Sentences with phrase «for big bestsellers»

My contracts have always had an audit clause, but I've seen many contracts that do not — and it wouldn't surprise me if some contracts for big bestsellers lack an audit clause as well.

Not exact matches

John Green has had plenty of success as an author, writing bestsellers like The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, which have both been adapted for the big screen.

«Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» brings Ransom Riggs» young adult bestseller to the big screen, National Geographic explores the history of ancient windmills, and more top picks.

Jurassic Park hit theaters way back in 1993 at just the right time - Michael Crichton's novel, which had become an instant bestseller three years earlier, was perfect for film and big - budget blockbusters hadn't yet become over-saturated in CGI...

The subcompact SUV segment is only going to get bigger, and with the likes of Maruti delaying the launch of the Vitara Brezza automatic and its petrol engine option, it could prove to be a great opportunity for Tata to notch up even more sales for this bestseller.

A top executive from one of Spain's «Big Three» based in the Americas confirmed to Publishing Perspectives they had learned that Amazon was selling an imported edition of one of their firm's blockbuster bestsellers in Spain, even though the parent company of the same firm held the rights for Spain and produced a local edition.

And at the next big trade show — May's BookExpo America in Chicago — when Poland is the Market Focus guest nation, the author Zygmunt Miloszewski will travel to the States: his thriller Rage, No. 1 on Polish bestseller lists for months, is to be published in English in August by AmazonCrossing.

Jill Marsal: Our most recent big success in this area was J. Lynn, who self - published through our agency and hit # 1 on the New York Times e-books bestseller list for her book Wait for You.

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The novel will then be sold almost instantly to a big publisher for a huge amount of money, become a major bestseller, and become a major motion picture.

Titles available on the subscription site for instant access include bestsellers for beginning to advanced artists, like Perspective without Pain, The Figure, and Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing.

Many books from big publishers are not available outside US — for more details check this report on international availability and prices of Kindle bestsellers, 2.

The threat to big publishing is that ebooks undermine their ability to extract higher prices for hardback bestsellers.

By the same token, if big, bulk purchases of your book are legitimately bought by an organization for gifting to their members or as a fundraiser or whatever, this number is also not counted by the Wall Street Journal and, potentially, other bestseller lists as well.

«We had themed blog tours before, such as the Bestseller for a Day, the Menage a Blog coming up in July, but when one of our volunteer staffers mentioned that her husband was stationed in the Middle East and that he had begged for books, we knew we could do something really big while helping indie authors widen their reader base,» adds Thompson.

One of the key issues plaguing an admittedly glutted ebook market is the need for better searchability, especially for self - published and small press books that don't come with the publicity teams reserved for bestsellers from the Big Five.

For the most part, even the big names who've controlled publishing for centuries are looking to experiment, and finding new titles from among the ranks of the indie bestseller lisFor the most part, even the big names who've controlled publishing for centuries are looking to experiment, and finding new titles from among the ranks of the indie bestseller lisfor centuries are looking to experiment, and finding new titles from among the ranks of the indie bestseller lists.

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2) Becoming a genre bestseller 3) Getting a steady stream of sales over a month and setting yourself up for a big targeted promotion at the end of the month.

Since few smaller publishers have that sort of marketing leverage and since big publishers are increasingly only interested in prestige projects or likely bestsellers, that makes self - publishing the strongest option for a lot of authors.

For the biggest, most famous bookstores, you'd need to be a huge bestseller.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon count themselves among her fans; filming for an HBO limited series of Moriarty's second U.S. bestseller, Big Little Lies, began this month.The only details available so far about her seventh novel come from Moriarty herself: In an interview she revealed that «it's about the consequences of something that happens at a neighbourhood backyard barbecue.»

Rowling's new book, which many thought would be one of the year's biggest hits, debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, a triumph for nearly any author, but not for Rowling.

Even though the first book Ringer published for someone else turned out to be a New York Times bestseller, Ringer said that publishing other authors» books was the biggest mistake he made because of his having to deal with authors.

We don't have 100 % coverage for all the books Sony has in it's eBook store simply because bestsellers, books from big publishers....

The Big Five traditional publishers now account for only 16 per cent of the e-books on Amazon's bestseller lists **

Or did their appearance on the bonafide bestseller lists (The New York Times, USA Today) just make it easier for the Big 5 to spot them?

a «kindle # 1 bestseller for 13 years» before you would see it published by the big kids?

Even the New York Times Bestseller's List isn't a good source for that because you can only find out if a book is selling big.

