Sentences with phrase «dead tree publishers»

I myself find that while actual incidence can vary wildly, the average number and annoyance of typos increases the further one gets from traditional dead tree publishers.

Maybe more authors should consider publishing directly in e-format and eliminate the dead tree publisher's altogether.

Not exact matches

I attribute a huge chunk of dropping share of eBooks largely to the publishers» Pyrrhic victory in raising eBooks prices compared to dead - tree, of course.

I agree with what Andreys saying, and I do feel the big publishers who are pushing for this are working togather to try and wring more profits out of ebook sales and / or push people back to buying more dead tree copies.

so the publisher wants hard cover or near hardcover prices, for a product that in effect is all gravy for them, they already did the work to get the book edited and formated and proof read (for the dead tree version), effectively they want the same $ for a less valuable product.

Implementing new systems under the old publishing model can be costly and time - consuming, especially if legacy publishers attempt to hang onto «dead trees» as salable content to readers.

So, I understand full well why many self - publishing writers, facing obstinate and unseemly industry resistance, adopt an embattled posture and focus on what's wrong with traditional («legacy») publishers and their diminishing («dead tree») products.

Every author, unless locked into a long - term contract with a dead - tree publisher, has the bargaining power to negotiate over pricing.

In Good Ol' Dead Tree, Vorhaus — formerly «a budding novelist with a big - time publisher» — plays out this grimmer subplot for us with a sad, cobblestone candor.Not much validation, he says, in a $ 26.75 monthly check from Amazon.

They expect — mostly — an ebook to have the same standard of editing, formatting etc. as they'd expect from a dead tree book by one of the big publishers.

Won't happen until publishers get realistic about the price of e-books, and even then it will only reduce the dead - tree - version market, not destroy it.

Some of this persists with ebooks (among other things because the selling process and publisher relationships are often tightly tied to the dead - tree books), while other parts disappear.

Dead - tree Publishers may be gigantic, old, and unwieldy, but thier primary interest is to sell books for a profit.

«Baen, a publishing house that specializes in fantasy and sci - fi, mostly with a militaristic bent, says that they've found that e-books significantly increase profits,» responded one commenter at a technology web site, even though that publisher sells DRM - free versions of their ebooks «for substantially less than they sell dead - tree versions.»

Also, dead trees do not need batteries (as long as you have enough light), never go obsolete, and you can still use it even if the publisher goes belly - up.

The whole point is that, as publishers, we collectively need to stop thinking ONLY of the «dead tree» version of the book we grew up with.