Sentences with phrase «big book publishers»

«Gatekeepers can't do their job when there is no gate,» says Seth Godin, founder of The Domino Project, of the decreasing relevance of big book publishers for some authors, such as himself.

Jeffrey Trachtenberg joins Digits to discuss how it works and why big book publishers may not be thrilled about it.

Apple did book big book publishers a favour some time ago when, by giving the big six leverage over Amazon (with the launch of their new ebook platform iBooks), they enabled those large publishers to enforce Agency pricing for ebooks.

E-books now account for at least 15 percent of revenues for most big book publishers, and digital sales are growing much faster than print sales.

It's not difficult to see where the growth is coming from Indie books are eating away at big book publishers.

Clip: Debaters, including Vox's Matthew Yglesias, look at how Amazon drives down prices and the «tyranny» of big book publishers.

In his book The Everything Store, author Brad Stone recounts that the big book publishers were blindsided when Amazon announced at the Kindle launch event that e-books would be priced at just $ 9.99.

Because the five biggest book publishers are all owned by companies that have either newspapers or television networks within their group.

Back then it was Barnes & Noble and the big book publishers who were the villains of this story.

Bertelsmann's Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, expects electronic books to contribute more than 10 percent of its U.S. revenue next year, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Then last March, Random House, the biggest book publisher in the U.S., announced that it too would sell e-books using agency pricing.

Amazon's shadow, BookCon's boost, IDPF's confab, Chinese Trajectory, scalding - hot Scalzi: Must be BEA Just in time to chill the rising heat of late - May New York: news of troubled talks in the UK between the biggest bookseller and the biggest book publisher on Earth.

Random House, the biggest book publisher in the United States and Britain, has been buoyed by the success of the «Fifty Shades» trilogy of novels.

Random House, who is the world's biggest book publisher, expects E-Books to generate 10 % of the company's overall revenue by next year, the CEO has recently divulged.

Finally, he snagged one of the biggest Book Publishers in Beijing and I not only signed a book deal but got paid an advance (unheard of for me!)

At this point, sales by the big book publishers are tanking, and self publishing is growing rapidly.

VIENNA (Reuters)- Bertelsmann's Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, expects electronic books to contribute more than 10 percent of its U.S. revenue next year, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Penguin Random House's large, orange bookcase - trailer hybrid greeted visitors as they made their way into the showroom floor dominated by the big book publishers.

A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast.