Sentences with phrase «big traditional publishing companies»

Last year's contest changed their minds — now they agree that some self - published novels can be just as good as the ones from big traditional publishing companies.

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.

One of the big reasons why Christian fiction right now is on the decline is authors are no longer getting good incentives from traditional publishing companies.

I am still a fan of traditional publishing because I think overall we have better books when we have the expertise of the bigger companies behind us.

As a self - published author you have the opportunity to have your input with your book cover template and work with a professional to deliver a quality book cover, equal to any cover created by a big traditional company.

Your finished book will look just like a book published by a traditional big five publishing company.

Amazon's substantial (some would say near - monopolistic — the company commands at least 65 % of the ebook market) market share has blocked its access to big name authors and crucial markets and prevented it from running a more traditional publishing house, but that same size has allowed it to create a publishing ecosystem in its own image.

Many publishers and companies were in attendance and the big discussion going on was the fact that eBooks are gaining in leaps and bounds, while traditional print publishing is beginning to suffer.

But in the 1950's and 1960's the big companies tended to buy up any smaller press or just copy what they were doing to drive the small presses out of business, thus turning traditional publishing into the only game.

But they are (at the same time) often owned (meaning majority shares) by a larger publishing company above them, and so on up and up and up until worldwide there are basically six big conglomerates that have fingers in most large traditional publishing companies.

After I wrote a book for a big (traditional) computer book publishing company, I saw it everywhere.

We've been approached by an indie publishing company, under a big name publishing company, and I am definitely torn by the pros and cons of self - publishing vs traditional publishing.

What would you say the biggest difference is between self - publishing versus working with a traditional publishing company?

With a history of experience from traditional publishing companies and houses, this has helped us create packages that rival these publishing companies due to the difficulty and barriers to entry getting a big publishing deal, we've brought together key points that have worked for traditional publishing and and moulded them to our self - publishing packages.