Not exact matches
This practice of windowing has attracted strong criticism from librarians culminating in the national lobby group taking out a full page advert in Sweden's
biggest national newspaper slamming the practice, and criticising
publishers for mercantile behaviour and
failing to see libraries as strategic partners in reader and audience development for their books.
Undoubtedly,
publishers will have to give authors a
bigger cut of ebook revenue, and if they can prove their worth in terms of distribution and marketing (a test they are
failing right now), it will be a good deal and a relief to many authors.
The
Big Four
publishers failed to see the future of writing and ignored the voices of readers who wanted something different.
And once your name «
fails» one
big publisher's sell - through expectations, you can't hope for a contract with another under that name.
They didn't look at how these same
big box stores — and the
publishers themselves —
failed to embrace the e-book market from the beginning.
Some of the
big publishers very well may
fail, not only because they aren't adapting to the changes in the market quickly enough but because they didn't react to changes in the market even before the e-book revolution.
You could go it on your own, but for many, the economics and the risk of debt should the book
fail make the financial aspects of working with a
publisher preferable to gambling on the potentially
bigger rewards of self - publishing.
3) While indie
publishers of comics and graphic novels are thriving,
bigger publishers often
fail to enter the market successfully.
The
big publishers are trying to emulate self - published authors... traditional publishing is flailing — notice I didn't say «
failing.»
But the
bigger story here is that the games
publisher for Europe and America, SEGA,
failed to inform the games developers that their title had been delayed at all, let alone for such a long time.
I am, if it
fails im out of $ 400 but id prefer to waste $ 400 on getting something made that could be potentially amazing and might invigorate the
big publishers into taking some risks again than waste $ 400 on the 700th assasins creed, 10,000 th COD, 100th battlefield, if battlefront does well can guarantee thats going to slot in to a 2 year release window.
You got $ 5M in funding, tried to run your own daily deal program,
failed (or are
failing), and now re-purposed your
failed offering to
publishers as an answer to the
big boys.