Sentences with phrase «big publishers out»

If anything does put one or more of the big publishers out of business, it will likely be this decision.

But don't count big publishers out of the game.

A while back it was popular at many of the bigger publishers out there to release apps that they called «enhanced ebooks».

Even if you've been living under the largest rock on Earth there's almost no chance that you haven't heard about the war on pre-owned games currently being waged by some of the biggest publishers out there.

The bigger publishers out there could start pricing their games higher (after all, a higher price ultimately makes sense if we want the industry to stop shrinking in the way it is), but they won't.

Not exact matches

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.

The social media publisher got very big, very fast by figuring out how to go viral.

Not to mention, when you first start out, you'll be relegated to posting on low - authority sources, scraping by with minimal yield until you build up enough of a reputation to start posting on bigger, more prominent publishers.

The net result: placement targeting and site exclusion are big wins for good publishers and smart advertisers, and help Google weed out malicious publishers.

But science budget expert Matt Hourihan of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) made some informed estimates of how the cuts would play out (assuming Congress approves all of the cuts, which is a big «if»).

When a major publisher expressed interest in re-releasing Deep Nutrition, that was very exciting because it gave me an opportunity to put all the science around nutrition that's come out since the original was published into the context of that larger story, to grow the story into an even bigger and better narrative.

A big thanks goes out to publishers BenBella Books for providing me with a review copy, one for giveaway, and one of the delicious recipes from the book to share with you here.

Her publishers, audience, husband, and her ex-best friend (who plays Monica on the big screen) want her to keep cranking out Monica books.

We haven't formally put out a big push to find more publishers or market ourselves as a social networking advertising platform, but our volume is substantial.

The publisher of Holland's biggest daily newspaper «De Telegraaf», recently took out a 70 % stake in Relatieplanet.nl.

EA seems to share that opinion, but also pointed out that they have always competed against big releases, and instead of bothering them, the publisher considers this competition exciting.

With multiple big - name publishers coming out of the woodwork to shift support of many console exclusives to the PC in the last year or so, the golden age of PC gaming is yet upon us.

Despite former EA COO Peter Moore saying the publisher wasn't interested in remakes because «it feels like pushing stuff out because you've run out of ideas,» here we are — Burnout Paradise Remastered is the company's first big name game to see a re-release on current - gen consoles.

It's so big that (possibly apocryphal) stories have popped up about the government forcing publisher Square Enix to only release new games in the series on Saturdays, to avoid obsessed gamers skipping out on school and work to stand in line at a store.

It could be argued that most, if not all, of the big - name publishers played it safe at E3 by sticking to their franchises and annual outings.

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.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

I frigging love the idea of 25 % ebook royalties that work out to be more like an effective 12.5 %, and I literally dance in the streets at the thought that all big publisher ebooks should cost $ 12 - $ 20.

The Big 5 traditional publishers continue to claim that e-book sales are leveling out, proving that the fad is fading.

The problem is indeed that traditional authors expect to have their book published, get a big advance, and if it doesnâ $ ™ t earn out hard luck for the publisher - they have to take risks.

Most of the independent publishers are ready to embrace and use digital comics, while the bigger publishers, while getting involved, are still figuring it out.

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.

I've picked up several books put out by BIG 6 publishers, and you know what?

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

By putting this stuff out there, you insult all writers, all publishers — big and small, agents, and all others who strive to make the publishing industry an inviting business to work.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

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!).

Fall is when the publishers roll out the big names, hoping that the new Ian McEwan, Tom Wolfe or Zadie Smith will be embraced by gift - givers during the holiday season.

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.

The biggest issue facing publishers is how to make the price of an e-book dynamic, so when the paperback comes out, the price of the e-book price comes down.

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 her big accomplishments was getting several of the top six publishers to loan out their ebooks to libraries all over the USA.

There has been a gradual shift among big name ebook publishers to branch out into developing audiobooks, an industry segment that is worth billions already and is expected to climb further.

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.

Footnote 2: Here's a piece from Mike Shatzkin that points out publishers are now operating in an environment over which they have little control, and that Apple's iBookStore will be the big beneficiary of Apple's change.

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

E.g. «Beatrix Potter started out by self publishing her first book, which was later picked up by a big - name publisher.

And the agents, editors and PR reps hired by these big publishers are only looking out for themselves.

The difference is that libraries, like big publishers, aren't consciously locking anyone out; they simply don't have the resources to consider a million book prospects each year.

In other words, another trick indies were using to out - perform the traditionally published novels (from what I've read and seen in the Kindle Store, few Big 6 publishers were willing to sign the exclusivity clause Amazon required for participation in Select).

Hugh Howey thinks it's the publishers who have gotten too big — and too out of touch — not Amazon.

And there's the overtake by Big Publishing of smaller and independent houses, of course: Krüger has no love of a house that can put out more books than its publisher can read:

(Although I'm guessing that if they got a contract with a big traditional publisher whose editor told them to cut out all - ing words at beginnings of sentences or lose the contract, they'd probably accede.)

Owen also pointed out that HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher that has signed on with Scribd, «just as HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher making its books available to Oyster or to another recently launched ebook subscription service, eReatah.»

If this is true and Hachette holds out... and then the same thing happens with another big 5 publisher... suddenly you don't have 25 % of all the available trade books available on Amazon.