Sentences with phrase «by my publishers because»

It includes all of my published writings from 2008 — 2016, some of which were rejected by my publishers because they were too controversial.

In fact, I recently declined to review a book sent to me by the publisher because of the poor writing.

So, to find books that have been out for several years still on the shelves — and yet to know that the series has been dropped by the publisher because the publisher says they didn't sell — means either the publishers are completely incompetent, which is possible, or they are crooks, which is also possible.

Remember folks, there are documented cases of authors being dropped by their publishers because they self - published works completely unrelated to what they had sold to the publisher.

Needless to say, advances are way down, as well as royalties, and fewer books are being bought by publishers because there is only so much money to go around.

In this case I think the statement that people want to make is that they would like new IPs with innovative game play to have a chance because they are tired of the same reprocessed / repackaged games being given the «green light» by publishers because they are a known quantity.

Not exact matches

The FTC also said that when it comes to labelling, advertisers shouldn't use terms such as «Promoted» or «Promoted Stories,» because they are «at best ambiguous and potentially could mislead consumers that advertising content is endorsed by a publisher site.»

Speaking by phone from Detroit, Eight Mile Style publisher Joel Martin said he'd been infuriated during the trial by the defense's absurd contention that «Lose Yourself» wasn't original because it used the same chords as other songs.

Honestly, it's only a matter of time before it becomes clear that all the tracking devices, all the navigation devices, all the data - generating wearables of whatever stripe (just like all the content created by professional media publishers) will need to knuckle under and feed their results through Facebook's front door to the consumer, because that's where the consumer lives and that's where the data needs to be.

Moreover, there's bitterness over retailers like GameStop, the biggest player in used games, because they devote so much floor space to used games in spite of the huge marketing dollars spent by publishers on new products.

When it comes to labelling, the FTC said, advertisers shouldn't use terms such as «promoted» because «they are at best ambiguous and potentially could mislead consumers that advertising content is endorsed by a publisher.»

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Ad - based models are not working, even for large digital players, because «publishers enjoy far less pricing power, and even the largest of us are dwarfed by those who dominate the field, players like Facebook and Google whose immense scale allows them to undercut everybody else.»

The publisher didn't violate law by firing the employee because the postings weren't related to workplace conditions or seeking to engage co-workers to talk about employment, the NLRB's legal advice division said.

Hmmm: Recode, by the way, takes a skeptical view of Google's announcement: «Google and Facebook can't help publishers, because they're built to defeat publishers.»

It should be noted when Julian Robertson got upset with a Business Week article by Gary Weiss that had too much truth in it, he sued publisher McGraw Hill for $ 1 billion because it was «a nice round number.»

The cards which have been produced by the major publishers have various problems because of conditions imposed by the National Liturgical Committee.

With the benefit of hindsight we can say that The Da Vinci Code got noticed not only because of able marketing by the publisher, Doubleday, but because the book profoundly played into the manic milieu of truthiness.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

The Poppins Book Nook is unique because you're not selecting a book by author / publisher, but rather we are selecting any storybook that fits into the topic.

The soiree at the Loebs» (Michael is founder and CEO of Loeb Enterprises, an investor of media and consumer marketing firms) will have food provided by chefs from the Four Seasons and include such luminaries as Oscar - nominated actress Debra Winger, who left Hollywood because of the difficulties women face there; Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kathy Cloninger; Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of the Amsterdam News; and New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Based on the survival rate of books by Copernicus, Gingerich had expected to find twice as many volumes, but some 300 were destroyed by the publisher, he suspects, because the book's difficulty made it unpopular with its target audience: «A user familiar with the previous way of computing would no doubt freak out in the opening steps of the Rudolphine procedures,» upon seeing all the calculations Kepler had added for accuracy.

On another level, some publishers resent a central, NIH - run archive like PubMed Central because they fear that technical failures would affect all users at once, and because the government might impose restrictions in the future, for example, by ruling not to publish certain kinds of research.

