Sentences with phrase «backed by publishers»

Last year, HMV (LSE: HMV) Group took joint ownership of aNobii, a soon - to - relaunch digital books discovery and retail service backed by publishers.

The Clark series, considered a leading copyright event at London Book Fair annually, is a project backed by the Publishers Association; the Federation of European Publishers, and the Publishers Licensing Society.

The Author Blog Awards are run by Completely Novel and backed by publishers the Random House Group, Simon & Schuster and Penguin and many others.

Although subscription models work well in certain niche markets, they are backed by publishers who target agented authors instead of independent ones.

And when I made it to the front, I got pushed back by Publishers who found my work too different from the cookie cutter.

Backed by Publisher's Weekly, the BookLife Prize is one of the hottest tickets in the world of self - published book contests.

When Valve was a lot pickier, and being backed by a publisher was a distinct advantage to getting onto the system, any developer who managed to get onto Steam effectively received a license to print money.

This is a developer staying true to its roots, backed by a publisher that's happy to let them do their thing.

Not exact matches

Valve's Steam platform pioneered digital distribution back in 2003, almost singlehandedly rescuing PC gaming from oblivion while simultaneously putting a significant brake on piracy, getting consumers to accept the often widely hated digital rights management and increasing profitability for publishers and developers by cutting out physical retail.

We start the morning with some news close to home: Meredith Corp will acquire Time Inc, the publisher Fortune, Time, People, and Sports Illustrated, in a deal backed by the Koch brothers.

The average Class of 2014 graduate with student - loan debt has to pay back some $ 33,000, according to an analysis of government data by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher at Edvisors, a group of web sites about planning and paying for college.

The keys are sold by third - party providers such as Humble Bundle (in which a portion of the sale is given back to the publisher or distributor), distributed as part of a physical release to redeem the game, or given to a user as part of promotions, often used to deliver Kickstarter and other crowd funding rewards.

The FIAU sent another report to police in November 2016, citing suspected money laundering payments by Keith Schembri's Virgin Islands company to Adrian Hillman, the managing director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Times of Malta, which Caruana Galizia had reported back in March.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Dosh, an app that gives consumers cash back for purchases, is disrupting the $ 200 billion advertising technology industry from Austin.

Is it time to ask serious questions of publishers who release books by people claiming to have gone to heaven and come back?

Juli and George, backed by their wonderful publishers Victory Belt, ALSO provided one copy to giveaway to one lucky Fed & Fit reader!

We always contribute the original publisher of the vegan recipe, by linking back to their website.

A separate amendment to the data regulation bill backed by the Labour deputy, Tom Watson, which would have imposed punitive legal costs on publishers who refuse to sign up to an officially recognised press regulator, appears to be dead.

Insiders tell us a deal with a publisher hadn't been reached by the time the agency backed away from the Weiner book.

The measure was backed by the Association of American Publishers, but many nonprofit and some commercial publishers came out against it, including Nature and AAAS, the publisher of ScienPublishers, but many nonprofit and some commercial publishers came out against it, including Nature and AAAS, the publisher of Scienpublishers came out against it, including Nature and AAAS, the publisher of ScienceInsider.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

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Back in May, Elder Scrolls Online publisher Bethesda Softworks announced that the console versions of the game would be delayed by about six months.

As if the news that Capcom is bringing DuckTales back in remastered form wasn't enough by itself, the publisher revealed on Friday that the entire cast of voice actors from the original show will lend their talent to the new version of the classic platformer.

While it took over two weeks to even hear back from the commercial publisher, I was informed a day later by CK12 that the modifications to their life sciences textbooks had already been made.

