Sentences with phrase «averse publishing»
How this start - up broke new ground in the risk - averse publishing industry with its digital model
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Zuk's third book, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love & Language From the Insect World, published in July, is a sweeping compendium of bizarre insects — overprotective earwig parents, sperm - scooping dragonflies, risk - averse wasps — whose complex behavior often bears an uncanny resemblance to our own.
The findings of the study, published in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science, raises fresh questions about whether risk - taking is overwhelmingly a masculine personality trait, and whether women are as risk averse as previously suggested.
Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.
We are not averse to ebooks (about thirty of our published titles are now available as ebooks, including our best seller) but by definition this will be a bricks and mortar bookshop, that can also order any book in print.
Every year, innumerable books are written which are too ambitious in some manner or another for the risk - averse mainstream publishing industry.
Having to seek story approval and take endless notes from fickle, risk - averse creative execs (among others) who know nothing about the art of storytelling has left me creatively frustrated, and I find the freedom offered by the burgeoning frontier of self - publishing — the opportunity to shift the balance of power back in the writer's favor — fairly irresistible for all the reasons Mr. Howey propounds above.
The mainstreaming of self - publishing with more non-genre writers opting to self - publish as they struggle to secure deals with increasingly risk - averse publishers fearful for their bottom line as margins are squeezed further.