Sentences with phrase «big deal for publishers»

This is a very big deal for publishers of children's eBooks.

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This is a big deal for our publisher clients because they can now reach more customers in more ways,» says Transcontinental VP Bruce Jensen.

Not exact matches

As for big authors staying with big publishers, I am confident they are not only laid well, but get a far better deal than any of us will ever see.

Surely he's been a big enough deal in publishing for a long enough time that he could have written for most any comics publisher at most any time he chose, right?

Writers who haven't been published by The Big 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and ColbeBig 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbebig fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbert.

Amazon's change to remove contact email addresses from Amazon reviewer profiles is a big deal for small companies (including media publishers) who used the contact addresses to reach out to potential reviewers.

, but for authors who place a great deal of importance on seeing their book stocked in physical retail stores, then the bigger your publisher, the more muscle they probably have to get that nationwide store distribution, and possibly pay for displays or other merchandising during your book's launch.

The majority of authors will never receive that big book deal with a major publisher and gone are the days of the six - figure book advances for a debut author, but still, if your ultimate goal is to share a story with the world, if you put the time and effort into the craft of storytelling, you will find your audience.

While this might not be as big a deal for giants like Ingram and Amazon, who do their own private data gathering, for small and medium - sized publishers, as well as self - published authors, this data is of immense value.

Getting rid of in - app purchases «is a very big deal,» Conway wrote, «because it strikes to the heart of what made Comixology's app a near - perfect venue for discovering and falling in love with new comics, a venue creators and publishers have been searching for since the collapse of mainstream newsstand distribution in the late 1970s - early»80s: it destroys the casual reader's easy access to an impulse purchase.

But there's skill that's more important than any other for authors who want to get a top publisher and a big book deal.

All of their infrastructure is completely transportable, as their infrastructure is essentially people (managers, publishers, editors), and it's not like they rely on business meetings that have to take place in a certain location in order to sell books (you can always fly in for those meetings, or if you're the big dog then maybe all the little dogs that you deal with will eventually relocate with you).

For a point of comparison, when Scribd unveiled its subscription service in October, its big publisher deals were limited to HarperCollins (including HarperCollins Christian), and it didn't include the publisher's newest titles.

Coupled with their reputation for as an indie comics publisher, they deal in a currency of cool that makes the Big Two look like senior citizens.

«We (he and his agent) both understood from the beginning that it would likely be against my best interests to take the sort of deal that would be offered (by Big 6 NYC publishers), but we also dreamed of a future where publishers and authors had a different sort of relationship... And so we pursued an impossible dream hoping that the strangeness of our demands (for a print - only deal where he kept his digital rights) might pave the way for future demands from other authors.»

In a potentially major gain for the ebook - bundling concept, BitLit today is announcing its first deal with a Big Five publisher.

For details of some of the big deals that were completed and trends that were discussed, catch up with Publishers Weekly's more traditional round - up of the fair.

And it's not uncommon for bloggers to use their online readers in order to get a book deal from the biggest publishers on the market.

You could even argue that he's played the biggest part in the rise of indie authors — by refusing book deals from Publishers, by hitting great sales ranks, by revealing his earnings (over $ 500K in 2011), and by sharing what worked for him.

Big publishers have been giving authors eBook - only deals for a while now.

What I think you're saying is you've seen deals where the publisher is only acquiring rights to a work for a fixed term of years, rather than for life of the copyright (which is what most big publishers seek).

(RT is author - friendly, and long before e-publishing and indie publishing became a big deal, it offered ad rates for authors whose publishers refused to put any support behind a book at all.

Adler also promises that more deals with big publishers for e-books and audiobooks are on the way.

One way to kick - start the public and academic digital systems might be for the endowment to purchase OverDrive, the biggest library e-book supplier, while relying on its acquisitions side for help in dealing with major publishers and while improving its electronic distribution system.

