Sentences with phrase «authors than other publishers»

Their secret contracts are rumored to be much better for authors than other publishers but it's still not purely indie anymore, although many of these authors still continue to do their own work for other books.

Not exact matches

«We feel it is probably a better system to put the charges on the authors than the other way round,» says Peter Newmark, editorial director at BioMed Central, a commercial publisher from the U.K..

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.

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.

What, other than conversion, is the publisher doing for the author regarding the ebook that justifies them taking such a huge chunk of the royalties?

Publishers Simon & Schuster has already experienced success with its book and author videos posted on YouTube that generate more than a million views each month, and the company is intending to replicate the publicity on other sites such as Roku and Blinkx.

With more than 1 million titles, including all the latest books from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader bookstore offers the same books as any other online retailer and with comparable pricing.

Paul Pilkington, a lecturer in a university in the UK, signed up with the UK - based publisher Hodder & Stoughton after two of his novels went on to sell more than 150,000 copies, other indie authors who got picked up by conventional publishers include the likes of Kerry Wilkinson and Beth Reeks.

They may know the publisher and editor of the New York Times Book Review, but how many authors can get a New York Times book review other than the authors who are already successful?

I have less and less patience with people who claim that Amazon has or is striving for some kind of evil monopoly that will subjugate authors and readers when all the evidence to date is that they will treat authors better than any publisher and provide readers with cheaper books, a bigger selection, and a better customer experience than any other retailer.

Other than Hugh Howey / Bella Andre / Colleen Hoover retaining e-book rights, that is... A time - limited option makes sense to me — publishers, use these rights within 3 years or the author gets them back, kind of thing.

The flip side of this argument is that picture book authors often get literary agents and publishers faster than authors of other genres — because picture books are so short!

Reach publishers, agents, distributors, printers, booksellers, librarians, book buyers, authors, journalists, rights executives, editors and so much more from a pool larger than any other all in one location.

It was bigger than ever this year, with over 100 authors, publishers and other book trade folk mixing and mingling over a well - earned drink after a hard day's Book Fairing.

Under this strategy, Amazon decides that it will demand no more discount than offered to any other vendor, for any purpose *; it will do everything in its power to meet author and indendent publisher demands; and it will send a bouquet and basket of puppies to midlist authors who place their out - of - print books on Kindle, in addition to the royalties due (and a holiday bonus).

John Kremer's «1001 Ways To Market Your Books» His 6th Edition published in 2006 describes more than 1000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books — all illustrated with real - life examples showing how other authors and publishers have marketed their books.

I believe — know — that attitudes toward self - and indie - publishers has become more accepted over the decades when any author who was published by anything other than university presses and New York's Big Five were derisively called «vanity publishers.»

I feel right now I've found a happy medium with higher royalties than the big six authors, but some of the benefits they have (although not all)-- I signed with a big independent publisher, however I wouldn't rule out either of the other two options in future.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

A few books we recommend: Dan Poynter's Self - Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter, The Complete Guide to Self - Publishing by Marilyn Ross, The Well - Fed Self - Publisher by Peter Bowerman, and last but definitely not least The Indie Author Revolution by none other than our very own self - publishing star insider, Dara Beevas!

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

But there's skill that's more important than any other for authors who want to get a top publisher and a big book deal.

While KakaoStory isn't monetized — yet — the content is no less publishable and author - centric than any other digital material, in essence turning all of its users into digital publishers from the moment a story is created, uploaded, and shared with readers.

«He wanted to bring a community of readers, authors and publishers — everyone involved — get them together and get them aligned, so they were functioning as an ecosystem rather than everyone trying to eat each other,» said Niffenegger.

So is Rowling being held to a higher standard than other authors and publishers?

Again, is that the business of anyone other than the author / publisher?

They see bookstore after bookstore (where their publisher pays coop money to get them racked more favorably than other authors) close.

The company has deals with major publishers including Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Christian, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with more than 100,000 professionally - published titles from authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Crichton, Walter Isaacson, Janet Evanovich, Mark Halperin, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (uh, some of those are more contemporary than others).

As the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take note.

The Canada Council for the Arts 350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047 Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5V8 Tel.: [phone] (Canada only) or [phone] Fax: [phone] E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.canadacouncil.ca/writing The Canada Council for the Arts provides assistance to foreign publishers for the translation of literary works by Canadian authors into languages other than French or English, for publication abroad.

W.E.B. Griffin (William E. Butterworth III) is the author of more than 50 epic novels in seven series, all of which have been listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and other best - seller lists.

Only YOU are more passionate about your career than anyone else, certainly more passionate than an agent with dozens of other clients or a publisher with dozens of other authors.

It's quite conceivable that the average author will spend more to promote their book than their publisher will, especially given that houses are tightening up on advances and other expenses.

Smaller independent publishers or self published authors may also choose a name other than their own or that of their businesses to promote their book publishing work.

And what all four of these books have in common (besides being mystery and thrilled novels) is the fact that their Kindle editions are priced significantly lower than their paperback editions, whereas that's not the case for the authors» earlier books from other publishers.

BUT there is also one other aspect which self - publishing authors don't take into account: the public, rather than a publisher, becomes the gatekeeper to their success, and the public is much harder to impress by far.

The hybrid authors surveyed reported themselves to be more motivated by money than the others and less impressed with publishers» ability to add any value by making a book «more like what the market wants.»

Again, there's no comparison between the self - publishing author and the industrial - grade publisher in every respect other than content.

I make less than that through other venues (such as B&N) but still, I make immensely more off of every sale than any traditionally published author will ever see from Hachette, or any other publisher.

This will be interesting to watch because it comes out of a traditional publisher, includes well - regarded digital innovator Sarah Lloyd, plans to poach other publishers» authors, and looks set to play by the new digital rules rather than those of its corporate parent.

Unless one is a huge name, we have reached the point where publishers do nothing for their authors other than put the physical books together and toss them out into the universe.

Legacy publishers are more than glad to squeeze their suppliers — authors and artists — so I have no problem at all seeing Amazon — and others — try to squeeze them in return.

The point I was making... is that people developing the chops to do this will find it sensible to do it for other authors, and that indie authors will find lots of help from places other than the big publishers... A one - to - one relationship between an author and a publishing machine is inherently inefficient.

CP authors enjoy much more creative control and higher royalties than they would at any other publisher.

(I've also got stuff coming out from traditional publishers — people choose to publish independently for reasons other than quality, and most of the self - published authors I have any kind of regular contact with also publish with traditional publishers, depending on the project).

... What I'm hearing is that I have some nebulous, undefined but extremely important moral responsibility to take away custom from the entity that treats me and every other author on Earth better than any author has ever been treated by a publisher or retailer in, well, the history of Mankind, and give it to you.

By continuously producing quality content and leveraging free promotions, you'll find that your competition will be other indie authors rather than authors who utilize publishers.

Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.

So they can have their star authors sign the boilerplate contract, permitting the publisher to say — almost truthfully — that they don't pay more than 15 % of cover price royalty on print or more than 25 % of net royalty on ebooks (among other things).

We are author - friendly, and pay the highest royalty rates of any publisher we're aware of (and charge no fees other than the royalty split).