Sentences with phrase «for small publishing houses»

For a small publishing house,» going digital» can mean a lot of investment — of time and money — with no idea of how soon it will start to pay off.

As an author and as the director of marketing for a small publishing house, I will definitely be looking into Shindig!

Philip Harris, founder of Electron Press, thought the electronic book would be a great medium for his small publishing house's library of edgier titles (currently distributed as PDF files)-- until he comprehended the fees that the electronic book companies would charge to sell his text for an electronic book.

I agree — there are chances here for smaller publishing houses that have a clear focus / niche and are therefore visible in their respective fields.

She has served as a feature writer for the life - and - style section of the «Daily Herald,» a contributor to «Utah Valley Weekly,» an editor for a small publishing house and now as director of communications for an Internet company.

Not exact matches

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

It has evolved from a small Dutch publishing house devoted to classical scholarship into an international multimedia publishing business with over 20,000 products for educational and professional science and healthcare communities worldwide.

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest is open to emerging diverse writers from all diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA, people of colour, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities) who have not been published in a traditional print fiction book format, including self - published, independents, small and medium publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or adult market.

As someone who — in the last eighteen months — has published with a big six house, a small private press, and self - pubbed an ebook, I can tell you there's no easy route for the writer.

And then you've got ta look for an agent, because these days, unless you're going small press, the only way into a big publishing house is through an agent.

The small Montreal - based publishing house is hoping for a hit — Brangelina will have a 100,000 copy first printing.

Literary value only comes into play for small boutique publishing houses and very few publishers or agents take on new authors that don't already have a publishing track record.

So we shouldn't have trade publisher, legacy publisher, big publisher, independent publisher, small publisher, digital - first publisher, publishing house, publishing imprint, or any of the other dozens of terms for describing publishers either?

IndieReader, the ultimate consumer guide to discovering and sharing the latest and greatest in independently published works — which includes titles that are published both by the authors and by smaller publishing houses — has held its IndieReader Discovery Awards for several years now as a mechanism to take the top tier... [Read more...]

This news should serve as a conversation starter for authors and publishers — especially smaller press publishing houses — who have yet to explore the options of international distribution, an important market option considering the lack of available English language content in direct proportion to the numbers of English speakers in many of these countries.

For one thing, independent authors - those who self - publish or who are published by smaller, independent publishing houses - usually rely on blogs and social media for much of their marketiFor one thing, independent authors - those who self - publish or who are published by smaller, independent publishing houses - usually rely on blogs and social media for much of their marketifor much of their marketing.

BookBub works with all five major publishers as well as hundreds of small and mid-sized publishing houses to get a comprehensive list of ebooks that are being discounted for a limited period.

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

Small Press Smaller publishing house that releases books often intended for specialized audiences.

This includes publishing house acquisitions staff, independent or small imprint staff, literary agents, literary managers, film and television producers, game producers, online content providers, and anyone else who can offer authors either representation or a contract for some or all of a given book's content rights.»

I'm working with a small publishing house for my first NF book.

Send the proposal to agents and / or small publishing houses that accept unagented proposals (and prepare for rejection, because that's the most likely response).

Our art director and lead designer has created book cover designs for New York houses like Tor and Doubleday, small specialty presses, like Donald M. Grant, Pink Narcissus, and Necon Ebooks, and for many individually self - published authors.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware There's trouble at High Hill Press, a once well - regarded small press «created to offer writers a small niche between the huge New York publishing houses, and the often high - priced print on demands.»

Literary agents (also known as book agents or publishing agents) act primarily as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of their books with large domestic publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, and sometimes small - or medium - sized domestic publishers like Peachtree Ppublishing agents) act primarily as authors» representatives for the sale and / or licensing of their books with large domestic publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster, and sometimes small - or medium - sized domestic publishers like Peachtree PublishingPublishing.

