Sentences with phrase «by mainstream publishers in»

Self - publishing has become the tsunami, the 9.6 earthquake, the paradigm shift of the literary world, overwhelming book publishing with more titles published by authors than by mainstream publishers in the year 2010.

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

Not exact matches

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

In other words, anyone who downloads their free textbooks will have a more accurate textbook than one published by the mainstream commercial publishers - and the process of updating the textbooks took only one day!

Although the overall price paid for e-books was said to have fallen by around 1 % in 2015, self - published titles were still thought to be, on average, roughly half the price of mainstream publishers» e-book titles.

The mainstream publishers offer fantastic promotional opportunities with editions of your novel in national booksellers, plus reviews by newspapers and even visual media coverage.

Like many other authors who are discarded or ignored by mainstream publishers for one reason or another, I had found a voice in the writing community and had discovered the confidence to self - publish, which up until that point, would have found it difficult to do so.

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

This ill - fated connection results in the inflated pricing of ebooks attributed to the expense of first producing the pbook by mainstream publishers.

In reality, self - publishing offers anyone with a manuscript and a credit card the opportunity to publish, and the success rate is less than one percent... Self - published books have yet to offer the quality and originality sometimes lacking in books produced by mainstream publisherIn reality, self - publishing offers anyone with a manuscript and a credit card the opportunity to publish, and the success rate is less than one percent... Self - published books have yet to offer the quality and originality sometimes lacking in books produced by mainstream publisherin books produced by mainstream publishers.

With «The Lion's Gate,» the book that we were talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a sales force and all that.

Mainstream publishers have a huge advantage in their clean, stylish, elegant and well - designed sites; indie authors have too much control and screw things up by trying to personalize things.

This is exactly how mainstream publishers zero in on commercially successful books from the self - publishing platform; Juggernaut is attempting to concentrate the activity on its platform by «building a community of readers and writers».

My book is doing a lot better than most new releases by debut authors of mainstream publishers, so in the end I think no matter how you publish, readers will ultimately decide what they want.»

Mainstream publishers are also taking advantage of these new channels, notably Tor.com, the science - fiction imprint of MacMillan, and Penguin eSpecials, both publishing low - cost short - form works by their existing authors in the form of excerpts, reprints and original new pieces.

Numerous Golden Heart winners have gone on to get repped by good literary agents, and in turn, published by mainstream romance publishers — likely with better contract terms than S&S's boilerplate contract, which is currently riddled with rights grabs.

Independent software developers face the same pricing pressures and economic hurdles that independent authors face, and the same obstacles in trying to get products placed on store shelves or accepted by mainstream publishers.

Rita Rosenkranz, among the first literary agents to work with indie authors, says that in the past «because of the stigma of self - publishing very good stuff was locked out by mainstream publishers.»

I am also Secretary general of the LIA Foundation (Italian Accessible Books), a not - for - profit organisation set up by AIE to support Italian publishers in delivering accessible versions of e-books in EPUB format in the mainstream distribution channels.

In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover bookIn an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover bookin the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

In the old days of vanity publishing, those publishers had few mechanisms for book distribution, and even fewer chances of having their vanity publications taken seriously by any of the mainstream book reviewers.

Joanna's website, The Creative Penn, was voted one of the Top 10 Blogs for Self - Publishers on Writetodone in 2012, and has been recognized by various mainstream media outlets, such as Forbes, The Guardian, BBC News, The Huffington Post, Writer's Digest, The Independent, and Wired.

By giving independent authors an arena in which they can sell their books without the competition of mainstream publishers, KU has empowered them to find audiences in new ways.

The hand - wringing by friends of the big publishers in the mainstream media over the Department of Justice's moves has been something to behold, but it comes as no surprise.

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.

In the NPR interview, Eisler — several of whose books have become New York Times (s nyt) bestsellers after being marketed and published by traditional agencies — says he has come to the conclusion that mainstream publishers simply aren't as efficient or as useful to authors as they used to be, now that there are other options:

«With the average price paid for these Amazon / self - published ebooks still around half the price of ebooks from «mainstream» publishers in all main categories, the overall price paid for ebooks fell by 1 percent in 2015.

UP titles are designed to be comparable in appearance, content and price from books released by mainstream conventional publishers.

I could go on and on, but I'll close by mentioning the many, many mainstream - published authors who have, or are currently, self - publishing their back catalogs (which the publisher no longer keeps in print), their more experimental work, and their manuscripts that have been rejected by their publishers for whatever reason.

The future may be a world where authors prove themselves in the self - published world before they are snapped up by mainstream publishers.

But I do feel we are all missing on the benefits to be derived from the Big Five or small, respected legacy presses, if we don't realize that the legacy publishers offer something more than a contract and royalties: they offer a chance to be reviewed by independent professional critics in the mainstream media and to access all the prestigious prizes — and this should be also said loud and clear and I hope you dedicate a future post to this.