Sentences with phrase «by charging authors»

Still, if costs can be managed by charging authors for services that aren't actually delivered I'm sure that's being done on an industry - wide basis to satisfy quarterly earnings reports.

These companies make money by charging authors for these services and / or taking a cut of the book's sales and paying the author a royalty.

Today, some papers are published in journals that make papers immediately free upon publication and cover costs by charging authors a fee.

Not exact matches

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

The dilbit report, which was authored by independent experts and not the oil industry, should quash some of the charges against Alberta's crude once and for all.

The author speaks of «Christmas was for many centuries a very politically charged season, defined by inversions of the normal social order» — and that's what Saturnalia was!

Although he thinks more blood is likely to be spilled along the way, the author is a modern optimist in thinking that Muslims will, more or less inevitably, adapt their religion to the peaceful constraints by which the rest of us - meaning those of us who are in charge of the world - abide.

Ecclesiastes helped form the framework for the New Testament authors» vision of existence, and, brought to its completion by Jesus» teaching, presents a paradoxical charge to the Christian: «Do not put your hope in this present world, and you will be free to enjoy it more than anyone else.»

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza was indicted Thursday on federal charges of violating campaign finance laws by using straw donors to funnel money to a U.S. Senate candidate.

«Our finding that news reporting on obesity as a public health crisis brought on by bad personal choices can worsen anti-fat prejudice and increase people's willingness to charge obese men and women more for insurance» said David Frederick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University and lead author on the study.

My friend took the publisher to task for the lousy copyediting; the authors deserve better, he figured, for the $ 1000 or so per article they paid for publication, and copyediting was supposed to be covered by the publication charge.

A process revealed last year by Martí and lead authors Chengmin Jiang, a graduate student, and Avishek Saha, a Rice alumnus, starts with negatively charging carbon nanotubes by infusing them with potassium, a metal, and turning them into a kind of salt known as a polyelectrolyte.

«We took care to ensure that the positive charge of the headgroup was maintained by not modifying its lipid part,» co-first author Masanao Kinoshita says.

The funding will help 30 research - intensive universities develop open access policies and pay the author fees charged by publishers to make a paper more freely available to the public.

Thanks in part to several legal fights, journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large publishers.

«We studied the possibility of charging commercialized portable and wearable devices by utilizing the mechanical energy generated by human motion,» said Hyeon - Jin Shin, research master at SAIT and one of the authors of the study.

Although all authors on a paper will need to join PeerJ to publish, the journal's founders predict that fees for publishing a typical paper will still be less than those charged by other open access journals.

In this study, the authors reported having «functionalized» the silica pores by lining them with compounds that varied depending on the enzyme to be ensnared — amine and carboxyl groups carrying charges opposite that of three common, off - the - shelf biocatalysts: glucose oxidase (GOX), glucose isomerase (GI) and organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH).

After a brief quality - control inspection to ensure that the work is scientific in nature, the author's manuscript is posted within a day or so on the Web without peer review and can be viewed without charge by anyone in the world.

These publishers typically finance their operations by publication charges levied on the authors of the articles, reversing the business model from being content sellers to being dissemination service providers, making the authors their clients rather than the readers.

Shared leadership has been described by US educator and author Phil Schlechty as «less like an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around...»

Several authors in this issue discuss the value of having teachers take charge of their own learning by visiting one another's classrooms and discussing what they see.

Some authors look at fees charged by a traditional distributor and think the percentage is too high.

By the way, literary agents who support the practice of charging reading fees also say that doing so would reduce the number of queries authors send out, and it would make their submissions more targeted.

Because the author never deals directly with the POD company or knows where the books are being printed, they remain unaware of the difference between the actual fees charged by the POD company and what the self - publishing company says is the printing charge, distribution fee, and the author royalty.As with any other product, the greater the number of middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer, the greater the price paid by the consumer.

She is the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story, a compelling true story about a teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather and the suffocating poverty and religion at home by joining her dad on the road as a tool - selling vagabond — until his arrest forces her to take charge of her life.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

Moerer also boasted that Apple charges the same split, taking a 30 percent cut of all sales, whether a book is published by a major company, or if it is self - published by a smaller author.

But no online bookseller gives away the entire book, with the exception of Amazon as a sales gimmick and even then, they only do it for a limited amount of time and they charge the author rather than the reader by demanding exclusivity for 90 days,

Although many authors and publishers assume that by charging a price for the material, they are ensuring the content's security, that is not the case.

Keep in mind that ISBNs are sold by country: authors in the U.K. can buy them from Nielsen Book, while Canadian publishers get ISBNs at no charge through the government.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today I saw the following statement used as justification for choosing a fee - based publisher that charges its authors nearly $ 4,000, and actively presents itself as a real publisher, rather than a... -LSB-...]

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

You package your story by exploring questions such as the following, first suggested by Brendon Burchard, the best - selling author of several books, including The Charge, Life Golden Tickets, and The Millionaire Messenger: • Who are you and what have you been through in life that others can relate to in their own life?»

For eBooks sold via the wider network, the commission charged by the online retailers will be deducted prior to calculation of your Author Earnings.

So it was an easy decision for the clients to participate and benefit: Trident would only charge its customary commission based on revenues received by the authors, and Trident would not become an e-book publisher, profiting at the client's expense, being a rights holder, and finding itself potentially in an adversarial position with authors.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A little while back, I blogged about yet another of the ways in which PublishAmerica was attempting to extract cash from its authors: a fee - charging «literary agency.»

Frankly, I think vanity presses take advantage of authors by charging astronomical fees and then grabbing a huge profit after that.

Amazon wants reviews written by committed readers — not one - time only buyers, not bots or anonymous voices in the wilderness filling in blanks on a review template provided for them by a company who charged the author big bucks to get that book 50 reviews.

The fact is, the only ones who really stand to gain from this is Amazon which seeks to get new subscribers by offering Independent authors» books for free, and now they want to charge Indies for doing it.

Despite accusations hurled recently over paid reviews, these companies maintain that the review is not actually bought (as the outcome and rating are not pre-determined or steered by the author or publisher), but that a reading fee is charged for the reviewer's time.

Whereas some self - publishing companies and «vanity presses» rip authors off by charging up front for service and then charging additional royalties as high as 55 % of net profits, BookBaby is one of the few companies in the industry that does not take any additional fees; the author earns royalties from the different platforms that BookBaby distributes to, and retains all percentages after the retail platforms» fee.

Google is hoping that the 5 - 20 page e-books, written by A list authors, will catch on in India and are only charging a few cents for each title.

Kicking off today, readers have the opportunity to channel their inner sleuth to solve puzzles by gathering clues found in three original short stories authored by acclaimed mystery writer Melissa Yi, available free of charge at the Kobo bookstore.

Self - publishing was not a well - regarded path to success, and it indicated some kind of author failing or eccentricity — whereas today, romance authors are by far the most successful indie authors and lead the charge in innovation in marketing and promotion for self - published titles.

I hate the prices that are charged by most publishers for ebooks, especially considering what the authors actual make from those prices.

Yttrup writes a riveting, emotionally charged story... page by page, word by word, this talented author proves the adage «Write what you know.»

Coker has even had manuscripts submitted by homeless writers from public library computer stations, which reinforces his decision to not charge authors to submit their work.

Most companies have a system where they charge authors for packages, such copyrighting, cover art, editing, trademarking and some offer to get your book reviewed by publications such as Kirkus.