Sentences with phrase «author as the publisher»

«Author - publishing» and «self - publishing» are largely identical — it describes the author as the publisher of the work.

Earlier this week I attended a debate by Byte The Book where they discussed the topic: The Author as Publisher: Opportunity or Vanity?

I assume the small publisher (author as publisher) can start off averaging about one sale per day over ALL the different outlets cumulative.

Author as Publisher I'm at the tail end of writing my final draft and was looking for a publisher and came across many obstacles.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, Wylie's venture has angered affected publishers, and Random House has said it will do no new business with Wylie because, said a spokesperson, Odyssey «undermines our longstanding commitments to and investments in our authors, and it establishes this Agency as our direct competitor.»

An editor also acts as a liaison between author and other people at the publisher.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

«It's not as simple as authors and publishers,» says Dan Fylstra of Personal Software.»

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

As an author, he has had 27 books published by 7 different U.S. publishers, including his NO B.S. book series, now in its 12th year at Entrepreneur Media, which also publishes Entrepreneur Magazine.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

As more of the truth continues to surface, it will be harder for authors / speakers, publishers, conference organizersand othes who keep the Christian industrial complex going to say yes to what these bullies are pushing.

Don't forget, EVERY author / agent / publisher who markets via the US emergent brand is responsible for this culture of abuse — those who did not participate in it, stood by silently as it happened.

In the Christian publishing industry, where ideals and the bottom line often collide and where rejection is a part of the game, it can be especially tempting for both authors and publishers to cite God's will as a reason for either moving forward with a project or leaving it behind.

«Tim LaHaye's history as a published author is intertwined with the entire history of Tyndale House,» stated Mark D. Taylor, chairman and CEO of Tyndale House Publishers.

The Carnegie Corporation, it should be said, is not the author, owner, publisher or proprietor of these or of the other publications issued by the staff of The Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed therein.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

Marta is amazing, I strongly believe that she's one of the best out there, especially being only 19 years old, therefore, I had no doubt when my publisher asked if I had someone to suggest as author for a new cookbook of the series.

Produced and directed by Boston - based visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «THE SMARTEST TEAM» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Brooke de Lench is the Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com and the author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), now available as an e-book on Amazon.com.

As a curriculum author, publisher and teaching advisor, I often hear the struggles that other women face and my purpose is to put the ideas and activities that you need at your fingertips!

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in rural Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

5.1.1 Remove, cover, obscure, or alter the authors» names or the Publisher's copyright notices, trademarks, logos, or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the Licensed Materials;

One could argue, as my friend did, that publishers have a responsibility to their authors and to science to uphold a certain standard.

The publisher usually honours such requests, as long as authors do not ask to exclude more than three people or labs, Kiermer says.

«As the Next Generation Science Standards become adopted and implemented, publishers are writing new textbooks that include climate change,» the authors said.

As for the errors in its database, «Thomson Reuters» editorial team continuously works with publishers, identifying ways to improve item - level matching, providing authors with simple processes to correct their records, contributing to cross-industry initiatives and encouraging use of standard identifiers.»

Publishers such as PLoS and the for - profit BioMed Central, which in 2008 was bought by international publisher Springer, based in Germany, have only recently shown that their author - pays model can be sustainable for at least some forms of journal.

Thanks in part to several legal fights, journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large publishers.

AAAS, as a nonprofit publisher, supports the NIH public access policy, and so we make all content freely available on our site after 12 months, or immediately in the case of papers with significant public health implications, or if required by the author's funding agency.

At the end of the digital day, you must have an electronic strategy as an author, publisher, and content provider.

To all publishers: Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine, newsletter or website as long as the article's content is not modified and all links as well as the author's resource box are included.

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.

Despite dutifully following the suggestions delineated in Writer's Market, widely accepted as the bible of struggling authors, all I have to show for my efforts to date is a big pile of rejection letters from publishers and agents.

Highsmith was forced to publish it under a pseudonym, Claire Morgan, the lesbian content of the tome so diametrically different than the tricky theatrics of Strangers on a Train the publisher, as well as the author, feared the controversial nature of the story could derail a promising career before it even had the opportunity to begin.

A literature festival filled with authors, workshops, and round table discussions; comic book guests, publishers, and retailers; a film festival, featuring underground films as well as the drive - in classic, Night of the Living Dead; entertainment that includes ice sculpting with power tools, dance, songs, and laughs.

«The ghost is a metaphor,» the aspiring - author heroine says after a publisher dismisses her most recent work as a horror story (before telling her she should add a love story and complimenting her handwriting).

Charlotte Rampling (Stardust Memories, The Verdict) stars as Sarah Morton, a best - selling author of a series of murder mystery novels, who takes up her publisher's offer to stay in his lavish home in France while she draws up inspiration for her next book.

It is as though the authors, the publishers, the teachers, and the professors of education share a bizarre consensus that ordinary children need to be shaken out of their complacency, stripped of their innocence, and frightened by the horrors that the world has in store for them at any moment.

Perhaps textbook authors and publishers should adhere to the neutrality principle as well.

As early implementers, these educators have gone both to the «source» of the standards and used other proxies for quality and alignment: They've worked directly with and learned from the standards» authors themselves and / or used tools created by them (e.g., the Publishers» Criteria developed by Student Achievement Partners and several other groups).

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

As an award - winning author, educator, and member of the California Reading Hall of Fame, his work has been recognized by the International Literacy Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Academy of Educational Publishers.

The flexible education programme was written and developed by author Lucy Hawking and publisher Curved House Kids, along with the UK Space Agency and a wonderful team of STEM experts and teachers who helped to make everything as inspiring and as informative as possible.

«A lot of publishers and companies view it as an economic imperative for survival to say they're aligned to Common Core,» says Theodor Rebarber, founder and CEO of AccountabilityWorks, a Maryland - based advocacy group, and author of a 2012 study that estimated implementation nationally could cost as much as $ 15.8 billion.

Dr. Hasbrouck works with the McGraw Hill publishers as an author of their «Treasures» and «Wonders» reading and intervention programs.

This would include both Author House and IUniverse, who currently use the same Lightning Source / Ingram program as most of the other POD / Subsidy / Vanity publishers.

I also suggest that authors avoid the Author Solutions imprints (AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris, and the imprints AS runs for publishers, including Balboa Press) since I (Writer Beware) tend to get more complaints about them than about other self - publishing services.