Sentences with phrase «dealing with publishers so»

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».

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As Fortune noted today, Facebook has reportedly signed deals with companies like BuzzFeed and Vox to create longer - form, TV - style video content for the social network's video service, though some publishers may have reservations about whether it would be worth it for them to do so.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

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.

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.

The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so - called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model.

With all the problems that can happen when dealing with the traditional publishers, don't forget that they do handle some things so that you don't haveWith all the problems that can happen when dealing with the traditional publishers, don't forget that they do handle some things so that you don't havewith the traditional publishers, don't forget that they do handle some things so that you don't have to.

As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high perceived value for their books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.

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

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As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

Finding this article was very timely for me (well, I looked for it, so of course it was) as I've been dealing with a publisher for a couple of months.

You might say, «I have written such and such book, and it deals with so and so; the title is thus and thus, the ISBN number, publisher's address, and price is such and such.

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.

Of course, it's also nice to have the staff at your publisher doing all of the following for you as well (so you don't have to): editing, formatting, cover design, production, distribution, sales, marketing, publicity, licensing, and dealing with any legal issues that might come up.

So, now that we've got those things out of the way, here's what I look for in bloggers who want to get a book deal with a publisher.

The other thing to know about ISBNs, so say you self - publish or you're an indie author, you create your book, you put it out in the marketplace, and then you get a publishing deal with a traditional publisher.

I love the fact that there are so many options today: traditional deals with big publishers, deals with small presses, pure indie publishing, and hybrid options.

If you have a conventional deal with a publisher, you will get your advance, so in that sense there is certainty to traditional publishing.

So far only a handful of smaller comics publishers, such as Arcana and Seven Seas Manga, have signed on formally, but Elder told LJ that iVerse has «handshake deals» with several larger names which it hopes to finalize and announce in the next few weeks.

Publishers just don't have the manpower to read all submissions, so they rely on agents to deal with the flood.

So given the above, and a heaven sent opportunity (via Hugh Howey) to get a better deal for the people he supposedly works for, from the people he fights with for them... Does he blog... 1) Now there is evidence that self - published authors can achieve the same or better status and sales and a far, far higher income, I will point this out to them and to the publishers (that I fight with all the time) and tell them they've had a bumper year of profits, and unless they want to lose their authors, we'd better re-negotiate a much better deal on e-books.

I'd already decided I wanted to self - publish the Lady Raven books, so I made the follow - up decision that I would also work on an all - new series that I could use to find an agent and a deal with a larger publisher, or one at least closer to home.

So traditional publishers taking so long is just not something I want to deal with anymore at my agSo traditional publishers taking so long is just not something I want to deal with anymore at my agso long is just not something I want to deal with anymore at my age.

So how does this entire process work in relation to dealing with publishers?

They also do the publishing deals with the local publishers, so they would be in a position to step in very quickly should the REDgroup brands wink out of existence here.

With so much discussion in the industry about reasons for authors to choose indie publishing over traditional, many authors and readers alike tend to overlook the fact that the end result of a traditional publishing deal only comes about after a publisher has signed the author's book.

And here we are: It took no more than a year or so from first contact with Laurie to a good publishing deal with a respectable US / UK publisher.

In a profession with so many hurdles (completing a novel, crafting query letters, self publishing books, seeking agents, finding a traditional publisher, marketing the novel, dealing with frequent rejection, persevering...) we must remember that our words and our stories help readers feel seen and heard.

Our editors choose the best of the books that authors and publishers submit to us so you won't have to deal with poorly - formatted books, books with excessive typos, or annoying plot lines.

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.

Amazon's made deals with Disney, Nickeloden, PBS, Marvel, and many other publishers, so there's plenty of content for every kid; we checked immediately for Curious George and Thomas the Tank Engine, and luckily both are present.

So translation rights, I mean, the thing about selling translation rights today, and I'm sure you know this, is that you often deal with the foreign publisher, they translate the book, they give you $ 500, and you never hear from them again; you never get any sales figures, you never build an audience in that country.

I love Baen books and it is so much easier dealing with them than the other publishers but a lot of what I read is put out by the Big 6 — I wish the publisher wouldn't treat libraries as if they were some kind of pariah..

It's so true — the Publishers are used to dealing with retailers and distributors.

So when you encounter the NDA as an editor, agent, or publisher, you know you're dealing with someone who isn't familiar with the standards of the industry.

After this unfortunate event, we would like to provide authors and publishers left stranded with the smoothest transition possible, so we have created a Pronoun import tool and have struck special deals with some distributors.

But the authors I have so far dealt with on eBook projects are not the most web savvy, and Pubsoft allows the publisher to handle as much of the branding and reader interaction as they would like.

So at the end of the day for saving the money the publisher and agent get you start dealing with paying websites, book covers and online marketing, that's not a business case, that's simply «hate to the system» Cheers!

So at the end of the day for saving the money the publisher and agent get you start dealing with paying websites, book covers and online marketing, that's not a business case, that's simply «hate to the system» That makes zero sense.

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).

This is the same thing Apple is requiring publishers do as well, so if both camps play hardball, publishers need to price books exactly the same with the exact same deals on both platforms.

Also, remember that big publishers have totally different deals with retailers, so you don't know what they are getting paid on a book priced at $ 14.99 for the eBook version.

No, it looks as if you are not going to get the really well - known titles because it looks as if Amazon hasn't signed a deal with any big - five publishers (those who publish James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Nora Roberts and so on).

These latter ones did so when they were unhappy with the deal publishers offered, or when their manuscripts were rejected.

Please read David's article about the Simon & Schuster deal with Author Solutions (one of many warning articles on this deal published this week) to educate yourself, so you can warn other hopeful writers against being blinded by the big publisher name.

That's why Japanese games don't get released on Xbone and why so many publishers make their deals with Sony.

This week's deals feature the Square Enix publisher sale, so there are some fantastic discounts to be found with games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is 75 % off, or just $ 7.50 USD.

We haven't closed any deal with a publisher for Chroma Squad, so we're still finding our own way to Steam.