Midas PR is a dream to work at because the range of books is so diverse, from
big name authors right through to self - published titles — we cover the lot.
Not exact matches
To me, Amazon is treating Indy
authors as true
authors with promoting us
right alongside the
big name authors.
The truly hilarious thing about this sentence is that if Leonard is
right — that Amazon is starting a «class war» between
authors, then Leonard is deliberately siding with the «one - percenters» of the publishing world — the Turows, Prestons, and Kings, rather than the ninety - nine percent of
authors who can only dream of the volume of sales enjoyed by those
big -
name authors.
In addition, even though publishing contract terms (including advances, royalties, and
rights) are simply awful for 99 % of
authors, a relative handful of Big Name Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with Big Publ
authors, a relative handful of
Big Name Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with Big Publ
Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with
Big Publishing.
Yes, they might make the latest
Big Name Author book 99 cents as a loss leader — but those books are already selling well, even in an indie - dominated ebook world like we have
right now.
But I hit a few in a row that were three stars and it just didn't feel
right, even though they were
big name authors and not someone I knew.
All of which is just another way to agree that Charles is
right and that replacing drm with watermarking is the only viable plan c for publishers (though I'd also suggest to add in my cost cutting plan above and hire a tech firm like kobo etc. to launch their own brand Facebook linked e-reader apps with a 6 month release window advantage on their own
big name authors while they still have locked - in
big name authors to speak of!)
The only problem with this is that those
authors demanding their
rights back are the ones who have figured out that they can make money without having the «
big name publisher» putting out their e-books.
Partner writing is all the rage
right now with the
big name authors.
Finally — I'm supposed to be at work — I think it's often forgotten that the vast majority of
authors don't do it full time, and don't make millions (or even thousands) out of it; the
big names like JK Rowling or Ian Rankin might be able to exist full time as
authors, but most of them don't, and while no one has an absolute
right to be able to live off the proceeds of their writing, I'm sure many do feel that the creators should be a little more fairly remunerated than at times is the case.
The
authors of the paper - being very
big names in climate science - believe that aerosol cooling is not the
right explanation of the mid century cooling.