Sentences with phrase «for big name publishers»

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This has piqued the curiosity of many big name publishers leading to the development of Battle Royale alternatives for them.

As self - publishing matures, as the various distribution media for self - published works evolve, hopefully a way will emerge that helps assure a measure of quality without relying on the lumbering behemoths of big name publishers.

Some publishers of big name authors will spring for production of a book trailer, but the rest of us — traditionally published or self - published — have to create one on our own.

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What they mean is, «big name» authors, with well - known publishers stamped on the side of their novels; I am treated with disdain for just stepping into their store, as though I'm going to poison it with my presence.

Face it: Your book is competing with millions of other titles — many by Big Name authors from major publishers — for the attention, consideration, and purchasing dollars of your target reader.

Simon & Schuster isn't the only major publisher to sign up with Oyster and Scribd, but it is still a major «get» for both services thanks to the number of big name books and authors in the publisher's catalog.

Book Track is certainly not adding sound effects for free, but they are likely giving Hachette a big discount to get their name out there and to do future business with the publisher.

PubSmartCon, a writers» conference held in Charleston, SC, next month, has shifted the focus away from desperately seeking an agent or publisher and chosen to focus instead of building in time for authors to network, both with big names in the industry and with their fellow in - the - trenches writers to uncover their keys to success.

Her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door: the Path to a Better Way of Death, was named «One of the Ten Best Memoirs of 2013» and «A Big Book for Fall 2013» by Publishers Weekly, which gave it a starred review.

There are other reasons for the authors who fall between these extremes; all are stigmatized against by the big name publishers and chain bookstores.

There are multiple reasons for self - publishing, the first usually being that the author doesn't want to jump through hoops to find an agent, an editor, and then shop around the big name publishers.

For those of you who don't know, the IDPF ePub format is an open standard eBook format that is fast being adopted by many big name publishers including Penguin UK and O'Reilly as well as projects such as Feedbooks.com.

Some early estimates that have come out of the price fixing allegations between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers state that consumers overpaid for their ebooks by as much as a total of $ 250 million; all fifty states and the US commonwealths and territories are named in the class action suit to recover some of that overspending.

Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big - name authors go indie.

After awhile some of the big name authors may shift to some of the independent publishers for better terms.

One of our novels was traditionally published for a while, not with a big name publisher.

Yes, the company entered the mobile e-book business for IOS and Android devices, being backed up by some of the biggest publishers such as Shueish, Shogakukan and Kodansha, to name a few.

It's the few big names that pay for the others getting published, and yet, publishers act as if they never got it wrong.

Sales for a small tier of mega-bestsellers like Patterson, King, Evanovich, Roberts, etc. skew toward brick & mortar print and away from ebooks and online because of the broad brick - and - mortar visibility you mention in airports, supermarkets, etc., and especially because of paid co-op placement in bookstores, which they benefit from disproportionately (Because publishers concentrate marketing spend disproportionately in their biggest - name tentpole authors).

And once your name «fails» one big publisher's sell - through expectations, you can't hope for a contract with another under that name.

I am so thankful for Amazon they have expanded my reading beyond the big name authors the publishers and celebrities are pushing.

It's about «a zombie's big break in showbiz,» according to Publisher's Weekly., and it's written by an animator for Nickeloden named Keith Graves.

The entire library system is finding that many big name publishers are steadfastly against the notion of customers getting digital content for free because they feel it devalues the books.

Many big publishers are supporting the Worldreader initiative, such as PCaine Prize for African writers, CK - 12, Harlequin, Pearson, the U.S. State Department, and the World Health Organization, to name a few.

For me the key is in what do publishers offer and from some of the points raise in the debate, it's currently «being a big name».

The disconnect, of course, is that there's no reason Amazon can't keep publishing its own authors while also selling big - name books at the prices their authors and publishers want people to pay for them.

Everyone is trying to jump on this — publishers & agents alike — and hope that some authors will think there's value in the same old same old, but I'm concerned for the aspiring author who does nt have the experience who thinks the big named agent is repping them, when not everything is disclosed.

All of which is just another way to agree that Charles is right and that replacing drm with watermarking is the only viable plan c for publishers (though I'd also suggest to add in my cost cutting plan above and hire a tech firm like kobo etc. to launch their own brand Facebook linked e-reader apps with a 6 month release window advantage on their own big name authors while they still have locked - in big name authors to speak of!)

If you're a Big Name Blogger who can get a publisher to pay for your recycled writings, congratulations.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

For writers without a big name, publishers give them credibility.

Thankyou for showing me that it is not just me who feels that indie authors are as valid as the ones with the big name publishers.

Big name publishers aren't going to give that stuff away for free.

Laden with 1984 references and Kojima's name dropping every time you clear a mission, I think it will certainly live on as a piece of gaming history, the self - referential and almost cutting meta commentary standing as a lesson for the big publishers, don't bite the hand that feeds you, or it'll drag you down.