Sentences with phrase «books by contract»

I have given up the rights to object to their distribution of the books by contract, and I can't take that back.

Not exact matches

Amazon and Hachette Book Group have put hostilities aside, ending their long - running and very public contract dispute over e-book pricing by signing a new multiyear agreement.

Employing 43,000 people around the world, including 20,000 in Britain, Carillion has been fighting for survival since July, when it revealed it was losing cash on projects and had written down the value of its contract book by 845 million pounds.

Its stock has shot up by 40 % since last year, and it continues to book significant contracts around the world, including with the Swedish Transportation Authority, the Texas Railroad Commission and the State of California.

His company published the English translation of a book on the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping written by one of his daughters, but cancelled a contract for a critical book on China by Chris Patten, the last British governor in Hong Kong.

The fee is set when the inspection is booked, and the inspector may have e-mailed or faxed the contract to the client, detailing the scope of work, often defined by the ASHI Standards of Practice.

As «People of the Book» under classical Islamic law — which ISIS has purported to restore in its newly - declared caliphate — Christians can choose to abide by the terms of the Dhimma, the notional contract that governs the treatment of Christians, Jews, and some other minorities.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with Contract with America.

And this chokehold not only affects the inventory you find on Christian bookstore shelves, but which books are contracted by publishers, what content gets edited in the writing and editing process, and the degree of freedom authors feel they have to speak on their own blogs and platforms.

For those interested I did a book review on «Renegotiating the Church Contract» by James Thwaites.

Or, after ending up with 7 players in the first 2 rounds to fit under the cap, get a team to take Brandon Marshalls contract off the books by offering them a third round pick.

PSG does not balance their books by selling players, so if they want too keep Cavani, as they have, as long as he's under contract, they can keep him.

Transfer values are calculated by CIES using a combination of contract duration, year of transfer, book value, loan status and capacity of buying club.

Tammy Nelson's new book, The New Monogamy, addresses how couples can regain trust, romance, and intimacy after infidelity by redefining the monogamy contract.

I am a huge fan of time - limited, renewable marital contracts, which actually have a long, sometimes successful, history, and devote a chapter to it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (in fact, our contract was used by Mandy Len Catron to draft a relationship contract with her partner, which she wrote about in a Modern Love essay and her new book, How to Fall in Love With Anyone).

It all began when Alexander Zeldin, 29, was handed a copy of The Night Cleaner, a book by French author Florence Aubenas illuminating the precarious world of temporary work without a defined contract of employment in northern France.

The multi-agency contract was approved by the state comptroller's office on Nov. 6, according to the Open Book NY website.

[Miriam had, ludicrously, been accused in the Mail on Sunday by one of Michael Gove's advisers of seeking a Whitehall contract for a children's book charity — the contract had in fact been decided by Number 10.]

Bradley Cooper is Eddie Morra, a divorced «writer» who seems to have gotten a book contract by dint of dating an editorial assistant (Abbie Cornish, given little to do besides resemble a grad - student clone of Nicole Kidman).

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutor, Jennie Cole, was awarded the contract by Gatehouse Books, who specialise in literacy, numeracy and ESOL reading material.

The Houston - based schools have extended days, learning contracts signed by students and parents, school - issued cell phones for teachers, and classrooms bearing the names of colleges — the now - familiar features of what David Whitman dubbed «New Paternalism» schools in his 2008 book Sweating the Small Stuff (see «An Appeal to Authority,» features, Fall 2008).

Friendship Public Charter School hereby submits this notice of intent to award a sole source contract to Uncommon Schools based on its role as the exclusive provider of Teach Like a Champion train the trainer workshop which is exclusively presented by Uncommon Schools and the materials produced and sold are created exclusively by Uncommon Schools and on the book Teach Like A Champion 2.0.

But our investigation found that schools were looking at cutting staff to balance their books, after annual repayments on some contracts soared by # 125,000.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

Fans obsessed with the Italian automaker will undoubtedly take an interest in the book, as it highlights every road and race car ever constructed by Ferrari, every driver contracted by the company, and a complete history of the automaker itself.

