Sentences with phrase «dropped by their publishers»

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

I've seen colleagues get more of less dropped by their publishers before or during their book releases, with publicists offer very vague, limited support.

So, to find books that have been out for several years still on the shelves — and yet to know that the series has been dropped by the publisher because the publisher says they didn't sell — means either the publishers are completely incompetent, which is possible, or they are crooks, which is also possible.

It didn't take off and the series was dropped by the publisher, although the book has since become a much stronger - seller than that first Penguin book in 2010 (because I've self - published four sequels to the Midnight Ink book since then).

If I had lucked out and got an agent for my first novel, a vampire romantic suspense, and it had sold to a publisher, and if it had sold only 3,000 copies in the first months, (i.e. being with a publisher wouldn't have led to an increase in sales due to the magic fairy pixie dust I'm told that publishers employ), I would never have published the second or third book in the series and likely would have been dropped by the publisher for publishing a «dud».

Recent news has Boyd Morrison dropped by his publisher in the US, but who still has traditional deals in other markets.

After being dropped by her publisher and self - publishing 10 romance novels as Bella Andre and Lucy Kevin, she has sold more than 275,000 ebooks on her own and has been profiled in The Washington Post, Forbes, USA Today and National Public Radio.

Remember folks, there are documented cases of authors being dropped by their publishers because they self - published works completely unrelated to what they had sold to the publisher.

I have a number of writing friends who are in one phase or another of a traditional career ---- still in it, sometimes hanging by a thread, a few dropped by their publishers.

I quit myself, rather than being dropped by my publisher.

so advances go down, which means less excitement, fewer books ordered of the following book, even lower advances, and repeat until you are dropped by your publisher.

The (non) upcoming controversial title, Six Days in Fallujah, has been dropped by publisher Konami after receiving heavy criticism from the...

For the longest time, people have been complaining, and justly I might add, about the fact that game demos have been dropped by the publishers as a means to promote a game.

It was rumoured last week the game had be canned, after Kotaku reported a source claimed the game was altogether cancelled, having been dropped by the publisher.

Stuck for months because of Metal (and the fact developer IO Interactive was dropped by its publisher), HITMAN was struggling.

Before IO was dropped by the publisher, the Hitman series also featured quite a bit of post-release content designed to keep the game fresh.

Not exact matches

Figures from the Publishers Association's annual yearbook revealed that the invoiced value of consumer e-books dropped by close to 11 % to # 245m, the first fall since it started monitoring digital book sales seven years ago.

BW Publisher Damon K. Jones drops by the Mornings With Bob Marrone radio show on 1230 News Talk WFAS, to discuss what's going on in Westchester County, Thursday morning.

The publisher posted a 10 % drop in revenue in its most recent fiscal year, dragged down by weak higher education print sales.

Just watch out for the landmines of poop dropped by vanity publishers like Bonnier's Type & Tell.

This friend of mine who may or may not exist was dropped by the same publisher after just six months.

By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception amongst eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to drop their retail prices for eBooks.

For those authors who already have a reputation in the traditional publishing, it's possible to do well with a one - off book, especially if you're finishing off a trilogy or series that was dropped by a traditional publisher.

Midsized and University presses might play the part of the premium cable networks as literary stars and Pulitzer prize - winners are dropped by their corporate publishers and / or seek homes outside of the déclassé corporate Snookibook - world.

- Publishers Weekly «Any residual predictability is dispelled by the jaw - dropping ending.

E-book sales of publishers as counted by the Association of American Publishers or AAP in their survey did show a dropublishers as counted by the Association of American Publishers or AAP in their survey did show a droPublishers or AAP in their survey did show a drop of 11 %.

Once publishers adopt reasonable pricing for e-books and drop the DRM security, which I think they will be forced to do by market and legal pressures in the not - too - distant future, I suspect the sheer convenience of e-books will drive the sales of e-books up, consequently forcing sales of hard copies down.

But the original manga has never been published in full, having been dropped twice by two different publishers.

GoodEReader has shared that several publishers in May of this year were quick to drop hints that Amazon was rumored to begin working in epub format very soon, and moves by major writers such as this one may be part of the reason for the adoption of formats other than mobi.

Based on piracy loss estimates published by the International Intellectual Property Alliance and generated by the Association of American Publishers, book piracy dropped over 13 % between 2005 and 2007 (the most recent year that data is available).

The report covers the first half of this year and is based on data provided by 1196 US publishers, and it shows that the overall US book market was down 6 %, largely due to kid's books and adult paperbacks, while the ebook market dropped by 3.6 %.

With the drop in book sales, it is natural that authors and publishers, who have spent a huge amount of creativity and money into pushing a material into the public spectrum, are the most affected by ebook piracy.

Yes, publishers would like to have these relationships with readers, and yes, dropping DRM might help to enable those relationships by making it easier for publishers to sell ebooks directly through their own websites.

I have too many writer friends who were dropped by traditional publishers and are now making good livings and building their audiences.

Says Rowe: «Traditional publishers priced themselves out of the market, and their 10 % drop in 2017 is just the latest evidence that the value a traditional publisher adds — whether editing, gatekeeping, or marketing — isn't as highly valued by ebook buyers as a low pricetag.»

That could lead to interesting pricing changes as mandatory DRM gets dropped by more publishers.

And out I went when Macmillan was taken over by a firm of German publishers and they dropped about a third of their list, me included.

But then so is being taken on by traditional publishers, who will drop you quicker than you can say «writing career», if your books fail to sell.

By Jim Milliot in Publisher's Weekly (6/17/16)-- Though various sources have reported a decline in e-book sales for traditional publishers in 2015 compared to 2014, no one has come up with a clear reason for the drop.

Thank you to all of the authors and publishers who allowed me to make their books available and to everyone who dropped by and supported the promotion.

In the Directory, you can look under «Associate Members — Small Publisher» in the 2nd drop - down, or just search by your genre for all related listings.

I have a friend who got dropped by her traditional publisher as far as we can tell because she outsold their expectations SEVERAL times over.

We need to see publishers rethink propping up this glut of erotic romance as if it's something that Anaïs Nin dropped by and endorsed on the loading dock.

More importantly from a writer's point of view, how many mid-list writers, those who have pretty much guaranteed sales of a certain figure book after book, have been dropped because publishers feel they can't afford to keep them and how often has this happened AFTER a book has bombed by someone like Cuomo?

Two, as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped eBook sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all * eBook prices at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would not have dropped in concert with the paperback price.

Pricing on releases will work similar to how the publisher releases its books via DRM - based apps like Comics by comiXology — cover price on par with print editions to start with a price drop after a month.

Once that happens, B&N can get a big advantage over Amazon by dropping DRM, since Amazon will most likely keep DRM regardless of whether or not publishers demand it in order to maintain its Kindle lock - in.

Only seven months ago, the idea that indie self - published authors and their ebooks were outearning all authors published by the Big Five publishers combined was jaw - dropping heresy.

As was recently reported by the American Association of Publishers, the Big 5 publishing group and roughly 1200 other reporting traditional publishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early FebrPublishers, the Big 5 publishing group and roughly 1200 other reporting traditional publishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early Febrpublishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in ebook dollar sales revenue in late January 2015 compared to early February 2014.

This is because these lists not only derive from the sales numbers provided by ebook publishers, but have also taken into consideration those important factors such as «different rankings (power law curve; sales drop sharply as ranks drop) and different account sales power (number five on Amazon almost certainly sells more than number five anywhere)».