Sentences with phrase «by big house publishers»

I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.

The same services and tools enjoyed by big house publishers, built for the independent publisher.

Not exact matches

Consolidation among publishers last reached its heyday in the 1990s — as publishing houses sought to bulk up in response to the growing clout of Borders and Barnes & Noble — and by the early 2000s, the industry had settled into the «Big Six.»

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.

LIBRANDA is an ebook distribution platform founded by big three publishers in Spain: Grupo Planeta, Random House Mondadori, Santillana.

And there's the overtake by Big Publishing of smaller and independent houses, of course: Krüger has no love of a house that can put out more books than its publisher can read:

The publishing industry is volatile and there are many people involved in it, or are affected by it, from the «Big Six» publishers, down through the hundreds of smaller traditional publishing houses, the thousands of mini presses, and the hundreds of thousands of self publishers.

Readers deserve and expect quality printed books that are indistinguishable from those published by Random House, HarperCollins, and the other big publishers.

Libranda is one of the largest ebook distribution platforms that was founded by the big three publishers in Spain: Grupo Planeta, Random House Mondadori, and Santillana.

Indie authors were once the authors who'd been published by independent publishing houses; by some definitions, that would be any publisher who wasn't one of the Big Five, meaning the powerhouse game changer Sourcebooks and even Amazon Publishing.

If you want to be published by one of the «Big Five» publishers — the New York houses that represent the large majority of what you'll find in your average bookstore — then you do need an agent.

There's stories online of authors being published by a traditional big house publisher who feel their covers didn't represent their book well, but had no say in the matter.

Getting published by one of the Big 5 book publishers is the goal of many authors, as being published by a major publishing house is perceived to have some advantages over smaller presses or self - publishing.

Libranda is one of the largest ebook distribution platforms that was founded by the big three publishers in Spain: Grupo Planeta, Random House Mondadori, Santillana.

At the same time, Amazon is by far the biggest sales channel for e-books for the «Big Five» book publishers, so a ban in the U.K. of Penguin Random House books by the Seattle retailer would inflict pain.

In the UK, two of the biggest publishers — Random House and Hachette — are about to launch downloadable ebook titles by some of their top writers.

Random House, the biggest book publisher in the United States and Britain, has been buoyed by the success of the «Fifty Shades» trilogy of novels.

Random House, who is the world's biggest book publisher, expects E-Books to generate 10 % of the company's overall revenue by next year, the CEO has recently divulged.

Book promotion is the other area once covered by traditional publishers and now left largely to book authors, even when you publish with the bigger and more reputable houses.

Despite all the excitement about self - publishing these days — and I'm a big proponent — many writers still dream of being published by a big house like St. Martin's Press or a prestigious literary publisher like Algonquin or Bloomsbury.

A good number of vanity publishers are now owned by big publishing houses.

In today's world it doesn't matter whether your book is published by a big - name publishing house, or by you; either way, the author, not the publisher, drives readers to the store, period.

If you are published by an independent publisher that has an agreement with one of the big houses to distribute the books or a deal with a company like IPG or NBN, there will be salespeople representing your book in the field.

The Agency Model, if you've come a little late to this party, is a baldly anti-consumer price - fixing conspiracy (I wish I didn't have to use that word, but sometimes a conspiracy is just that, a conspiracy) that was hatched at the beginning of 2010 by some combination of Steve Jobs and executives of five of the Big Six publishers, with Random House abstaining.

Authors published by all of the Big Five publishers combined (i.e., by all the many imprints of Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster) have slipped into second place at 35 %.

I don't believe big publishing houses have any need for self - publishers other than to sponge money by selling them false prestige.

Before Apple even met with the first Publisher Defendant in mid-December 2009, it knew that the «Big Six» of United States publishing --- the Publisher Defendants and Random House (collectively, the «Publishers»)-- wanted to raise e-book prices, in particular above the $ 9.99 prevailing price charged by Amazon for many e-book versions of New York Times bestselling books («NYT Bestsellers») and other newly released hardcover books («New Releases»).

First, five of the Big Six publishers do not make eBooks available for lending by libraries without restrictions, and the only one that does, Random House, charges libraries three times more for eBooks than it does for print books.

Unlike Poundmaker, who was sentenced to three years in the Manitoba Penitentiary, Yellow Mud Blanket was released by the court on the recommendation of Crown counsel; see Sandra E. Bingaman, The North - West Rebellion Trials, 1885 (MA Thesis, University of Saskatchewan [Regina], 1971)[unpublished] Appendix A at 206; see also Sandra E. Bingaman, «The Trials of Poundmaker and Big Bear, 1885» (1975) 28 Saskatchewan History 81; Blair Stonechild and W.A. Waiser, Loyal till Death: Indians and the North - West Rebellion (Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1997); Bob Beal and R.C. Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North - West Rebellion (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1984).