Sentences with phrase «author business practices»

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Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and author of the 2013 book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not be bound to rigid formal HR processes, which creates the opportunity for more creative hiring practices.

The authors said Kalanick had become «a giant liability to the car - hailing company for a growing number of reasons, from sketchy business practices to troubling lawsuits to a basic management situation that was akin to really toxic goat rodeo.

He is the author of Oklahoma Business Organizations: Formation and Representation (Lexis / Matthew Bender Publishers, 1990 - supplemented annually), a highly successful practice manual for lawyers concerning material specific to Oklahoma corporate, partnership, limited liability companies and securities law.

While equipping HR managers with the fundamentals of family business, the authors beautifully provide methods to execute effective HR practices in those contexts.

Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.

Best - Selling Author, Business Best - Practice Expert on Leadership, Innovation, Accountability and Change

Michael Zakkour is vice president, China / Asia Pacific Practice at global consulting firm Tompkins International and is the author of best - selling business book «China's Super Consumers.»

Author, neuropsychologist, and leadership expert Friederike Fabritius joins Leadership in Action hosts Mike Useem and Jeff Klein to discuss how neuroscience is profoundly changing the methods and practices that businesses will be using for leadership training and development.

But since subscriber numbers may decrease if the access to journal information becomes free elsewhere, various publishers are thinking about changing their business model: instead of billing readers, they plan to bill authors, a practice that is already common in the form of page charges.

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At the event, author and business adviser Josh Kaufman revealed a new approach for acquiring new skills quickly with just a small amount of practice each day.

The press release says «Author Solutions will be integrated into Penguin's back office and technology infrastructure but will continue to be run as a separate business,» and in a new post today reflecting on the deal, Friedman skeptically notes that «it seems unlikely that Pearson would meaningfully change any business practices that made ASI profitable in the first place.»

Third, while it doesn't provide RWA with a tool to collectively pressure Harlequin into changing its business practices, it does provide Harlequin authors with a very specific request to bring to editors, thus making individual pressure more effective.

But it seems Authors United and the ABA's claims that Amazon's daily business practices threaten the freedom of speech and expression may be going too far.

It's ironic that authors in the business leadership, how - to, and advice categories tend to use this devious practice more than others.

With superior services, upfront pricing, and honest business practices, they are dedicated to ensuring the success of their authors.

Geez, I went with Kobo to try to avoid giving money to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (I have some author friends who think Amazon / B & N have poor business practice, as they undercut the publishers when selling ebooks which affects the publishers» / authors» profits on the books that THEY produced), but now I'm wishing I just caved and bought a darn Kindle like everybody else did.

Unfortunately, data like these reports, while vital to informed business practices for both authors and publishers, may eventually result in greater access to accurate sales data, but for now are only drawing ire from the industry's critics.

Interestingly, comments from authors on sites like The Passive Voice and Author Marketing Experts have demonstrated that self - published authors, at least ones who see themselves as professionals, are siding with Amazon on this rule, with many pointing out that it is not a new rule, and it is also bad business practice to piggyback one's work off the marketing clout of another author, especially without permiAuthor Marketing Experts have demonstrated that self - published authors, at least ones who see themselves as professionals, are siding with Amazon on this rule, with many pointing out that it is not a new rule, and it is also bad business practice to piggyback one's work off the marketing clout of another author, especially without permiauthor, especially without permission.

It's great that we offer free tools to publish, but it's just as important to us that we ensure they understand the economics of business, best practices for authors, etc..

Author House, Xibris, I.Universe and Partridge are all part of the Author Solutions stable and as a victim of their extortionist tactics and unethical business practices, I reserve the right to share my experience with authors on a global scale..

In addition to the valuable information Anne Janzer shares in Subscription Marketing, it also showcases the best practices today's nonfiction authors should follow writing and publishing helpful, relevant, and successful business or nonfiction books in 2015.

This Section V.F shall not prohibit a Settling Defendant from communicating (a) in a manner and through media consistent with common and reasonable industry practice, the cover prices or wholesale or retail prices of books sold in any format to potential purchasers of those books; or (b) information the Settling Defendant needs to communicate in connection with (i) its enforcement or assignment of its intellectual property or contract rights, (ii) a contemplated merger, acquisition, or purchase or sale of assets, (iii) its distribution of another E-book Publisher's E-books, or (iv) a business arrangement under which E-book Publishers agree to co-publish, or an E-book Publisher agrees to license to another E-book Publisher the publishing rights to, one or more specifically identified E-book titles or a particular author's E-books.

