Sentences with phrase «earlier than the publisher»

When introduced last night, EA CEO Andrew House stressed that this was far earlier than the publisher usually shows any game in development — a point emphasised by the mighty red bar of «Prototype Gameplay» seen in the footage.

Not exact matches

The publisher lost more than $ 112 million in the quarter, down from a loss of almost $ 1 billion a year earlier.

The New York Times» Chief Financial Officer James Follo will retire early next year, the company said, ending a more than 10 - year stint at the newspaper publisher.

Space Wars: Interstellar Empires to Offer Billions of Customizable Crew Builds, 100 + Ships October 31, 2016, at 5:56 a.m. Space Wars: Interstellar Empires, a turn - based tactical strategy MMO from publisher ToHeroes and developer Desert Owl Games, will include more than 100 different ships and thousands of possible build combinations for crews when it reaches Early Access

At the time — which, let's not forget, was more than six years after Ubisoft announced the game — the publisher said, «It's still far too early to give many details about this new title.»

We see publishers - Capcom have started a little bit earlier than us - and I can say most of the Japanese studios have seen the importance of going multi-platform, and our studio as well,» said Metal Gear Solid: Rising's creative director, Shigenobu Matsuyama.

On the way we talk aesthetics (unique and vastly better in the flesh than photos), Vipers (great engine, terrible gearchange, tricky handling on the limit), Fighters (even better engine, miraculously improved gearchange, utterly trustworthy handling on the limit), car collector, publisher and evo friend Simon Draper (whose early - build car supplied many of the first driving impressions, including our first encounter with the Fighter in issue 078), and all that stems from an aerodynamics - first, aircraft techniques approach.

It was a bold move but true to Arden's roots as the pre-eminent publisher of Shakespeare and early modern drama studies for more than a century.»

HarperCollins» e-book sales increased 30 % in the September quarter from the same period a year earlier and now account for more than a fifth of the publisher's revenue.

MILAN: The gulf between European publishers who have been slow to adapt to digital publishing and those well - entrenched could not have been better illustrated than at a dinner the night before the 4th EDITECH International Conference organized by the Italian Publishers Association (Associazione Italiana Editori) in Milan earlier this week, where a well - dressed Italian publisher sat down at the table and announced with pride, «We have not a single e-book at our compapublishers who have been slow to adapt to digital publishing and those well - entrenched could not have been better illustrated than at a dinner the night before the 4th EDITECH International Conference organized by the Italian Publishers Association (Associazione Italiana Editori) in Milan earlier this week, where a well - dressed Italian publisher sat down at the table and announced with pride, «We have not a single e-book at our compaPublishers Association (Associazione Italiana Editori) in Milan earlier this week, where a well - dressed Italian publisher sat down at the table and announced with pride, «We have not a single e-book at our company!»

A good friend of mine, and a damn fine writer, who shall remain nameless lest the publisher that keeps him on the breadline gets a whiff of sulphur, has advocated on more than one occasion recently that like - minded writers should get together and set up a co-op, akin to the United Artists studio of early Hollywood lore.

Earlier today, a lot of the focus was on publishers working with start - ups and the need for adopting the «start - up mentality,» one in which a structured business plan is less necessary than a focused goal.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

One of the greatest adoptions in the early days of digital publishing came quietly from publishers who were reluctant at first to put their new releases into ebook form, but were more than willing to use the «experimental» reading technology for their out - of - print and backlist titles.

* July 13, 2011: An early interview with me conducted at the 1stIndieAuthors website covered: why I wrote the book, and what inspired it; what prompted me to become a writer; how I came up with the book's title; why I waited until age 62 to write my first novel; why I chose to be an «indie» author rather than seek a traditional publisher; and the prospects for future Dylan Hunter novels.

And what all four of these books have in common (besides being mystery and thrilled novels) is the fact that their Kindle editions are priced significantly lower than their paperback editions, whereas that's not the case for the authors» earlier books from other publishers.

He founded the Daniel Literary Group in early 2007 after more than ten years in publishing, six of which were at the executive level at Thomas Nelson Publishers where he was Vice President and Associate Publisher for W Publishing Group, a trade book division of Thomas Nelson.

(I remember in the early days one publisher explicitly had «ebooks will be $ X cheaper than the cheapest paper copy» as a policy but their inventory system couldn't handle it.

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

Indeed, people write in larger numbers than were ever accepted by publishers, as I saw when working in publishing in the late 80s / early 90s.

Worse, you have publishers fighting for a pricing scheme (agency pricing) that they admit makes them less money than they made under the earlier pricing policy.

