Sentences with phrase «average author does»

I know what the average author earns, I see it and the average author does not earn very much.

This will be a strange way to begin a guide to blogging, but I want to save you time, trouble, and heartache: The average author does not benefit much from blogging.

The average author doesn't know what they don't know.

Not exact matches

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

The authors explain that during the nation's housing boom of 2000 - 06, home prices in Binghamton, Buffalo, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica did not appreciate as rapidly as the national average, although prices in Albany, Glens Falls and Ithaca outpaced it.

This, according to the authors» analysis, helps to explain why children of single parents do not do as well on average, and provides additional motivation for involving fathers in the lives of their children.

Our current contract — «until death» — might have worked when people didn't live all that long (according to the American sociologist and author Stephanie Coontz, the average marriage in colonial times lasted under 12 years); or when many women died in childbirth, freeing men to marry multiple times (which they did); and when men of means needed women to cook, clean and caretake, and women needed men for financial security.

If you actually look at the author's arguments, most of the examples are things that the average American never does in their entire life, let alone on a daily basis!

Results suggest that while isotretinoin was associated with a change in the average value of some laboratory tests (white blood cell count and hepatic and lipid panels), the average change across a patient group did not meet the criteria for high - risk and the proportion of patients with laboratory abnormalities was low, the authors report.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

They compared these citation numbers to those of 759 control authors who had published in the same journal and issue as a retracted author and found that, on average, authors who had a retraction went on to garner approximately 10 % fewer citations than the control authors did.

The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

The authors caution that the results represent averages across general practice populations; this study did not evaluate the outcome of prescribing decisions for individual patients.

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

While encouragement had no impact on performance on average, and was not differentially important for the induced sample, the authors did find surprising results based on student GPA.

The authors cautioned that this study doesn't entirely prove that vitamin D levels and menopause symptoms are not connected because the sample of women they had with enough data was relatively small and the women, who averaged age 66, were nearly 16 years from menopause, and only 27 percent of the women in this group had hot flashes or night sweats.

As pointed out by Eric, there's no quantitative analysis, simply because the author does not like the stats:» statistically, «averages» do not mean anything»; and the author prefers to do some peremptory «affirmations».

The author is a highly respected former super-skinny guy, and is one of the good guys in this fitness industry full of questionable, average (and sometimes straight - up scammy) products and characters who don't always put your best interests first.

Elena Petrova, a world - wide recognized expert on Russian brides, considers the new course to be well beyond the level of an average Internet dating ebook:» «The Dating Science» is progressing so fast, it's a challenge to keep up with what other authors are doing.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

It does so despite the preponderance of evidence that, as the authors of one educational study from 2002 wrote, «school choice, on average, does not produce the equity and social justice that proponents spin.»

Nor did the PTE note the anger of Professor Stephen Machin, one of the authors of the LSE report, that their findings had been «wrongly used» to support the conversion of «better than average» schools including primaries (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/09/labour-academies-research-coalition-programme).

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

Put differently, and In the authors» words, «the analysis does not support interpreting the four domain scores [or indicators] as measurements of distinct aspects of teaching; instead, the analysis supports using a single rating, such as the average over all [sic] components of the system to summarize teacher effectiveness» (p. 12).

Amazon Author Page: 4 out of 5 of these authors have pages Number of Reviews: each book has at least 186 reviews / 4.5 out of 5 star average Formats Available: 5 of these books are available in e-book, hardcover, paperback, audio download formats, 3 of them are available in mp3 CDs as well Publication date: These books were released between March 4 and September 23, 2014 Website: There doesn't appear to be a website for one of these authors.

I'm guessing that my book sat somewhere around average or low - average compared to the other Kindle Press authors / books, and while I do think that my book cleared the investment that they made directly into it (advance, editing and promotion), it definitely didn't make enough of a profit for Kindle Press to compensate for the hours and hours of time and effort that goes into the open submission process of the Kindle Scout program.

While self - published book prices have been slowly rising on average, devoted fans of an author are more likely to pay $ 4.99 US or more for a new title, whereas authors who don't have an established readership or who haven't produced a multi-title series may not attract readers at that price point.

You'll also find lots of tips & tricks on top of all these free resources, and on average, we find that certain authors do favor landscape formats compared to portraits due to the ample horizontal space you'll get within a page.

I think that's because the average author isn't educated in the field and we don't realize that not all marketing is created equal.

While there is some limited evidence that these hybrid authors do better on average than those who exclusively pursue one or the other means.

Jack, do you know if anyone has done a study that compares the average earnings of self - published authors with those who go through mainstream publishing?

So where does this leave the average author?

The amount I make a year is equal to about ten times the average author advance, and I don't have to give any to an agent.

The average author blog is doing very well if it comes in under a million.

If the average advance paid to a previously unpublished (traditionally) author if $ 5,000, does that mean an indie has to sell that much before being considered a pro?

Their losses today can only be turned into profits tomorrow if they pay publishers and authors less per «read» (which on average is $ 2) or if they substantially increase their monthly fee to their users or they maintain a high number of subscribers who don't use their services much.

You can never be a bestseller, or even an average or subpar author, if you don't finish a book.

Now for big name authors, their books» Amazon ratings may not matter so much — they have such a reputation and presence in bookstores that the average Joe will just buy the book off the shelve without doing research first.

Every time your book is loaned out, you get a percentage of the pot Amazon has set aside for these authors (it has averaged around two dollars per loan in the past, but may increase for the next few months as Amazon has doubled the pot available)(note to Washington and Colorado readers: I don't mean that kind of pot).

I don't think it's reasonable to reject the vast majority of authors as «out of average», when theirs is the more common publishing experience.

With regard to editors, it doesn't always follow that a professionally edited book is a good book; I've read a few that are bang average, though it's right that an author shouldn't rely on their own editing and proofreading skills.

Working really hard for a long time without getting paid for it, because artists do it for the love not the money, is the average experience of SUCCESSFUL authors.

The average upcoming independent author breaking into publishing, doesn't have the established brand of J. K. Rowling or the ability to produce the volume of work that Sean and David do.

We don't hear much about the great bestsellers in educational publishing (although I can assure you than many earn both their publishers and their authors a great deal more than the average new novel).

Does the average person really read everything a specific author writes, or just stay locked into their favorite genres?

The company has done various test projects that have invited authors to talk with readers in real time and allow the average customer to poise questions and have them instantly answered.

The average indie author does none of the above.

Amazon Rapids was the first major initiative, although they do not offer any content creation for the average indie author.

The analysis purports to compare how authors do self - publishing versus how they'd do with a publisher and comes to the conclusions that they make more per copy on average self - publishing and maybe even sell more and make better books to boot.

There's rather a lot of expertise available to the average self - publishing author, and if that author can't afford to pay for certain services or wishes to retain creative control, that's that author's prerogative — and no one is forcing Russo and other authors like him to read anything he doesn't want to read, or publish any differently than he always has.