Several noted commenters, including author David Gaughran and the Alliance of Independent Authors» Orna Ross, took issue with the fact that Author Solutions was not clearly called out in the piece for its business practices, something that has actually resulted in lawsuits from their author clauthor David Gaughran and the Alliance of Independent Authors» Orna Ross, took issue with the fact that Author Solutions was not clearly called out in the piece for its business practices, something that has actually resulted in lawsuits from their author clAuthor Solutions was not clearly called out in the piece for its business practices, something that has actually resulted in lawsuits from their author clauthor clients.

It makes perfect sense that an author whose goal is to change the way we view the current practices of our lifestyles would join forces with a publishing house that wants to incorporate all the ways the people read into its network of business models.

To be completely fair, Smashwords has never railed against the concept of Amazon as a retail business, but rather in its practices towards authors, namely their insistence on exclusivity if you hope to benefit from any of KDP's features.

Following the announcement last week that three authors have filed a class action lawsuit in California and New York against the vanity press for its business practices, Penguin announced that it was making some changes to the Author Solutions structure by replacing current CEO Kevin Weiss with Andrew Phillips, Penguin's head of Penguin International.

PENGUIN RANDOM EXITS SELF - PUBLISHING Henry Mance Orna Ross, founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, said that Author Solutions» business practices were «problematic», contrasting them with those of Amazon - owned CreateSpace.

Publishers are going to start adjusting their business practices in this regard or more authors will slip through their fingers.

And as for defending this practice by Kaplan and other business - book authors?

While many critics could argue that this is just a case of sour grapes from a competing platform that doesn't like Amazon's business practice, in this case, demanding 100 % exclusivity in regard to the rights to authors» works defies the reason many authors go independent.

Several independent authors weighed in on the discussion, some pointing fingers at the traditional publishing industry and how its business practices lead to situations like this, while others were slightly more supportive of the publishers, acknowledging that situations like this one won't arise in self - publishing because an author can't pay himself a $ 50,000 advance.

Three self - published authors are suing the publisher over the business practices of its self - publishing platform Author Solutions.

Bruce is the author or creator of over 40 books on geography, music, business, children's and coloring and also practices Tai Chi.

Most authors today understand that sending their galleys are an expected and standard industry business expense and practice.

The advent of digital writing and publishing and the spontaneous democratic practice of social networking has in fact revolutionized the book business, challenged and changed how books are written and published irrevocably and forever, and shifted the balance of power from the commercial book publishers to the author.

On my business cards I state that «Everybody wants to be an author» but «Everybody needs an editor» and I practice what I preach.

Not only is this an exciting way for the indie author to engage, it's also sound business practice.

This may be complicated by the practice of using your personal Facebook profile to promote your author business, but your first step has to be to schedule a time for marketing - only tasks and stick to it.

Flint argues convincingly that offering free e-books is a good business practice: that if readers like a free book, they are more likely to buy it and / or buy other books from the same author.

In another case a romance agent spoke up on behalf of Harlequin's business practices after an author complained of getting an effective royalty rate of less than 3 % compared to Harlequin's promised 6 % rate.

On the one hand, I applaud the SFWA, MWA, and RWA for taking a pro-author stance and tell them how using aspiring authors to make money of rejected manuscripts is a misleading business practice.

«The real monopoly, once you start examining business practices and attitudes, is Big Publishing itself,» he said, citing low digital royalties (17.5 percent on most titles, compared to the 70 percent that KDP authors [though not Amazon Publishing authors] receive) and the recent Random House - Penguin merger as evidence that «not only do the major publishers collude and act as one, they are slowly becoming one as well.»

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, independent bookseller Bob Spear looks at some of the bad publisher business practices that drive more and more authors to go indie.

What most people don't realize about the Amazon - Hachette dispute is that there are two issues involved: (1) Traditional publishing has problems with the way publishers treat authors (those profit margins come out of advances and royalties), and (2) Amazon's cutthroat business practices.

I've been an indie author and publisher since 2012, and the biggest challenge I've faced is what best practices are so that my writing business can thrive.

Clearly the article's author is of the ilk that believes capitalism is evil and succesful businesses should give up their profits in an attempt to prop up the business practices of other commercial enterprises that are killing themselves through poor decision making.

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Since then, I've taught countless conference sessions and webinars about author platform development, content strategy, marketing and promotion, and long - term best business practices.

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