Sentences with phrase «as publishers tried»

Book trailers emerged in the early 2000s as publishers tried new ways of directly marketing online to readers.

While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.

I've spoken with agents who say publishing contracts are getting more convoluted as publishers try cover every possible publishing right even if it hasn't been discovered yet.

After last year's blockbuster success of Paula Hawkins» The Girl on the Train, that steady rise has skyrocketed as publishers try to cash in on this phenomenon.

I fear pointless lawsuits a la the RIAA, as publishers try to «stop piracy» instead of figuring out how to increase sales.

Furthermore, a traditional contract typically gets you access to international markets, as publishers try to sell overseas rights (for which you receive royalties as well).

While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.

Not exact matches

As a result, the company plans to try a number of different strategies to convince readers to turn off their ad blockers in the new year, including a message that tells them the publisher relies on ad revenue for its survival.

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

The reason for this decision is the same as it is for the New York Times or any other publisher that is trying to crack down on ad blocking: Facebook is fundamentally a media company at its core, in the sense that it relies on advertising as its only revenue source.

The discussions come during a challenging time for magazine publishers, many of which are trying to remake themselves as multimedia entities.

That's an instructive example because publishers and entertainment conglomerates for years have tried to claim what they see as their rightful share of the digital - content - rentals business, but most of their efforts have been failures, while tech «middle men» like Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Spotify have flourished.

Publishers and console makers can also try to cut out pesky used - game retailers such as GameStop by going completely digital, but then those pesky retailers are likely to turn around and stop selling consoles.

As currently phrased, they could allow press publishers to try charging for the reproduction of headlines, or even the mere indexing of their articles.

But the most common theory is that as Facebook has been trying to keep users in its ecosystem, it's encouraged publishers to upload their articles and videos directly to the social network, whether it's video or its Instant Articles feature that began rolling out in May.

The move comes as news publishers try to figure out how to work with Apple and Facebook Inc, which are important distributors of news content to their hundreds of millions of users, but at the same time are getting between publishers and their readers.

As you may have heard, every single digital publisher and TV network is trying a version of this.

So of course I was all up in arms when I found out that a bunch of publishers and politicians tried to «civilize» these documents by taking out the parts they didn't like — the n - word from a new edition of Huck Finn and those embarrassing sections about slaves counting as three - fifths of a person in Congress» reading of the Constitution.

The Capital Region's 38 - year - old alternative weekly Metroland «definitely» won't publish tomorrow as it tries to figure out its tax troubles, according to editor and publisher Stephen Leon.

As Rockland County Times Publisher Emeritus Armand Miele has been trying to wake Rockland residents and officials up to for years, the MTA is running an unfair taxation system that is like «taxation without representation.»

But finally they just wore down the moderates on the board, and they ended up with a standard to replace that old, bad strength - and - weaknesses one that been used against evolution with a phrase that is still going to be used to beat up the publishers, still going to be used to try to get evolution taught as bad science in the state of Texas.

3 trips to New York 2 adventures in places I've never been before (NOLA + Havana) Tried casual sex twice (spoiler alert: I AM TERRIBLE AT IT) 1 weekend spent in a tiny home on a vinyard 2 mended friendships 6 times deleting all of my online dating profiles (and just as many re-building them) 1 book pitch to a publisher 11 hair colour changes 1 new nephew (honorary nephew, but still!)

If you like this, try: «Babe,» «Paddington» and «Paddington 2,» and «Miss Potter,» with as Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter and Ewan McGregor as her publisher

Though the publisher was light on specifics, gamers will apparently be able to try out a range of ground - based combat, as well as jetpack - fueled aerial dog - fighting.

Please also be aware that the formatting may be slightly out of allignment in Word - I tried my best to get it looking as good as the Publisher version.

«I am also trying to work with the big publishers as distributors, either SM, whether Anaya, Santillana... who are living their own battle, which today is the digitization of content: How to bring that content to the world of ipads and tablets.

