Sentences with phrase «authors see their books in print»

All three of us love writing and editing and helping authors see their books in print.

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Joel Greenberg A Feathered River Across the Sky Published by Bloomsbury, USA 304 pages, in Hardcover, Softcover, and Kindle format Now into its 3rd hardcover printing Author and Co - Producer / Co-Writer of the upcoming documentary «From Billions to None» See Reviews Below Naturalist Joel Greenberg is a consultant and writer specializing in natural history and has authored numerous books, including A Natural History of the Chicago Region (2002, University of Chicago Press).

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

An author can print their books (we recommend in the hundreds, not the thousands, to start — see small run book printing for a more in depth discussion).

Horizons will make it possible for thousands of authors, whose manuscripts Harlequin or other traditional publisher can not publish, to see their books in print.

It weeds out fly - by - night e-presses that have a contract with PublishAmerica so that authors can see their books «in print» even though there is no distribution program connected to the print program.

But then I see new books — good books — by writers in the region whose names I'm just beginning to recognize, and others by authors long familiar to me, and still others by people I've never heard of, and my confidence grows that no matter where the rest of the country is heading with the printed word, the South is moving in the right direction, and picking up speed.

Nowadays, with nearly 30 years of seeing my byline attached to things I've written and having authored a 3 volume encyclopedia and a history book, I still get that same ethereal shiver every time I look at my name in print or online because I know that having it there represents the faith an editor has placed in my abilities as a writer, or researcher, or reporter...

Because authors get so concerned about seeing their print book in stores — it's the «dream» and offers validation of their status — they're unfortunately blind to the truth of the industry: Physical bookstore sales aren't where most trade books sell; they constitute maybe 30 - 40 % of sales.

So tell us, authors: Do you see this as a way to sell more books by making sure your print readers are carrying you around in their digital library, too?

We see this, at least for printed books, in the responses to the Authors Guild survey (the survey didn't ask specifically about e-books; that question will have to be added next time).

I think some indie authors still harbor ambitions to see their book sold nationally in print.

While many have predicted that print and / or digital have seen their glory days already, the sales figures from Lulu appear to prove that one version's sales actually stimulate the growth of the other and that the more successful authors are the ones whose books are available in both formats.

This function allows authors to see their manuscripts in page - by - page format almost instantly, while still allowing the authors to select the height - by - width size of the printed book.

If Nook Press had developed a viable print - on - demand option and then told authors there was even a possibility of seeing their titles in their local bookstore on the condition that they pulled their books from Amazon's exclusive KDP Select program, authors would have jumped at the chance.

See several examples of Authorlink's design, layout and conversion work; THE SECOND SON project transformed an old existing printed book in two foreign languages into three digital formats and uploaded the finished files into the author's retail accounts; the children's titles represent some of our work with complex layout and design and digital conversion.

For those of you unfamiliar with CreateSpace, it's basically Amazon's POD service, and it's the number one means of print book production I see mentioned in the author circles I follow.

When authors wanted to see their books in paperback, Signalman started its print - on - demand business.

However, as services such as Createspace and KDP simplified print book and eBook production to make it a possibility for thousands of self published authors — and as text - to - speech automation continues to evolve — I don't think it will be long before we see a breakthrough in audio book self publishing capabilities.

With leadership that brings expertise in publishing, sales and marketing and technology, www.iUniverse.com offers a unique mix of self - publishing products and services and the skills of a professional team dedicated to enabling authors to see their books in print.

I'm still a huge fan of print books — for an author, there's nothing more amazing and humbling than holding your own book in your hands, seeing your name on that shiny black cover, running your hands over Jimmy Thomas's bare chest....

I'd much rather see our clients get a feature story, print interview, author profile, etc. in the same newspaper or magazine, rather than a write up in the book review section.

It's hard to see how the publisher is losing «real» sales on these titles, since the reader can't purchase them as ebooks, or, in the case of the out - of - print books, in any format that benefits the publisher and author at all.

POD publishing has entirely revolutionised life for many authors, since many who can not be published in the traditional way can now see their book in print.

With leadership that brings expertise in publishing, sales and marketing and technology, iUniverse offers a unique mix of self - publishing products and services and the skills of a professional team dedicated to enabling authors to see their books in print.

Because a few monolithic, profit - focused companies are controlling the publishing industry, critics claim, we are seeing fewer and fewer fringe books and new authors — and even established authors who sell respectably but not spectacularly (the so - called midlist) are having a tough time staying in print.

Bloggers are not unpublished authors desperate to see their work published in print as in a book publisher / author relationship.

>> When authors complain, upon seeing their proofs, about the low quality of editing or typesetting, they get lip service about fixing everything before publication, but then the corrections are not made and the book is printed uncorrected — with a separate charge to the author for making changes after the fact that should have been made in the first place.

However, after reading this blog post I looked up a handful of fiction authors on Amazon and see that most print books are indeed in double digits, except for the mass printed authors.

Outfits such as Balboa Press, Outskirts Press, BookPal and others, prey on unknowing authors with hopes and dreams of seeing their book in print.

Every day, established, talented book authors are writing 3000 — 5000 words for readers who will never see those words in a printed book.»

In a move seen as a concession to authors, Google revised its position last week on a lawsuit to give other companies a means to license Google's catalog of copyrighted, out - of - print books.

One way for an author to see their book in print is to self - publish, but since that became more acceptable some vanity publishers try to pass themselves off as self - publishers.

But one can choose the books out of a list on a website and then download them then you are to read and then do a review on it mainly on Amazon.com but one can do their review on say Barnes and Nobel and on Goodreads which then gives you more options to have more chances of winning either the author's book that you read in a print copy or win an Amazon.com gift card usually a $ 10.00 gift card, see?

Every author, whether indie or trad, knows the horror of seeing your book in print for the first time and spotting a typo.

«What an author gets per copy is not adequate to conclude that they make more money in total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly by low priced or almost free titles, so it is not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money by using this sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell ebooks and printed books it could be a reason for the effect into the decreased market share that they have on Amazon.»