Sentences with phrase «by big publishers»

At the beginning of the year there was a simple divide: $ 0.99 for a self - published book and $ 5 or more for book published by a big publisher.

Now it's everywhere, everyone is doing it, and it's totally accepted by big publishers.

Even as a bestselling self - published author, you have the potential of getting signed by a big publisher.

That's more than some AAA + titles by big publishers reaches!

I still hope to be picked up by a bigger publisher at some future date.

I hope you share your progress and hope your next book gets discovered by a big publisher.

Readers didn't care that my book wasn't printed by a big publisher.

Traditional authors write books in the hope that they will get published and sold by big publishers.

I've lost count of the bigger name authors we now attract in part because they are fed up with being taken for granted by the bigger publishers.

They're angry on behalf of their patrons, who are being cut out of the ebook equation by the big publishers.

You really don't see games like that being made any more by the big publishers.

The commonest method used by the big publishers for handling these seems to be to place the ornament (usually with a white background) inside a white box background that expands to the full width of any reader page while keeping the image proportions.

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.

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.

And while games full of attractive idiosyncrasies can and do emerge from big studios backed by bigger publishers, Gilbert is in no doubt that had Thimbleweed Park gone down that avenue of financing, rather than receive its green light through a successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2014, it'd have seen some of its more unique content removed.

Then, Sundberg derided developers who sell out to major publishers too quickly, before they've given their properties time to mature: «American developers tend to sell their companies way too early, and then they whine about not getting enough money when their projects become successful after a couple of years of being owned by a big publisher and not really being in control.»

And for new authors the marketing by the big publishers is almost non-existant.

Unlike authors represented by big publishers with marketing departments, I'm my own marketing dept. And it's a tough job.

«Or, you have to work on that one novel for 10 years before you write something that gets a huge push by a big publisher.

I love reading stories that aren't considered commercially marketable by big publishers, and think all of your readers are fortunate you went Indie, Paty.

Imagine all the new possibilities for highly trained librarians and family literacy workers in general if we want families to discover, enjoy and absorb books despite such obstacles as e-book price gouges by big publishers.

My friend is currently using Lulu to great affect though is worried that it will stop it ever being bought by a big publisher in future!

Many of them are touchable by big publishers only and you quickly could guess about it seeing they publish reviews of best - sellers mostly.

Second for print sales online is Barnes and Noble, but they are increasingly interested only in mass market books promoted by the big publishers out of New York.

But while it is fair to say that some of that price decline is due to more competitive pricing of bestsellers by the big publishers — including some very aggressive pricing like Simon and Schuster's current $ 3.99 price point for Stephen King's 11/22/63, that's only part of the story, and it may be the less important part of the story.

I've seen one clever Facebook promo driven by a big publisher (if the author got X-number of «likes» they would drop the book 2 weeks sooner, great way to build an on - line mailing list).

We are the most successful publishing service for eBooks and PoD in Scandinavia, where our services are used by big publishers such as Bonnier and Norstedts and around 200 small publishers.

Then about 10 years ago it started publishing socially relevant romances... It just got swallowed by a bigger publisher.

You can't extrapolate on what books are going to be big and which ones aren't — if it could be done it'd HAVE been done by now by the big publishers.

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.

There are plenty of good editors who've been laid off by big publishers lately.»

As a concept Early Access is an idea I love as it allows for otherwise potentially niche titles that would have been unable to get funded by big publishers a chance to get made and satisfy the target audience, but in practice Steam's system is a steaming mess.

It makes me wonder what new tactics we might see deployed by big publishers in the coming years, and how those tactics will prey on those who struggle with addiction and how they will undermine the visions of development teams.

However, it's also a small studio that's managed to avoid being absorbed by the big publishers it's worked with — and it's now in a position where it can ride the indie wave and work directly with Sony to publish a game of its own.

Most authors — yes, authors on the NY Times Bestseller List published by big publishers — teach on the side, have day jobs, freelance, or do other things to pay the bills.

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.

EditionGuard provides a cost - effective and easy - to - use eBook DRM solution that allows independent eBook publishers and libraries access to the same robust tools used by the big publishers.

He notes that the potential inherent in eBooks hasn't been particularly well understood or appreciated by bigger publishers — a phenomenon that he and Shelf are looking forward to capitalizing on by filling the gap with the eBook version of Final Appearance.

(Not just the lucky few who get signed by a big publisher)

Indie authors are competing with the best works by the best authors, backed by the biggest publishers.