So we try working together to promote our work, and it doesn't happen because
someone at a publisher can't answer an email.
They have plentiful
contacts at publishers, they have a good eye for editing and storytelling, and they know what to look for with contracts and royalty statements.
Looking
at the publisher from the outside, there is no logical reason why this book should still be on sale.
There are many
tools at a publisher's disposal that can be used to drive interest and sales for their content.
The
staff at publishers generally have social media accounts and blogs, and they may even generate some buzz for your book through these tools.
If we are to review a
game at a publisher - sponsored event, we will disclose that within the review with a policy statement.
I understand that these books have a broad appeal, sell well, and keep the lights
on at publishers.
If you don't have a networking contact who can introduce you to the acquisition
personnel at publishers, then you may want to explore the possibility of hiring an agent to represent you.
I have worked
at publishers large and small — two Big Six houses, a literary indie, a university press, and currently a house I'd describe as mid-size.
There have been triple - digit
gains at publishers in terms of the e-book revenue they've been generating.
If you look
at their publishers guidelines, they have done a very thorough job of ensuring nothing other than a publisher in the most traditional form of the term will be permitted.
Or your novel is
due at the publisher's but you are doubtful that you have done a perfect job on the proofreading and editing.
Don't include sample chapters in an unsolicited proposal; it's not professional and the bulk may keep
anybody at the publisher from bothering to open the envelope.
This week alone we're
looking at publishers having to come up with a new business model in 48 hours or less.
As Michael Cader
at Publishers Lunch wrote, what Mathrani said during an earnings call was this: «And just case in point, you've got Amazon opening brick - and - mortar bookstores and their goal is to open, as I understand, 300 to 400 bookstores — and it should sit back and say the last mile is all important.»
A panel at of executives
at Publishers Launch agreed that e-books were still three years away from reaching even 10 % market penetration.
If we go back to an earlier report, Michael Cader
at Publishers Marketplace (which requires a very worthwhile subscription) was the first to raise a possible Amazon connection in Penguin Cancels Kindle Library Lending, For Now — Will Others Follow?
«Apple Loses: Judge Finds Price - Fixing in E-Book Case» by Andrew
Albanese at Publishers Weekly — July 10, 2013
That's Jim
Milliot at Publishers Weekly summarizing info from a pre-holiday-season survey of a key industry organization, the Book Industry Study Group, in Digital Devices Riding High.
In fact, I like that Sarah
Weinman at Publishers Lunch reported in Macmillan Expands eBook Library Lending to Total of 11,000 Backlist Titles the means by which we learned this:
This new service is primarily
aimed at publishers who expressed dissatisfaction with Ingram Lightning Source.