Sentences with phrase «big publishers do»

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Sometimes, I wonder if big publishers DO know, but just don't care.

We have a team in the same way big publishers do.

The session will look into ways to find out the data that Amazon and big publishers don't share, and hopefully will help digital authors further understand the market.

Big publishers don't need self - publishers; they have no incentive to lend their credibility to authors of books they don't actually represent.

But big publishers don't care at all about independent booksellers.

His data is culled from Smashwords only, and big publishers don't use it.

The big publishers don't care that you're selling your self - published ebook for $ 2.99, they want their «A» list author to be selling for $ 11 to $ 13.

Small presses often accept unsolicited manuscripts, which the big publishers don't, and are more likely to take chances on new authors.

Are ready to help you create, publish and release a commercial trade quality book (like the big publishers do) which is a requirement for standing out from the crowd, but without the high cost.

Compared to the major record labels (who are analogous to big publishers) who push junk to top 40 radio stations (analogous to bookstores), big publishers do a remarkable job at introducing high quality products to the market.

Several folks commenting on these various blogs have pointed out that Amazon doesn't care about the writers and readers any more than the big publishers do.

These days, even the biggest publishers do not have the staff or budgets to invest in marketing for any book but the potential blockbuster.

I believe that the big publishers did collude to elevate ebook prices.

She sells as many books in a day as I sold last year, and the big publishers didn't want her.

What can the big publisher do at this point that she hasn't already done on her own?

Mark says what big publishers did for authors 10 years ago, authors can do for themselves today.

Not exact matches

But what is so bizarre is that they differ so vastly, and they don't all apply to each publisher, yet the world's biggest names in publishing all saw a major blip that in some cases will have been rather concerning from an ad revenue perspective.

Religious publishers work hard at developing books for laypeople, and they sometimes have breakthrough successes, but they face the same marketing problems as the CHRISTIAN CENTURY - a limited budget makes it impossible to run ads in major «secular» magazines or to do a really big direct mail campaign.

Even if publishers do widely embrace EPUB 3's accessibility features, another big unknown is whether e-readers and other devices will support them.

Obviously I didn't have a big publisher behind me with big marketing dollars, so I had to get creative.

It also doesn't change the fact that it is a big publisher (ubisoft) game had loads of hype (not as much substance) it is on all console and pc and is even coming to Wii U.

Though Marvel promised that their new Legacy initiative would do away with the publisher's reliance on big, universe - wide events, that doesn't appear to be the case.

If a publisher doesn't offer any customization, or won't even have a phone call or let you meet an editor or designer, you're just one person in a big assembly line.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

For a traditionally published author, yes, the big, blockbuster debut might be necessary to meet the publisher's expectations (because they don't think long - tail sales but just look at debut month numbers).

The reason for this is that if Harlequin actually pulls off doing this imprint of theirs, it's highly likely that other big NY - based publishers will follow suit.

I just incorporated a company to do other business... can I publish using this umbrella name or should I create a new company under the bigger company to become a publisher or Press... thank you so much again

I didn't say all publishers are headed for extinction: I said the old paradigm of the Big 6 / Big Nasty store is crumbling.

The relative low costs of digital enable us to break into writing, build our platforms and do all the things we need to do to hone our craft and develop a following big enough to interest a mainstream publisher with a marketing budget and broad distribution.

I'm not totally connected with what all the big publishers are doing, but I buy all the stuff that artists like Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Javier Rodriguez, Declan Shalvey, Chris Samnee or David Aja are doing in the US mainstream books.

Hachette is pretty darned big, too, but like all the major publishers, it just loves playing the victim card when it doesn't get its way.»

I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when big publishers give marketing help to more than a handful of authors.

We do not limit access to our readers to Big Publishers and Big Companies and Big Publisher Published Authors.

I do not believe that any of the Big Five publishers has that as a goal.»

Quite frankly that's one of the best ideas I've heard, but unfortunately common sense like that doesn't apply to entities like big house publishers.

Traditional publishing, at least the big publishers (and their smaller group of older medium - sized publishers) have decided that the only way to come out ahead in this is to make sure the old way of doing things remains.

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Oakes emphasized that he doesn't make a distinction between print and digital and that he doesn't understand why the Big Six publishers do.

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.

The plan was a good one, sell the Fiona Griffiths series to the biggest publisher in the US, get great reviews, let the biggest publisher in the US do the rest.

When it comes to the big six publishers, most of them don't allow their ebooks to be borrowed from the public library or, if they do, charge exorbitant amounts.

Uh... Do you realize that the vast majority of people with steady contracts with Big 5 publishers work second jobs?

I don't think the old big publisher have the platform to make this happen.

I don't have the numbers but my impression is that the percentage of Big Five publisher ebooks listed on the Kindle ebook Top 100 has gone down as their prices went up.

Not only do the Big Six still produce some of the finest books in the world, but thousands of legitimate, well - edited small publishers exist, in all genres.

You simply don't have any big for - profit companies investing big bucks in lobbying the publishers and government for changes.

Not everyone does this, but enough authors do, so the big 5 are threatened because many self - published authors know how to put out a quality book, and they are not constrained by the marketing or accounting departments of a big publisher.

Most companies that started out between 2009 - 2014 have run into one of a number of walls related to scaling — they couldn't capture enough share to make publishers interested, couldn't get big enough to keep investors interested, tried out a business model that didn't work, couldn't raise cash after VCs moved on from ebooks to the next shiny thing, or their parent company didn't see a path to profitability and decided to wind down.

One of the big problems in the traditional publishing industry is that the major publishers simply don't have time to talk to their authors.