entrepreneurs to authors to scientists, TED talks feature a variety of guest speakers who touch on a number of topics such as change, failure, confidence and more.

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

The study's authors say the humorous banter prompted important problem - solving behaviours, such as colleagues asking more questions and talking about new ideas.

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

Charles Sizemore, the Dallas - based author of the Sizemore Investment Letter, says that as Asian populations acquire middle - class, North American tastes, they're starting to buy more expensive cigarette and alcohol brands.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

But as more and more book - wielding entrepreneurs crowd the stage, the term published author has less traction than it did even a few years ago, Booher says.

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

But I was never as dumb as author James Damore who wrote a 3,200 word manifesto saying the reason why women and some minorities aren't more represented at his firm is due to biological differences.

The authors argue that what others perceive as a mess might actually be the result of a system where the «more important, urgent work tends to stay close by and near the top of the clutter» and the less important papers «tends to get buried to the bottom or near the back,» CNN reported.

Very comprehensive, yet easy - to - understand, this business tool offers more than just the nuts and bolts of writing a business planthe author also provides invaluable insight through real - life examples illustrating key points and avoidable mistakes as well as cutting - edge information for the 21st century entrepreneur.

You'll find a vibrant cultural scene in this city, home to artists, authors, poets, musicians, and more, as well as great restaurants and lively nightlife.

Audible's over 80,000 programs, including audiobooks from authors such as Stephen King and Jane Austen, may complement Amazon's MP3 digital music store, which was launched in September 2007 and now includes more than 3.3 million songs.

Social media games that ask for personal information such as pets» names, favourite activities, authors, books, and more, probably are used to tell you which celebrity you're most similar to.

Nowadays, after a few major law enforcement interventions and the capture of banking Trojan authors such as those who created SpyEye, Carberp, Gozi and Dridex, underground boardgoers are a lot more cautious.

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.