Sentences with phrase «authors and publishers more»

In 2015, our authors and publishers can expect to see continuous improvements across every part of our business, including: New distribution and merchandising tools that make your books more discoverable and desirable by readers New price management tools that give our authors and publishers more granular control over pricing in multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to come.

With the advent of agency, Amazon was forced to hand authors and publishers more control over pricing.

All this leaves authors and publishers more time to do what they're really good at — writing and publishing!

Having an ebook already in an ebook format should give authors and publishers more control over its final appearance.

A US judge on Wednesday allowed Google and US authors and publishers more time to seek a new settlement over the Internet giant's plan to create a massive online library and bookstore.

«Perhaps new technology and / or legislation will come in that will offer authors and publishers more protection against illegal downloads.

Ultimately, Findaway Voices offers an alternative to Amazon and Audibles ACX, giving authors and publishers more control and greater reach, without the seven - year exclusivity.

Not exact matches

Grandinetti was cordial in his comments, but he does put much onus on publishers to change and evolve into something that's more useful for both authors and readers:

There are more publishers to choose from now than ever before, and many authors make rushed decisions that result in poorly - produced products that don't sell.

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.

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.

This is a misinterpretation of the data, according to Dave DeWitt, SuperSite Publisher, international authority on chili peppers and author of more than forty books about peppers, including The Healing Powers of Peppers.

This is a misinterpretation of the data, according to SuperSite Publisher Dave DeWitt, international authority on chili peppers and author of more than forty books about peppers, including The Healing Powers of Peppers.

The authors not only discuss what to do to treat specific behavior problems but actually advise parents on how, in many instances, they can prevent many common and more serious problems» (publishers review).

The funding will help 30 research - intensive universities develop open access policies and pay the author fees charged by publishers to make a paper more freely available to the public.

By agreeing to these more stringent guidelines, the authors write, publishers and journals would have the chance to legitimize and advertise the relative quality of their peer review process in an age when predatory journals, which falsely claim to use peer review, continue to proliferate.

Read Book marketing and ebook promotion tips for book authors, book publishers, self - publishing authors, and e-book publishers who want to sell more books.

For over ten years she has been helping authors and independent publishers produce books that win awards and, more importantly, stand tall to compete in a rapidly changing book market.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

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.

SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oct. 31, 2013 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon today announced a new program for Kindle in the US and UK that allows authors and publishers to reach more readers in a compelling way: Kindle Countdown Deals.

However, authors of such books can certainly make themselves more attractive to literary agents and publishers by bolstering their platform, since having influence and a large following is one indicator of an author's ability to get exposure and sell books.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Over the years, I have probably written about ISBNs and the importance of the ownership of the ISBN for your book more than any other subject.

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

It may sound like a big job but indie and self - published authors need to think more like a publisher and therefore as a business if they want to get their work to a larger audience.

There are ways of being a very public agent... and there are ways of being more directional on a map between the author's creativity and the publisher.

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

But e-book retailers are pushing for something more like 70 percent for the retailer, 25 percent for the publisher and 5 percent for the author, said Ray Wimer, assistant professor of retail management and marketing at Syracuse University and a former regional manager for the Borders chain of bookstores.

Prices climbed and plummeted from week - to - week, self - published authors achieved more than one No. 1 best - selling title and a few from «big six» (and later, «five») publishers clung to the top slot for weeks at a time.

But not all «pay to be published» publishers practice deceptive advertising to obtain new customers and are, in fact, extending a service to authors, who are finding it more and more difficult to become traditionally published.

feedback is more in the book preview area, and that is from other authors / publishers, and that is as much or as little as you want.

Its goal was to shine a bright light on the one - sided contract terms that publishers typically offer authors and to spur publishers to offer more equitable deals.

While Weinstein doesn't see corporate publishing going away, ever, he does think the business is at «an enormous transition point» and that the outsourcing major publishers have been doing for years — forcing agents to do more editing, going with outside PR, telling authors they need to take hold of their own marketing — will mean that more agencies, and others, will jump into the publishing fray.

For authors and publishers with deep pockets — specifically, for those authors who have more money than available time — it might very well be a reasonable investment to engage a news clipping service during the course of a book promotion campaign that includes print media outreach.

$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more most traditional publishers are charging for ebooks, but as an Indie author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting and willing to pay.

And — the thing I'm probably best known for — I collect and share data on author earnings from various publishers, so that writers can make more informed decisions about their careeAnd — the thing I'm probably best known for — I collect and share data on author earnings from various publishers, so that writers can make more informed decisions about their careeand share data on author earnings from various publishers, so that writers can make more informed decisions about their careers.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, said: «There is strong international interest in learning more about Canadian publishers, authors, culture and media.

However, in its defence these attitudes have improved, and more and more publishers and authors are getting to grips with technological advances.

As Senior Editor at Multnomah Publishers Larry Libby says, «In the often bewildering world of book publishing, aspiring authors need more than desire, creative skill, and something worthwhile to say.

A lot of aspiring authors gravitate toward new agents because they think the odds of being accepted by a long - time and / or famous agent are more difficult than sending an unsolicited MS directly to a publisher.

A prominent literary agent recently told me that unless an author receives a hefty advance of $ 100,000 or more most publishers will do virtually no promotion, leaving it to authors to create and exploit their own platforms via social media and networking connections, workshops and webcasts.

And as indie publishing ate into the sales numbers of the traditional publishers and their authors, and discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even moAnd as indie publishing ate into the sales numbers of the traditional publishers and their authors, and discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even moand their authors, and discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even moand discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even more.

Being a Self - published author is an admirable thing, and is respected, perhaps more than those who are under a well known publisher.

These authors have grown tired of the query game and the contract negotiations involved in turning over their book rights to a publisher, and often highlight... [Read more...]

For the industry as a whole, authors and publishers need to pay more attention to audio production and focus on releasing new titles.

This has largely been due to discovery issues, and the fact that consumers rely on book recommendations and knowledge of their favorite authors more than the name of the publisher.

More and more author are finding out that they make $ 2 on at $ 2.99 Kindle book which is the same as they make on at $ 20.99 printed book with a major publisMore and more author are finding out that they make $ 2 on at $ 2.99 Kindle book which is the same as they make on at $ 20.99 printed book with a major publismore author are finding out that they make $ 2 on at $ 2.99 Kindle book which is the same as they make on at $ 20.99 printed book with a major publisher.