Sentences with phrase «at the publisher because»

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The FTC also said that when it comes to labelling, advertisers shouldn't use terms such as «Promoted» or «Promoted Stories,» because they are «at best ambiguous and potentially could mislead consumers that advertising content is endorsed by a publisher site.»

It's no secret that game publishers hate the used market, estimated at about $ 2 billion in the U.S. alone, because they don't get a penny of it.

When it comes to labelling, the FTC said, advertisers shouldn't use terms such as «promoted» because «they are at best ambiguous and potentially could mislead consumers that advertising content is endorsed by a publisher.»

Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

This is at least the third time that Meredith has tried to buy Time Inc, including an attempt earlier this year that fell apart because the Des Moines - based publisher couldn't secure enough financing.

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.

The soiree at the Loebs» (Michael is founder and CEO of Loeb Enterprises, an investor of media and consumer marketing firms) will have food provided by chefs from the Four Seasons and include such luminaries as Oscar - nominated actress Debra Winger, who left Hollywood because of the difficulties women face there; Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kathy Cloninger; Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of the Amsterdam News; and New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

WestView News publisher George Capsis said he slapped state Sen. Brad Hoylman and a young man holding a Quinn sign during an 11:30 a.m. rally at the site of the shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital because he was so angry about the hospital's closure.

Stevan Harnad, a veteran OA advocate at the University of Québec, Montreal, in Canada, does not think the European Union should embrace that strategy — he calls it «fool's Gold» — because publishers are unlikely to view a flip toward Gold OA as being in their interest.

When the fracking study came out in February at a meeting of AAAS (the publisher of ScienceInsider), critics charged that it was unbalanced because it appeared to downplay the technology's environmental risks.

On another level, some publishers resent a central, NIH - run archive like PubMed Central because they fear that technical failures would affect all users at once, and because the government might impose restrictions in the future, for example, by ruling not to publish certain kinds of research.

Don't delay, because the FREE bonus package valued at $ 150.89 (including the Free DVD from Kim Lyons and the M - power Fast - Fitness Audios) will only be available for a limited time due to the publishers I'm working with for those.

«The numbers haven't changed significantly for the last two decades because at the highest levels of the business, people do not hire women to direct movies,» says Melissa Silverstein, founder / publisher of Women and Hollywood.

They draw up the list at the beginning of each cycle, and woe to publishers that fail to make that list, because for the next 72 months they will have zero sales in that state.

Because books physically degrade at different rates, and ebooks don't, publishers are sensitive to the ebook distribution terms, lest they leave money on the table in the long run.

No longer are we constrained, unless we want to be, by publishing schedules that mean there may be a year or two at the very least between books because that is as quickly as the publisher can schedule them.

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).

Hopefully, they'll also work on publishers to offer a short term rental option, giving them a further point of difference and, at the same time, turning what for many early users is a negative — that you can't download the ebooks you «own» — into a positive: that you don't need to own or download them because you've just rented them.

Around this time, a lovely reporter at Publisher's Weekly decided to write a story about me and my success on Wattpad, and because of this, the traditional publishing world came calling.

The Series of Unfortunate Events was previously published with HarperCollins, and Handler moved publishers because his editor, Susan Rich, got a new job at Little, Brown.

At her publisher's request, she reduced the protagonist's age in her middle grade book The Eighth Day from 14 to 13, because «age 14 was a No Man's Land as far as book stores... are concerned.

At the same time, it doesn't make sense to say «self - publishers aren't authors», because there are a lot of us who struggle to find a readership and build a fan base as the market becomes increasingly saturated by pointless crap and everyone else vying for recognition.

Some publishers have balked at signing on, perhaps for fear of piracy, MacDonald speculates, but they might be getting it exactly wrong: Brenner thinks readers aren't demanding digital comics from libraries because they are going to pirate sites instead.

Similarly, if a publisher decides to publish your book it's because your book has a good chance at success.

So we try working together to promote our work, and it doesn't happen because someone at a publisher can't answer an email.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

And it's a shame to allow oneself to fossilize at that stage, and then go off and self - publish because the «traditional» publishers don't recognize one's genius.

Amazon's Kindle book prices may be a bit cheaper, but that's often because Amazon is selling the books at a loss — there's currently a bit of a battle between Amazon and publishers over the company's pricing policies.

If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

Quality control: Small publishers might be small because they're not actually very good at editing and cover design and formatting.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

They are choosy about the authors they sign, so at the time I did feel honored that they chose to work with m. Because I paid a pretty hefty up - front fee, it never even occured to me that the publisher would then keep the majority of the money from my book sales.

Or do they turn to such material because it's what powerful marketing operations at major publishers communicate to them is «the» thing to read?

A publisher is a wholesaler because they create and distribute books at wholesale.

Or better yet, look at all the sales that traditional authors and publishers have made because that trend.

Here's what you can do: Pay attention to these changes, because at some point — if you've ever wanted to get in front of a traditional publisher, 2018 may be a great year to do it!

That's a tall task, because it depends on how strong the publisher is at direct sales to both consumers and bookstores, who else distributes the book, and where the majority of the sales come from (i.e., independent book stores, chains, supermarkets, specialty stores).

My understanding is that few bookstores will carry a POD book because most PODs (including Lulu, if I understand correctly) do not offer the same terms for returns (if they're allowed at all) as a traditional publisher offers.

Add to that how the whole reason they need to champion a book is because the acquisitions boards at publishers look at almost every factor except the book, and it's easy to see that we're all in this frustrating situation together.

We have no doubt it will eventually outstrip print books, but that is not a concern at all to us, and the majority of publishers in the world, because we all make use of this new technology.

I chose topics related to writing, publishing and book promotion because I was meeting (and continue to meet) so many hopeful and struggling authors at book festivals, writers conferences, writing workshops and through SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network).

Hell's bells, if we have to make sure we send an edited manuscript to our agents and editors before they «edit» it — and yes, there are a number of authors who pay freelance editors to go over their work before submitting it because they know there will be no real editing done by their editors at certain legacy publishers — and we have to do our own marketing and promotion and do it on our own dime, why are we giving legacy publishers the majority of money earned by our hard work?

For starters, every writer needs an e-reader because publishers are constantly throwing free and cheap books at us.

So for now, I am thinking of going more the way of the mid list publishers at least for this WIP... Because that is right for me and right for this story right now.

I have seen publishers send a rejection without bothering with looking at the manuscript because the editing in the query letter was poor.

So when deciding on writing a novella for my publisher, I went for the Avengers model, in which I brought all main characters together (thankfully that was only three at the time because I might've cried had it been a cast like in Infinity Wars) for a prequel.

An editor at a huge publisher loved my book, but marketing vetoed it because my genre «wasn't selling.»

And the bonus is that there are many stories that are rejected, not because of quality, but because the publisher has already filled the slot for that type of story in their schedule, or has no slots at all, or, as I pointed out before has totally missed and underserved market, or because it wasn't to their taste.

• Wrote the first version in 2004, found an agent who represented it, book went to acquisition at a BIG 6 publisher because editor loved it, week before acquisition meeting editor leaves and heads to another company.

The market did not really respond to the devices at the time because many publishers did not push digital content.