Not exact matches
Amazon is a multinational
corporate conglomerate, as is Hachette, one of the «
Big Five»
publishers that absorbed countless smaller imprints
in publishing's brutal consolidation.
There is a
big difference
in the contracts between the
corporate major publishing houses and the smaller independent
publishers, but
in both cases there are critical terms and conditions that must be addressed, separate from the amount of the advance offered.
Big Sky Publishing is an Australian owned, independent
publisher specialising
in producing the highest quality non-fiction books and
corporate products.
At a stroke, it democratised publishing and allowed any writer, anywhere
in the world, to compete on equal terms with the
corporate media giants like the
Big Five: that's the Hachette Book Group (a subsidiary of Time Warner), HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp), Macmillan
Publishers (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Pearson and Bertelsmann), and Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS Corporation).
For those of us who work
in the legal marketing and media world, it's interesting to keep up with the
corporate comings and goings at the
big legal
publishers.
One of the
biggest events
in gaming, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, draws everyone from small developers to large
corporate studios and
publishers.