Sentences with phrase «deal with publishers rather»

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.

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Find an Agent — Most traditional publishers would rather deal with a community of trusted agents who know the publishing industry than wade through mountains of submissions, themselves.

Some of the recipes are short enough that I can transcribe it by typing it in again to the computer, but I feel offended that I can not deal with this in an efficient manner rather than a work around, working around the paranoia of publishers.

But when he states that «many publishers view e-books with a skeptical eye» I know we're dealing with someone who is operating from hearsay rather than relevant experience in the trenches of a large and established publishing company....

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

Commenting on the deal, another senior publisher said: «If I were Waterstones, I'd rather tie up with a ruthless devil than an also - ran,» a reference to the abortive deal with Nook.

The benefit of working with a traditional publisher, rather than with an author who's self - published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.

If you're able to write you should focus on that, and seek the advice of others who understand editing and marketing and publicity and design - rather like dealing with a real publisher.

And while it used to be an «all or nothing» deal with traditional (aka legacy) publishers, today's editors are willing to compromise with indie authors, often splitting up digital, print, and subsidiary rights rather than simply acquiring them all.

My problem is not necessarily that OverDrive is doing this (which I do find ethically questionable, but whatever — if they make a deal with a devil publisher and offer devilish terms to libraries as a result, rather than nothing, so be it).

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.

It will be a bit easier for the big publishers selling books to Wal - mart and Target to manage the business through one big account rather than two (one fewer account to deal with), but it is still a frustratingly inefficient segment of the business.

Hachette won the first round, doing a deal with Apple and forcing Amazon to accept an agency agreement, rather than a flat rate that gave publishers more control over prices.

This week's Deals with Gold is a rather special promotion as an EA publisher sale is also underway.