New York Times - bestselling author Barry Eisler recently turned down a $ 500,000 advance from «Big 6» traditional (or «legacy») publisher St. Martin's Press for a two - book deal.

In addition to the order for the books, they work out with the publisher co-opt advertising, which the publisher pays for (in - store displays and special positioning,) or partially pays for (the bookstore's advertising in newspapers, featuring the publisher's big titles, etc.) These co-opt deals effect how many books the booksellers order.

@Lara Amber — I viewed the Stephen Colbert piece on punishing Amazon as 1) drawing attention to the issue and the parties for audiences that might not be aware / interested and 2) more intriguing for someone who isn't a «big time» author... the person who might be self publishing with Amazon (or elsewhere), or trying to get Hachette or another publisher to sign a deal with them.

Distributors are where the big money is; deals with small publishers for distributors who are distributing to lots of large bookshops might well ask to keep two thirds of the cover price!

When dealing with the public library market, the biggest challenge for EBSCO is diversification into popular content, particularly from the Big Six publishers (only two of which actually make their new ebooks available to public libraries).

This is a great post, and it could be viewed in an even bigger context as was suggested by Broken Yogi in the comments on Joe Konrath's latest post: perhaps Amazon should just focus on making KDP better and better as their main strategy for dealing with the publishers.

I'd like to highlight an issue that has steadily become a bigger and bigger deal for me, and something that I think really exemplifies how several large print publishers are just taking the complete wrong tack when dealing with their readers.

Also, remember that big publishers have totally different deals with retailers, so you don't know what they are getting paid on a book priced at $ 14.99 for the eBook version.

While the Amazon announcement is primarily a branding and marketing strategy (reduced price, specially highlighted on its own landing page) and probably just one more shot across the bow of traditional publishers (major authors have stuff shoved into a drawer that could be published independently, without the involvement of their «trade book» publisher), the concept could be a big deal for two kinds of people who read this blog: Bloggers and magazine publishers.

It will be a bit easier for the big publishers selling books to Wal - mart and Target to manage the business through one big account rather than two (one fewer account to deal with), but it is still a frustratingly inefficient segment of the business.

For many self publishers who find they make the majority of their income through the Kindle anyway, going exclusive is not really a big deal in terms of income alteration.

The states unveiled a deal this week that, if approved, would see consumers collect a refund of $ 0.25 to $ 1.32 for each ebook they bought from big publishers.

1 - people will read less, yes, but not much less, for a limited time 2 - indies, and small publishers will sell more 3 - Big 6 publishers will get hurt 4 - Big 6 published authors will get hurt 5 - Big 6 published authors will start an uprising (that could actually happen sooner...) 6 - Things will change, and we'll get to the «fair deals», «fair pricing», etc. that we all want and that you are petitioning for

If a big New York publisher comes along and offers you a deal where they can do more for you than you can do for yourself, you'd be silly to not consider it.

Reports indicate that although none of the Big 5 publishers has signed up for KU, the publishers that have signed have done so for a deal of 60 % of list price, which seems to be the going rate for distribution through rival ebook subscription services such as Scribd and Oyster Books.

This is a big deal for those involved in terms of developers and Publishers but in the grand scheme of things if this is a big deal you have to talk about the franchise's they're missing as even bigger deals.

The show is being promoted by Pony Canyon — which, if you didn't know, is «big deal» territory, they are Japan's equivalent of «Live Nation,» save that Pony Canyon has existed as publisher and promoter of entertainment products for far longer.

For people to go off and rant about Murray and Hello Games, knowing these things happen especially in AAA development is very much jumping on the hate train with everyone else and not having an open mind to the bigger picture of dealing with a AAA publisher.

Here we are at the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, and as the hot days tick by, we're left to deal with the lack of new AAA + blockbuster titles hitting store shelves in large quantities as publishers save the big guns for the holiday shopping season.

It could allow better deals to be made with publishers for bigger and better monthly games for the PS Plus subscribers.