Sentences with phrase «author out of any profit»

I don't mind the «each book, one time» lending through Amazon and B&N, but it's the Free - for - All proposal, which cuts the author out of any profit, that bothers me.

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«There is a widespread and completely erroneous belief out there that there is some sort of legal duty that corporate managers have to «maximize profits» or «maximize shareholder value,»» said Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, author of «The Shareholder Value Myth.»

Virtual Value Steve Wilkinghoff, a chartered accountant and author of Found Money: Simple Strategies for Uncovering the Hidden Profit and Cash Flow in Your Business, offers insight on the value of online services like Keen.com that provide «virtual» experts — and what to watch out for.

And it's no secret that Amazon and iTunes take a chunk out of authors» and artists» earnings, with iTunes currently pocketing 30 percent of its artists» profits and Amazon taking a hefty 30 — 75 percent.Though it's easy to be critical, I am more interested in looking for a viable alternative to disrupt the existing system.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

If someone did make an ebook out of all of this, I don't think anyone would call the person who compiled the information a «writer» or an «author» because those words already have established meanings which are very well known to people who craft the English language for pleasure or profit.

Only then, and after selling enough copies of your book to make enough profit out of it, can you indeed start celebrating your success as an author.

One could argue (and so I will), that by moving into «traditional» publishing, Amazon is simply acknowledging that content is and always will be King, and while the self - publishing angle has worked out quite well for them, only a few handfuls of authors are truly making any notable profit on $ 2.99 ebooks.

Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be kept to a minimum as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront cost.

And while I can see that getting a profit even after an author pays upfront fees isn't out of the ordinary, I still don't like it.

Rita: I think publishing digital imprints, including republishing out - of - print titles, is mostly a courtesy agents provide for their authors since this is not yet a profit center for us - with some exceptions.

However, the more services your distributor provides, the less profit you can expect to receive, and one of the key attractions of ebook distribution and retail is its excellent potential for author profits — to cut out the middleman entirely and have the same visibility and retail potential as any other book.

However, the more services your distributor provides, the less profit you can expect to receive, and one of the key attractions of ebook distribution and retail is the excellent potential for author profits — to cut out the middleman entirely and have the same visibility and retail potential as any other book.

Presumably the $ 10 additional fee is their service fee (ie, profit), but knowing what I know about the 50 - word «reviews» coming out of Kirkus Discoveries (that's $ 7 a word, in case you're calculating), I wonder if that publisher is coming to the same conclusion their authors are coming to — that paying $ 350 for a bad review kind of... sucks.

24 Symbols was very adamant that, as profits are not based on full - scale sales of e-books, readers are seeking out the lesser known titles for their enjoyment knowing that if they don't like this «unknown» author, they didn't invest a lot of their limited book budget on the sale.

Speaking in his capacity as president of the Society of Authors, the His Dark Materials author hit out at the fact that while profit margins in publishing are rising, the money authors are paid is goinAuthors, the His Dark Materials author hit out at the fact that while profit margins in publishing are rising, the money authors are paid is goinauthors are paid is going down.

The author also does a fantastic job of describing the once thriving City of Detroit where the Turner children were raised, and telling us the factors that led to it's destruction: Black flight, crack, gun violence, and real estate fraud - burning property for profit, squatters, and fraudulent short sales which led to the bottoming out of property values.

So given the above, and a heaven sent opportunity (via Hugh Howey) to get a better deal for the people he supposedly works for, from the people he fights with for them... Does he blog... 1) Now there is evidence that self - published authors can achieve the same or better status and sales and a far, far higher income, I will point this out to them and to the publishers (that I fight with all the time) and tell them they've had a bumper year of profits, and unless they want to lose their authors, we'd better re-negotiate a much better deal on e-books.

As GoodEReader reported last week, several groups have lashed out at the lack of an advance and the complete reversal on the typical royalty model; rather, authors were being given what the publisher called a «profit sharing» model that the organizations and many agents and authors felt was shoving too much financial risk on the authors who signed these deals.

«My advice to publishers and authors is this: figure out what it costs to produce what you sell, estimate what kind of volume you'll be able to achieve using the best available data, and then set your prices at a level that will deliver a reasonable profit from your efforts.

As a nonfiction author with files that are image heavy, you lose out on a large chunk of the profits due to delivery fees.

The future midlist, which the Big 6 are cutting for cost reasons (10 % of their books make 90 % of their profit), will come out of self - pubbed ebook authors.

Most authors aim to write a book not only to impart their knowledge to a larger audience, but also to gain profits out of their work.

Authors and agents will immediately note that much of the additional profit exists because the royalty allocation once earned out is $ 1.58 lower on the ebook than for the hardcover.

Every penny of that extra profit comes out of the pockets of authors.

Society of Authors chief executive Nicola Solomon also said she was «very concerned» at the findings, saying that the author's share of the profits of the publishing and book retailing business was falling and pointing out: «Authors are the one person who are 100 % necessary [to the process].»

If a book sells, the vanity house charges the author for the printing and then pays a «royalty» out of the profit margin.

In this industry, there are, sadly, thousands of publishing scams and vanity presses out there clambering for the opportunity to take an aspiring author's money and profit off his or her dreams of literary glory.

And since the retail prices are the same, every penny of that profit is coming out of the pockets of authors.

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.

Just as she points out that dwindling compensation for authors will drive authors — and good content — out of the business, Franklin says that publishers are in a kind of mirrored, precarious bind: «We do not forget, he writes, «that, like all businesses in a capitalist world, we must make a profit.

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

If Amazon slices out a larger chunk of the profit pie on each book, that is something that will directly affect the authors.

New authors seldom earn out in their first couple of books; the real profits begin to show up some time down the line.

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You don't have to study the waters for long to see that most companies are taking the «self» out of self - publishing — they are optimizing services for speed and profit, rather than focusing on developing authors and their books.

Whilst this was probably true in many cases, I do believe that things have changed in recent years, especially with the arrival of ebooks that cost nothing to publish and allow authors to cut out the middleman who would take so much of their profits.

Then the New York Times examined a now - shuttered book review - for - hire service aimed at self - publishers, run by an Oklahoma businessman who realized that a large pool of underemployed writers willing to work for peanuts plus an equally large pool of unknown authors desperate to stand out equals profit.

To put the boot on the other foot, if an author wanted to try and do sort of the economic sums of how much it would cost them to set up and run a bookshop, they would soon become quite incredulous as to how anyone ever makes profits out of running a bookshop at all.

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Also, suss out individual ATM fees, «as ATMs may not all be created equal,» says Kathleen Gurney, president of Financial Psychology Corp. and author of «Your Money Personality: What It Is and How You Can Profit from It.»