It started operations in 1969 by publishing Canadian caselaw from jurisdictions not
covered by other publishers.
Not exact matches
For some books,
publishers are obliged to remove material owned
by others (such as images or tables under a license that only
covers the print edition or specific territories).
If they choose to look only at «large
publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required
by their
publishers to follow) the «books
by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's
cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.
In a press call
covered by Heidi MacDonald of
Publishers Weekly, Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort acknowledged that graphic novels are «more and more a preferred format, even with the rise of digital» but were always a «fiscal problem» until «openings of various
other distribution channels allowed this to work.»
And although the PPB costs are eliminated, there are still various costs associated with publishing an ebook, such as
cover design, layout & formatting, editing (professional), marketing and
other miscellaneous costs (legal, distribution, author assistant etc) all which will be shouldered
by the author (or
publisher).
Book promotion is the
other area once
covered by traditional
publishers and now left largely to book authors, even when you publish with the bigger and more reputable houses.
Where
Publishers will provide added value is also
by «reselling» it's pools of «external experts»: editors (devlopmental and
others),
cover designers, blurb works...
In
other words, the only time a
publisher is ever paid the
cover price on their books is if they sell them directly to the customer, usually
by mail order.
For a simple way to get started selling
other publishers» ebooks, affiliate programmes such as those offered
by Amazon, Kobo and Google, are worth a look, especially for
covering small niches.
If you are paralyzed
by the thought of learning enough about
cover design, layout work, copyediting, and the various
other publisher tasks, self publishing is not for you.
Now Fogleman's work for the game has been compiled into a soundtrack album
by Material Collective,
publishers of
other video game music
covers we've discussed before.
When I first saw it I thought that this would be a useful model for
other publishers to use, not only because it
covers OUP content, but because it also indexes the content of 14
other academic presses now hosted
by OUP via University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)[1].