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Not only does Stephen Leather, Britain's leading «independent» writer, estimate he has occupied the number one spot on Amazon.co.uk's Kindle ebook bestseller lists for «90 % of the last three months», he is also selling «somewhere in the region» of 2,000 ebooks a day — and making big profits in the process.

Understand that, for the first time, thousands of self - publishing authors are now competing directly with these Big Name Authors, often knocking them from their perches atop the bestseller lists.

Most New York Times bestsellers and older, more esoteric books I looked for were available, although the Kobo Store doesn't seem to run nearly as many big sales.

But while it is fair to say that some of that price decline is due to more competitive pricing of bestsellers by the big publishers — including some very aggressive pricing like Simon and Schuster's current $ 3.99 price point for Stephen King's 11/22/63, that's only part of the story, and it may be the less important part of the story.

Ann Herrick's latest e-books, «Camper Of The Year» and «Shortcut To Romance,» published by DiskUs Publishing, have both made the Bestseller List at E-Books for Kids one of the biggest review sites for kids» books.

I've been burned so many times that, by no means, do I hold trust in a Big - 6 vetted book My own two novels rose to three Kindle bestseller lists out of utter obscurity and have remained there for ten months now.

Based on the interpretation in the Author Earnings report that B&N might reserve the top spots in bestseller lists for Big Five - published books, an article on The Passive Voice article further analyzes how the inaccuracy in the lists might result in Nook's «heavy readers» and a «customer - centric organization» checking out the Amazon's lists to make sure that they will be satisfied with finding the books that most readers like.

Agency projects include bestseller and film The Big Year by Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Obmascik; bestseller and sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter by W. Bruce Cameron; bestseller You Can Draw in 30 Days by PBS personality Mark Kistler, and bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King.

It currently contains a mighty host of applications available for download to Android smartphones and tablets, including bestsellers such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Cut The Rope, but that's not the big story here.

For the large majority who pursue Big Six publishing, an agent is still necessary; and they're the ones increasingly plucking the self - pub bestsellers from the top Kindle book lists...

«Indie authors with one or more bestseller - listed titles are, on average, receiving a significantly higher increment of additional revenue — 30 percent more — from their other, non-bestseller-listed titles than Big Five authors who have listed best sellers, for whom their other titles add only 21 percent to their bottom line.

Ebook romances of all stripes and types are the hottest circulating genre of ebooks, and romance authors are the hottest circulating authors except for the big name bestsellers like Patterson and Roberts.

Wait a while on a big bestseller and you can, quite often, purchase a hardcover (i.e. the exact same book) for a price at or below TPB.

Before Apple even met with the first Publisher Defendant in mid-December 2009, it knew that the «Big Six» of United States publishing --- the Publisher Defendants and Random House (collectively, the «Publishers»)-- wanted to raise e-book prices, in particular above the $ 9.99 prevailing price charged by Amazon for many e-book versions of New York Times bestselling books («NYT Bestsellers») and other newly released hardcover books («New Releases»).

This is how I was able to launch How to Market a Book and Business for Authors straight onto the Bestseller lists on Amazon next to some pretty big hitters.

For nonfiction, it's a tough call between The Yorkshire Shepherdess, a bestseller for five weeks, and rock star Bryan Adams» photography book Wounded, for which I secured front covers with The Sunday Times Magazine and The Big IssFor nonfiction, it's a tough call between The Yorkshire Shepherdess, a bestseller for five weeks, and rock star Bryan Adams» photography book Wounded, for which I secured front covers with The Sunday Times Magazine and The Big Issfor five weeks, and rock star Bryan Adams» photography book Wounded, for which I secured front covers with The Sunday Times Magazine and The Big Issfor which I secured front covers with The Sunday Times Magazine and The Big Issue.

For that matter, 2015 wasn't bad either, with one of the titles she was helping to publicize — Amanda Owen's The Yorkshire Shepherdess (2015, PanMacmillan)-- spending more than a month on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and another — Bryan Adams» Wounded: The Legacy of War (2013, Steidl)-- helping win an award for The Big IssFor that matter, 2015 wasn't bad either, with one of the titles she was helping to publicize — Amanda Owen's The Yorkshire Shepherdess (2015, PanMacmillan)-- spending more than a month on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and another — Bryan Adams» Wounded: The Legacy of War (2013, Steidl)-- helping win an award for The Big Issfor The Big Issue.

Whether you're still looking for great books to give as gifts this holiday or are just interested in what books caused the biggest splash in 2015 — please see below for the full press release for Amazon's lists of bestsellers.

These stores constitute the other big component of the store retailing system and they are critical for bestsellers, mass - market paperbacks, and «merchandise» like adult coloring books and kids books.