So far, there's little evidence that scientific publishers have been seriously affected: None of 22 journals or journal publishers contacted by Science has rejected a research paper solely because of libel concerns, for example.

A dueling bill in the House championed by commercial publishers would scrap the NIH policy because, supporters say, it infringes on publishers» copyright and will put journals out of business.

Even if it doesn't get picked up by a publisher or no one outside my family reads it, I'm doing it because I want a physical representation of an extraordinary year.

Her first book, 365 Days of Coaching - Because Life Happens Every Day (Universal Publisher, 2004) was named a finalist for Best Book 2004 by Publish.com and has a five star rating on Amazon.com.

Deep Silver, the publisher known for the Dead Island and Saints Row series, is following through with its ridiculously crazy trend by adding Goat Simulator from Coffee Stain Studios to its catalogue, because it baaaaadly needs it.

The faulty results will not have the same impact as the mistakes made two years ago by CTB / McGraw - Hill, a Monterey, Calif. - based publisher of standardized tests, because the scoring flaw in this case was identified before the results were released publicly.

No longer are we constrained, unless we want to be, by publishing schedules that mean there may be a year or two at the very least between books because that is as quickly as the publisher can schedule them.

Because we are writing the books we like to read, books that weren't getting published by most traditional publishers and those few who do put out similar books can't put out enough to feed our reading habit.

For example, most of the «Uncategorized Single - Author Publisher» category is also Indie, but we keep it separate from Indie because we didn't verify book by book that those were known Indie authors.

Legacy publishers don't like to be thought of as «previous» or «outdated», even though they indeed are by any definition, so they reject the term because it conflicts with their personal identities.

A lot of aspiring authors gravitate toward new agents because they think the odds of being accepted by a long - time and / or famous agent are more difficult than sending an unsolicited MS directly to a publisher.

You are right in that there are a lot of bad indie books out there, but I also think there are a lot of bad trad books out there... some of which are indie publishers that got picked up by trad publishers because readers loved the books.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

Unfortunately, because he was a nobody when starting out, he wouldn't have had much chance of being picked up by any of the major publishers, who are just like the studios in that they're extremely unwilling to take a chance on an unproven unknown.

The specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income because it is easier to make money by going indie.

Publishers are willing to experiment with different models for audiobook distribution because they don't abide by the same agency model that applies to e-books.

Besides, it is delusional to think that just because something is printed by a publisher it is of good quality.

US based publishers have been unable to market their textbooks and print books to the Philippines because of sanctions imposed by the United States Trade Representatives 301 Report.

We'll, here is the kicker:» the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie.»

Not everyone does this, but enough authors do, so the big 5 are threatened because many self - published authors know how to put out a quality book, and they are not constrained by the marketing or accounting departments of a big publisher.

This details matters because in July of last year Amazon started paying authors and publishers with ebooks in Kindle Unlimited by the number of pages read, rather than the number of times an ebook is borrowed.

* (By the way — most indie publishers don't use the dinosaur ISBN system because it's unnecessary and meaningless and overpriced therefore their (quite copious) sales are not being recorded for the purposes of this article.)

I think the main reason is because they only stock physical books by new authors that the publisher is really hyping and perennial bestsellers by recognizable authors.

At the same time, it doesn't make sense to say «self - publishers aren't authors», because there are a lot of us who struggle to find a readership and build a fan base as the market becomes increasingly saturated by pointless crap and everyone else vying for recognition.

-LSB-... here the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie.]

This would be far more understandable a concern if most consumers knew how much an author's work is stripped away in the editorial process by major publishers, and then understood that self - published authors often chose to pursue indie authorship because random gatekeepers had deemed their book wasn't fit or worthy enough for mass market publication.

I know of one author whose publisher was told by a number of key accounts that they were not going to buy the author's newest book because the previous one had come out only three months earlier.