Sentences with phrase «big name publishers»

The ebook revolution has forever changed how books are purchased, distributed and read, thus closing the gap between books that are self published and those that are from big name publishers.

For $ 9.99 you can download two books a month and lots of big name publishers are supporting the efforts.

With e-books being all the rage in today's high - tech world, authors can go into publishing e-books instead of looking for big name publishers to distribute their titles.

Is it easy to approach big name publishers with your passion project?

Most big name publishers, the ones that can get you into bookstores, do not accept submissions from writers who don't have agents.

There are some really big name publishers and companies supporting this, so likely funding and promotion won't be an issue.

Many of their authors are picked up by big name publishers like Simon & Schuster or McCleland and Stewart.

It won't be competing with big name publishers like Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard.

This has piqued the curiosity of many big name publishers leading to the development of Battle Royale alternatives for them.

Facebook has announced that starting this Wednesday big name publishers will have their stories exist solely on the Facebook platform and not link to independent websites.

The Anne of Green Gables story of four rejections is the reason why so many of us do not bother with agents and so called big name publishers.

Over time, we've had a lot of friendly conversations about her theories and methods and exactly why she's choosing the indie route over the more traditional one of querying big name publishers.

So one day, an author asked me about a self publishing program that said they would connect her with such - and - such Big Name Publisher about her self published book if she used their services.

I strongly prefer ePub files, but I've had so many big name publishers send me the crappiest PDF files that have chaotic paragraph breaks, repeated content, and disjointed headers that ruin the reading experience.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

Gerry: As much as I disagree with this «online pass» policy, the appeal of gaining money off used game sales is tempting enough to get more big name publishers to adopt it.

Everyone knows video games have to make money somehow, but the question over how games make money became one of the central arguments in 2017, as various big name publishers brought one of the most popular ways to monetize mobile and free - to - play games — loot boxes — into the mainstream.

The company lost support from big name publishers due to Wii U but NX is getting a lot of love.

Books like Party Girl started out as self - published books before they were bought by big name publishers.

That means you won't be competing with Big Name publishers for SmashWords» attention.

The Xbox has a lot of support from big name publishers and developers including: Atari, Activision, Lucas Arts, UbiSoft, Vivendi Universal, Rockstar Games, Capcom, Konami, SNK, Sega, Sammy, SNK, Namco, Tecmo, Midway, THQ, and Electronic Arts among many, many others.

Many big name publishers had their settlement approved by the Justice Department case against price fixing.

As self - publishing matures, as the various distribution media for self - published works evolve, hopefully a way will emerge that helps assure a measure of quality without relying on the lumbering behemoths of big name publishers.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to finally see a big name publisher have some guts to publish an article about why everyone in the world may be wrong about their beliefs about saturated fat.

These days, big name publishers are playing it safe by banking on low risk sequels or reboots and this has allowed smaller, more independent developers to step up to the plate and offer up some truly original gaming such Chair's Shadow Complex and Runic Game's Torchlight.

In Tuesday's article about author Kate Wilhelm's decision to start her own publishing company, after 50 years of being published by all the big name publishers, intrigued me.

In at least one case, a new UP book was picked up by a leading publisher... but the big name publisher's version simply wasn't competitive with UP's top quality first edition.

Getting signed by a big name publisher is the publishing dream of many writers, but what most people don't realise is that it's the opinion of your readers that really matters.

MadeFire is making it a priority to bring on big name publishers to its ecosystem and has announced a big new deal with Seraphim, Archie Comics, Lion Forge and Arcana.

Think about those golden children of self - publishing who signed with the big name publishers and who have seemed to disappear into obscurity.

One final tip I'll leave with you today: study the bestsellers of your genre from the big name publishers.

But might those also be the same reasons why they would have hated it even had it been produced by a big name publisher.

I haven't given up trying to find an agent to represent my novel to a big name publisher (I have queries and partials out) but when I allow myself to read agent statistics, I tend to question whether I ought to face those facts with my head rather than my heart.

Because, of course, only the big name publishers know what readers want.

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One of our novels was traditionally published for a while, not with a big name publisher.

Three of the big name publishers, Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, and Bedford, Freeman, & Worth Publishing Group had even sued Boundless over issues of copyright infringement.

If you see a big name publisher it's easy to be fooled into thinking that they are «reputable».

The entire library system is finding that many big name publishers are steadfastly against the notion of customers getting digital content for free because they feel it devalues the books.

It's vain for any author to refuse to publish unless published by a big name publisher.