Sentences with phrase «backlist works»

In 90 days an author's backlist works can be brought to market with new digital covers and promotional materials and made available widely on all ebook reading devices.

Frontlist, or backlist works?

Many of you will be familiar with RosettaBooks as an E-Book publisher (producing backlist works of familiar authors ranging from Winston Churchill to Kurt Vonnegut), but now you can use their new e-reading app for mobile phones and tablets.

And one of the things that — and then I said there are other members who do have agreements whereby they make some of their works, perhaps backlist works rather than their newer front list works.

Sometimes, it's more advantageous to keep a backlist work «in print» despite low sales.

Not exact matches

I can definitely say that SOME authors are making impressively good money self - publishing both new works and backlist books they've gotten the rights to.

Additionally, pulse pricing or hosting giveaways, especially for backlist titles, seems to have an impact on the body of work overall.

I think instead of just being angry all of the time at Amazon — keep writing and working on generating the backlist.

Pros of working with PDF: It means a simpler operation especially for backlist, no need to find all links or to activate fonts, simple tools to quickly build pages, embedded text for search is available.

At the moment, I'm focusing more on self - pubbing my backlist and sending my new work to a smaller press.

This fallacy overlooks the fact that authors are reaching readers who would not have otherwise made a connection to an unknown author's works, which may prompt some authors to only list some of their backlist in a promotion such as this.

I have a diagnosed medical condition that makes working on backlist screens for a long time have a negative effect on me.

Some of the prior featured authors had a backlist and I * still * have my favorite authors putting out new works; ebooks have definitely increased the author output!

Some of you may not know this or realize the impact until you try and get your backlist rights back, only to realize your house can keep rolling their rights to your work for years.

The availability of Kindle versions was particularly vital when it came to backlist: publishers should make sure to digitise an author's backlist before publication of her newest work.

• The store has launched an independent press, is looking at POD textbook solutions, working with local writers, and has plans to revive out - of - print backlist titles for the University of Texas Press.

So we are still working on backlist, but also starting into new books and stories as well.

Our catalogue started off heavily skewed towards backlist titles, but today almost one third of our titles are new work.

This can include writing a new book, successfully launching a new book or working on the promotion of their backlist.

Here goes: Only a very small percentage (under 8 %) of working writers are making a living strictly on their writing alone, and those that are have a backlist a mile long.

Like Weinstein, she says she is «incorporating self - publishing into every one of my clients» career plans for backlist titles, experimental fiction, shorter works, and more.»

For the past 10 years, I've worked as a marketing consultant who has helped authors get books on the New York Times bestseller list 3 different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and even a 20 - year - old backlist book.

He's currently working with authors he has successfully placed with traditional publishers «to launch additional mid-length material and backlisted books using new self - publishing tools.»

Surely professional authors with a string of best sellers and a backlist that fills five Amazon screens don't have problems tricking their brains into work mode.

The Stockholm City Library is working with publishers, now, to set up a pilot project for a dual licensing mode based on the library helping the publishers digitize their backlist and, in return, getting decent lending terms.

One New York Times bestselling author and long - time client of the Knight Agency, Cecil Murphey, has eleven out - of - print backlist titles from over twenty years ago that his agent is now working on bringing to ebook.

Or maybe you are an established author trying to sell your backlist before a new title comes out, perhaps a sale or promotional pricing for a certain time period would encourage new readers to try your work and allow the current reader to try older work while waiting for the new release.

As part of the agreement, Simon & Schuster will make available its entire backlist of thousands of books, including works by authors ranging from Ernest Hemingway to Stephen King.

Blackhall aims to have all its new trade titles available in ebook format by the end of 2011 and is working on a plan for its backlist.

They were traditional authors capitalizing on years of reverted rights to backlists and the reputation already built among fans for solid work.

I was also able to release several books within one year, both backlist and new original work, which helped build my momentum.

It was a ton of hard work, but, four years later, I'm really starting to see it pay off as I approach 30,000 book sales across my backlist.

I've gone indie with my backlist, and am seriously considering putting up a few original works as well, for many of the reasons mentioned by others — timing, doesn't fit a print publisher's mold.

Gagliani is one of the many authors who are now working on digitally self - publishing their out - of - print and backlist titles, and enjoying a resurgence in fan base as a result.

We actually have to work at this a lot harder than online bookstores who have unlimited copies of new books and don't have to promote mid and backlist titles that much.

Currently, he works as publishing technology engineer, maintaining O'Reilly's XML - based toolchain for generating EPUB and Mobi formats of both frontlist and backlist titles.

Mayor continues to work as a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, a Deputy Sheriff for Windham County, VT, an investigator for the Windham County State's Attorney's office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and he travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops.

Electronic rights to published works that you own but have never exercised; we can help you build a backlist of eBooks that complement your print editions.

Working with their publishers to revamp / reinvent / update publisher - held and currently unexploited backlist for the benefit of both parties, including cross-promoting (NINC members, with an average of twenty - five plus titles per member, have an intense interest in exploiting backlist).

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

Almost every author who self - publishes (backlist, front list), manages that work soup to nuts, conception to publication and promotion.

Jed Lyons of Rowman & Littlefield actually compared e-reading devices to the «brown paper bags» that customers used to hide their soft - core porn material in, despite his announcement that Rowman & Littlefield is currently working to digitize every backlist title that the publishing group has sold since it opened its doors in 1975.

At first it was an attempt to reintroduce her backlist (previously published and often out - of - print) titles to fans who may not have found those titles when they were available in print, but as the process became rewarding for her, Freethy began working on titles to be published exclusively to e-reader.

Aimed at already - published authors, Open Road Distribution will work with independent published authors, literary agencies and independent agents with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who want to digitize and distribute their content.

Under the agency model, and working with multiple distributors, Macmillan will offer over 1,200 backlist eBooks from its Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint, a part of the St. Martins Publishing Group.

It was just me doing all the work, and I was putting up my own stories and Kris's short stories and then eventually we started putting up some backlist novels.

But now that the world has changed it's time to accept that these days it is perfectly fine to self - publish your work and your backlist.

Given all the industry changes, agents are re-evaluating how they can advise and work with their clients on publishing e-books (particularly for their backlist).

If my indie published backlist book does well and I make this money back, it would be worth going the indie route again for original works.

And now that you've jumped into the indie publishing world with your backlist novel, do you think you'll indie publish follow - on works, making Tomorrow Land into a series?