Sentences with phrase «authors of longer»

So authors of shorter works had a benefit there, authors of longer works were disadvantaged.

Some authors of longer books had voiced their frustration to Amazon that they were being shortchanged by the pay - per - borrow scheme, and that they in fact deserved a slightly higher rate to align with their beefier book.

Now the pay will be based on how far the reader actually gets so authors of longer works will be compensated more (and, perhaps, fewer people will write shorter works or try to «game the system.»)

Authors of shorter works make slightly less on KU, and authors of longer works make slightly more.

In other words, authors of longer books like middle grade and YA books only submit a query, and, sometimes, up to 50 pages.

Many authors of longer works were dropping out of Kindle Select completely, which in turn was leaving many customers unable to find works and authors they wanted to read, which was leading to — «Why pay for a sub service that doesn't have what I want to read in the first place?»

The author of that long ago business review article was arguing that you always want to hire SWANs.

Fortunately for the authors of The Long Shadow, The Corner concentrated on a Baltimore neighborhood served by one of the schools in their sample, and they can contrast the picture shown there with their own research.

Authors of long books that get read will earn more than authors of short books that get read.

This guest post is by Clare Wilson, author of The Long Staff As a small - fry author with an independent publisher, you need to be creative when it comes to book promotion.

She is the author of a long series of articles and as well as few books including Matrix, Halal (a)-- Lapsus, Notes on Painting 1985 - 1992 (MOMA Oxford, 1993), The Matrixial Borderspace (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006) and And My Heart Wound - space (14th Istanbul Biennia and Wild Pansy Press, Leeds, 2015).

-- Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere «This informative and lavishly illustrated volume, with its step - by - step demonstrations, personal histories, and interviews, provides readers with privileged access to the distinct philosophies and painting practices of artists, illuminating their alchemical transformations of raw materials — of charcoal and pigments and oils — into unique and inspiring expressions ofhuman values.»

Alison Bechdel is the author of the long - running syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

-- Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail

The post is written by Florence Fetterer, one of the authors of the long - term ice study and principal investigator at the Snow and Ice Data Center.

«April 8, 2015 J. Scott Armstrong is Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Editor of Principles of Forecasting, a founder of the International Journal of Forecasting and the Journal of Forecasting, author of Long - Range Forecasting, and founder of forecastingprinciples.com.

The author of the long - standing legal blog Bag and Baggage begins her piece in the Pleistocene Era — 1989 to be exact — when as a graduating law student courted by four top law firms, she chose the one that went on record as giving greater weight to the «life» side of the work - life balance scale.

Today, I'm thrilled to bring you an interview with long distance gurus, Chris and Kate Brauer - Bell, authors of The Long Distance Relationship Survival Guide.

Kate Brauer - Bell and Chris Bell, authors of the long distance relationship classic The Long Distance Relationship Survival Guide, are joining us.

One of the authors of the long - awaited report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) says it should not end up in a Northern Territory Intervention style response but prompt an implementation «partnership» with guidance from its authors and coordination across and within government.

One of the authors of the long - awaited report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) says it should not end up in a Northern Territory... Read more

Not exact matches

«In this day and age, small businesses no longer have to say, «I'm out of the office right now, I didn't get your fax,»» says Ramon Ray, author and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com.

«Some women with shorter intervals between periods (for example 21 days between each period) experience ovulation (the 24 - hour window when the egg is available for the sperm to fertilize) on day seven or eight, so they are prone to getting pregnant at the end of a long period,» explains Sherry Ross, MD, OB / GYN and women's health expert and author of She - ology.

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Mark Manson, the author of «The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck,» told us the secret to a long, lasting relationship.

In other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.

So there's no longer a negative stigma attached to online dating,» said the report's author, Victor Anthony, Topeka's managing director of Internet media.

«In this business classic — now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis — Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller - coaster ride of Long - Term Capital Management.

By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»

«We underestimate how long it takes to recover from interruptions and get back on - task,» Alex Soojung - Kim Pang, author of The Distraction Addiction, wrote in an email to HuffPost.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

This time around, instead of having study subjects read a bit of Don DeLillo or Louise Erdrich, they asked more than 2,000 people how many of a long list of authors» names they recognized.

The authors say that more research would need to be done to determine exactly what the long - term consequences of these sweeteners are.

«Save a long - awaited season finale or movie to watch only when your flight or trip is delayed, refocusing your brain on something positive,» advises Shawn Achor, author of the New York Times best seller, The Happiness Advantage.

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

«Companies are recognizing that talent is critical to their long - term success and that cities are the best place to find it,» Bruce Nolop, former Pitney Bowes Inc. and E * Trade chief financial officer, and the author of «The Essential CFO: A Corporate Finance Playbook,» tells The Wall Street Journal.

«There's no longer any question about whether a Web site has to be running all the time,» says Kaye, author of Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).

The tale begins with the fact that one of the most celebrated authors in U.S. history, Mark Twain, has long been suspected of having ghostwritten The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.

Charles Koch, the chairman of Koch Industries, the $ 115 billion leviathan of 100,000 employees, and author of Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies, says the most compelling reason to focus on profit is because you'll do more good in the long run.

And if what they encounter is subpar, most won't stick around for long; according to a 2014 Nielsen report, 78 % of consumers feel no loyalty to any brand, something its authors attribute to «an outgrowth of fragmentation.»

It's an excellent list but I noticed the lack of women authors and I commented on that, which led to a long stream of recommendations.

The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

Melissa Gonzalez, CEO of The Lionesque Group and author of The Pop Up Paradigm, told me, «A shopping experience used to be an event centered around the store, but with the rise of digital commerce that's no longer true.

In the past experts like author Stever Robbins have suggested fairly radical interventions, advising young people to go cold turkey from many of their devices and practice actually talking to people until it no longer unsettles them.

Jill Konrath, three - time best - selling author and sales methodology expert, joins us to talk about why a sale equals a change in the status quo for the customer, why experimentation is powerful and necessary in today's sales culture, and why sales is no longer a numbers game but a game of learning more and learning more efficiently.

To make sense of what's really behind the fluctuations in the market, we are joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and author...

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer - focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.

Shel is an international speaker, transformational business consultant, and the multiple - award - winning author of ten books, including the long - running category bestseller Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green and the brand new Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (both co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson, Father of Guerrilla Marketing).

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.