Not exact matches
«The public is losing confidence in the ability of the higher - education sector in particular
to control costs,» note the
authors,
adding that «all of higher education has a stake in addressing this problem, including the elite institutions that are under less immediate
pressure than others
to alter their teaching methods.»
I read that Macmillan reduced percentage pay for many
authors from 25 %
to 20 % recently but don't know if that's true — but it would be
added pressure on
authors.
Not
to add to an
author's sense of victimization, but it has
to be an additional
pressure to labor under the weight of the attitude, held by many in the fading traditional publishing apparatus, that the digital disruption has somehow attacked or unfairly undermined them.
This
pressure is transmitted
to the
author and the text (as a result the
author will find Topic and
add Intrigue
to the text) or the
pressure does not find the «exit» (and the reader wants
to ask: «why have I written this English essay?»)
He
added that he respects Amazon's need
to pursue its business strategies, but that the company had clearly gone after
authors in an attempt
to pressure Hachette.
Preston
added: «Amazon started off asking for just outrageous and untenable terms and I do think our
Authors United campaign did put a lot of
pressure on them
to solve this thing quickly as they were obviously doing damage
to their brand.
He explained that he tried
to order Mr. Troemel's book, Peer
Pressure: Essays on the Internet by an Artist on the Internet, on Amazon, but purchased a book instead by a different Brad Troemel, which he has
added to his shelf at home that is dedicated
to the wrong books by homonym
authors (like by Robin Day, the TV moderator and not the designer and so forth; Mr. Obrist fancies this a kind of evolving group show).