Sentences with phrase «author digital revolution»

When the indie author digital revolution hit, Kelly got the rights back to her historical romance series and put them out herself.

Not exact matches

«The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value,» say Don and Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution.

He is the author of the Daily Crypto podcast on iTunes — a daily update on digital currencies and the blockchain revolution.

Books, music and movies have all seen their physical bodies and storage locations dissolve, to be replaced with on - demand downloads and digital copies.The digital content revolution has done a lot for increasing access and visibility for artists and authors, but the current publishing giants have failed to adequately adjust to the times in a few crucial areas.

Now, with the digital revolution and the spread of ebooks, anyone can claim the title of «author» — and the floodgates have certainly opened with a tsunami of new ebooks of varying quality.

Despite a rocky relationship with the digital publishing revolution as recently as five years ago, a number of traditional publishers have not only made room on the shelves for indie authors, they're building their own self - publishing avenues.

With the sudden boom of the digital publishing revolution, startups appeared across the globe to help authors publish their books.

Jennifer Weiner's latest project demonstrates one of the digital revolution's biggest benefits — when inspiration strikes an author, readers don't have to wait two years to reap the benefits.

Far from scientific, it does provide a peek into how authors are responding, as well as to the types of questions that industry experts still consider to be relevant at this point in the digital revolution.

The digital revolution had made that possible with retailers like Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Google and Kobo opening their doors to authors.

Already joining the top of the bill are Brian Murray, President & CEO, HarperCollins; Linda Zecher, President & CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, Aspen Institute and author of the upcoming book, «The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution»; and Ken Auletta, media columnist for The New Yorker and author of «Googled: The End of the World As We Know It».

The sad truth is that the same attitudes that prevented a number of authors from publishing before the digital and print - on - demand revolutions still permeate some libraries.

The current climate cane be summed up in a statement that has been made since the beginning of the digital revolution: there's never been a better time to be an author or a reader.

The digital publishing revolution has gone hand - in - hand with the indie publishing revolution — which is inclusive of both self - published authors and the publishing houses that don't have quite the clout of the Big Five — and it was the indie publishers who provided much of that early content that fed the original, very expensive e-readers.

Of course, if taxes and publicity are the only worries that authors must face in 2015, then it's safe to say the self - publishing and digital revolutions have been resounding successes.

As much as I embrace the digital revolution that's transforming the publishing world seemingly by the day, I feel sad for authors of the future whose books may never appear in physical form.

the digital reading revolution opened up readers» eyes to the potential for screen reading, authors may have believed they were limited to self - publishing their work via a dedicated e-reader platform, at least in the early days of this current climate of digital publishing, in actuality, publishing has taken on a whole new meaning and there are unique copyright issues that go along with it.

And since the digital revolution hadn't happened, the manuscripts themselves were tossed in a trash bin or used to start a fire in some starving author's wood stove.

When the digital and self - publishing revolution took off only a handful of years ago, much of the accusation from authors and industry watchers alike centered around the claim that the publishing model was «broken.»

A lot of authors have found new opportunities in the digital publishing and self - publishing revolutions, but it's all too easy to overlook the fact that the US retail book space is not an isolated market.

In this new world of publishing, disrupted by Amazon and the digital revolution, authors with small and moderate sellers like mine can still get their work out there and find readers because the Amazon algorithms are so damn good.

So far, only in English - language countries has the digital revolution extended so far that it is clearly reducing bookstore shelf space and forcing publishers to really rethink their futures in a world where «putting books on shelves» will not be the strong value proposition for authors it has always been.

the digital reading revolution opened up readers» eyes to the potential for screen reading, authors may have believed they were limited to self - publishing their work via a dedicated e-reader platform, at least in the early days of this current climate of digital publishing, in actuality, publishing has... [Read more...]

Forward thinking companies are already preparing for the digital publishing revolution sparked by authors» intentions to publish their own works, with several solutions providers working on expanding the reach of digital publishing.

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One of the greatest changes to the publishing arena that has come about as part of the recent digital revolution is the access that readers have to authors through social media.

In internet - savvy circles [Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead of the digital publishing revolution that is seen as blowing up the traditional book world — or «legacy publishing» as its detractors call it — and replacing it with the ebook, where direct contact between author and reader, free of the mediation of agent and publishing house, is but a few clicks away.

And as a self - published author I'm encouraged that the digital revolution removed the stigma that used to be attached to self - publishing.

Even though it was the revolution of digital publishing that has allowed authors to make a full time living off of their writing, a unique time in the history of writing, there's still something critical and important about real - world direct connections.

The most recent variant of the death watch: A digital revolution would cause e-books to replace printed ones, authors would overwhelmingly choose self - publishing, and publishers would follow carriage makers into oblivion.

In the last 5 years, there has been a digital revolution that has allowed indie authors, musicians and entertainers to directly release their art to the public through the internet.

Digital, ebooks and most critically the indie author revolution.

Amazon led the way for the self - publishing revolution with its Digital Text Platform, which allows any author to upload their work in e-book form to be sold on Amazon.com.

Wariness because the various entities that will help make this digital book revolution possible may not always respect the rights and expectations that readers, authors, booksellers and librarians have built up, and defended, over generations of experience with physical books.