Sentences with phrase «big publishers put»

The big publishers put their books on all platforms, and many authors feel that publishing exclusively with only one is similar to a vanity publisher rather than a distributor.

Not exact matches

Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

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.

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.

Ubisoft keeps talking a big open - world game for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, but the publisher has finally put its money where its marketing is with this extended gameplay video.

This has resulted in all publishers except the biggest being forced to put two prices on their ebooks: a» digital consumer retail» price (intended to be a selling price, for Apple, and lower) as well as a «list» price (intended for the retailer to discount, for Amazon, and higher).

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 think one of the biggest problems, to put this in concrete terms, is authors hear this kind of disembodied advice, whether that's from their publisher or somebody else, to get on Twitter, start a blog, or start a Facebook page.

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

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.

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.

About a year ago, I took a deep breath, put on my big - boy pants and bought back the rights to my seven novels from my publisher.

Another Big 5 publisher flew me to London and put me up in a private apartment and wined and dined me all over town.

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:

We don't have the marketing connections and budgets of big publishers or even small presses, so it's a struggle to put our work in front of the readers who might enjoy it.

-- Across the entire US ebook market, ebooks without ISBNs now command a greater share of consumer ebook purchases, reading time, and author earnings than all of the AAP's 1,200 publishers put together, including the Big Five.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

And if I was the guy that got a $ 150 cover after giving up 70 % of my digital sales, I'd be a wee bit put out... So we keep hearing from big publishers that they're struggling.

With all the self - publishing and small - press publishing going on these days, it seems there's a plethora of books out there that aren't as well edited as what the big traditional publishers have put out in years past.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

With everything from offering up one of its bestselling titles for free to OverDrive for the Big Library Read, to the creation of the Put Me in the Story platform that they opened up to other publishers to use, Sourcebooks... [Read more...]

With everything from offering up one of its bestselling titles for free to OverDrive for the Big Library Read, to the creation of the Put Me in the Story platform that they opened up to other publishers to use, Sourcebooks constantly reshapes the very image of publishing.

Big publishers — like Tor for example, would no longer have 40 or 50 «captive» votes, (enough for a nomination, even if no other person voted for the work) putting them on an even footing with Jenny's - One - Woman - Publisher.

Baen Books is the only close to big publisher who I know is doing it right: all e-books are sold at a maximum price of $ 6.00, the author gets more dollars out of that price than he does out of the hard copy sales, and there's no DRM locking the text down and keeping the user from moving what he has purchased to whatever platform he wants to put it on.

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.

3) When a traditional publisher approaches you with an offer, if the offer is big enough (meaning near or above six figures) put a team together to help you.

At the same time, I think mergers (most recently Big 6 to 5) and other market forces are putting extreme pressures on publishers, and they simply are not the sole arbiter of quality.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

Traditional publishers - no matter if they are big or small - do not want to publish poetry books because simply put they will not generate a lot of money and that is what they are really after when they decide to publish a book.

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.

And I got tired of beating my head against the wall trying to get someone else to care or put any of that supposed «big publisher muscle» behind me.

The biggest - selling ebook format, before Kindle, put content on the Palm Pilot and the total ebook market was so far beneath a rounding error that any investment by a publisher in digitization was being made on faith, not on commercial evidence.

A Big NYC publisher putting out such junk as bait for over-eager writers is simply wrong.

With «The Lion's Gate,» the book that we were talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a sales force and all that.

If you wish to be traditionally published by a Big Six publisher (who put out the kinds of books you see in airports, libraries, and those thingies that sell books... right, book stores), you must have an agent.

Whether it's writing a big novel, contacting literary agents, or waiting for slow publishers to finally put your book out; it's all about patience.

When a popular book becomes a major motion picture publishers change the cover art, or at the very least put a big red sticker one it.

The Big 5 Publishers do not usually if ever put titles into Select since it gives Amazon complete control of their titles.

«Amazon is going to put Big 6 publishers out of bu...

The BlackBerry PlayBook and its QNX - based BlackBerry Tablet OS is going to deliver an awesome gaming experience, and we've already seen that EA (who I believe bought your publisher, but now you're so big you don't need a publisher so I don't get what your corporate dealio is anymore) is working with RIM to put Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris onto the PlayBook.

I had always believed that if a big traditional publisher put out a story, it was like the book was sent from some publishing god to the readers with some special secret stamp of approval.

It is interesting that Publisher's Weekly's headline is about Amazon promoting Zandri as being a «self - published author,» despite the information in the Amazon post that Zandri had a «big publishing» deal, then went on to sign with a much smaller publisher who put Zandri's original titles out viPublisher's Weekly's headline is about Amazon promoting Zandri as being a «self - published author,» despite the information in the Amazon post that Zandri had a «big publishing» deal, then went on to sign with a much smaller publisher who put Zandri's original titles out vipublisher who put Zandri's original titles out via Kindle.

As he explains, not only is this system superior to that of the days when the Big Six publishers could afford all of the best retail spots and indie authors were relegated to a corner shelf in the back of the store, the complicated process of selecting exactly which titles to put on users» screens is actually superior to that of other online retailers.

High - visibility examples of newly configured efforts are put into the spotlight, of course, by news - making events including agent Kristin Nelson's ability to parlay author Hugh Howey's self - published ebook success with the Silo Saga (Wool) trilogy into print - only contracts with Big Five publishers.

I love Baen books and it is so much easier dealing with them than the other publishers but a lot of what I read is put out by the Big 6 — I wish the publisher wouldn't treat libraries as if they were some kind of pariah..

By trivializing the act of downloading a material without properly compensating the author or publisher, you are, in effect, putting a big stop to the wheel of what we know as a creative process.

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

The amount of sheer dreck put out by the big publishers in the past 20 - 30 years is astounding.

But when the big publishers are forced to raise royalty rates and start treating authors like a valued part of the process instead of a necessary evil they have to put up with in order to do business, we all win.