Sentences with phrase «at least the big publishers»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

At a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their... [Read more..At a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their... [Read more..at least in their... [Read more...]

With only one of the «Big 5» publishers currently signed on to both Scribd and Oyster, book availability seems like one area that libraries lead on, at least for now.

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.

At a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their actions if not their sentimentAt a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their actions if not their sentimentat least in their actions if not their sentiments.

An Iraq war vet, a newspaper publisher, a physician's assistant and a couple of spunky teens (among the novel's most engaging characters) try to foil Big Jim's plans while the world watches — at least, at first.

Under the new model we have six players (the big six publishers) setting terms to at least two outlets (Amazon and Apple iBooks).

When a popular book becomes a major motion picture publishers change the cover art, or at the very least put a big red sticker one it.

But if the royalty statements we're seeing are any indication, the discount clause is being applied almost all the time, at least through the royalty statements I'm seeing from 3 of the Big 5 (and from some smaller publishers).

It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.

A little competition and other paths to an e-book ownership type program might force the big publishers, or at least encourage them to cooperate.

Rather than the great blood - letting of discounts many warned would be imposed by Amazon in the wake of the agency rollbacks (required by the big publishers» settlements with the DoJ), we're seeing quite a lot of prices above $ 10 and they're holding, at least, as I see them, relatively steady.

«EITHER the Big Six publishers will begin offering standard royalty rates on e-books of at least 40 % OR more A-list authors will begin self - publishing e-books.»

Finally, it would probably be useful to indicate — again, at least in a footnote — which publishers you count in the «big five,» and whether that includes all imprints of those publishers.

Reports also state that the Fire will have the backing of at least three of the big magazine publishers: Hearst, Conde Nast and Meredith, with Time Warner to come later in the year.

For the moment, Amazon is still big enough most publishers will go to the trouble, at least for the reflowable ecitions.

For the moment, Amazon is still big enough most publishers will go to the trouble, at least for the reflowable editions.

These will probably not provide the broad - ranging promotion and book posters of a big name, but at least check out all registered publishers of any size here: https://www.publishers.asn.au/.

In October, the big publisher HarperCollins bought it, and Midlist, at least under its old name, apparently has vanished from the web.

I don't hate the big publishers, but white knighting them is at least as silly as blind adulation of Amazon.

This put them in a position where they a) sell their books for more per unit, b) see their books offered to the consumer for less per unit, c) can tell agents their royalties are higher per unit, d) are not offered in Apple's iBookstore (but are available on all Apple devices through Kindle, Nook, and Kobo, at least), and e) have earned the enmity of the other publishers in the Big Six.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

No one really complained too much, not at least the big music guys, when iTunes was selling 90 percent of music files, but when Amazon has 60 or 70 or 80 percent of the market, all the publishers see Amazon as evil, something to beat down, not as a company to co-ordinate with and to work with and help make the industry grow.

But as publishers, retailers, libraries, and their ecosystem partners prepare for whatever is next, it becomes increasingly evident that — from the perspective of trade publishing at least — we have already lived through the biggest period of transition.

«As a very small, specialized publisher, Amazon is affecting me at least as much as they are affecting the big publishers.

However, if you gain enough clout, you are in a much stronger position to negotiate with big publishers, at least the more entrepreneurial ones.

None of the books appeared to be from Big Five publishers — HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Macmillan and Hachette — suggesting that, at least initially, many of the most well - known bestsellers wouldn't be available.

It's taken a couple of years for a lot of the publishers to adopt an eBook - centric model, or at least a model that can accept eBooks as part of the bigger picture.

Note, however: the Overdrive service is clunky but at least, you now can read books borrowed there on your Kindle and, you guessed it, big publishers hate it.

It is one very simple way to tell if the numbers you get in your reports from your publishers are accurate — or at least not as big a piece of fiction as the book they published for you.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if at least one big - six publisher announces plans to drop DRM this year — Hachette's Maja Thomas hinted at it recently — but the actual implementation of the new policy could take awhile as it would likely require negotiations with literary agents as well as the implementation of more robust direct sales systems from publishers» own sites.

An indie self - publisher buying»em one at a time from Bowker is paying at least 100X more per ISBN than a Big Five publisher does.

Ellie **** Dear Ellie: I don't do a lot of price comparison these days because at least five of the biggest publishers around set their own prices which means that the price for these books will be the same... more >

I don't do a lot of price comparison these days because at least five of the biggest publishers around set their own prices which means that the price for these books will be the same everywhere.

However, what's perhaps even bigger news, is that this latest announcement shows that at least one Japanese dev and their publisher has confidence that there is a strong market for their products in the West, particularly on the PS4.

It's rare to see major publishers behave with magnanimity when the big bucks are involved, so I was moved if not to tears, at least to substantial surprise when Square - Enix decided not to be jerks about the whole not wanting to make more Hitman games thing, and instead let IO Interactive walk away with the rights to their slap - headed, murderous creation.

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.

The Spring and Summer months are currently less dense with new releases than the first three months of the year, but that should change fairly soon, especially since publishers have staked a claim to every week from the beginning of April to the end of June with at least one big new release dropping every seven days.

Industry veteran Gordon Walton has slammed big publishers for seeing developers as «replaceable meat puppets», praising EA for at least trying to do new things under John Riccitiello, and has prophesied thatActivision's business plan will «end in catastrophe».

Not really, as a matter of fact we generally try to work with a publisher at least for our bigger console and PC games, mostly because we work on quite big projects which we can't finance 100 % from our side.

That would lead one to believe that they are going to sign at least 2 pretty big third part publishers to commit some big titles to them.