Sentences with phrase «by big name publishers»

Books like Party Girl started out as self - published books before they were bought by big name publishers.

There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big name publishers and chain bookstores.

Many of their authors are picked up by big name publishers like Simon & Schuster or McCleland and Stewart.

Getting signed by a big name publisher is the publishing dream of many writers, but what most people don't realise is that it's the opinion of your readers that really matters.

But might those also be the same reasons why they would have hated it even had it been produced by a big name publisher.

I have been reading a lot lately about how much work is involved in marketing a book, and that's when you're published by a big name publisher!

Not exact matches

These days, big name publishers are playing it safe by banking on low risk sequels or reboots and this has allowed smaller, more independent developers to step up to the plate and offer up some truly original gaming such Chair's Shadow Complex and Runic Game's Torchlight.

E3, also known by its full name «Electronic Entertainment Expo», is the world's leading gaming convention which each year sees announcements made by the biggest publishers in the industry.

It could be argued that most, if not all, of the big - name publishers played it safe at E3 by sticking to their franchises and annual outings.

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

Fall is when the publishers roll out the big names, hoping that the new Ian McEwan, Tom Wolfe or Zadie Smith will be embraced by gift - givers during the holiday season.

E.g. «Beatrix Potter started out by self publishing her first book, which was later picked up by a big - name publisher.

In any case, those who self - publish successfully are either those who have already made a name in the traditional field, or if they are one of the few who made it big from the start, eventually get signed up by traditional publishers anyhow.

Face it: Your book is competing with millions of other titles — many by Big Name authors from major publishers — for the attention, consideration, and purchasing dollars of your target reader.

Her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door: the Path to a Better Way of Death, was named «One of the Ten Best Memoirs of 2013» and «A Big Book for Fall 2013» by Publishers Weekly, which gave it a starred review.

For those of you who don't know, the IDPF ePub format is an open standard eBook format that is fast being adopted by many big name publishers including Penguin UK and O'Reilly as well as projects such as Feedbooks.com.

Some early estimates that have come out of the price fixing allegations between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers state that consumers overpaid for their ebooks by as much as a total of $ 250 million; all fifty states and the US commonwealths and territories are named in the class action suit to recover some of that overspending.

Yes, the company entered the mobile e-book business for IOS and Android devices, being backed up by some of the biggest publishers such as Shueish, Shogakukan and Kodansha, to name a few.

It's about «a zombie's big break in showbiz,» according to Publisher's Weekly., and it's written by an animator for Nickeloden named Keith Graves.

Many big name publishers had their settlement approved by the Justice Department case against price fixing.

What's more vain than an author refusing to publish their book unless its published by a big name NY publisher?

One is to hide it: so then you'd want to «fake» your publisher imprint, book cover designer, etc by either A) not listing it at all or B) making up fake names and companies to make you look big.

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.

Big - name authors and publishers can sell books without the best blurb, so you can learn more by studying effective blurbs from lesser - known authors.

And now big publishers are being crowded out of the bestseller lists by independent authors, and are being forced to lower their own big - name titles to $ 5 just to compete with indie authors at $ 1 and $ 3.

If the giftee likes to read bestselling titles from big - name authors released by big publishers, the $ 25 gift card will be enough to buy two books.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

In other words, if you want to read new books by Liane Moriarty, James Patterson, or John Grisham — the books from big - name authors released by big publishers — you will have to buy them separately because they are not included in Kindle Unlimited.

Please read David's article about the Simon & Schuster deal with Author Solutions (one of many warning articles on this deal published this week) to educate yourself, so you can warn other hopeful writers against being blinded by the big publisher name.

Just think about how a great book by an unknown will compete with a brand name author... Yes, life is tough, but again... why doesn't Amazon address the fact that it makes most of its money off of the same old same old, books that are either «built» by big publishers or by indies who often combine formulaic storytelling with full on marketing.

On top of the big - name book publishers is access to the content generally available on Scribd, which is submitted by users, such as reports and self - published pieces.

While big - name publishers like Kodansha and Shinchosha announced that they will simultaneously publish new titles in both print and electronic formats by 2012, consumers still don't see much advantage to reading e-books at their current prices.

These days, big name publishers are playing it safe by banking on low risk sequels or reboots and this has allowed smaller, more independent developers to step up to the plate and offer up some truly original gaming such Chair's Shadow Complex and Runic Game's Torchlight.