Sentences with phrase «big general trade publishers»

I think, though, that for various reasons, the big general trade publishers do not see O'Reilly or Pragmatic as examples for what they should be doing themselves — too small, different audiences.

Following some brief introductory remarks from Redmayne about what he sees as the priorities in his new role (and both pleasing authors and managing digital marketing are high on the list), Michael Cader will interview him about the competitive challenges big general trade publishers face in a world where they have one new massive competitor and one big customer that doesn't stop growing.

The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five biggest general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House,... [Read more...]

The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five biggest general trade publishers in the UK — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — saw their e-book sales fall in 2015.

That would be quite an achievement given the struggle between the sectors witnessed in 2012: four of six of the world's biggest general trade publishers withdrawing large swathes of their e-book catalogues from library distribution, a fifth publisher altered their terms for library usage — resulting in a high profile boycott — and the sixth tripled their prices.

Not exact matches

It was thus the first graphic novel publisher to have a full understanding and intimate working knowledge of the general book trade, even amongst the biggest of comics publishers.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.