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Not exact matches
I'm a self -
published author, and while writing
more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.
Work Teams That Work: Skills for Managing Across the Organization
Author Anthony R. Montebello includes
more graphs, diagrams, and flow charts in his book (from Best Sellers
Publishing, 612-888-7672, 1994, $ 24.95) than should really be allowed by law.
Independent
authors enjoy
more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties for traditionally
published books.
Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self -
publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by
more and
more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.
Becoming a traditionally
published author led to even
more opportunities — like speaking engagements and online courses.
A separate paper
published on Monday proposed what the
authors said was a
more accurate way of measuring global warming than those we currently use.
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.
But as
more and
more book - wielding entrepreneurs crowd the stage, the term
published author has less traction than it did even a few years ago, Booher says.
In contrast, many token offerings appear to have gone beyond this construct and are
more analogous to interests in a yet - to - be-built
publishing house with the
authors, books and distribution networks all to come.
It is also playing catch up with Amazon by selling
more and
more books from self -
published authors, both on - line and in its retail outlets.
Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their
authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably
more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from
publishing your book yourself.
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.
Little did she know that
published authors are just as insecure and jealous and frightened as unpublished
authors, sometimes even
more so.
All of this could easily be done to any
author or blogger who has
published more than one piece of writing.
If / when an
author in the group becomes
published, he / she promises to help other members in the group also get
published, and in return, they promise to write about and review the
author's book so they can sell
more copies.
One other nice thing about being a
published author, is that it proves that you are an expert in your field, which gets you invited to speak at conferences, which increases your visibility and platform in the fishing world, which then allows you to get
more books
published.
This is not because I am an experienced eBook
author (though I did just
publish my first eBook), but because I am trying to learn
more about the process, and wanted to share what I learn with you.
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More recent
authors, among them Joel Goldsmith, Jack Addington, and Ervin Seale, have
published further discussions of the metaphysical interpretation of Biblical texts.
And now I'm a
published author with a wonderful husband and a burgeoning speaking career and I'll I can do is hate poor Ann Voskamp for selling
more copies of her memoir than I've sold of mine.
What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no
more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the
author of the third document on this subject
published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis»,
published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.
The research,
published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, has led to its
authors to recommend that primary care physicians advise their patients to eat
more fruit and vegetables and cut down on their meat consumption.
Literature & Larder will also cover the business side of food
publishing and examine cookbook editorial with a panel featuring New York literary agent Sharon Bowers of MBD Literary representing NYC literary agent, Sharon Bowers of MBG Literary (representing acclaimed vegetarian chef and
author Deborah Madison, former Chez Panisse exec chef and NYT Best Seller Cal Peternell, James Beard award - winning Amy Chaplin, health & wellness food blogger Sarah Britton of My New Roots, NOMA co-founder Mads Refslund and
more) and «Ireland's Top Cookbook Editor» Kristin Jensen, moderated by myself and Cliodhna Prendergast.
Teresa has written thousands of magazine articles on parenting topics and is the
author or co-
author of 17
published books, including some titles you will certainly recognize such as The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding, and
more recently, Sweet Sleep.
Carol is a member of the Expecting
More team that is creating state - of - the - science maternity care decision aids; co-
author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead
author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding
author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be
published in midwifery and nursing journals;
author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.
«Mothers who don't discuss their results with their kids are relatively less satisfied and feel
more conflicted,» says Kenneth Tercyak, director of behavioral prevention research at Georgetown Lombardi and lead
author of the study
published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Dr. Sears is noted by TIME as «The Man Who Remade Motherhood» and
author of many parenting books, including The Baby Book: «First
published in 1992, The Baby Bookis now in print in 18 languages, with
more than 1.5 million copies sold.»
In two new studies
published online this week in the Journal of Athletic Training, lead
author Marc Norcross of Oregon State University documents how women who were asked to undergo a series of jumping exercises landed
more often than men in a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injuries.
Studies had to be case control for the purpose of the statistical analysis; have breastfeeding as a measured exposure and leukemia as a measured outcome; include data on breastfeeding duration in months, including but not limited to, 6 months or
more (where relevant data were unavailable in the publication, the
authors of the studies were contacted); and been
published in peer - reviewed journals with full text available in English.
He is a parent educator and
author of «Becoming a Dad: The First Three Years,» which has sold
more than 40,000 copies and is part of the Great Expectations Series from Sterling
Publishing.
Basile has owned his own business for
more than a dozen years, is a
published author, has taught at Fordham University, and was also managing director of a New York City - based public relations firm.
For
more details visit www.policy-network.net/events Giles Radice is a Labour peer,
author of the original Southern Discomfort pamphlet in 1992, and of the recent New Labour biography Trio (
published by IB Tauris, 2010).
Charlie, a prolific researcher and writer, was the
author of
more than 30
published articles in professional Journals and was a frequent contributor to The Buffalo News «letters to the editor» column.
Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women
authors listed on
more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories,
published from 2002 to 2016.
By the time Sharon finished her postdoc, in 2006, she had
published 15
more papers, seven as first
author.
Whether that is because most scientific researchers are extremely nice and forgiving people, or the
more likely possibility that contributing
authors confuse my job as managing editor with that of the editor - in - chief (who has the power to decide what gets
published and what does not), I am not entirely sure.
McNutt also notes the many new pressures facing science
publishing — such as
authors bypassing journals entirely and posting their work directly on the Internet, sometimes as a way to
more directly engage the public and provide
more immediate connections to readers and promotion of their findings.
«It has already built
more than 15 % of the mass of our own Milky Way today,» said Pascal Oesch, a Yale astronomer and lead
author of a study
published online May 5 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
According to Dr. Alan Hodgkinson, the co-first
author of an article
published online in PLOS Genetics recently and a postdoctoral fellow, «through this first in - depth genomic analysis of
more than a hundred French Canadians, we have been surprised to find that in less than 20 generations, the distribution and relative proportion of rare, potentially damaging variants have changed
more than we anticipated.»
But with the changing face of
publishing in mind, McNutt says that one of her priorities will be to help forge
more connections between
authors and their community.
One indication that
more work needs to be done is that the junctions routinely broke down after being switched
more than about 10 times, says Jonathan Green, a physics and chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Heath's lab and first
author of the report
published online January 24 in Nature.
As the pressure on the ocean floor eases, magma erupts
more readily at the spreading centers, thickening the plates and creating the abyssal hills, say the
authors of two new studies, one
published online this week in Science (http://scim.ag/JCrowley) and another posted online in Geophysical Research Letters.
Dong was also corresponding
author on a study
published in 2015 in the journal BioMed Central Obesity that showed, in this same group of individuals, both 2,000 and 4,000 IUs restored
more desirable vitamin D blood levels of 30 nanograms per milliliter.
These findings are
published in PLOS Genetics and the
authors anticipate that the publication of their work will accelerate their research and help them to identify
more descendants of these families.
The study,
published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for
more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior
author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.