They look at reviews and
at publisher names as well as downloading samples.
Soon after, I finished reading a book and happened to look
at the publisher name, which led me to Balboa Press.
Unless you look specifically
at the publisher name, self - pub and traditional pub ebooks are sold without differentiation in outlets like Amazon — though sophisticated readers can often tell the difference based on the cover and description alone.
Not exact matches
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage
at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book
publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee
named Jason Haley got really pissed off
at him.
You can bet someone somewhere
at Google, Netflix, Facebook or Amazon — or, insert any other household -
name Internet business or
publisher here — is live A / B testing this or that URL on unsuspecting users right now.
One of the alleged recipients of the E911 document was the systems operator
at a small games book
publisher out of Austin, Texas,
named Steve Jackson Games.
In an attempt to calm rising newsroom tensions
at The Los Angeles Times, the paper is expected to
name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and
publisher of The Chicago Sun - Times, as its next editor in chief today, according to company officials.
Additionally, Jamie Jouning, currently
publisher of British Glamour, has been
named digital director
at Vogue.
Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor
at a
publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author
named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked
at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.
However, nearly all have since been picked up by other
publishers, with Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena landing
at Atari and Brutal Legend finding a home
at EA, to
name a few.
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.
I have not read Michael Finkel's book of the same
name, but the
publisher description has more focus than this film while offering a probing look
at the relationship between these two men.
The magazine was
named «Best Overall Publication» by the Association of American
Publishers (AAP)
at the 2016 REVERE Awards.
It was awarded the North American Car of the Year prize
at the 2010 Detroit auto show,
named Motor Trend's Car of the Year, was one of Car and Driver magazine's «10 Best Cars for 2010» and was given the inaugural Hermance Vehicle Efficiency Award by the
publishers of HybridCars.com.
Sign your
publisher name up with Bowker
at www.myidentifiers.com.
If big -
name publishers make these mistakes, then self -
publishers are more
at risk.
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.
If you want to read other comments, usually how - to, in the 400 or so blogs
at this site about any of the «open publishing» sites, go to the SEARCH box
at the top, right, of the first page of this blog and type in the
publisher's
name (one
at a time).
As independent
publisher Colin Robinson of Or Books cautioned: «It's possible that some of the
publishers I've never heard of are in fact imprints set up by the author of the book but, especially as several appeared with books by more than one author (or
at least one author's
name), it seems unlikely that more than a few are.
It seems to me whenever I look
at the top
name authors on Amazon I find their ebooks «price was set by the
publisher.»
Independent
publishers — two of which will be
named as early Rook supporters
at the London Book Fair this week — and self - published authors continue to not only shake up the publishing business but also provide the proof that these studies compile.
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.
As if in echo of the forthright debate about self -
publishers» balance - sheet woes that London author Roz Morris opened (see the «provocation» on it
at Writer Unboxed)-- and
naming an issue we'll be taking up on 30th November
at The FutureBook's Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.»
Winners and Finalists in the Independent
Publisher Book Awards 2001 have been chosen, the Ten Outstanding Books of the Year have been
named, and awards were presented to winning
publishers at BookExpo America 2001 in Chicago.
It should say either Smashwords Edition on the copyright page, or «Published by [Authorname]
at Smashwords,» (remove the quote marks), or, if you're a multi-author
publisher, Published by [the
name of the
publisher publishing it on Smashwords]
at Smashwords.
According to Thomas Nelson
publishers, research shows that consumers look
at a book's title first and foremost when the author's
name is taken out of the mix (well - known authors are sometimes the deciding factor in purchasing a book).
Chile has made a similar plea, along with
at least 33 international academies, as has been specifically
named in the suit filed by the
publishers.
At the same time, readers will continue to transition from print to ebooks, making the print distribution to physical bookstores less important, and thus weakening the grip big
publishers once had on bigger -
name authors.
I like being able to glance
at a
publisher's
name on the spine of a book and know that this is a quality product, you can't do that with self published titles, instead I spend hours on Goodreads trolling through reviews to find a few self published gems among the disappointments.
