Sentences with phrase «as the publisher does»

Many states have their own protections for publishers via exemptions from consumer protection laws for advertisements that violate those laws as long as the publisher didn't know the ad was deceptive.

Even if we're traditionally published, we often have to «fill in the blanks» for promoting our work, as publishers don't do nearly as much as they used to — or as much as they say they will.

The author appears to want to be «kept»... as publishers did decades ago with the authors — nurturing, publicizing and marketing.

I may not know as much as a publisher does about selling books, but I do know more about what I am trying to say and how I want to meet my readers.

Flash back to a little over a week ago: This is the first year that Marvel Comics as a Publisher did not win any Will Eisner Awards for excellence in comics, and none of the creators who won individual awards like penciller, writer, inker, colourist (awards that were basically invented to recognize achievements by creators working on assembly - line big - two superhero books) had any substantial Marvel comics work this year.

Here's another reminder: How you decide to publish does not appreciably alter the quality of the end product, and this is more and more true every day as publishers do less editing and self - published authors do more editing.

Here's another reminder: How you decide to publish does not appreciably alter the quality of the end product, and this is more and more true every day as publishers do less editing and self - published authors -LSB-...]

This is not too surprising, since the growth of e-books is most likely to impact sales of mass - market paperbacks, as MMPs are the least expensive print offering, their release is delayed after hardcovers (as some publishers do with e-books), and most closely filled the role that e-books are starting to fill for people: day - to - day fiction reading, as opposed to hardcover cookbooks, graphic books, or bookshelf display items.

Stunts sell, as long as the publishers don't over-extend the market for variant covers (and they sure seem aggressive in emphasizing those instead of the content in between the covers).

Agency pricing has been effectively declared legal and can continue now as long as the publisher doesn't restrict discounting.

The dreaded «Tokens» microtransaction mechanic from Forza Motorsport 5, for instance, is no longer present (even though the cynic inside me wouldn't put it against Microsoft to add them in at a later date, as the publisher did with Forza Horizon 2), instead replaced by an in - game economy that's far more generous in the currency and content it rewards players with as they steadily progress through the game.

If you do enjoy playing terrible games, please rent instead of purchasing as the publisher doesn't deserve a reward for this.

Not exact matches

However, he said he did not know if this data issue was correlated with the traffic dip experienced by publishers — although he said «we've heard our clients almost universally mention that traffic dip as well.»

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

The same article aptly summarized Hefner's legacy by noting: «As a magazine publisher, he essentially did for sex what Ray Kroc did for roadside food: clean it up for a rising middle class.»

Mobile now represents approximately 65 percent of a typical publisher's web traffic, yet most do not come close to generating the same level of revenues via mobile as they do through their desktop websites.

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

And as Benton noted, publishers have another option if they don't like Google's AMP project: They can simply take the best parts of the specification from the publicly available documentation and implement those themselves.

Should the many foreign publishers in Canada pull up and move out, as they're doing in British Columbia, there will be many game developers left looking to do their own thing.

The company's publisher, Dao Nguyen, wrote recently about how this affects what BuzzFeed does, and how the things it is measuring have been changing as the media industry evolves.

Most publishers see it as nothing less than an existential threat to their way of life, and they view users who do it as traitors and thieves.

As the judge in the case ruled, Apple played «a central role» in convincing publishers that its model would raise e-book prices, which it did.

Not surprisingly, Wylie's venture has angered affected publishers, and Random House has said it will do no new business with Wylie because, said a spokesperson, Odyssey «undermines our longstanding commitments to and investments in our authors, and it establishes this Agency as our direct competitor.»

We will lead the drive towards a neutral Internet, but we need our fellow publishers and content providers to do so as well, so that the playing field continues to be level.»

But YouTube, which like Facebook and Twitter would rather be seen as neutral «platforms» rather than publishers, doesn't take the same kind of responsibility for its content that a television broadcaster is required to.

«They have more control over their day, they're not being as stressed to perform in the public eye, they don't have a lot of physical demands, and nobody's life is at risk,» said Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRated.com.

As major search engines like Google continue to tweak their algorithms, website publishers need to stay ahead of the curve so their sites don't fall in the search rankings.

In fact, having a telecom company like Verizon (VZ) running a publisher like the Huffington Post doesn't just seem unlikely — it seems like a terrible fit for a number of reasons, and there are probably many journalists at both HuffPo and TechCrunch who are fervently hoping that Verizon sees it that way as well.

Rather than charging consumers $ 70 a pop as they do now, publishers would have more flexibility if they were getting a cut of resold games, which they don't now.

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.

As Fortune noted today, Facebook has reportedly signed deals with companies like BuzzFeed and Vox to create longer - form, TV - style video content for the social network's video service, though some publishers may have reservations about whether it would be worth it for them to do so.

As noted above, many people who do not subscribe to news often still actively seek it out, which may make them an interesting group for publishers to identify.

«If we say we are a digital publisher, if digital publishing is our core, we have to be able to do it organically as well.

(The SimilarWeb figures are desktop only, which doesn't tell the full story as many publishers are getting upwards of 50 percent of their traffic on mobile devices.

And I think long - term we definitely see ourselves as a marketplace for brands and publishers to find each other in an efficient way and to do things together.

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

But as I noted in mid-2001, I did introduce a useful «overlay» inspired by one of our directors, Nelson Freeburg (publisher of Formula Research).

As a content marketer, you have no doubt heard that marketers need to «think like publishers,» but how exactly does that translate into action?

Quite unlike other available coins, such as DigiByte (DGB), Digital Cash (DASH), and many more, the BAT coin allows users and publishers to monetize via its blockchain - enabled token, whereas Reddit Gold does not facilitate a mechanism for publishers and users to monetize through its blockchain - enabled token.

None of these competitors has the learnings and experience running a leading digital marketplace like Gameflip.com, an existing user base of 2M commerce focused gamers, decades of experience as a $ 100M game publisher (our team founded Aeria Games), or relationships with top global game publishers and developers that Gameflip does.

As a result, a Canadian publisher is considering launching his edition of this work (to which he does not have the rights) in the US rather than at home in Canada.

Such statements were provided by third parties, and as such they don't necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.

Facebook declined to comment on the record, as did publishers, either to preserve their relationship with Facebook or because they weren't sure why their traffic was down.

Don't forget, EVERY author / agent / publisher who markets via the US emergent brand is responsible for this culture of abuse — those who did not participate in it, stood by silently as it happened.

You don't have enough king James scripture verses in it for any Christian publisher to be interested in putting it out (I've talked to Christian agents about this, and they are as frustrated as the writers at how boxed in to rigid rules Christian books have to be) and that is a sad fact about book publishing today.

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.

What, if anything, can you do when you see a publisher marketing someone as a «sexy new thinker» to the highly impressionable Christian market and people you know and really care about drinking his Christian Kool - Aide?

As for me, I always self - publish my books (though that might change in the future) because traditional publishers would never allow me to give my books away for free, and right now, that is something I really enjoy doing with all the books I write.

If it is you property, burn it, do whatever you want with it so long as you have paid the publisher and book store who sold it to you.

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.