Since the previous discussions and negotiations that have taken place between the parties are not being disclosed, we may never know what went really down, but I think it is not too far fetched to imagine that Hachette was not happy with the status quo and tried to force Amazon to comply with its wishes, guided by the sense that as one of the largest international publishers they could somehow force Amazon's hand.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

I prefer to think of it as the publishers were trying to protect the perceived value of literature from being denigrated by ruthless discounters who would see us all living under an overpass, if they had their way.

Publishers offer less and less as they try to stay competitive through cost cuts and «optimisations».

Although the works of Tolstoy are public domain, you wouldn't just put a sticker over the publisher's name in the new Penguin edition and try to resell it as your own work, would you?

# 6 Go Straight to the Publisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a boPublisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a bopublisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a book agent.

Part of it is, as shown above, because we don't have to worry about a publisher trying to force us to conform to their social and political agendas.

Book publishers are behaving similarly, and largely approaching ebooks in a protectionist manner to try and add revenue to existing print sales, then seamlessly transition to digital as that segment grows.

Go Set a Watchman follows an adult Scout Finch who travels from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus Finch, 20 years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird.According to the publisher, Scout «is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father's attitude toward society and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.»

Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital lending, as five of the Big Six publishers are not yet fully on board with allowing libraries to include their titles in ebook lending programs.

But do you think that low sales as a self - publisher would hurt your chances if you then tried to seek a traditional publishing deal?

Concerns about piracy are further down the list, as I have found from talking to people who try to sell publishers DRM.

In his recent controversial essay «Don't Any One Put Me in Charge,» bestselling author Hugh Howey went so far as to suggest that one strategy for publishers to survive and thrive in trying times would be to abandon New York City and its astronomical rents.

But there's one other skill or ability you have to look for as an author when trying to find top literary agencies to get you a top publisher and book deal.

If any of my books were owned by a library, at a later date I couldn't re - edit / re-write those books and try to get them published by a print publisher, as they wouldn't be mine anymore.

I also don't refuse books that are given to me free, as many self - publishers already know — though I prefer to buy them because I'm a hard - working author and I like to support other authors, AND I will only accept ones from those who try to make an effort to get to know me first — but I won't guarantee that I'll read them if I can't get past the first couple of chapters, and they will receive the same hard criticism that I give all books, that is if I give a review.

Yesterday, I heard from yet another frustrated author whose publisher is promoting books in the same way as books were promoted 5 years ago: sending out books and media kits to the conventional media, following up, and trying to persuade journalists, reporters, producers, and hosts to choose their story, review their book, or set up an interview with their author.

Driven by curiosity (as always), I've just spend a large part of my lunch break browsing through various forums [1], trying to get a handle on what problems self - publishers are facing when they are creating their ebooks.

It seems Google don't plan on stopping with just music downloads as a recent report in The Wall Street Journal explains that Google are trying to lure publishers into supporting a «digital newsstand» service for Android.

Book advances have decreased as traditional publishers have tried to figure out how to remain profitable in the competitive climate with self - publishers gaining momentum.

Because as Mr. Wendig says, if you're trying to get a cut of sales off of my book, and you're getting in there and altering the language and you are neither my publisher nor my editor, that warrants a big fat fuck you, no.

I suspect we'll see a lot of school text books that try to imitate video games — mostly developed by people who, as you say, are unlikely to be writers and publishers.

Many are afraid to say anything about the bad behavior of these self - publishers because the immature have a tendency to strike back irrationally, taking things out of context, being rude, and try to apply everything they say against all self - publishers even though they are clearly only speaking about some, and the others blindly support them because they band together as one homogeneous group without realizing it is these bad apples who are destroying the reputation of the rest.

We all tend to try and fuse our passion writing what sells with what we also think «will sell», but luckily, as a self - publisher, you don't have to worry about that acquisitional «wall».