Sentences with phrase «bigger than publisher»

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Of the 14 publishers studied, Elite Daily has the largest proportion of millennial visitors: 21 million of the site's 28 million uniques (a number which makes it bigger than Vice, it should be noted).

News outlets consistently published more articles and, in turn, received a bigger share of page views for pieces about Trump than any other major topic we searched, according to Parse.ly Insights, a tool that measures how much attention articles receive across hundreds of major global publishers.

February's Black Panther is more than just the first MCU film to be headlined by a Black character (though that is a pretty big deal)- it's a chance to see a classic Marvel property with connections to the deepest parts of the publisher's lore brought to life in stunning detail.

This explains a lot of why EA (and many other publishers) have been caught flat footed by the Switch which has been an even bigger success than anyone could have predicted.

Getting a big following on social media is one of the easiest ways to impress agents and publishers, and it's a lot simpler than most authors realize.

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.

Most major publishers have not adjusted how they produce comics, although I have heard tales of lettering sizes getting a little bigger to have them more readable on the iPad, but haven't actually seen that other than digital - first comics.

Prices climbed and plummeted from week - to - week, self - published authors achieved more than one No. 1 best - selling title and a few from «big six» (and later, «five») publishers clung to the top slot for weeks at a time.

As for big authors staying with big publishers, I am confident they are not only laid well, but get a far better deal than any of us will ever see.

I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when big publishers give marketing help to more than a handful of authors.

Except the books from big publishers often look like crap in digital and utterly mundane in print — no better than a well made self - published book.

As indie authors continue to knock down the stigma of their products being «lesser than» without the stamp of approval from a Big Five publisher or smaller press, this next hurdle is readying to be toppled by self - publishers, thanks once again to Amazon.

It has to hurt — you work hard for the «prestige» of being accepted by a big publisher, and then all of a sudden, some guy who revised his work using meetup.com groups and hired an editor off the internet, then used a cheap program to format it, and a cover off fiverr.com... he's making more money than you are.

Participating publishers include more than 30 of the largest trade houses, including all the Big Five.

I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new releases sell more ebooks than print books.

This was a reducibly foolish argument: publishers are paying less for books, therefore the agent deserves a bigger piece of the smaller pie than the author of the book.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Royalties: Small publishers often pay a higher royalty rate than the big publishers, because they have lower costs.

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:

More than half of all the books sold aren't from the Big Five, or the 1195 other publishers of the AAP.

I have less and less patience with people who claim that Amazon has or is striving for some kind of evil monopoly that will subjugate authors and readers when all the evidence to date is that they will treat authors better than any publisher and provide readers with cheaper books, a bigger selection, and a better customer experience than any other retailer.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the past.

These big publishers are owned by giant companies with interests that are much greater than making money in publishing.

The Kindle market will soon call the shots if the big publishers won't start to embrace it rather than fight 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.

Big publishers» prices will always be higher than Indies» because of overhead issues.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

Kensington is not on agency nor are any other publishers other than the big 5 that I know of.

Although Amazon's library is larger than both Oyster's library (500,000 titles) and Scribd's (400,000 titles), none of the big five New York publishers are so far participating in the Kindle Unlimited program.

The top «big time» publishers now produce less than a quarter of eBook purchases on Amazon, while indies are close to 45 %.

As publishers and libraries seek to reinvent themselves for the digital age, the opportunities are so much bigger than ebooks, and it kills me to see the energy, passion, and resources that are being spent focusing on such a narrow piece of the big picture.

People are publishing books on their own because they choose to — because they see opportunities in the market and want a bigger share of the pie than publishers offer; because they want full control of their book; for some, because they just want a relic of their work to share with friends and family.

It was bigger than ever this year, with over 100 authors, publishers and other book trade folk mixing and mingling over a well - earned drink after a hard day's Book Fairing.

It's too bad that the recent meeting between the leaders of the American Library Association and top executives of Penguin Books as well as other Big 6 publishers did not «help» Penguin to reach a conclusion more favorable to libraries than this complete withdrawal.

It now includes two of the Big 5 publisher — Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — making Entitle the first e-book subscription service with more than one.

But perhaps the biggest advantage a publisher's stamp of approval provides is mainstream acceptance, says Turow, who has sold more than 30 million copies of his books and appeared on author panels at past book fairs in Miami.

Also, the publisher is getting a windfall by saving the 50 % it pays the retailer, so they should be giving a much bigger bump than 10 % to authors.

The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

This trend will continue as independent editors start offering affordable editing services through the internet and first line authors start doing the math and realizing that they can make more money by self - publishing their books for $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they ever did by going with one of the «big six» publishers.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

Should things go as legal experts and industry watchers have speculated, Apple could be responsible for more than $ 800 million in damages for its role in a price fixing scandal involving five of the then - Big Six publishers.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

According to the most recent report, self - published titles make up more than one - fourth of the books published on Kindle, yet indie authors make 40 % of the royalties, which is more than the Big Five publishers receive combined.

Oyster charges $ 9.95 a month for access to more than 100,000 books from big and small publishers, but it now offers users one free month with the hope of getting more people to try the app experience.

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.

What I truly love about being an indie author is sharing my stories with a freedom that doesn't make my books any less than those who go through big publishers.

However, the 2016 Global ebook report shows that for some of the big publishers in Germany, ebooks already make up more than 10 % and even up to 15 % of their total book sales (source).

This reflects both their enormous, crossover appeal and the fact Shanda Literature, China's most popular original fiction site, is part of the country's biggest online gaming company and therefore understands the nature and opportunities of the web better than most established publishers.

I believe — know — that attitudes toward self - and indie - publishers has become more accepted over the decades when any author who was published by anything other than university presses and New York's Big Five were derisively called «vanity publishers.»

I feel right now I've found a happy medium with higher royalties than the big six authors, but some of the benefits they have (although not all)-- I signed with a big independent publisher, however I wouldn't rule out either of the other two options in future.