Sentences with phrase «by large publishers as»

Sometimes you get tired of being outmaneuvered In some senses, what Amazon launched yesterday with Amazon Encore is neither that amazing a project, after all there have been several small - press or self - published titles taken on board by large publishers as I've mentioned on this blog before, nor is it even that innovative, Authonomy is at its core a way to tap the self published and slush - piled manuscripts out there in the wild.

Not exact matches

Tencent has overtaken even better known U.S. names such as Activision and Blizzard to become the world's largest game publisher by revenue.

It is the case that large - and middle - sized for - profit publishers and university presses as well as a number of new small presses now publish substantial numbers of books by mainline Protestant writers.

Ads on our site are typically sold using contextual technology by large firms such as Google, Vibrant and RGM / Meredith (publisher of Better Homes & Gardens).

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.

Current estimation by the Online Publishers Association and comScore Networks states that U.S. residents spent $ 469.5 million on online dating and personals in 2004 as the largest segment of «paid content» on the web.

Since the previous discussions and negotiations that have taken place between the parties are not being disclosed, we may never know what went really down, but I think it is not too far fetched to imagine that Hachette was not happy with the status quo and tried to force Amazon to comply with its wishes, guided by the sense that as one of the largest international publishers they could somehow force Amazon's hand.

Unlike the large print runs ordered by conventional publishers, my publisher's books were printed as needed: on demand.

Driven in large part by Publishers Lunch, the most widely read daily dossier in publishing and known as «publishing's essential daily read.»

Comics publishers — whose staffs often include large numbers of old - time fans — saw themselves as having little to gain and much to lose by taking the plunge into digital.

Amazon shocked the publishing world late last week by removing direct access to the Kindle editions as well as printed books from Macmillan, one of the country's six largest publishers, which had said it planned to begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books.

I am so tired of hearing how Amazon is picking on Hachette and that is David vs Goliath as though Hachetter were some mom - and - pop corner store instead of a large multinational corporation owned by Lagardère Group which is one of the world's largest trade publishers.

Driven by curiosity (as always), I've just spend a large part of my lunch break browsing through various forums [1], trying to get a handle on what problems self - publishers are facing when they are creating their ebooks.

Imagine you're the best - selling author of a highly regarded crime fiction series published by one of the world's largest publishers, and you notice that most of the sales of your novels are as e-books.

Other industry watchers speculated that although the publishers and bookstores can not slow down Amazon, the large technology companies, such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Google, who may be threatened by dominant Amazon's Web Services unit, might enter the book publishing market as competitive counter measures.

A number of larger publishers such as Simon and Shuster, Lonely Planet and Smashwords all contribute titles, which validates the platform as a viable alternative to buying each book one by one.

First, the competitive pricing — a tactic that certainly did not win the world's largest digital retailer and friends in the US, as evidenced by the excuses born out of the recent Department of Justice investigation and lawsuit against Apple and several publishers — that Amazon could support made e-readers finally something more of a tool than an investment.

Aptara's business model has always targeted medium to large publishers by giving them the option to leverage their existing titles to e-book formats, but with this year's Expo they are reaching out to the smaller publishers and even indie authors who need help formatting as well.

This is not to say every contract abides by this scheme, as larger publishers are thought to get a higher rate.

She continued «As large publishers work these new standards and capabilities into their existing workflows, they can buy time today by working with third - party experts to convert existing titles and add interactive components to published work.

This is a particular problem with genre fiction, which has a global appeal, as there are very good crime writers from Mexico, Peru and Argentina who will never be read outside their countries, just because they have never been read before by a larger Spanish publisher or public.

In the investigation launched by the Department of Justice against Apple, Inc and five large publishing houses for alleged price - fixing in order to severely wound Amazon.com, the publishers have successfully been divided as to the outcome.

Miller, whose book The Hand of God (Vamptasy) is published by an independent publisher, saw this as a chance to give back to a larger community of authors who all have the same goal: producing inspired works in their fields.

