Sentences with phrase «at a major publisher of»

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

Not exact matches

Oliver eventually pointed out that The Oregonian «s publisher, Advance Publications, later put the newspaper through a major reorganization aimed at making it «a digital - first» publication, while cutting roughly 22 % of the newsroom staff, including Esteve.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Austin made a major push to cultivate relationships with other countries during the first International sessions at Austin Startup Week.

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Representing the Chief of Army Staff at the first annual conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Major General Peter Dauke said that Borno had about 400,000 houses damaged by Boko Haram Link: https://goo.gl/Mj9Sg9)

«In high school, I had won the Bausch & Lomb science award, and I aspired to be a physics major in college,» Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX) explained to attendees at the annual Forum on Science and Technology sponsored by AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider).

At its E3 press briefing, Microsoft unveiled an unprecedented line - up of world - premiere Xbox One blockbusters from some of the most innovative and celebrated studios on the planet, including 343 Industries, Crytek, Turn 10 Studios, Remedy, DICE, Capcom and Insomniac Games, along with support from virtually every major publisher in the industry.

In fact, if you look at Capcom's release schedule for the past few years, the Japanese publisher has managed two major releases from its most significant series» every year for the last few years, always in similar slots to bookend the year, with the rest of the year filled out with smaller titles.

Meryl Streep stars as Katharine (Kay) Graham, the first female publisher of a major U.S. newspaper, and she delivers her most nuanced performance in years... that of a conflicted woman coming to grips with her immense power at a time when many men believed she lacked the capacity for making such far - reaching and weighty decisions.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

traditional publishers, but with the exceptions of Open Road Integrated Media and, possibly, Ruckus Media Group — both run by major publishing veterans, and have partnerships with a variety of «traditional» publishers — you'd be hard - pressed to name too many others that have had any truly notable impact to match the hype surrounding them at any given moment.

The WOOL OMNIBUS was selling well enough for me to quit my day job and make a go of it as a full - time author, while at the same time, major publishers were making incredible offers for the rights to my book.

While Weinstein doesn't see corporate publishing going away, ever, he does think the business is at «an enormous transition point» and that the outsourcing major publishers have been doing for years — forcing agents to do more editing, going with outside PR, telling authors they need to take hold of their own marketing — will mean that more agencies, and others, will jump into the publishing fray.

Were I an editor at a major publisher planning the release of what's likely to be a bestseller, I'd make darn certain no other cover used a particular image.

At the beginning of the aughts, major record labels weren't behaving any differently than publishers are now.

E-reader company Kobo unveiled a new lineup of Arc tablets, as well as its first digital - magazine store featuring content from major publishers, at an event Tuesday night in New York City.

Authors at all stages of development and success (everyone from beginners to previously published authors who have a dozen books in print with major publishers)

Looking at the statistics presented at the workshop, it is clear that library patrons find the restrictions put on ebooks by most of the major publishers to be totally unacceptable.

All of the major publishers we spoke to at this event were basically local sales people who had no idea on what their companies were doing in the digital space.

Almost every major publisher discloses this type of information or at the very least, talks about what percentage of their business derives from digital content.

Available at a flat monthly fee of SGD 9.98, the service offers books from major publishers such as HarperCollins, Head of Zeus, Profile Books, Serpent's Tail and others.

Despite efforts from different major publishers to sell books directly through their own websites, even in the face of pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.

The love of the game The publishers of Sports Illustrated continue to dazzle at holiday time with their beautiful, oversized treatments on major sports, and The Golf Book: A Celebration of the Ancient Game is no exception.

One of the ways that we can gauge how the e-book market is to take a look at the financial reports that major publishers release.

Our awards were started back in 1996 when Small Press (the original name of Independent Publisher) was hearing a lot of criticism lobbed at major book awards contests and was encouraged to produce its own «best of the year» list.

At first, I mistakenly assumed that co-publishing was an arrangement where the author published under the «self - publishing» wing of a major publisher.

Okay, to keep this basic, there are three major types of publishers in publishing, and I don't see this model changing at all.

I read a lot of non-fiction, and I'm always surprised at how many quality books from major publishers are in KU.

The Frankfurter Buchmesse organises the participation of German publishers at around 20 international book fairs and hosts trade events throughout the year in major international markets.

On the major publisher level I think it's impossible to ignore the recent success of Hachette up and down their imprints, from children's side all the way up through the quality books at Jon Karp's imprint and the incredible roster of suspense novelists at Grand Central.

Eve worked as a literary agent at The Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency for five happy years where she developed, edited, and sold a wide variety of books to major publishers.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

Most of the major publishers and many of the smaller US publishers exhibit at this event.

This entire situation could not come at a worse time, as major publishers are gearing up for the most lucrative time of the year, the march towards Christmas.

As Barnes & Noble was the major sponsor of the event, they had the exclusive right to sell books and ebooks at the event, meaning that Autography and other writers or publishers were unable to sell ebooks on site.

One of the major events that occurred at the Manila Book Fair was a local book publisher announcing a new Android device.

BookShout, the ebook distribution platform that has seen a great deal of recent success in partnering with publishers to produce sales dashboards and seamless, device - agnostic file integration for ebook consumers, announced at today's DBW event that several industry veterans from across major publishers have joined BookShout's team for its new print distribution initiative.

Sony said yesterday that several major publishers will set the price of most e-books at US$ 12.99 to US$ 14.99, a shift from retailers deciding the pricing.

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

Following yet another living, breathing attempt at book banning — this time in Boise, Idaho, where school board members voted to remove Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian — a student - led petition resulted in a major donation from the book's publisher.

Since 1985, he's been the president of Colborne Communications, a writing and editing company that has worked on books for most of the major publishers at one time or another.

First of all, small publishers won't be at a «much greater disadvantage» because we will still be pricing below major publishers.

How is an agent going to look at undertaking one of my new titles, however, knowing that I rejected a deal with a major publisher for 3 of my self - published books?

, there's an understanding at least of the fact that $ 12.99, $ 13.99, and $ 14.99 ebook prices are being pinned on the majors» books by their own publishers in full knowledge (if not admission) that these are not «popular prices» for digital reads.

That's why the major publishers have accepted [lowered prices] in the past couple of years,» he said, claiming: «India has bailed out their business at an international level.»

But with Avatar successfully funding Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels, First Second releasing a majority of its titles online first, and former Image Publisher Jim Valentino experimenting with it through Shadowline, I think a well - planned, slow - growth webcomics line at Image could reap major rewards for the company and for its creators.

The last major publisher to look at one of my manuscripts held onto it for eight months before deciding that, while they thought it was a bit fab, it wasn't for them.

Penguin explicitly communicated to Apple that it would sign an e-book distribution agreement with Apple only if at least three of the other «major -LSB--RSB-» publishers did as well.

One of the anticipated major trends of 2013, at least according to the companies showcasing their platforms at last January's Digital Book World event, was supposed to be online retail stores branded specifically to publishers and authors, essentially letting publishers cut out the retailer altogether when it can to ebooks, audiobooks, and other downloadable content.

This week, OverDrive is meeting with major international and domestic publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair — arguably the largest publishing industry event of its kind — to unveil its «Want It Now» (WIN) catalog for ebook - lending.