Authors are more committed to their agent than to their publisher, according to early results from a survey of traditionally published writers.

Well, I tend to enjoy Balogh's later books more than her early ones, which were written for the Signet Regency line, but the early ones can be pretty darn good despite the restrictions (in length and content) imposed by the publisher.

Herman also said that he has sold more copies of his latest e-book in just two weeks than he has of the digital edition of an earlier book that his publisher released for $ 10 four years ago.

If indies are selling more genre ebooks than traditional publishers in early 2014, unless traditionally - published ebooks somehow make a massive turnaround in ways they haven't before, indie dominance is likely to grow.

I'd have to go back through my contracts to see if there's the usual clause about publisher being able to adjust the sales price of the books to stimulate sales, etc. etc., but I'm of an even earlier vintage with EC than Ann Jacobs, so yeah, this has been going on for a long time.

An earlier version of the story referred to «the amount of time that publishers are required to allow discounting of their ebooks,» rather than specifying that the injunction extends the amount of time that publishers are required to allow Apple to discount their ebooks.

I won't revisit here the various equations that I used in early 2011 to reach the conclusion that Amazon was on its way to reaching a 50 % market share in the book business / all formats, other than to say that I relied heavily then on information reported by Publisher's Weekly, Publisher's Marketplace, and Amazon, and that actual events since then have served to confirm the conclusion.

Even a year or two ago, such a thing would have been unthinkable: back in early 2014, Big Five authors were outearning Small / Medium Publisher authors by a factor of more than 2.5 x, and only a year ago — in September 2015 — total Big Five author earnings in the Kindle store were still 2x those of all Small / Medium publisherPublisher authors by a factor of more than 2.5 x, and only a year ago — in September 2015 — total Big Five author earnings in the Kindle store were still 2x those of all Small / Medium publisherpublisher authors.

Publishers have also had a harder time than expected negotiating rights, despite an earlier umbrella agreement reached last year with the Association of Spanish Literary Agencies (ADAL).

Publishers are more content with how the book business is weathering the digital transition than authors are, according to early results of the FutureBook Digital Census... http://bit.ly/1M3nxVt

With Microsoft contributing resources as a publisher to help assist develop the game on consoles, and with an early access program, it means the game has a decent chance of succeeding as a preview game rather than flopping as a fully fledged release.

As battle royale behemoth Playerunknown's Battlegrounds rolls out of Early Access on PC and launches on Xbox One, developer and publisher PUBG Corp has revealed the game has more than 30m players across both platforms.

Stoic, an independent game development company, and Versus Evil, one of the leading independent video game publishers announced that the launch of Banner Saga 2 on consoles would happen much earlier than expected thanks to a collaborative effort between the developers and first party partners Sony and Microsoft.

As the game rolled out of Early Access in its 1.0 state - as well as launching on to Xbox One - developer and publisher PUBG Corp announced the title had been downloaded more than 30m times since its March 2017 release date.

Like different publishers earlier than it, Ubisoft has now responded to the large, worldwide success of Epic's free - to - play battle royale sport Fortnite.

We see publishers — Capcom have started a little bit earlier than us — and I can say most of the Japanese studios have seen the importance of going multi-platform, and our studio as well.»

Like different publishers earlier than it, Ubisoft has now responded to the huge, worldwide success of Epic's free - to - play battle royale recreation Fortnite.

Then again, no one wants to be caught off - guard when the festivities begin... and considering that a few publishers are starting things off earlier than ever, knowing when and where a live stream will start is more important than ever.

The game already sold more than 20 million copies while it was in early access, so it's definitely a success for its developers and publishers.

Title: Battalion 1944 Platform: PC (reviewed) Developer: Bulkhead Interactive Publisher: Square Enix Collective Release date: Out now (Early Access) Price: # 12 / $ 14 TL; DR: Fast paced, competitive, 5v5 shooter more suited to FPS veterans than casual players.

SEATTLE, Washington — September 16, 2008 — PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the immediate availability of Peggle ™ Nights, the much - anticipated follow - up to the original Peggle game, which garnered more than a dozen media and industry accolades including «casual game of the year» following its introduction in early 2007.

She identifies the ways that these publishers guide users to certain types of searching and certain classes of databases, typically keyword searching of large databases of primary materials, rather than offering them what the experts know they need, which is early access to secondary materials, tables of contents, self - evident cues (using graphic design conventions), and «information scent.»

There has been considerable debate as to how loot boxes should be handled by publishers in the wake of EA's controversial mechanism in its game «Star Wars Battlefront II» — using loot boxes as a way to achieve power - ups early on in the game than intended.