Large Publishers by their very profit and loss system, must treat books as produce.

To introduce you as a new author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf space.

By 2000, Stinson had established her press as an imprint of Warner Books in order to tap into the larger publisher's distribution channels.

Again, as far as I can tell, independent authors gain little or nothing by looking at how book publishers large and small conduct their business.

It was produced by Audible Studios, the world's largest audio download publisher, and narrated — as was HUNTER — by the great Conor Hall.

Indeed, people write in larger numbers than were ever accepted by publishers, as I saw when working in publishing in the late 80s / early 90s.

It might be time for a concerted push by the large publishers and / or publishing organizations to raise awareness that treating MathML development as a peripheral need has to change.

largest publisher to promote the launch of the iPad in France on 28th May was considered by booksellers «as a sign of great disdain».

Large publishers were starting to get a handle on the power of free — as witnessed by The Da Vinci Code going free ahead of the release of Dan Brown's latest.

Vanity presses, otherwise known as «self - publishing companies» or «subsidy publishers,» will publish any book written by anyone with a large bank account and a spendthrift attitude.

In fact, as we were researching this topic, we found that most top - selling books today by large publishers contain fewer than 40 swears (many less than 20), even novels depicting a great deal of violence.

For the same reason as above, books by authors with an existing platform are more appealing to larger publishers — who often have larger budgets for advances, marketing and distribution, all of which directly impacts a book's future.

(By the way, Ingram is also the parent of Lightning Source, a service Ingram positions as ideal for medium and large publishers.)

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

As explained by the Association of American Publishers, the large January sales and huge February sales were a result of post-Xmas e-book buying:

As for where I'm getting my information, I am acquainted with many mainstream - published and self - published authors and have myself just signed over one of my self - pubbed books to be republished in an updated and revised edition by a large, mainstream publisher.

As a platform for selling and distributing ebooks, Baker & Taylor provides worldwide reach and the company is catering to the rising popularity of ebooks by making customizable storefronts available to support specialized branding and unique promotional venues available to large publishers (with some possibilities available to small publishers).

Indie - authors, by and large, often use price as a principal competitive advantage, and large publishers are showing that they are either less - equipped, or perhaps less - inclined, to compete using this strategy.

By combining easy - to - read magazine - style layouts with high - res color images and videos, and links to additional content — such as the fantasy football and statistics examples used in the video — publishers could provide an experience superior to today's websites, particularly on large touchscreen displays.

Douglas McCabe at Enders Analysis thinks large publishers will continue to need the middleman, pointing out that readers don't set out to buy HarperCollins or Penguin books, just as they don't watch a film because it is made by Pinewood Studios.

Despite the slow eBook sales in the US reported by many sources, authors and publishers should watch the Russian market closely aside from UK, China, and Brazil as the country has competed to be in the third largest eBook market behind China and the US.

And while the large gaming publishers repped by the ESA might be comfy with that position, it didn't go over well with actual game developers, including some MMO devs, who reacted loudly on twitter (twice) in rejecting the ESA's position as being representative of or beneficial to workers.

But no publisher has been more successful at fostering a large e-sports audience than Riot Games, whose October championship match for its arena battle game, League of Legends, was viewed by as many as 14 million people at one time, up from 11 million the prior year.

Rubin said while big studios backed by large publishers such as Infinity and Activision could manage the costs, other developers may not be able to cope.

Camelot: The Game is a medieval - themed Facebook strategy title developed first by Sarbakan and now by Large Animal Games with publisher 6waves as tie - in for the 2011 Starz fantasy television -LSB-...]

Here we are at the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, and as the hot days tick by, we're left to deal with the lack of new AAA + blockbuster titles hitting store shelves in large quantities as publishers save the big guns for the holiday shopping season.

Camelot: The Game is a medieval - themed Facebook strategy title developed first by Sarbakan and now by Large Animal Games with publisher 6waves as tie - in for the 2011 Starz fantasy television series, Camelot.