Sentences with phrase «book big book publishers»

Not exact matches

Knowing that e-books would be a big selling feature of the tablet, Apple arranged an «agency model» with several book publishers that would allow them to set their own prices.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.

Religious publishers work hard at developing books for laypeople, and they sometimes have breakthrough successes, but they face the same marketing problems as the CHRISTIAN CENTURY - a limited budget makes it impossible to run ads in major «secular» magazines or to do a really big direct mail campaign.

Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.

Karen developed all the recipes for «ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine» by John LaPuma, M.D. (Crown Publishers 2008) as well as The RealAgeDiet and Cooking the RealAge Way by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and John LaPuma, M.D..

A big thanks goes out to publishers BenBella Books for providing me with a review copy, one for giveaway, and one of the delicious recipes from the book to share with you here.

Her publishers, audience, husband, and her ex-best friend (who plays Monica on the big screen) want her to keep cranking out Monica books.

Finkel pitches the book to his publisher and it's a go — he gets a big advance.

Mary Steenburgen has a couple of scenes as a big NYC book publisher.

Liz Tuccillo Film release date: Feb. 12 Starring: Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Leslie Mann What it's about: From the co-author of the mega-popular book - turned - movie «He's Just Not That Into You» comes the story of a single 30 - something book publisher who lives in the Big Apple.

Disney's Big Hero 6 computer - animated movie marks the first time a Marvel comic has been adapted by Disney Animation Studios since Disney bought the famous comic book publisher in 2009 for $ 4 billion.

The science classes from Calvary were rejected by the UC with a simple form letter, one apparently sent to all schools that proposed to use Christian high - school science textbooks published by the two biggest Christian publishers, A Beka Book and Bob Jones University.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

If you're ready to take the risk that your book won't be a big performer in the publisher's catalog, you won't find a more interesting or exciting business.

Instead, they may say they only plan to pitch your book to small publishers — or a combination of big and small publishers.

And even if you're successful in finding a traditional publisher for your book, there is no guarantee you'll be offered big money (or any money) as an advance (up front payment) on your book's sales.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

If the book becomes a big seller in ebookland, I suppose it's possible an agent or even a big publisher might come calling.

Of course, it's important to note that most published books are not error - free, whether they are from big name traditional publishers or small indie micro-publishers.

Whether an author gets a book deal from a Big 5 Publisher or a regional press down the block, they oftentimes have no idea what to expect once a contract is in place.

Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.

If you are looking to publish your book with one of the big publishers because of their promotion abilities, read this article before you make your decision.

He keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to our business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

The problem is indeed that traditional authors expect to have their book published, get a big advance, and if it doesnâ $ ™ t earn out hard luck for the publisher - they have to take risks.

My post was about the high prices libraries pay for ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most of those publishers.

If Book Expo wants to become a trade show where authors big and small can get a chance for their books again, then it has to help publishers make these major shifts.

More and more very lean book publishers — without big organizations — are emerging from other media as a result of the fact that books can be published without big print runs or big sales forces in the digital era.

I've had friends published by «big» publishers and their book was back off the shelves before they could get their momentum going.

My books are published by a big 6 publisher.

These days, even the biggest publishers do not have the staff or budgets to invest in marketing for any book but the potential blockbuster.

I'm not totally connected with what all the big publishers are doing, but I buy all the stuff that artists like Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Javier Rodriguez, Declan Shalvey, Chris Samnee or David Aja are doing in the US mainstream books.

At play in another world, nobody needs cocktail parties, big publishers and expensive book launches for validation.

This little trick is used to catch a book buyer's eye because publishers know that big names sell books.

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.

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.

# 6 Go Straight to the Publisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a boPublisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a bopublisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a book agent.

One of the biggest advantages of having your book published by a leading traditional publisher is the sales and distribution infrastructure that will get your book into hundreds if not thousands of stores upon release.

Halff developed Weltbild from a small Catholic publisher and mail - order bookstore into the second biggest force in online book sales in Germany (presumably after Amazon), making him a major voice in industry discussion.

The book jacket would list the name of a previously - independent small publisher that had been gobbled by a bigger one.

Like the revolution which happened in the book industry, from book stores to ebooks, from big and medium press publishers to indie publishing, the film industry is undergoing a similar revolution.

Big vs. Small Publishers: Some literary agents will (hopefully) believe your book has a good chance of being published with a major publisher.

I've picked up several books put out by BIG 6 publishers, and you know what?

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

The iBooks Store offers customers a wide selection of both paid and free Chinese language books from top local publishers, including «Big Head Son & Little Head Dad» by Zheng Chunhua, «The Family Belongings of Chinese People» by Ma Hongjie, and for the first time in China, Stephenie Meyer's «Twilight» series will be available in a digital format.

«Libraries are standing there with fistfuls of cash in their hands and saying to the big publishers, «We want to buy your ebooks,» and the publishers are saying no or they're charging way too much for their books.

Next Big Book's Alex White spoke to Good e-Reader about what publishers can learn from tracking this kind of online reference, specifically as it relates to their first major customer, Macmillan, who signed a three - year deal with the company.

Then there are those books which are ridiculously overpriced just because some big publisher need new golden door knobs.

«The big incumbent publishers are all trying to transform themselves into software companies,» MacInnis explained, «and the notion of the print book is not going to be around for a while.