Sentences with phrase «big print houses»

Many of the African American crime writers of the nineties have been dropped by the big print houses and have had to turn either to self - publishing or to other genres.

Not exact matches

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

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But the White House has bet big on the idea that 3D printing can revolutionize U.S. manufacturing from within the heart of the Midwest's «Rust Belt» once known for its shuttered steel mills.

I may have grumbled at our first design compromise for the new house, but it really is a gorgeous, sophisticated piece that will serve as the focal point of the room — especially since we're going big with the 44 - inch square print!

If it's up to the big fashion houses we are walking in long, wide dresses with ruffles and covered in flower prints made from semi-transparent fabrics.

I think it's a fun print for a v - neck tee for casual errand running or hanging around the house, but I was never big on wearing it much more than that.

This handbag is featuring aesthetic painting of the house; the heritage cart print in multicolored pastel palettes combination makes it among a big must element to complete ladies» everyday look of the spring / summer 2015 season.

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

Many readers rely on big publishing houses to filter out low quality books — even though trade publishers regularly print celebrity crap with impunity.

«Imagine my dismay this week to discover that one of the Big Five houses has a policy that bars its authors from endorsing print - on - demand books.

Whether it is one of the big six houses or one of the dozens of often cash - strapped small press, the thing is that you wrote the book and apart from having it «professionally edited and hopefully not changed too much by the editor, then printed, it's all down to you to make your book stand out among the millions of books currently available.

Dreams of a big publishing house marketing you all over radio, TV, print, the Internet, and billboards across North America are largely unrealistic.

Readers deserve and expect quality printed books that are indistinguishable from those published by Random House, HarperCollins, and the other big publishers.

A snapshot from 1997: Press releases were distributed via mail or broadcast fax, media databases consisted of gigantic printed directories, self - publishing was a curious endeavor just starting to raise eyebrows, social networking consisted of actually talking with people at a coffee shop or cocktail reception, and the «big houses» of publishing were still kings and the ultimate literary gatekeepers.

I've got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced - ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand bookstores; and I belong to two big local library system with excellent print and ebook selections / services.

Digital platforms continue to erode and undermine the economic model for print, and large publishing houses are now often part of even larger entities that sell lots of other stuff at much bigger margins, causing publishers to wager big money on what they believe to be the most commercial books, often at the expense of «smaller» more important ones.

Something worth considering is that with any big name author currently out there the work has already been done for them on the branding and marketing front by the publishing houses so it's easy to move the books, print or E, on that basis already.

And I also weighed all the wonderful pluses that came with being traditionally published by a Big 5 house — including having a «team» behind me every step of the way, having the «clout» and prestige of having finally «made it,» being able to reach a wider audience through print distribution.

Could that book ever be picked up by a big house and published for general sale by them, or once in print would it stay that way?

Targeting publishers, these days, print or digital, doesn't mean just catering to the needs of big and small houses, tailoring plans for them.

Penguin's parent company, Pearson Pic, has already committed to big plans for their digital imprint, practically likening it to its print counterpart within the house in terms of focus and money.

We listened to his - «n» - her tales of how the big house was brought, finally, to offer a print - only deal.

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

Certainly authors feel perplexed about this problem, and even the concept of partial rights — as in a major seller granting only print rights to a big house while retaining e-rights (Andre, Howey, etc.)-- even that is in question as the industry takes a breath and asks itself how quickly precedent might become standard procedure.

TP authors write to a print format, while SP authors are trying hard to service Kindle as efficiently as possible (Many editors at Big 5 publishing houses don't even know how to format a Kindle file).

Another reason I chose to self publish my work, except that shockingly, I didn't have big name publishing houses and companies beating my door down for my signature to print my stories, was that I have total control over my work, from which pages get included, the cover design, the ISBN identification, previews that get shared on Amazon etc, the price of the finished product, the description and even keywords that are used to find it in online web searches.

Unless you are a BIG NAME or a BIG BOOK (and at a BIG HOUSE with a BIG BUDGET), 99 % of the time, the vast majority of marketing falls to the author, no matter who pays for printing.

How fast things will change in the big houses is an open question (and the answer is different for every house), but it is undeniable that the decision - making structures that worked for print books readily accepted time lags that are a real handicap in the evolving ebook world.

In early autumn 2011, of the then — Big Six publishers, only Random House and Penguin were making all their ebooks available under the same terms (perpetual ownership and reasonable price) as their print publications.

In the black after the first 6 weeks, despite a big print run, I've been paying the mortgage, ranch expenses, house remodeling, buying cars, etc, while running a small publishing house with warehouse — hiring good professional editors, artists, interior designers and marketeers.

He just signed a big one for his new novel with the biggest of all publishers, Random House, its UK division, for publication of his novel Sand in both print and ebook editions.

First, five of the Big Six publishers do not make eBooks available for lending by libraries without restrictions, and the only one that does, Random House, charges libraries three times more for eBooks than it does for print books.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» said Markus Dohle, the chief executive of Penguin Random House, which has nearly 250 imprints globally.

The physical constraints of shooting indoors in such places as the House of Liberation prevented Izu from using his big Deardorff; consequently he shot Eternal Lightwith a medium - format camera and printed on gelatin silver instead of his trademark platinum.

These provide suggestions of configurations, and an image, perhaps life - size or a little bigger, of what looks like a cross between a cat's indoor playground, with material pillars perfect for scratching, and a complex bird's house with huts perfect for resting, printed on PVC and draped over an easel.

«American Art on Paper from the 1960s to Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (formerly the Washington University Gallery of Art), Washington University, St Louis, MO, January 23 — April 18, 2004 «neoqueer: new visual art by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists,» Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA, February 7 — March 20, 2004 «Super-Sized: The Big Print Show,» Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 12 — June 12, 2004 «Remembering,» Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA, October 1 — December 11, 2004 «Experiments with Truth,» guest curator Mark Nash, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, December 3 — March 12, 2005 «Love / Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,» curated by Francesco Bonami, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy, 2004 «Great White,» curated by Joanna Montoya, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY, 2004 «Open House,» Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2004 «Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated),» curated by Nancy Spector, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2004 «Robert Colescott & Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection,» curated by Shannen Hill, Victoria H Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO, 2004

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It operated its own print shop operation with presses and collating machines that were so big that they had to be housed in a separate building until new facilities were built.

Now, imagine the largest 3D printer you can, outdoors, on wheels, two stories tall or bigger - big enough to print - whole a strip mall, a motel or a house.

Despite his high profile and the fact that he is among a select group of agents in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) certified as an international luxury home marketing specialist, and is also one of the bigger print advertisers in the GTA, he stresses that Team McDadi's motto remains, «No house too big or too small.»

Wallpaper is making a comeback in a big way and there are many great prints and contemporary styles available that don't look like your grandmother's house!

someday i might own a little house of my own... and when i do... big print wallpaper in a tiny bathroom or office nook!