Sentences with phrase «at big publishers»

But venting bile at big publishers who have every intention of bringing their games up to ship shape may be misplaced, he said.

This is becoming easier as many editors and designers who work at big publishers offer their work privately as well.

In the last couple of months, two of my self - published authors have landed contracts at big publishers.

Many Powerful Connections vs. Not So Much: One reason some agents only (or primarily) pitch projects to smaller publishers (see Big vs. Small Publishers above) is they don't have connections with acquisition editors and executives at the big publishers.

If I were working at a big publisher, I'd want to partner with you on this.

That seems to be the general consensus at Big Publisher Incorporated, because yet another revamp appears to be on the cards.

If you're at a big publisher the chance that you get to make a game you want to make is basically zero.

Not exact matches

«Now, Nike is a big supporter of the culture, whether media, contests, skater sponsorships, shops whatever,» says Ryan Stutt, publisher of skateboarding and snowboarding magazines KingSh * t and KingSnow (disclosure: I worked with Stutt years ago at SBC Media).

Gannett, the biggest U.S. newspaper publisher by circulation, made an unsolicited $ 12.25 per share takeover offer for Tronc — formerly Tribune Publishing — in April, valuing the company at about $ 815 million.

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.

Well today I have the chance to be at one of those conferences — Big Tent Christianity — primarily because I'm a poor writer from a small town whose publisher took pity on her and paid the way.

But science budget expert Matt Hourihan of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) made some informed estimates of how the cuts would play out (assuming Congress approves all of the cuts, which is a big «if»).

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

At the other end, but never so close, there are the mechanics typical of a classic gameplay, so familiar yet forgotten reminiscence of a past that the big publishers and investors are determined not to recover.

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.

It's so big that (possibly apocryphal) stories have popped up about the government forcing publisher Square Enix to only release new games in the series on Saturdays, to avoid obsessed gamers skipping out on school and work to stand in line at a store.

It could be argued that most, if not all, of the big - name publishers played it safe at E3 by sticking to their franchises and annual outings.

With the first financial quarter of the year wrapping up at the end of March, i's finally time for the big publishers to reveal whether they met their sales targets.

Looking at the big picture, the whole «battle» between players and AAA publishers regarding monetization started with DLC becoming widespread roughly a decade ago.

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.

If big - name publishers make these mistakes, then self - publishers are more at risk.

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.

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

I frigging love the idea of 25 % ebook royalties that work out to be more like an effective 12.5 %, and I literally dance in the streets at the thought that all big publisher ebooks should cost $ 12 - $ 20.

For a traditionally published author, yes, the big, blockbuster debut might be necessary to meet the publisher's expectations (because they don't think long - tail sales but just look at debut month numbers).

Prices climbed and plummeted from week - to - week, self - published authors achieved more than one No. 1 best - selling title and a few from «big six» (and later, «five») publishers clung to the top slot for weeks at a time.

``... Much of what was covered at Publishers Launch BEA... centered on whether or not size will really matter and what the behemoths of the industry, which only seem to be getting bigger, mean for everyone else.»

At play in another world, nobody needs cocktail parties, big publishers and expensive book launches for validation.

Compared to the major record labels (who are analogous to big publishers) who push junk to top 40 radio stations (analogous to bookstores), big publishers do a remarkable job at introducing high quality products to the market.

Traditional publishing, at least the big publishers (and their smaller group of older medium - sized publishers) have decided that the only way to come out ahead in this is to make sure the old way of doing things remains.

Big Crowd at our Vendor Showcase August 13, 2014, cosponsored by St. Louis Publishers Association and St. Louis Writers Guild.

Yet the traditional publishers, especially the Big 5, continue to grasp at the results, touting them as proving e-books are not nearly as popular as they are.

That will soon be changing, at least for most of the so - called Big Six publishers.

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

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So - called «deep discount» clauses let publishers offer titles to booksellers and wholesalers at big markdowns.

In mid-year 2014, indie - published authors as a cohort began taking home the lion's share (40 %) of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers combined slipped into second place at 35 %.»

To date, five of the Big Six have signed on with Bilbary, and coupled with the host of other trade and academic publishers from around the world, 750,000 titles will be available at the full launch.

One particular hot topic at Digital Book World 2014 was the three big problems facing book publishers today: the lack of bookshelf space at bookstores, how readers will discover new authors and books, and the rapid changing pace in the publishing industry.

At the end of the interview, they interview Michael Pietch, the current top Editor of Little Brown, and the incoming CEO of its parent company, big 6 publisher Hachette.

It's a fun and fascinating look at the publishing marketplace, and how indie publishers are uniquely poised to move fast, bet smart, and win big.

Publishing Perspectives spoke with three publishing practitioners who will discuss this challenge at this year Frankfurt Book Fair's October 8 CONTEC 2013 Conference during the panel discussion «Big Data / Little Data: The Practical Capture, Analysis, and Integration of Data for Publishers.»

In his book The Everything Store, author Brad Stone recounts that the big book publishers were blindsided when Amazon announced at the Kindle launch event that e-books would be priced at just $ 9.99.

Other big - six publishers also have restrictions on e-book library lending, or do not make e-books available at all.

So... since big publishing is going to entrench for the long war (and they'll lose this Hachette battle, pretend publicly they didn't, then sit back and watch the next publisher take their best shot at Amazon, rinse & repeat), here's how you quickly end that war:

The New York - based publishing house, whose roots date back to 1817, was the only one of the Big Five publishers to offer some of its backlist titles — and perhaps more importantly, some of its prestige — to these startups at launch, helping to kickstart the fledging Netflix - like e-book subscription market.

Having sold a book to a Big 5 publisher I now felt fairly confident (well, as confident as a writer ever feels) that I could write at a professional level.

I do talk to the CEO's of the biggest publishers but I can assure you that when we happen to see each other at charity functions or industry functions the people who run publishing companies don't sit around taking about how long their company takes to revert rights to authors.

And in Mexico, the job of foreign rights director has emerged at the biggest publishing houses, with other publishers across Latin America likely to follow suit.

And to your other point about big publishers selling direct, I'm not expecting them to be very effective at it.