Sentences with phrase «directly out of authors»

Damon: That came directly out of authors communicating with us about their concerns.

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As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

When it comes to royalties, there's a lot of confusion out there, but it seems most authors believe their royalties are higher if they directly publish with Amazon and other self - publishing offerings.

The idea that an author can continue to produce well - received content on a fairly regular basis and sell it directly to fans is limited to those who've made a full - fledged career out of this author thing.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

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.

Imagine making out individual checks to all the authors who had books in their bookstores (thousands of little checks a month...) Instead, they want to order directly from the source — most likely Ingram's.

And to show I'm not talking out of my as.s, I have two different newsletters myself that inform and sell, directly or indirectly, my services to authors.

And fairly soon this will all be moot anyway as publishers themselves are cut out of the picture, and authors go directly from their own keyboards to their readers.

Not many authors are clued into this feature yet, but in a matter of weeks the #bymybook spam will be out of control, as authors will finally be able to directly monetize their Tweets.

The Internet opens an array of mechanisms for self - published authors to reach out to readers directly and to offer them their books, easily and inexpensively produced, for just a few dollars.

If you choose to work together on a royalty - share basis, authors can have a share of their royalty be paid out to the expert directly by tredition.

Many ebook companies that allow authors to market their manuscripts directly make it difficult to weed out «writers» who are looking for a bit of extra cash or who don't keep their readers in mind.

By pursuing authors directly, Amazon can cut out the middleman and pass on the savings to authors in the form of higher advances and royalties, and to readers in the form of lower book prices.

However, its importance has dwindled in recent years on account of authors» ability to simply go directly to Amazon or Ingram, and cut out Lulu as the middleman.

Amazon is rolling out a new program called @authors that give users a chance to talk to the authors of the books they are reading directly from their Kindle.

In addition, the advent of affordable, high - quality self - publishing has created a whole new need for developmental editing, because as authors cut gatekeepers out of the loop altogether and connect directly with their readers, someone still needs to bring an objective eye to the process.

And specifically as relates to self - published authors and paid reviews, how much sense does it make to shell out money to breed a whole new class of gatekeeping power brokers when what you want — as an author — is to be able to directly communicate your work to readers?

I know authors will be sad to hear this: we all dream of just sending manuscripts straight to a publisher, who will read them and directly acquire out books.

We have created a list of a few of the best podcasts out there that speak directly to the issues that self - publishing authors face every single day.

As to what this all means for me, or for anyone interested in publishing directly to readers, it means that prices will stabilize a bit more, affording independent authors a better chance to figure out what their own products are worth in the marketplace of ideas.

*** We are agency and have become a publisher out of the many requests from emerging authors who have, after many disappointments looking, realized that traditional publishing is no longer available to emerging authors either directly or through agents ***

Slick book trailers take a lot more work and effort but people love the authenticity of hearing an author speak directly so just make some video and get it out there.

They are «excited to launch three new digital imprints, alongside the existing digital imprint LOVESWEPT, that will feed today's savvy readers by bringing the best, the boldest, and the newest voices directly to them... this digital - only program will seek out the best and brightest names in the next generation of authors, enabling us to cultivate a team of writers in the publishing world's most prolific and lively genres.

You just need to do your homework and find out if the publishers that you want to approach accept manuscripts directly from the author and without the backing of an agent.

These authors have essentially been offered free, positive advertising that could directly benefit their sales if they only made a little bit of effort to reach out and help promote their own work.

As stated above, the bibliography (sometimes known as a works cited page or a reference page) is a section that lists out all of the sources that the author consulted, quoted, or referenced directly or indirectly during the writing of their book.

Within the next couple of weeks Harper «will reach out to authors to make a concrete proposition» on how they «will be able to use the technology to sell directly from their own websites» with some simple code.

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

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

If Amazon slices out a larger chunk of the profit pie on each book, that is something that will directly affect the authors.

We're talking $ 150,000,000 a year going directly to authors, and if you sign with a major publisher, you are taking yourself out of that pool.»

Kelly Gallagher [00:12:06] Sure, again, for most authors that are starting out, again, unless you have a strong platform, or you have an agent, or you're being directly courted by a publishing house to write a book, the idea of an advance is not likely going to be in the cards for you, or if it is, it would be probably a small four figure number.

Many people are reluctant to provide negative feedback directly to the author, so Collins recommends taking yourself out of the voting process.

We should try out new business models in our dealings with rights holders: Buy directly from rights holders, including authors; host your own ebook content; or offer library users the choice of purchasing ebooks through the library catalog when the waitlist is too long.

I think that, because self - publishing has gotten easier, because the tools have gotten easier to use and there are so many more services available to self - published authors, you can compete directly with the work that's coming out of these major publishing houses.

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