To find out what other authors have experienced, Google the
name of the
publisher and add the word «scam»
at the end.
But as the experts
at Indie Author Fringe will tell you, authors and
publishers who lack big
name recognition, will also need to focus on making good first impressions.
Some of the surprising numbers included the number of
publishers who have no plans to produce ebooks
at any time in the future, the very slight differences in total sales among the various top -
name ebook distribution channels, and the startlingly high number of
publishers who plan to release the majority of their titles in both print and digital editions.
(For instance, take a look
at the screenshot of the Comix Experience digital storefront, above — why are we seeing a list of
publishers in alphabetical order on the landing page, rather than images of recommended comics, or
at the very least,
publishers ranked by popularity rather than the first letters of their
names?)
I understood that
publishers did not want to risk publishing Zelda's work
at first and thought they could trade on Scott's success, but for him to continue to insist his
name went on her work just showed what a control freak he was.
At it's most basic level, it should include the title of your book, the author
name, the
publisher and the ISBN.
At the end of the day, if you don't purchase your own ISBN under your own publishing company
name, then you are not the
publisher.
At last month's FutureBook Conference, Soucebooks» CEO and
publisher Dominque Raccah sat down to speak with GoodeReader about the newly launched Put Me In The Story platform, an interactive ebook publishing model that lets parents and educators use the readers» own pictures and
names in the bestselling children's... [Read more...]
The
publishers named in the lawsuit, who together control eighty - five percent of the book market, are HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group Inc., and Simon & Schuster Inc.; they are accused of illegally engaging in price fixing at best and near extortion
publishers named in the lawsuit, who together control eighty - five percent of the book market, are HarperCollins
Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group Inc., and Simon & Schuster Inc.; they are accused of illegally engaging in price fixing at best and near extortion
Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan
Publishers, Penguin Group Inc., and Simon & Schuster Inc.; they are accused of illegally engaging in price fixing at best and near extortion
Publishers, Penguin Group Inc., and Simon & Schuster Inc.; they are accused of illegally engaging in price fixing
at best and near extortion
at worst.
The
publisher of the ever - popular For Dummies series of titles has once again taken steps to combat illegal file sharing of its works, again successfully filing a lawsuit — for now,
at least — against defendants
named only as John Doe.
And with my level of
name, no
publisher would even look
at any of them.
What I mean is, I don't even realise the books I'm looking
at are self - published until I visit the author's website or scroll down on Amazon to see the
publisher's
name.
Last year, it was announced that Brian Michael Bendis — who made his
name at Marvel creating characters like Miles Morales and Jessica Jones, and headlining iconic comics runs
at the
publisher for over a decade — would be leaving to work
at DC Comics.
One is to hide it: so then you'd want to «fake» your
publisher imprint, book cover designer, etc by either A) not listing it
at all or B) making up fake
names and companies to make you look big.
These authors have more than one book selling well, some have more than one
publisher, many use more than one pen
name and all sell
at several locations.
It is little wonder that, even
at FutureBook, two of the presentations came from print - on - demand
publishers (Lost My
Name and This is Your Cookbook), and I expect to see more use made of new technologies for print in the years ahead.
The editor
at Penguin Random House who asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of backlash from institutions in the literary world such as the Times and Amazon, termed this dilemma «the problem of continued consolidation,» referring to the increasingly common pattern of
publishers relying on only a few big
name books a year to achieve commercial success.
Publisher's Weekly takes a look
at Therese Fowler's upcoming novel, A Well - Behaved Woman: The
name Vanderbilt carries a huge weight, conjuring images of mansions,...
In fact, increasingly, a traditional
publisher will not even look
at you until you make a
name for yourself and demonstrate a large following.
Recognizing the
name of the
publisher (e.g. AuthorHouse) in a negative way is worse than not recognizing it
at all, if you ask me.
In November,
at the Build 2011 conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a
publisher - designer
named Craig Mod told the crowd, «We're trying to bring order and form and boundaries to what is otherwise a boundless space» and went on to describe the «generalized marginalization of the cover that's happening in digital books.»