Sentences with phrase «as other big publishers»

In its shell right now, Oyster currently has one of the Big Five — HarperCollins — as well as other big publishers like Melville House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Workman.

Not exact matches

From 1968 to 2002, Tony was chairman, chief executive and editor - in - chief of Montreal - based BCA Research (previously known as BCA Publications), publisher of, among others, the highly regarded Bank Credit Analyst, a monthly big - picture analysis of the U.S. economy and financial markets.

Project CARS was scheduled to release last year during the holiday season among a bevy of bigger titles from large publishers before Slightly Mad Studios and Bandai Namco decided to delay not only the Wii U version, but the other console versions as well.

More and more very lean book publishers — without big organizations — are emerging from other media as a result of the fact that books can be published without big print runs or big sales forces in the digital era.

As I've said many of the bigger publishers and other smaller digital publishers have totally different models for digital only lines that pay more to the authors.

It's too bad that the recent meeting between the leaders of the American Library Association and top executives of Penguin Books as well as other Big 6 publishers did not «help» Penguin to reach a conclusion more favorable to libraries than this complete withdrawal.

The biggest advantage to being traditionally published is arguably the publisher's ability to get their books into as many bookstores and other retail outlets as possible.

On the other hand, as much as the hypocrisy of Big Five publishers irritates me and the cluelessness of Amazon - haters wearies me, I'm not as invested in exposing every wrinkle of the current war that's being waged primarily by a (legally required) silent Amazon and a very vocal (through its media outlets and authors) Hachette.

The reason a self - published author would accept an offer from a big 6 or other publisher is because, no matter how well you're doing as a self - published author, your distribution will be limited.

Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish other material «for fun» in different genres, or at different lengths and with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill in the gaps between big books with their traditional house.

If business is being conducted as it usually is, then traditional publishers sell their books to Amazon at the discount they use for all of the other big accounts (Wal - Mart, Costco, and so on).

It's the few big names that pay for the others getting published, and yet, publishers act as if they never got it wrong.

As the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take notAs the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take notas Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take note.

Random House and other publishers are terrified of the «lending model» and see it as a big syphon for their bottom line.

@ Jeffrey Scherer: «Random House and other publishers are terrified of the «lending model» and see it as a big syphon for their bottom line.»

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The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

While children's books have been big business for publishers for a long time, figuring out where children's ebooks fit into the confines of digital publishing isn't as straightforward as ebook publishing for other types of books.

«It does mean that it won't be open this Christmas, which might marginally affect Bloomsbury and the other publishers of Harry Potter worldwide, as maybe people will be talking about the brand slightly less and therefore buying fewer physical editions — but honestly, Potter is such a big brand, it is never far from readers» minds.

There are plenty of reasons why DRM is adopted by the big six publishers, but others see it as hindering the ebook experience.

Neither Amazon nor Barnes & Noble would comment on whether bundling was feasible, and still other Big Six publishers expressed concerns over such things as how author royalties are paid out since print pays at one rate and digital royalties pay out at another.

As he explains, not only is this system superior to that of the days when the Big Six publishers could afford all of the best retail spots and indie authors were relegated to a corner shelf in the back of the store, the complicated process of selecting exactly which titles to put on users» screens is actually superior to that of other online retailers.

I love Baen books and it is so much easier dealing with them than the other publishers but a lot of what I read is put out by the Big 6 — I wish the publisher wouldn't treat libraries as if they were some kind of pariah..

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

There are books from traditional publishers as well — no big - 5 publishers — but Abrams, Algonquin, Workman, Open Road and Bloomsbury, among others.

I think it is early days from which to draw any broad conclusions, but it seems inevitable to me that the big publishers» power is reduced as the parts that nobody else can do (putting books on shelves) become less important compared to the parts that others with much less scale can do (delivering ebooks to the marketplace).

Some medium sized publishers now offer the print - only deals that the Big 5 are loathe to offer (I've signed four more of these deals in the past year, and I know of other authors who have seen them as well).

