Of course writers have to realize that self - publishing, even in the indie - friendly world of ebooks, doesn't mean you do
n't deal with a publisher.
Most vendors recognize indie authors and will deal with you directly, though a few
only deal with publishers or distributors.
The giant social network has been slowly pushing original content and
making deals with publishers and creators to upload their work directly to the network's servers and its more than one billion users.
While not impossible for authors to market and sell their own titles outside of their home countries, many authors have
negotiated deals with publishers strictly for these international rights.
Several of them landed
publishing deals with publishers and one of them became a hybrid author who self - published and traditionally published their book at the same time.
My end goal is to hopefully sign a lucrative
book deal with a publisher to carry my whole series and any other books that come afterwards.
There I talked with a children's book publisher who was signing
deals with publishers in Korea, China, Russia, Spain, etc. who would translate his books into their native language and republish under their own imprint in that market.
Barnes & Noble
strikes deals with publishers for content on its Nook e-reader, though the company wouldn't comment to Macworld on how it splits subscription revenue with publishers in its Nook store.
But then again, why would Apple want to buy an existing bookstore and integrate the titles into their own iBookstore when
signing deals with publishers can bring the same content to the Apple bookstore?
The features of its iPad
deal with publishers include applications to let students play video, highlight text, record lectures, take printed notes, search the text, and participate in interactive quizzes to test how much they've learned and where they may need more work.
Baker and Taylor have inked a
new deal with publisher Macmillan to have their entire back catalog of 11,000 eBooks available for libraries.
While I've certainly held dreams of being traditionally published for many years, as an author, I wouldn't be thrilled if I were signed to a long - term
deal with a publisher who was trying to kill e-books and giving me lower and lower e-book royalties, while indie authors are about to get 70 %.
Nintendo of Europe have signed a distribution
deal with publisher Square Enix to distribute the upcoming Nintendo 3DS exclusive Heroes of Ruin.
I've mentioned that book here so often, you can all be forgiven for assuming that Ms. Poppendieck and I are secretly related, or that I have some lucrative
royalty deal with her publisher, but in truth, it's just an awesome book for anyone trying to wade through the byzantine mess that is our current national school lunch program and interested in ideas for fixing it.
(CNN)- Sarah Palin was paid at least $ 1.25 million for her book
deal with publisher Harper Collins, newly filed financial disclosure forms reveal.
This makes it much less attractive for Amazon to
deal with publishers rather than cutting them out of the equation and dealing directly with authors or even with agents.
Part of the terms of the Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and several major publishers included the establishment of an external watchdog to monitor Apple's actions, especially where
business deals with publishers are concerned.
Again, no deal in the works yet, but it looks like Scribd, which has been signing its
own deals with publishers lately for its online store, is working on it.
There is a small news team at Facebook already, but they
primarily deal with publishers on their platform and help organizations monetize their content and try to solve any lingering technology issues, but they can not speak publicly regarding the quality of the news.
Apple is also required to hire an outside non-Apple employee who will oversee all of its
future deals with publishers in order to avoid anti-trust violations.
I have 12 traditionally published books and an agent, but after a couple of frustrating
years dealing with a publisher canceling my series because of a power - play among the editors, year - long wait times on submissions (even with an agent), and a market so narrow that I was advised that I probably couldn't sell children's historical fiction set in ancient Egypt unless it involves zombie mummies, I decided to try self - publishing.
Unlike in music where illegal services developed faster than legal ones for downloads, he said ebook retailers were used to
dealing with publishers so «the ecosystem that built up around digital was legal».