@bjjcaveman I understand your passion about this, but in a mainstream
book with a publisher they would want some kind of proof of claims.
Regarding the «average earn out per book» on your Traditional Publisher Survey... is that the average earn out of a book over the course of a year or the entire lifetime of
a book with the publisher?
After 19
books with publishers from Doubleday to Leapfrog, I went indie.
««It's probably hard for Amazon to identify indies specifically — I mean, if an author chooses, he / she can simply start a «small press» and identify his / her own
books with a publisher name.»
I'm glad you were able to place
your book with a publisher that allows for more leeway in storytelling.
You can't have basket accounting without a basket (or more than one book), but I checked to see if sneaky lawyers had inserted a clause that I missed which allowed the publisher to basket account
any books with that publisher that the publisher chose.
Most of these authors top out at $ 300 in sales for the lifetime of
their book with that publisher.
You don't need an agent to place
a book with a publisher like this.
Usually the author has to have three or more
books with the publisher before the publisher puts an early title on sale.
Her «agent» placed
the book with a publisher he had «connections» with.
It is difficult to find an agent who then hopes to place
your book with a publisher.
We thank you for thinking of Dell [insert sound of raspberry here] and we wish you the best of success [ie don't darken our doorstep again with your crap] in placing
your book with another publisher.
Your book is so unique that an agent can't place
your book with a publisher.
Alas, even Liss couldn't place
this book with a publisher, and Chan was back to square one.
If you publish a first book in a proposed series, for example, the sales numbers influence whether you receive a contract for additional
books with the publisher.
Within Trident, Alex spent several years as a Foreign Rights Agent, specializing in representing the company's middle grade and young adult authors in the foreign marketplace, securing hundreds of translation and English language in the U.K. sub rights sales, and placing
books with publishers in dozens of countries.
More recently he has produced artist monographs, exhibition catalogues and text - based
books with publishers Ridinghouse, as well as with the British Council and British Museum.
Not exact matches
The
publisher of former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming
book is remaining tight - lipped — and working hard to make sure anyone
with access to the
book will do the same.
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and
book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur
with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.
These individuals provide the CIA
with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial
book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.»
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.
On Wednesday, a U.S. judge pronounced Apple guilty of conspiring
with publishers to raise
book prices — a verdict the company plans on appealing.
Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell
books for, but the
publishers were down
with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.
Tamblyn still receives physical
books from
publishers, often
with a note saying, «We have a great
book that we would love for you to have in paper.»
In both situations, Apple had convinced major
book publishers to go
with an «agency model,» which would let them set their own prices on ebooks (as in raise prices on ebooks).
And it was the first black superhero comic
with a mainstream comic
book publisher.
Mech writes on his website (
with the lovely title Wolf News and Info) that his original
book is «currently still in print, despite my numerous pleas to the
publisher to stop publishing it.»
It took discerning consumers a few years of swimming through the ocean of mediocre - to - bad online recipes before they became frustrated
with «free,» according to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of food and drink at independent
publisher Chronicle
Books.
Starting
with a single Australian newspaper that he inherited from his father in 1952, Murdoch built News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Times of London, the leading newspapers in Australia, and
book publisher HarperCollins.
Eventually, a smaller
publisher took my
book and after going through six months of work
with them, they decided my
book wasn't working for them for «legal» reasons and canceled the contract.
Book publishers fetishized the physical object, and then offset the risk tied up in all that paper by taking no chances
with whose words they printed on it.
All those years ago, when everything was still possible,
book publishers might have sold authors instead of
books, and magazines and newspapers might have done the same
with journalists and commentators.
Publisher of coffee - table
books replaces product line
with shorter
books, calendars and nature recordings.
WordBiz, www.wordbiz.com Offers articles and other resources on writing for the Web, along
with publisher Debbie Weil's WordBiz Report newsletter and
books.
Prichard sat down
with senior writer Thomas Watson following his appointment as chair of international business law firm Torys and the Canadian arm of
book publisher Penguin.
The online retailer and
book publisher have ended months of contentious negotiations
with a new multiyear agreement.
Westland Last year, around the time Bezos committed to investing as much as $ 5 billion in India to compete
with Asian - grown competitors like Alibaba, he purchased this Indian
book publisher, owned by outsourcer Tata Group, for $ 1.4 million.
The
book Black Markets and Business Blues (FI Press 2009)
with Professor Mihaela Firsirotu won the Silver Award from the American Independent
Publishers Association.
As an example, I not only agented this
book myself to a major NYC - area
publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working
with a major
publisher).
We are the main
publisher in the field,
with over 50 titles ranging from issue briefs to lengthy
books (see our guidelines for authors if you are interested in writing for us).
I had to fight my immediate prejudice and remind myself of something I've talked
with others about for years — the increasing size of
books, both fiction and non-fiction, to justify the inflated pricing from
publishers.
The
book is the first by a major
publisher with its exposure and interest to have a time - stamped digest recorded in the... Read more»
Comey's
book, «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» is already looking like a best - seller,
with publisher Macmillan ordering an initial print run of 850,000 copies, more than five times the 150,000 in the initial pressing for Michael Wolff's «Fire and Fury.»
In 2016, Advantage launched a historic partnership
with Forbes, one of the most iconic business media companies in the world
with over 94 million monthly readers to create ForbesBooks, a business
book publisher for top business leaders.
Here is how the
publisher describes his latest contribution: «Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a
book that demands to be read — a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed
with commanding skill.
Now the Norwegian brothers have inked a deal
with publisher Simon & Schuster to create the children's picture
book What Does the Fox Say?
In world news media the CIA is also using «several hundred foreign individuals around the world» who «provide the CIA
with direct access to a large number of foreign newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial
book publishers, and other foreign media outlets» (italics in the Senate report indicate agency censoring).
Orthodoxy was first published in London by John Lane Press in 1908, and it has never gone out of print»
with more than two dozen
publishers now offering editions of the
book.
Right before the RV rolled out for the summer long
book promotion tour by Jossey Bass as the funding
publisher,
with Mark Scandrette and Doug Pagitt, the Church Basement Roadshow to promote the new
book Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, I was sat down to sign some insurance documents.
As a young Christian, I even asked my
publisher NOT to brand my
book with any Emergent markings because despite having respect for some of the attitudes within it, Emergent was not how I identified.