Sentences with phrase «big publishers never»

Also, people ask why the big publishers never tried to go directly to the consumers.

It's an intriguing idea but it's never really hit the big - time, partly because big publishers never bought into it.

Not exact matches

At the other end, but never so close, there are the mechanics typical of a classic gameplay, so familiar yet forgotten reminiscence of a past that the big publishers and investors are determined not to recover.

Most authors, even big names, never check money owed them with the overseas publisher as to how much they are supposed to be getting.

In over thirty years of watching the publishing industry, I've never come across a big publisher whose self - publishing companies weren't author predators with over-priced costs, poor service, and egregious contracts.

Soooo, Michael, if a person writes something, no matter how important the content, never gets it published by Big Boy Publisher, then that writer, or if it's a team of writers, can not claim to be authors?

A lot of authors forget this — big publishers would never stoop to begging for reviews in the book itself, but it can be a powerful trick for indies.

It never works to go against what consumers want and the big publishers haven't gotten that yet.

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

And if an author were a big enough author and a publisher wanted them badly enough and they felt it was an issue, it would be negotiation point... but I have to tell you in the 23 years I've been at Kensington I've never heard of an agent even bringing this point up once.

Maybe you could blog about the changes to our eco-system since the high point in 2011 when self - published authors could suddenly find deals with big publishers like Amanda Hocking... If only I'd read this article in the UK Guardian in 2012, I might never have self - published at all, here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/24/self-published-author-earnings

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

In the past few years, I've read a few books put out by big five publishers that obviously never even crossed the desk of a copy editor.

The majority of authors will never receive that big book deal with a major publisher and gone are the days of the six - figure book advances for a debut author, but still, if your ultimate goal is to share a story with the world, if you put the time and effort into the craft of storytelling, you will find your audience.

Stephen: You've never had a book traditionally published through a non-Amazon publishing imprint; you probably understand what the reporting is like for the big publishers, it comes sporadically.

(Before agency pricing, Amazon could sell e-books from Big Six publishers at deep discounts, taking losses at a rate that Barnes & Noble could never afford to match.

After this process they had to laugh at big companies and publishers such as Wired where the coders and designers have never even spoke before.

It's the few big names that pay for the others getting published, and yet, publishers act as if they never got it wrong.

«It does mean that it won't be open this Christmas, which might marginally affect Bloomsbury and the other publishers of Harry Potter worldwide, as maybe people will be talking about the brand slightly less and therefore buying fewer physical editions — but honestly, Potter is such a big brand, it is never far from readers» minds.

I certainly never foresaw that he would sell the data to the big publishers and other billion - dollar businesses who will use the information to hurt their smaller (indie) competitors.

They were hoping to grow so big that publishers would have to renegotiate this deal, but it never happened.

When I replied that I've worked with four editors at six publishers — both Big Six houses and smaller independents — over the course of eight novels, and have never had my work mutilated or adulterated, much less transformed into a cookie, she told me that I was «very lucky,» for she knew of many traditionally published writers who'd had the opposite experience.

You're right that Hachette never invested in the infrastructure, and nor have any of the other big - 5 publishers (Tor, part of Macmillan, being an exception).

My publisher has done things for me that the Big 6 would never do for me.»

There has never been a greater time to be a writer, because of all the choices that writers have, from self - publishing to small publishers to Big Six Ppublishers to Big Six PublishersPublishers.

However, given the recent price - fixing flap between the big publishers and Amazon, it would appear that they were never taught any of this.

In particular, Heiss referenced one email exchange in which McIntosh referred to Porco's belief that the Big 6 would never sign agency contracts unless they were offered 90 - 10 terms (in which the retailer would take only a 10 percent share; ultimately, the agency contracts that the publishers signed with Apple and Amazon offered a 70 - 30 split).

First, do you see the goal of Hachette and other big publishers to keep the price of e-books high; I've never seen the logic in pricing e-books higher than regular paperbacks, which they are largely replacing.

Google is too big and clever to pretend they never thought about this, and they deliberately attempted to mislead publishers.

When you sign the petition, you support not only indie writers (many of whom are now, as never before, making a living writing books that lots of people enjoy), but you also support FREEDOM of CHOICE, which is what, it seems to me, that Hachette and other publishers and conglomerates and other big money grabbing corporations, are trying to take away from us.

While some might not think it a big deal to promote a coloring book, it was a huge thing to me that the word never got out from the publisher.

My friends said I'd never make it — and statistics say they were right — but I do find it intriguing that the author I've been following that got the big six - figure deal from a publisher is now publishing solely through Amazon and Createspace.

And that, I think, is something the big publishers, for the most part, will never accept until it is too late.

I purposely never wrote to any agents or tried for one of the «big six» as it took me 8 years, $ 8,000 of editing / marketing / other expenses and FAR too much effort to get my 5 - star rated novel out there to wait around for some snobby agent or publisher to decide not to carry my hard earned title.

In all my dreams about getting published by a «real publisher» (before I realized how much smarter it is to go indie), I never even dared to dream as big as I've done for myself in 2013... and I also realized that what I've achieved this year is small - time compared to what's possible now with a career as an author.

But the publisher also included a couple of stellar titles that have never been in the Namco Museum collection — the gory favorite Splatterhouse (which was a big hit on the Turbo - Grafx 16) and the hardly - seen sequel Rolling Thunder 2, which found its claim to fame with a Sega Genesis release.

Meanwhile publishers sink huge quantities of money into creating ridiculous levels of artificial hype in order to sell the next big thing, creating a level of expectation which can never be truly met.

It's there that the biggest publishers and developers of the video game industry will reveal new projects, never before seen footage of their upcoming games, and more.

never have you seen since Sega DC that huge publisher blatantly announcing their lack of interest in a game console and Wii U is not attracting as much interest from big publishers!

It's there that the biggest publishers and developers of the video game industry will reveal new projects, never...

All those stories of how the big publishers always were at his back and he could never make what he truly wanted.

Primal's developer / publisher, Ubisoft, has never been known as a company that takes big risks.

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The indies we spoke to generally pointed out that big publishers can never truly attain the elusive «indie spirit.»