For example, in the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. area, you need to earn $ 16.40 per hour and in New York City $ 22.90 per hour to afford an efficiency (or small studio) apartment, according to Looking Up
at the Bottom Line author Richard Troxell's calculation of the universal living wage.
Not exact matches
Here's the
bottom line, in a nutshell... sorry I just couldn't resist the mixed metaphor: Many first - time
authors are frustrated
at their inability to get either an agent or a publisher.
The
bottom line: Nobody wants to suck
at any part of their
author business yet tons of
authors out there write long, abhorrent descriptions of their book like they're being paid by the word.
Guy's last name and
author title are both pretty long, so he couldn't fit as much space between the letters, but he makes up for the cramped letters by adding a lot of extra spaces in the middle, and to the sides of the subtitle and blurb
lines (look
at the subtitle on the very
bottom.
Perhaps you were luring all of us
authors to your Kindle platform only so that
at the right time you can strangle the life out of us in order to grow your own
bottom line and to make your board of directors happy.
Amazon has taken on the challenge of fighting for consumer dollars by offering purchasers the option to pay less for a top - of - the -
line e-reader, but the trade - off is advertisements strategically placed
at the
bottom of the home screen and as the screen saver, replacing the popular artistic images and
author portraits that currently indicate the device is asleep.
Authors can no longer tolerate being
at the mercy of the publisher to accurately and honestly report the actual numbers behind these revenue streams as opposed to just some
bottom -
line figure computed in secret; it's essential to know how many people are accessing a work and the income attributable to it in clear and precise terms.
I think this is a pathetic way for Harlequin to prostitute whatever name recognition that they have to feed their
bottom line at the expense of aspiring
authors dreams.
They aren't looking
at the
bottom line for their companies or what this means to
authors.
In an article
at PBS.org, Kawasaki explained, «The
bottom line is that
authors need to think of their book as a business — one that generates revenues and costs.
Bottom line; who knows what any of this means, but
at the very least if you are a newly published or aspiring
author you now know the world you're going into.
Of course they are looking
at their
bottom line, just like any self - publishing
author.
The
bottom line, is, it will be very interesting to see how this example develops and I admire their tenacity breaking out like this but this is definitely not something I would recommend for publishing clients, nor would I recommend this (
at all) for indie
authors.
Looking
at indie
authors out there, I end up with the same
bottom line you've arrived
at.
According to Andrew Savitz,
author of The Triple
Bottom Line, breakthrough Innovation is needed in
at least four areas:
Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com and
author of Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, discussed how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your
bottom line,» given
at the Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event
at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov. 2.