Sentences with phrase «deal with publishers directly»

Findaway powers the vast majority of audiobook stores that do not deal with publishers directly.

Since you, the fiction writer, are not dealing with the publisher directly as you can do these days, your royalty statement and any money with it FIRST goes to an agent in the country of the publisher.

Not exact matches

I'm an active TPL digital borrower, and was not aware that the library deals directly with publishers on ebook purchases — the website list of digital services shows only intermediary services like OverDrive, Hoopla, etc..

Its primary objective is to save authors from having to deal with literary agents or publishers while allowing them to publish their writings directly for consumption by a world audience.

Finally, on a pure process level, I am wary of a world without agents or publishers: that would mean that you have large booksellers, who have substantial market power, dealing with authors directly, the vast majority of whom do not have any substantial market power, and where there are antitrust issues that may arise from collective action.

Often when such deals are reported in the media, they're presented as if the author transitioned directly from self - publishing to commercial publishing, with no intervening circumstances — i.e., the publishers themselves found out about the great sales numbers or the buzz and were so impressed that they snapped the authors up.

Experienced authors will not sign a contract with a non-compete clause, and publishers aren't going to promise not to publish books that compete directly with the author's, so it's just a bad deal.

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.

If you missed my article on why most self - publishers should never try dealing directly with a printer, (Click here)

Before the introduction of book agents in the early 20th century, publishers dealt directly with authors.

Instead of dealing with publishers and selling books directly to customers they instead are using the Kobo ecosystem.

Aside from Comixology, Amazon also deals directly with thousands of publishers all over the world.

They expanded their catalog in April of 2015 when they started dealing directly with major publishers.

I have self - published (with a distribution deal), worked with a small publisher directly, and worked with a major publisher (Wiley) on a book that was sold via an agent.

Sites like Lulu and Amazon's CreateSpace allow them to produce print editions of their books without the hassle of setting up a publishing business and dealing directly with print - on - demand publishers.»

Overdrive has their own internal solution, where they approach publishers directly, instead of dealing with Acoustic, Findaway or Hoopla.

You will never be able to deal with them directly, and they will get their ebooks from aggregators and distributers, not directly from publishers.

Major textbook publishers are trying to tap into new revenue models to deal with students directly, and may have found the holy grail.

In her piece in Forbes announcing the news, Suw Charman - Anderson states that «Most reviewers don't want to deal with self - published authors directly because they don't really want to deal with any authors directly...» (emphasis mine)... and that «reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.»

«When we started ComiXology it was with a handful of comics from deals done directly with creators and very small publishers,» said co-founder and CEO of the company, David Steinberger.

But after much litigation over the ownership of public domain works, Google decided to the other route, and deal with publishers, and authors directly to sell copyrighted work and get a take.

Rather then form publisher relationships and deal directly with 1st party companies it simply made an agreement with Barnes and Noble.

Did Apple parlay the deal directly with publishers?

Lightning Source (LSI) only deals with publishers and not authors directly, but grants you access to Ingram, the world's largest book distributor

For authors that want to publish traditionally, most publishers do not deal directly with new authors and are more open to negotiating with a Book Agent.

There are also literary agencies who prefer to deal directly with publishers.

THAT»S why more and more publishers want to directly deal with authors.

They also worried that Amazon was moving to disintermediate publishers, or to cut them out of the publishing cycle and deal directly with authors.

Many decent - selling indie authors also deal directly with foreign publishers and are able to negotiate themselves significant advances for term - limited publication rights in foreign markets.

Publishers can deal directly with ACX or go through an aggregator, like Findaway Voices or Author's Republic, both of which distribute to more than a dozen additional outlets.

That's $ 5.60 more in royalties than the same book would fetch from an Audible membership sale (assuming the publisher is dealing directly with ACX, rather than through an aggregator).

Other authors are, however, dispatching more direct challenges to the traditional publishing industry model by signing deals directly with e-book retailers, rather than through their publishers.

Receiving and considering only work presented and pre-screened by Worthy Citizens (agents) means that publishers are building their business on the labor of folks that they refuse to deal with directly.

Along with the CEO and CFO, he was a key member of the team directly involved with the work on the deal that resulted in Postmedia becoming the largest publisher by circulation of newspapers in Canada.

Amazon is working on a $ 5 - a-month music subscription service that will be exclusive to owners of the company's internet - connected Echo speaker.According to Recode, Amazon is planning to introduce the service in September alongside another music streaming service that costs $ 10 a month, to compete more directly with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify.Industry sources say the company has yet to finalize deals with major music labels and publishers.

Facebook in October introduced a new feature designed to let publishers sell subscriptions to their news sites directly on Facebook, but the social network could not work out a deal with Apple, preventing the news subscription options from being available on Facebook for iOS.At issue was Apple's demand for its standard 30 percent cut of any subscription revenue brought in through the Facebook iOS app, while Facebook wanted all money to go to publishers.At today's Code Media event, Facebook executive Campbell Brown said the dispute with Apple had been resolved, which means the subscription service tool will launch on iOS devices on March 1.