Sentences with phrase «first handful of authors»

«When Amazon first unveiled the Kindle three and a half years ago, I would never have expected to be one of the first handful of authors in the Kindle Million Club,» said Charlaine Harris.

Not exact matches

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

«In just a few short years, by analyzing tens of thousands of samples, our consortium has moved from identifying only a handful of loci associated with schizophrenia, to finding so many that we can see patterns among them,» said first author Stephan Ripke, a scientist at the Broad's Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and the Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit at MGH.

I guess it's easier for big companies to say I'm sorry to a handful of authors who actually monitor their royalty statements than it is to get it right in the first place.

Although provocative, ``... a handful of agents, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said they're worried that contracts from print - first imprints will increasingly come with clauses indicating that the publisher makes no guarantee on format» (meaning, no guarantee the publisher would produce a print version of a work), what stood out for us was that literary agents are fulfilling this watchdog role for authors... an advantage most indie authors don't enjoy.