Sentences with phrase «big publishing seems»

But what worries me is big publishing seems to be relaxing their quality standards (or they never had them, as in the case of ebook production).

Not exact matches

While most big guys in the industry have published their results over the past few days, there seems to be a big sell - off.

Our little design company was stepping into shoes that seemed several sizes too big, since businesses operating in the magazine - sector tend to be big publishing houses responsible for dozens of magazines.

On the Monday following a big football game, fans of the losing team seem to load up on saturated fats and sugars, whereas supporters of the winning team opt for healthier foods, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Since the 1960s, he has published a series of articles that seem to challenge the Big Bang, culminating in his 1993 update of the steady state theory with Hoyle and Jayant Narlikar.

When it comes to women reaching the big O, sexual orientation seems to play a role, according to a study published in a recent issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

A lot of self - published authors and bloggers don't seem to even be aware of anything but the «Big Five» and Amazon.

Kozlowski seems to forget that most writers were independent authors before the «invention» of Big Publishing.

It seems to me the concept of «self - publishing» has actually undergone a big shift in the last 2 - 3 years.

It's a big list, a little tedious and seems like a lot, but go look at some traditionally published books that are like yours — new ones, not pre-internet titles — and follow their example.

This is something self - published authors and the Big 5 publishers seem to agree on.

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.

After giving the letters a couple reads, Authors United and ABAs» pleas to the DOJ seem to speak mainly on behalf of Big Five traditional publishing, while overlooking the opportunities small presses, indie publishing, and self - publishing been afforded by the online vendor.

This all seems fine and well until you remember that all of the big publishing companies have merged with each other and squeezed everyone else out.

Also, I don't hear people talking about what seems to me to be the greatest loss with the dysfunction of the big publishing houses: the demise of the editor.

Think about those golden children of self - publishing who signed with the big name publishers and who have seemed to disappear into obscurity.

As someone looking for a way to get involved with Amazon Publishing, the benefits seemed obvious to me: Amazon is the world's biggest bookseller and thus has a ready - made ocean of buyers out there, actively searching for quality books in all genres.

As if to add insult to injury, Amazon seems poised to eat whatever's left of Big Publishing's lunch after everyone else has had a go at the trough.

I'm projecting 6 - 8 months just to break even, but audiobooks seem to be at the cusp of being the next big thing in self publishing.

Author communities, groups, forums, alliances and collectives are developing and proliferating at enormous speed as writers seem to be both excited by the new publishing world and worried it's gotten too big and competitive to navigate on their own.

While my stand alone cover design prices may seem high, my formatting + cover publishing packages are going to be very average, compared to the mainstream big services like Createspace, Lulu, or Author House, or small presses.

Seemed like a big time dud but deciding to self - publish my first eBook led the way to me writing and self - publishing 126 eBooks under the Blogging From Paradise name.

If that seems like a whole lot of negative — well, welcome to the brutal world of self - publishing, where little gripes become big gripes precisely because traditionally - published novels have taught us to take their absence for granted.

The biggest visual cue I've seen in between self - published and big - publilsher works is when the text seems «too close» to the edge.

An occasional royalty check is nice, but big buck sales often seem impossible to obtain for most self - published writers.

The one big downside of self - publishing, it seems to me, is how prolific you have to be to keep up your earning potential as a writer.

You, Dean Wesley Smith, and Joe Konrath are my big three sources of indie publishing wisdom, and now that Joe seems to have lightened his blogging load, it's really just down to you and DWS.

It seems the government may be softening its stance on publishing which could open the door for self - published authors, but the biggest barrier appears to be payment methods and currency.

I screened out a few big companies or unrelated items, and jotted down everything that seemed potentially related to writing and publishing.

It seems that self - publishing is more likely to pay off when an author has a big backlist.

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of playing the publishing game.

Patty Jansen presents Before you even start self - publishing posted at Must Use Bigger Elephants, saying, «I recently attended an event for extreme newbies in self - publishing, and came away with a couple of thoughts that are fundamental to anyone considering self - publishing, but don't seem to be understood by some people who are just dipping their toes in.»

Stories of John Lockes and Amanda Hockings will be comfortable fairy tales, when back in the good old days you could hit big in self - publishing with seeming ease.

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It seems like yet another double standard favoring Big Publishing (no surprise there) but hurts indie authors, who rarely have the kind of financial muscle to afford to PURCHASE a review from those sites.

While the Amazon publishing foray seems like the big news of this post, I'll be very interested to see your new book when it comes out, Tim.

It seems like all of the biggest publishing conferences happen in the first part of the year, and I am planning to attend as many of them as I can.

Amazon certainly seems to be trying to corner the publishing market by creating their own publishing firms and then offering higher advances than the Big 6/5 can, drawing authors away from the big publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then whBig 6/5 can, drawing authors away from the big publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then whbig publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then what?

It's not, as Andrew Wheeler seems to allege, me suddenly discovering Bookscan, what with my coming out of the direct market and all, and just not getting how the big publishing picture works.

Even though I know for a fact that my material is good (as it's based on high - end material that I have charged lots of money for via coaching) I'm not really into making a big song & dance about it and it seems that most successful self published authors are doing exactly that with «launches» etc..

In traditional publishing, outside of the big name outliers at the top of the table, it seems that everyone but the writer makes a living.

Then it seemed mostly to go into some nostalgia about how things used to be before publishing was consumed by big corporate culture.

Citing that the five big publishing companies seem to want bestselling novels only, and now have little interest in even well known midlist authors.

But, we also seem to have little interest in authors» adoption of the ISBN so their work can be tracked and counted in the picture we don't have of how big the market is or how much self - published work is out there.

Big data is the latest buzz word in publishing, so it seems like an interesting issue to explore.

What's interesting is that this news — this seeming support of self - publishing from Bowker — comes on the heels of big (yet oddly quiet) news from the distribution sector of the publishing world.

I have had over 50 books published in non-fiction (textbooks) with a big US publisher so I'm pretty familiar with trad publishers and I have to say Amazon Publishing seems to get it as you say.

Now, 3000 authors may seem like a decent amount, but no one except Amazon knows how big the shadow industry of self - publishing is.

It's Not Over «Til The Big Dog Barks Indie publishing is still growing and it seems that established publishing is at a standstill.

Then there's the fact that big, conglomerate mainstream publishers are businesses first and foremost, and they are only interested in publishing the books that seem poised to appeal to the widest possible audience.