Sentences with phrase «charge authors or publishers»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more most traditional publishers are charging for ebooks, but as an Indie author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting and willing to pay.

Publishers also establish a level of changes which they will allow the author to make in the final stages of production, often 10 % or 15 % of the cost of preparing the proofs, above which the author will be charged against royalties.

Editors, authors, agents, and publishers may submit more than one book, in the same categories or different ones, but an entry fee is charged for each book entered.

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

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.

I find it very interesting that there are many new types of publishers who — for one reason or another — are calling themselves «hybrid publishers» and still attempt to charge authors some kind of «package» of services.

The publisher, within the past five years, may not have charged a fee to consider, read, submit, or comment on manuscripts; nor may the publisher, or any of the executives or editors under its employ, have offered authors self - publishing services, literary representation, paid editorial services, or paid promotional services.

Inkubate, a new approach to the slush pile, is a website that will give authors an access portal to upload any or all of their manuscripts for free with the knowledge that agents and publishers will be scouring the site's files looking for great literary content; for a fee, that is, as the agents and publishers will be charged a subscription fee to be allowed to peruse the manuscripts.

These review channels are how these gatekeepers discover new books for kids, but they either exclude indie books (School Library Journal), are indie - unfriendly (Booklist wants paper books months in advance), or charge indie authors a hefty fee to be reviewed in a segregated section that librarians and teachers are much less likely to read (Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus).

Led by Amazon and Author Solutions» imprints, which include iUniverse and Xlibris, self - publishing has become one of the fastest growing sectors in publishing.The two firms today announced the launch of Archway Publishing, which unlike traditional publishers, will not pay advances to authors, but instead charge fees to release, distribute and publicize their books in print or digital formats.

Whether you are an author trying to format your first novel or the developer in charge of formatting eBooks for a large publisher, my book, Kindle Formatting, is written for you.

Indie publishing just means the author is in charge, not agents, editors, or publishers.

I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons why an author or publisher might wish to charge more for a book, and I am not going to extend this post unduly by trying to evaluate them.

Most of our reviews are written free of charge and do not discriminate whatsoever between independent authors or those at large publishers and everyone in between.

At least you will be a published author in charge of your own destiny and not rotting on a slush pile of some disinterested agent or publisher!

The list is compiled from ebooks which are promoted free of charge by the author or publisher for that day.

-- A vanity or subsidy publisher charges a fee to produce a book, or requires the author to buy something as a condition of publication, such as finished books or marketing services.