The complaint further alleged that British Airways advertises around - the - world travel using the «oneworld» booking engine (http://rtw.oneworld.com/), owned by oneworld Management Company, Inc. (oMC), which consistently misrepresents carrier - imposed surcharges as government taxes and fees.1 According to the complaint, by engaging in these practices, the carrier violated its contract of carriage and engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices in violation of 49 U.S.C. § 41712.

License Continuation Post-Termination: This sneaky little clause can wreak havoc for those whose self - published book has been picked up by a traditional publisher — meaning that the self - publisher can keep selling your work for a full year after you've terminated your contract.

I got a free consultation from a lawyer about a contract I was being offered by a publisher and he gave me two key pieces of advice: an audit clause means they have nothing to hide and allows you as an author to play IRS and look at their books if you think you're being cheated (an expensive process, but a good publisher wouldn't be afraid of you using it) and believe their BBB rating if they have one.

As the contract specified that the publisher wanted first right of refusal on following books, I had 4 subsequent books published by them.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Most book publishing contracts can be divided into two types: fixed - term, where the grant of rights extends for a defined period of time, such as five years; and life - of - copyright, where the grant of rig... -LSB-...]

The Writers Legal Guide, 4th Edition by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray (2013) Provides extensive information on copyright, limitations on free expression, book contracts, electronic rights, agency agreements, taxes, and estate planning.

It weeds out fly - by - night e-presses that have a contract with PublishAmerica so that authors can see their books «in print» even though there is no distribution program connected to the print program.

Frankfurt / Ljubljana, 20 February 2018 — The Frankfurter Buchmesse's Guest of Honour 2022 has been chosen: Today, the contract for Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (19 - 23 October 2022) was signed by the Director of the Slovenian Book Agency, Renata Zamida, and Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, in the presence of the Slovenian Minister of Culture, Anton Peršak, and numerous authors and publishers.

Panel discussion exploring the international movement for fair book contracts set in motion by the Authors Guild's Fair Contract Initiative.

The publishing industry appears thusfar to believe that it can contain Wattpad merely by skimming off its most popular writers (easily identified via the site stats) and offer them some sort of «traditional» book publishing contract.

They were used by fiction writers to help with the contracts, to get the books into movie and early television (in New York) and overseas, and to go get the coffee.

Unlike the publishing companies who contract their services, they make their money selling services to authors, not by selling books.

The contract called for 6,000 of the books to be bought by individuals, whose names were supplied by the church.

News — 1) As reported by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Amazon removes thousands of books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) in a showdown over terms of a contract renewal.

So far as we can tell, what this means is that book publishers will be able to supply ePub - formatted books for sale in Apple's iBookstore, but that magazine and newspaper publishers will need to find their own way onto the device, either by building their own apps or by contracting with an app developer or service to publish their content via a third - party app.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

Out of all of those sales, very few (6 or 7) were made by an agent (and of the few sales that agents made, most were a case of selling additional books in a series under contract).

Either way, success is hard to come by, whether you are publishing on your own or trying to get a book contract.

Last month I was offered a «No - Cost» contract for my book by a Vanity Publisher that left me alone during the three and a half years.

Ghostwriter Person contracted by an author or publisher to write or cowrite a book.

These days the publishers save money by insisting you the writer do all of the promoting and still find time to write that next contracted novel as well as attend the book signings.

By the time I signed the book contract, I had twenty - year's - worth of relationships to draw on for endorsements, reviews, guest blog posts, and influencers.

If book sold in November, contract will arrive by February 2014 if lucky.

Finding an agent, getting a publishing contract, and having your book published by a traditional company take time.

It is against Kwill's terms of service for book cover artwork to be repurposed for any other book other than the book registered with Kwill, or any other property, or resold by the author, except in connection with the promotion of the book contracted with Kwill.