Sentences with phrase «big publishers increasingly»

With big publishers increasingly avoiding risks and therefore pumping out more sequels, it's up to the smaller developers to continue moving the art form forward.

Not exact matches

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thPublishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thpublishers themselves (the nerve!).

The «Big 6» publishers are increasingly skittish about providing ebooks for public libraries to lend.

Since few smaller publishers have that sort of marketing leverage and since big publishers are increasingly only interested in prestige projects or likely bestsellers, that makes self - publishing the strongest option for a lot of authors.

The editor at Penguin Random House who asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of backlash from institutions in the literary world such as the Times and Amazon, termed this dilemma «the problem of continued consolidation,» referring to the increasingly common pattern of publishers relying on only a few big name books a year to achieve commercial success.

Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.

Over the past twelve months, we at The Pigeonhole, a digital reading and conversation platform, have progressed from running small - scale serialisations for independent publishers looking to make the most out of their marketing budget, to larger and increasingly global campaigns for some of the biggest publishing houses and authors in the industry.

But as publishers, retailers, libraries, and their ecosystem partners prepare for whatever is next, it becomes increasingly evident that — from the perspective of trade publishing at least — we have already lived through the biggest period of transition.

Amazon is now selling over one million ebooks a day to bring in nearly $ 6 million, with indie publishers becoming increasingly dominant as the market share for the Big 5 traditional publishers continues to fall.

Given how increasingly less than impressed with Valve most of the big publishers are, its not surprising that ActiBlizzard would eventually choose to forego using Steam for their own service.

As video games move increasingly towards a digital method, this will mean that any company selling digital software in Australia, whether that's the bigger storefronts like Xbox and Playstation, small outfits like Itch.io or even an independant publisher selling games via direct download on their website, will now have to play ball with Australian consumer rights laws.

Publishers becoming increasingly focused on «go big or go home bets» over smaller creative titles, says Tameem Antoniades

Publishers are increasingly willing to move their big franchises to the platform and even to invest fairly significantly in doing so, but that's a movement that's in no way limited to racing games.»

And while indie games have enjoyed a very good year, it's rare for an independent game to achieve the sort of financial success that would muster a flicker of interest among triple - A publishers, who increasingly are about going big or going home.