Sentences with phrase «believe in publishing house»

The quality and pleasure in reading those books can surprise those who still believe in publishing house fairy tales that they are the gatekeepers to quality reads.

Not exact matches

They do not publish documents for debate in the House of Commons based on information that is incorrect, it doesn't matter whether they believe it or not.

It was time to sit back and wait to see if an editor at a publishing house believed in my work as much as my agent did.

Some publishers though believe it's a gamble on an author who has delivered in the past but will have to account for twice the number of books sold to allow the publishing house to recover its dues.

I don't believe in vanity publishing so I struggled to get published by a professional publishing house.

The courts have held that this was illegal, while publishing houses believe that some ebooks, in fact, should command prices equal — or higher — than their printed counterparts.

Because of the sudden surge in sales of Kindle devices and the iPad, within a New York Minute these authors sold hundreds of thousands of books... something previously believed could only be achieved by authors from New York publishing houses.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

Ever since two traditional Finland - Swedish publishing houses merged in 2012, we've sharpened our Finnish profile, and emerged, I believe, as a new, fresh and interesting publisher to the Finnish publishing scene.

Some authors could be picked up, Ogorek believes, from the ranks of writers who'd paid the publishers to produce their books under in - house self - publishing imprints: so called «farm teams» of authors willing to underwrite the costs of getting their books into print.

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

Although there are service providers to do Big Data crunching, and any publisher might use them for some challenges, Brooks believes that learning to use available tools routinely will become a necessary skill set in most publishing houses.

From authors who want to have their work available once the physical edition has gone out of print and the rights have reverted, to those whose books we believe in and feel passionately about but couldn't sell — oftentimes, after approaching 20 or more houses — we realized that part of our job as agents in this new publishing milieu is to facilitate these works being made available as e-books and through POD and other editions,» from the DGLM blog.

Epstein believes the successful future publishing company will be like the Random House of the 1950s — just «a small group of likeminded managers» — about 8 editors, no meetings and those editors could be living in different countries.

The only reason to do that is if you have written a book that you honestly believe might become of interest to a major publishing house and, in that case, you should just submit it to them before publishing it yourself.

She responded to a comment I made about my Aunt (who was Ms. Atlanta one year) having faith in the AJC reviews, so I don't believe it was a generic letter, but her last sentence was heartbreaking, «If your work was published by a «major» publishing house, we «might consider» reviewing it.»

I work for a large publishing house («legacy publishing» as some call it), so don't let it take you by surprise when I say that I believe we, i.e., publishing houses, do indeed play a vital role in today's cultural marketplace.

There is, I believe a significant difference between authors published by traditional houses and self - published books in that the latter lack the processes that we can count on to ensure a minimal level of quality, both of content and style.

I had finally put my project out into the world, and, unlike the first time I published, there was no publishing house behind me, no one saying that they believed in the work and would stand by it and me.

Doris adamantly believes in and supports traditional publishing houses and maintains there is an overwhelming need for curation in the literary world.

After all, if we are harmed, you will have participated in the further erosion of independent, small presses, and I can't believe the rumor that SFWA and Writer Beware are cooperating with the Big Five publishing houses» efforts to destroy the independents once and for all.

As Melissa also said in comments on IU, the intention is not to described her experience as THE experience with all publishers but it is undeniable that things are not as rosy as publishing houses would like writers to believe.

I strongly believe your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book's advertising materials, and my motto is to keep it short and sweet on the likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff's Notes version of the book.

With an output believed to have exceeded 2,000 titles annually in recent years, APub, as it's called — the traditional publishing house of Amazon, not the self - publishing KDP platform — has just added its 15th imprint this year, Topple.

Another study published in the Joint Center for Housing Studies reported 41 % of survey respondents believed that renting also gives them flexibility with respect to their future.

This leads me to believe that we will most likely see some exclusive content for the Xbox version based on the fact that it is being published in - house.