Sentences with phrase «deal with publishers on»

Book Agents also negotiate your book deal with publishers on your behalf.

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.

Currently, the DCL model still has library systems and multi-type library consortia dealing with publishers on a one - to - one basis.

Not exact matches

They were negotiating with Warner Music over the rights to publish and annotate the company's lyrics on their site, having already made similar deals with all the other key publishers, and thereby dodging a serious legal threat to the site's business model.

The contract values are based on publishers» popularity on Facebook and the number of broadcasts they are willing to stream, according to Facebook and people familiar with the terms of the deals.

Newspaper publishers across the U.S. already strapped by years of declining revenue say they're dealing with an existential threat: Recently imposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint driving up their business costs.

I made the very difficult decision to leave working in my dream job with Jamie and branch out on my own to tell my story in food so I quit my job, went freelance as a food stylist and recipe writer and within a year I was fortunate enough to have been spotted by my amazing publisher Louise Haines and was offered a book deal and from there my blog, newspaper and magazine columns all organically followed on.

Although the governor has never revealed the details of his deal with the publisher — an arm of News Corp. — Cuomo's tax returns show he received $ 188,333 from the publisher in 2013, and his May filings with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics revealed that he is in line to be paid deferred compensation between $ 550,000 and $ 650,000.

Leshner, a neuroscientist and also executive publisher of Science, praised the speakers «for both substantive expertise and experience on the ground dealing with these kinds of issues.»

When I announced my new book deal for How Not to Die with Macmillan Publishers, I expressed concern that I'd have to pull back on the NutritionFacts.org new video schedule.

Considering Square Enix, Konami and THQ Nordic have already been featured in the last five to six months, it could be time for another publisher to offer one of its titles for PS4: could it be Bandai Namco with Dark Souls III, which has also been rumored for being part of a recent flash weekend deal on PlayStation Store?

As Dickens struggles with his novel and deals with repudiations from his publishers, his thoughts and ideas are manifested on screen by actors who represent the very colorful characters he concocts, visible only to him.

This week's Xbox Live Spotlight and Deals with Gold sales are ready, and Ubisoft has a nice publisher's sale going on.

Creating a top - notch resource — one that is on par with or better than those created by educational publishers — takes a great deal of time and energy.

Kia's also making a big deal of its new ambient lighting system: 64 colors are available, but seven unique hues have been designed in conjunction with Pantone, the color experts familiar to every graphic artist and publisher on earth.

An interesting point to note on this particular story is that despite having a deal with an American publisher for her first two books, she decided to part ways when the publisher wanted world English rights for the third book as she thought she could sell enough independently.

Now I could go on and on about the illusionary «support» traditional publishers and agents say they give writers, but anyone who has dealt with that system for any length of time knows that's just gotten worse as well in the last ten years.

I took her on as a client and got her a multi-book deal with a major publisher.

But the government called shenanigans on the publishers» deal with Apple, so it looks like Amazon is free and clear to drop prices again.

Look at her deals on Publishers Marketplace, and then look at the authors she has sold who are now with other agents.

Publishers don't like the fact that Overdrive deals with Amazon and allows their books to be borrowed on the entire range of Kindle devices, which is why they missed out on the Penguin trial that was announced last June.

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..

Some of the publishers that signed on to deal with Shelfie, include Blackstone Audio, Gildan Media, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio, Scholastic Audio and Naxos Audiobooks.

If the publishers would agree a deal with Tom Kabinet, they would get a share for every sold e-book, even when that was an illegal one, they did get some money to compensate that which they would never got if people only download them from usenet, but they didn't even react on that offer made by Tom Kabinet.

3M is really being put on the map with the last few major business deals they have scored with major publishers.

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thPublishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thpublishers themselves (the nerve!).

Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.

As you noted above with publishers, negotiability is going to depend on how badly the parties want the deal (i.e. if an agent or publisher really wants the work and the author has options, then the agent or publisher is likely to be willing to negotiate the terms of the contract).

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It's the case where I set into the deal, having done research on the company, with a very strong feeling that my income potential from the book will be higher with the publisher than without it.

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.

If you're work isn't good enough to land an agent, or a deal on your own with a legitimate publisher (and for those who have a problem with the word «legitimate,» The MWA criteria work for me — you can find them on their website), then your work is almost certainly not ready to be published.

If the publisher can convince them that they're likely to get more readers or sell more books (and the publisher will, by nature, be more interested in the latter proposition), they might jump on it, knowing that they're dealing with Scenario # 2.

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

Amazon struck a deal with publisher HarperCollins that reportedly gives up some of the tech giant's dominance on how much consumers pay for books online.

But, the people who don't think they can, don't want to or haven't managed to get a deal with a publisher, and don't feel that they can afford and spend the time on self - publishing it, might feel that this is the best way to go.

It sends a message and it will cut down on the annoyance of them having to deal with every big publisher's whining and fighting against ebooks.

Traditional publishers build their business around the typical sales curve of a print book: put a lot of copies on bookstore shelves, see what sells in the first 90 days, and deal with returns and marginal ongoing demand on most titles.

Printed books have to be moved around on pallets in trucks, and since micromanaging physical distribution in the UK would be hard and expensive for a publisher in the US, it make a lot of sense for the US publisher to cut a deal with a UK counterpart: I give you the right to some content, you print the books and distribute them, and we share the profits.

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

On February 2, Random House, the only one of the «Big 6» publishers to provide ebooks to libraries without restrictions, made an announcement that they would continue their generous policy, but that there would be a price hike to deal with some of the issues surrounding permanent access to ebooks.

John Sinn, a librarian at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, said bluntly: «Why don't the editors, who are generally faculty, and the reviewers, who are generally faculty, and the authors, who are almost always faculty or government researchers — why don't they just [publish] on their own and not deal with the publishers?»

It is now possible for games companies such as Capcom to extend their fantastic stories into the literary marketplace without having to rely on a traditional licensing deal with a book publisher,» he said.

Publishers in Russia will benefit from the deal as they will have access to «high - quality, print - on - demand book manufacturing and established relationships with the leaders in online, chain and independent booksellers and distributors in Russia and the former Soviet Union,» as stated in the press release.

Apple's deal with publishers, as you may know, lets the publishers set the price for e-books (with a lowest - price guarantee) in Apple's iBooks store with Apple getting a 30 % cut on sales.

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.

The academy, with just under 200 students in Ontario — and more internationally — would not disclose the deal it has struck with Sony and educational publisher Pearson Canada, but said the cost «was not a significant investment» and will not be passed on to students, although it will divert money set aside for new library acquisitions.

Prices for Kindle e-books can now be set at 12.99 or 14.99 in deals similar to those that Apple has with publishers providing digital works for iPad devices that make their US debut on Saturday.

It's completely up to you, but the position of professional indie authors these days is more about partnership with publishers on rights deals that are good for both parties.

Apple had been rumored to be in secret negotiations with publishers for a deal with similar price points for e-books on the iPad, which may help give publishers more influence over how their books are priced.