Sentences with phrase «book by any other platform»

But as books extend their reach into the digital landscape through the Kindle, iPad and the new Barnes & Noble Nook, I have to wonder: Does a book by any other platform still smell...

Not exact matches

The book is a series of case studies that describes how a small number of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions of other businesses.

A Metroidvania style platformer that was highly lauded on other platforms, Axiom Verge is headed to the Nintendo Switch with an art book, a double - sided poster, and a «making of» documentary by 2 Player Productions in its physical version.

In between it offers, among other things, meditations on Spanish architecture and landscapes, an outdoor concert where the conductor is on an elevated platform in a shopping arcade and the musicians are on nearby balconies, a lavish state party thrown for the novelist, a verbal chess match at the party, a credit sequence 20 - odd minutes into the film, a concert inside a cathedral, extended lovemaking, a recitation of part of the novelist's book, an opera performed at a gigantic fish market, a university lecture on algae, another opera set (though not staged) in a Turkish bath, a TV interview, a meal prepared and eaten by the three lovers, a film screening, and a plane trying to extinguish a forest fire.

The learner - driven shift in personal development learning started with the «How To...» and ``... for Dummies» books in the 1990s and has translated to the web 2.0 environment by using YouTube and other social media as a platform for self - instruction.

A desire for diverse income streams and recent changes by Amazon has authors publishing their books to several other platforms.

Lawrence (from Alaska) asks via email: I am a retired guy who has a number of books published by traditional companies and self - published on Kindle and other platforms.

It's not a book about building platform, although it includes my whole step - by - step «how to blog» series and tons of info on how to use Twitter, Goodreads, Pinterest and other social media sites to establish your author presence on the Web before you take the publishing plunge.

Moreover, many important journals accept to review only books reviewed on professional websites of book reviews and don't consider other reviews published by customers on self publishing platforms.

(This is the cautious approach; when some Digital Manga titles were booted from Amazon's Kindle Store two years ago, Digital gleefully responded by packaging the books as a «Too Hot for Kindle» bundle for every other platform.)

Many of the motion - comics techniques Madefire uses on its Motion Books platform will be familiar to readers of Thrillbent and other digital - first comics: Rack focus, panning, panel - by - panel reveals, word balloons dropping in with a swipe or a click.

Indeed, any budding book - buyer will probably go straight to Amazon and certainly may not search all the crowdfunding platforms for books by subject or other means; the only people that may be buying from an Author is another Author!

Incidentally, no other retail ebook platform offers anywhere close to this many book categories, meaning when the book is uploaded elsewhere by the author or publisher, the options to describe the book accurately for better discover can be pretty limited.

Tanya has published many of her books in German, some by working with individual translators directly and others through the translation platform Babelcube.

With the right approach, the promotional opportunities that Amazon give you, should help you boost book sales so that it more than makes up for any loss of sales by not being on other platforms.

By creating a program that no other e-reader or platform is offering, reaching out to parents of creative children and to teachers look for another innovative way to incorporate reading and writing, Barnes and Noble is proving that it is proactive about not fading away with too many other brick - and - mortar book stores.

There are loads of free books on Amazon and other platforms, all supplied by the author, so there is no excuse for stealing books.

The compound effect will mean that over time, as I add books onto the platforms, and reach readers one by one, my sales will grow on the other sites.

You don't need to worry about tons of versions of your eBook out there, or getting declined by random systems (like Apple, who denies any book with links that aren't Apple based) or any other myriad of problems raised by maintaining multiple platforms.

Only Amazon would ask for all of their authors to give up the ability to sell books on other platforms for the chance to be in this exclusive system, especially when a book borrowed by someone on the KU program actually pays less money (sometimes by a lot) than an actual sale.

Additionally, there are other crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Rockethub where authors can raise funds for book projects (Rockethub is similar to Kickstarter in that a campaign deadline and target goal are set, however, the project leader is able to keep the funds even if the goal amount isn't reached by the deadline).

As we've known for some time, the lack of publishing - platform data from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major retailers in books is compounded by the rise of self - publishing and an erratic use of the ISBN by many entrepreneurial authors.

On the other hand, any change in DRM policy won't affect books bought prior to the change, meaning customers with a large investment in books for one platform (Kindle, Nook, or ADE ePub) still wouldn't be able migrate their books to another device without breaking the law by removing the DRM.

Typically, you want to begin building your author platform at least six months before your first book even comes out — start your blog, comment on others» blogs, set up a newsletter, and grow your presence online and in readers» circles like Wattpad by posting excerpts of your work.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

Amazon Kindle is still the dominant platform, shifting more devices and selling more books than any other retailer by a considerable margin.

Then, indie authors can have their manuscripts edited and polished by a quality freelancer before their work goes up as a print book or eBook on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, or any other distribution platform.

If you are using Amazon Kindle and wanted to get access to a wider range of books, then there is no need to look to any other platform because Amazon brings to you, a special feature by the name of the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, which is, of course, a part of Amazon.

We have speculated before that back in 2003 and 2004 when Jeff Bezos, Steven Kessel, and others began dreaming up the Kindle and its associated publishing and retail platform, they were driven by fears that the rise of ebooks — with some other parties in the drivers» seats — could, within a decade, destroy the retail print book business that was then the core of their business.

For its part, Recorded Books says the platform will include dashboards and reporting systems that maintain records of the terms that each individual title was purchased under, by each individual library in a system, even if a publisher later changes those terms for other sales.

OverDrive is currently the only library ebook distributor that enables patrons to check out books on Kindle's dedicated ereaders (in addition to other platforms) and many librarians were pleased by Penguin's decision to allow simplified Kindle downloading.

You can apply to swap blurbs with books outside your genre, and it's fine for building reviews, but the most effective use of BlurbTrade will be building your author platform by getting your review on to other books in your genre.

I also don't want to annoy existing subscribers who read on other platforms by constantly mentioning new releases of books that are only on Amazon.

EPUB, a free open standard supported by a range of reading devices, allows readers to move their digital books across platforms rather than being locked into one particular device.25 Many providers that use EPUB deploy DRM in other ways, but at least their customers have a broader array of options.26

by Kathryn Miller Goldman, Esq, @KathrynGoldman Hardly a day goes without me hearing from a writer that one of their books is showing up on a pirate site within days of the book having been published on Amazon or some other legitimate platform.

Until recently, Amazon matched the price you charge for your book on other platforms, so it was possible to get around the KDP Select exclusivity by making your book free on Smashwords, but many of us are finding that even after several months, Amazon doesn't seem to be matching a «free» price.

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However, by submitting a work for consideration in the contest, the winning author grants the American Bar Association and / or the ABA Journal the non-exclusive and perpetual right to publish the work in its periodicals, books, anthologies, ebooks, audiobooks or any other publication platform, whether print or digital, without further compensation.

Our attorneys excel as experts in their specialties and further differentiate themselves by providing expert legal commentary for national media outlets, authoring intriguing nonfiction books for mainstream publishing houses where we have strong relationships, penning widely - read blogs and other social content, public speaking, and building powerful outreach platforms both online and off.

Improved security for app - based booking platforms aimed at reducing the likelihood of an app being used by a person other than the licensed driver — such as by requiring a driver periodically logs back in, such as via facial recognition tech or a fingerprint reader

Salon managers, in turn, will take easy bookings, receiving immediate online payments, which on other platforms may take up to a month, as reported by the company.