Colin Peck presents the results of his researches into the genre / The Ballot 2LS, part six — Our Publisher continues his review of this landmark Vintage car by describing the example once owned by Ian Connell and now in George Wingard's collection in Eugene, Oregon / Auto - biography: Brian Sewell — In the latest instalment of his series interviewing personalities from the old - car world, Matthew Bell visits art critic Brian Sewell / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part one — In the first of a three - part series recounting the long careers of these famous racing cars, Simon Moore describes their origins and works competition histories / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, to inspect a rare and recently restored 1914 Briton 10/12

By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher The recent announcement that Lithia Motors, Inc. would acquire DCH Auto Group allowed some pundits to pat themselves on the back — they could claim they... Read more

The news is backed up by recent deals with major publishers for first novels, like Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven, an immigrant tale of two women, two cultures, family secrets and the fight to find a new life in America, sold to NAL this year by veteran agent Jill Marsal.

This story, «Scaling back the Nook e-reader would be bad news for book publishers» was originally published by TechHive.

Emboldened by Apple's backing, the publishers told Amazon that it wouldn't offer titles unless Amazon too employed agency pricing.

I've had friends published by «big» publishers and their book was back off the shelves before they could get their momentum going.

To save money, the publishers may cut back on lucrative advances and book tours for some authors, and there may even be some layoffs, but the most direct response will probably be to save money by simply printing fewer physical books.

Last year, Next Issue Media, the digital newsstand joint venture backed by the major magazine publishers, produced a study on the value of tablets to magazine and newspaper publishers, and concluded that the aggregate revenue could be $ 3 billion by 2014.

This guide was put together by Five Simple Steps, an independent publisher of web design books that closed in 2014, as a way of giving back to the web community.

Rather, as with products such as Flash, Adobe hopes to profit by giving away Reader Mobile in order to sell its Content Server 4 back - end software to publishers and booksellers.

We offer the same products and services enjoyed by big - time publishers — superb quality and industry connections backed by decades of experience — all made easily accessible to the indie - publishing community from one simple - to - use platform.

All this talk of paying your dues, being knocked back by agent after agent, publisher after publisher until you finally develop the spine and sensibility required to call yourself an author... It's nice and everything, and it strikes a chord with every aspiring author who grew up with the expectation that this was the only way it was ever going to happen, but it just isn't a necessary rite of passage in the modern day.

You can read reviews by Wally Lamb, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal at BookBrowse - all generally positive, for example Publishers Weekly concludes, «it's a funny, poignant, slightly gawky debut that aims, like its protagonist, to please — and usually does; while Wally Lamb says, «riders who hop onto the back of Smithy Ide's bike and ride America with him will cherish the journey.

Indeed, Stark is so excited by Shelf Media's work in finding a unique publishing solution and the opportunities Lulu.com's self - publishing model provides indie authors and publishers, he plans to use Lulu.com to back his own imprint, GeekVoodoo Books.

It's not uncommon for traditional publishers to put nothing but blurbs or reviews on a novel's back cover, especially if it's by an author who is already well - known.

Sadly, I've gone back to reading more books by the major publishers for enjoyment.

(And by the way, I'm rooting for * any * platform or company that gives authors a fair shake, whether it's Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo, small - to medium - size presses, some new distribution system being dreamed up right now in someone's back bedroom, or even any of the Big 5 publishers willing to significantly change their contract terms and treat authors more equitably.)

By definition, that means that for every $ 100 you spend in marketing, your book earns $ 200 in gross profit that gets paid back to the publisher.

Going back to our awards mission statement and guidelines, here's why we do it: «To recognize the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers, and bring them to the attention of booksellers, buyers, librarians, and book lovers around the world.»

In 2011, she says, about 7,000 audiobooks were released; by 2015, releases numbered around 35,000, as publishers put out recordings of new books as well as audiobooks from their back catalogs.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Back when I started in sales, the saying was «Price, Service, Quality... pick two».

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital disPublishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital dispublishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

«This partnership will greatly benefit writers and publishers who've been sitting on their back catalogs simply because the idea of digitizing the books themselves by hand was overwhelming,»

Courtesy of MAKE, we have this interesting «hack» that provides step - by - step instructions for getting 1984 back on your Kindle — timid publishers frightened of New Media be damned.