There are plenty of Indie published books edited by former editors from Big 5 publishers as well as by other highly trained freelance professional editors, with the resulting works enhancing the author's reputation and possibly the sales of their next book.

What traditional publishers are doing is relying upon those handful of big name authors entirely as their publishing model, forgetting that the majority of their «other» sales are what makes them the money.

Piracy doesn't seem to have become nearly so big a problem for book authors and publishers as it has been in other industries.

Shades of gray, lighter in some areas, darker in others and no where currently as dark as, say, Apple or the big publishers.

And as a way to compare, here are my actual sales numbers for the first year, across three books, the same trilogy I would have sold to a Big 5 publisher in other circumstances.

As someone mentioned, the big publishers are still an important part of their sales, but maybe if Amazon shifted their focus and current costs of discounting the big publishers books over to self - published titles, it would eventually accomplish much more than even the best possible outcome with Hachette and the others.

Ted: A big question is whether traditional publishers will start to price their ebook editions as aggressively as you two (and many others) are advocating.

When you sign the petition, you support not only indie writers (many of whom are now, as never before, making a living writing books that lots of people enjoy), but you also support FREEDOM of CHOICE, which is what, it seems to me, that Hachette and other publishers and conglomerates and other big money grabbing corporations, are trying to take away from us.

One other note on March's decrease from February's sales: just like sales dipped to their lowest point of the year last April, the first month that 5 of the «Big 6» publishers raised e-book prices under «agency model» pricing, March 1 marked the date when Random House joined ranks and embraced the agency model as well.

Frankly, it is time for us, as readers, to understand that the traditional publishers who follow the path of Penguin - Random House and the other Big 5 publishers aren't our friends.

As was recently reported by the American Association of Publishers, the Big 5 publishing group and roughly 1200 other reporting traditional publishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early FebrPublishers, the Big 5 publishing group and roughly 1200 other reporting traditional publishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early Febrpublishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early February 2014.

As an indie publisher, you have to explore other opportunities to make your ebook publishing efforts more profitable on the long term — you can't simply rely on one big distributor.

I purposely never wrote to any agents or tried for one of the «big six» as it took me 8 years, $ 8,000 of editing / marketing / other expenses and FAR too much effort to get my 5 - star rated novel out there to wait around for some snobby agent or publisher to decide not to carry my hard earned title.

The site was devised by HarperCollins, another of the Big Five publishers, as a place where unagented authors could offer communal support to each other, submit their manuscripts, and vote them up with a chance to have them selected for review by Harper editors.

If the big publishers capitulate and abandon agency, the other retailers, in order to remain competitive, will be forced to abandon their agency agreements with the publishers as well, otherwise Amazon would have the ability to underprice them.

Writes Missingham, «It's no surprise that publishers put Amazon on top... UK publishers also consider self - published authors and readers as the other big winners of the digital transformation.

The publisher will be using these types of «multi-faceted mini-games» with other upcoming titles as well; Saints Row 3, to be revealed in December, will have «the biggest trans - media play anyone has ever done,» Bilson teases.

The other big change in terms of management was the presence of SEGA as publisher.

Seriously several OTHER big time publishers have already started releasing games with Oculus Rift support so it seems as if preperation for the O.R. is worth the small investment.

Switch is also less well - served with what are called «third party» games (i.e. games made by other publishers that appear on multiple platforms), including big titles such as Destiny, Grand Theft Auto, Star Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty.

Furthermore, the global nature of these games means that it doesn't matter where the cheating is taking place, as it has the potential to negatively impact other gamers around the world, and this sets a big challenge for game publishers.

This is important (to my mind, as IGF Chairman) because there's been plenty of indie titles identified with the IGF and other indie game festivals - but rarely is there such direct causation in the game world between a public showing of an unreleased game, and a bigger publisher / distribution mechanism picking it up.

Rubin said while big studios backed by large publishers such as Infinity and Activision could manage the costs, other developers may not be able to cope.