Sentences with phrase «by the publisher on»

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.

Kindle Countdown Deals can be used by any publisher on any book that is exclusive to the Kindle Store.

• When a book is not obviously for sale by its publisher on Amazon, the author may not be making royalties.

Readers (by this upward pressure by publishers on book length to justify their pricing) have also been trained to sometimes like longer books.

She added that the SoA was concerned about the terms and conditions being offered by publishers on continuing share, and that the 25 % royalty rate commonly offered on e-books «doesn't adequately reward authors and is giving publishers a disproportionate share.»

Copyright registration is made by the publisher on behalf of the author; the author most certainly owns the work.

However, the days when all self - published and micropress books were stuff that was rejected by every publisher on the planet are gone.

If there is a problem with your selection, Amazon will tell you then and there — ie, if you are an author in an anthology and not listed by the publisher on the detail page, then you can't add the book.

The Trust Indicators are meant to enable people to quickly assess the trustworthiness of a story and are produced by publishers on their sites.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

With the sixth season of Game of Thrones set to air in April, Martin's publishers wanted the latest installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series to be on shelves by March.

This confirms what sources close to the company have been saying for some time, which is that it is de-emphasizing Medium's in - house publications and focusing on hosting content produced by other publishers.

By optimizing content that best fits the community on each channel, a publisher can keep readers talking and engaging with content and drawing more attention.

Or, how about J.K. Rowling who was rejected 12 times by publishers and is now one of the richest women on the planet?

Evolution's developers, Jeff Sember and Don Mattrick (who now heads up Microsoft's interactive entertainment business), went on to form Distinctive Software and became one of the largest publishers of video games not owned by a console maker in the 1980s.

For example, publishers were not allowed to use more than one «banner» style ad of 320 by 250 pixels for every 500 words of content for a Facebook article, but on their own sites they might use three or four for the same amount of content.

As Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, given the job after her husband died, she isn't taken seriously by the men on her paper's board or very well - respected in the newsroom.

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard reported a 50.4 % surge in quarterly revenue on Thursday, propelled by the popularity of the newly - launched Overwatch game and the boost from the acquisition of Candy Crush maker King Digital.

Some saw the site crash as a sign that the Tribune shouldn't be running its own site at all, but should instead be publishing on another more robust site such as Medium, the publisher / platform founded by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams.

Luckily for you, the barrier to entry isn't too high — my first two books were published by a traditional publisher, and I'm currently working on a self - published e-book.

Social analytics firm SocialFlow said recently that the «reach» of a particular post on Facebook — meaning the total number of users who see it — has fallen for some publishers by as much as 52 % from January through July.

That means Metacritic scores — which can determine financial bonuses for executives at studios and publishers — are compiled by trade and industry press, all of whom often depend on those same companies for their very livelihood.

Bankrate, an online publisher of personal finance content, said on Monday it would be acquired by digital marketing company Red Ventures for $ 1.24 billion.

To to succeed on a platform - by - platform basis, a publisher's content has to be uniquely positioned to fit the norms of each platform.

Book publishers fetishized the physical object, and then offset the risk tied up in all that paper by taking no chances with whose words they printed on it.

«So far,» says Tony Fasciano, the New York - based magazine's publisher, «by using Tumblr as the main blog site, and creating pages on Twitter and Facebook, we have been able to generate about 100 page views a day — all without yet issuing our first press release.»

Valve's Steam platform pioneered digital distribution back in 2003, almost singlehandedly rescuing PC gaming from oblivion while simultaneously putting a significant brake on piracy, getting consumers to accept the often widely hated digital rights management and increasing profitability for publishers and developers by cutting out physical retail.

In fact, it's now easier for small businesses to place display ads on millions of websites by going through a few ad networks that have purchased most of the space available on publisher websites.

In 2008, the company was forced to shut down when the project it was working on was cancelled by publisher Eidos.

European Union regulators are to end an antitrust probe into e-book prices by accepting an offer by Apple and four publishers to ease price restrictions on Amazon, two sources said on Tuesday.

Past cyber attacks on scores of organizations around the world were conducted with top - secret hacking tools that were exposed recently by the Web publisher WikiLeaks, the security researcher Symantec said on Monday.

As Lewis noted on Monday after his story was publicized, some publishers» articles on the story came emblazoned with fake ads — online publishers tend to just put empty boxes on their sites that are filled by ad networks, with the publisher getting a cut.

MONTREAL — Comments made by Justin Trudeau to the United Nations on Tuesday shouldn't prevent Donald Trump from working with the prime minister should he become U.S. president, says well - known American magazine publisher Steve Forbes.

Microsoft cleared up the confusion by posting some clear policies on its website a few days before E3, stating that the Xbox One will need to connect once a day to authenticate games and that publishers will be able to block used games if they choose.

Other major publishers continued to use the authority's seal, but the regulator no longer vetted each individual book, instead relying on publishers to abide by the guidelines.

Templates for VisiCalc, SuperCalc, and other popular programs include tax - preparation models from Professional Software Technology (priced at $ 49, $ 99, and $ 149; P.O. Box 269, Rockport, MA 01966) and agricultural applications created by AgriSoft ($ 19.95 per disk; Suite 202, 1001 E. Walnut St., Columbia, MO 65201) VisiCalc's publisher, VisiCorp, recently issued its own set of seven interrelated applications worksheets; available on a single disk under the title «VisiCalc Business Forecasting Model» ($ 100) are such easily filled templates as Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flow, and Cost of Goods Sold.

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors.

Referral traffic (desktop + mobile) to the top 30 Facebook publishers (as defined by their reliance on Facebook) plunged 32 percent from January to October, according to SimpleReach, a distribution analytics company.

Google on Wednesday said it would begin penalizing the search rankings of websites that use pop - up mobile ads asking users to install an app, the latest move by the company that could have a big impact on advertisers, publishers and other content creators.

After spending at least 34 months on one or more Amazon.com bestseller lists (Environment, Green Business, Business), the award - winning book Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green was taken out of print by the publisher.

His best - selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series was rejected by over 144 publishers before going on to sell over 100 million copies.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Condé Nast on Monday won a federal judge's preliminary approval to pay $ 5.85 million to settle a class - action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who claimed the magazine publisher underpaid them.

Rich Kaarlgard, publisher of Forbes, put it # 1 under Instructional Tips on his «2007 Books to Get Rich By.»

You may choose to publish your review on KirkusReviews.com where it can be discovered by industry influencers, agents, publishers and consumers.

While not captured by current antitrust doctrine, the pressure Amazon puts on publishers merits concern.285 For one, consolidation among book sellers — partly spurred by Amazon's pricing tactics and demands for better terms from publishers — has also spurred consolidation among publishers.

A newly published study sheds light on the practice by examining the tradeoffs that website publishers must make between privacy and monetization when they share information with third parties.

She is still called on by universities and publishers to consult on the digitization of education and effective online communication practices.

So far, 2018 has been a roller coaster ride of industry shifts for publishers, kicked off by Facebook's sweeping algorithm change that left brands wondering about the future of traffic growth and monetization on social.

Not to mention, when you first start out, you'll be relegated to posting on low - authority sources, scraping by with minimal yield until you build up enough of a reputation to start posting on bigger, more prominent publishers.

We seldom see much reporting of buyouts and layoffs these days, as some publishers concluded that the industry's problems were only being exacerbated by its reporting on its own staff changes.