Sentences with phrase «biggest factor authors»

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«These seniors were supposed to stay out of the hospital since the procedures were performed in the ambulatory setting, but they were admitted to the hospital within 30 days,» said corresponding study author Dr. Gildasio De Oliveira Jr. «Age was the biggest factor associated with readmission and complications.

«This was a big event, and it confirms that the long - term speed - up that we're observing for this glacier is probably driven by other factors, most likely in the ocean,» said corresponding author Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

[Shahzeen Attari et al., http://bit.ly/bEtA6W] The study authors think that a big factor is that curtailment is easier to imagine doing — while efforts to improve efficiency would involve, for example, doing research about new appliances or cars, and spending money up front to buy them.

The «author» being backed by a big pub house should not be a factor.

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

Realizing there are thousands of factors you have to figure into author success, producing a bigger, better catalog is the one thing you have within your control.

In my experience, there's a bigger factor that determines an author's long - term success, that's learning how to sell books on Amazon.

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

He goes for author's he's comfortable reading (Best sellers mostly) and the price isn't a big factor for him.

Several of my favorite authors are firmly ensconced in the mid-list — they're every bit as good as the top - sellers, except that, due to a number of factors, they just didn't develop as big an audience.

«One author» is the biggest factor.

Of the most common ways for books to sell, personal interactions with the target audience is the one big factor that is most accessible to self - published authors.

(The other big factors include shopping the bestseller list, shopping by the name of an established author, browsing through the gigantic haystack of books on Amazon, professional book reviews, and bookstore recommendations.)

A factor in this leveling - off may be lower Big Five ebook prices (the average price of a Big Five ebook dropped from $ 10.31 in January 2016 to $ 8.67 in May 2016)... But on the other hand, the Big Five's loss of market - share in gross consumer dollar terms — and, more importantly, the ongoing decline in Big Five authors» ebook earnings — have both continued relatively unabated.»

Clearly readers would rather pay less, and authors would rather receive more, and the share of total cover price was one of the biggest factors in Barry's decision to self - publish electronically.

Even a year or two ago, such a thing would have been unthinkable: back in early 2014, Big Five authors were outearning Small / Medium Publisher authors by a factor of more than 2.5 x, and only a year ago — in September 2015 — total Big Five author earnings in the Kindle store were still 2x those of all Small / Medium publisher authors.

(You also have to factor whether a discounted frontlist ebook is going to further cannibalize any hardcover sales, which still yield bigger credits to the author.)

Authors told us that while they've become more attuned to factors that help their business — and many say one of the biggest lessons they've learned is that writing IS a business and needs to be treated as such — 43 percent still consider their indie career a work in progress while 36 percent see it as a career.

A.G., the fact that you admit that luck is a big factor puts you in a better light than most of those other authors.

's blog here, AND seeing how the published figs 1 & 2 differ with the figure posted by Gavin here... It's a pretty big stretch for the authors to conclude that «the opinion that the differences made by using the correct amplification factors are minor.»

«This was a surprise, that the AMO seems to be a bigger influence in rapid intensification than other factors, including overall warming,» said Balaguru, the first author of the paper.

The authors then classified those researchers as convinced or unconvinced by the evidence for human - induced climate change, based on such factors as whether they have signed public statements endorsing or dissenting from the big United Nations reports raising alarm about the issue.

One of the big factors driving the viability of self - publication is this month's changed revenue split with Authors by Amazon — rising from 35 % to 70 % for e-books priced from $ 2.99 to $ 9.99.

The authors of the study suggest that perhaps the biggest factor affecting the outcomes seemed to be the fact that couples were instructed to have more sex rather than initiating it on their own.