That means all the stuff a publishing house would normally do for you — from small things like proofreading and line editing to bigger things like design, publicity, promotion, and getting your book on the shelves in brick - and - mortar stores — that's all gonna be on you.

She weighed in by saying «Across the board for fiction in all genres, including both small and large publishing houses, the average advance for a new author for a first book is $ 5,000.00 to 10,000.00.

When you search, look for books published by small or medium - sized publishers, because they often use freelance designers who work for a variety of clients, rather than in - house designers who work exclusively for them.

LP: You are published with a small boutique house — Gemma Halliday Publishing and Gemma Halliday is also a bestselling author — tell us how that came about and what is it like working for a boutique house?

Smith believes that smaller publishing houses will continue to expand and eventually become big publishers, as has been the nature of publishing for so long.

The Twitter feeds for major publishers like Simon & Schuster or HarperCollins are always working to promote new titles, and self - published authors and small publishing houses usually work even harder to talk up their books anywhere and everywhere.

With various software available that allows authors to convert their manuscripts themselves for market, as well as digital publishing services such as Book Baby that will convert the manuscripts to every available e-reader format for a small fee, more and more authors are turning to digital publishing in an effort to forgo the traditional publishing houses.

Digital platforms continue to erode and undermine the economic model for print, and large publishing houses are now often part of even larger entities that sell lots of other stuff at much bigger margins, causing publishers to wager big money on what they believe to be the most commercial books, often at the expense of «smaller» more important ones.

Emma Barnes is co-founder of publishing software house Onix Central and UK indie publisher Snowbooks, which has won a number of awards including Small Publisher of the Year, Independent Trade Publisher of the Year and the Innovation of the Year for creating XML / XSL workflows.

Deahl did point out in the article that this could end up being a potential gold mine for small to mid-sized publishers and indie publishers, especially if they are able to offer something to the consumers that larger publishing houses aren't set up to do.

It's just too small of a market for a publishing house to be interested in, and justifiably; once you involve all those layers, and the booksellers» cut, it adds up.

But for most books published by large (and small) publishing houses, they are sold in independent and chain bookstores as well as online at Amazon, BN.com and numerous other online accounts, including, in some cases, the publishing house's website.

I've been working on websites for publishers since 2007, and I've delivered projects for publishing houses large and small.

Star Print Brokers P.O. Box 53592 Bellevue WA 98015 425-603-1777 www.starprintbrokers.com/asia [email protected] Our mission is to print the high - quality books on press for our independent authors and small publishing houses.

I have been a little dismayed at what appears to be a desire of IBPA to become part of the Big Boys» Tree House without envisioning a different way of doing the book business for small press and self - published authors.

When I replied that I've worked with four editors at six publishers — both Big Six houses and smaller independents — over the course of eight novels, and have never had my work mutilated or adulterated, much less transformed into a cookie, she told me that I was «very lucky,» for she knew of many traditionally published writers who'd had the opposite experience.

Midnight Publishing is an editing, ghostwriting, and marketing company that can help you to write, organize, edit, and prepare your book for publication in any method you desire; whether it's traditionally by querying agents and publishing houses, a hybrid model where we'd help you to get in touch with an independent and / or small press for possible representation and publication, or with self - publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, CreateSpace, Lightning Source,Publishing is an editing, ghostwriting, and marketing company that can help you to write, organize, edit, and prepare your book for publication in any method you desire; whether it's traditionally by querying agents and publishing houses, a hybrid model where we'd help you to get in touch with an independent and / or small press for possible representation and publication, or with self - publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, CreateSpace, Lightning Source,publishing houses, a hybrid model where we'd help you to get in touch with an independent and / or small press for possible representation and publication, or with self - publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, CreateSpace, Lightning Source,publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, CreateSpace, Lightning Source,Publishing, CreateSpace, Lightning Source, and more.

If an author is picked up by a small publishing house, it is not Indie because the author received money and, hopefully, royalties for his manuscript and the publisher handled the rest.

The Daily $ Revenue to Authors from B&N's eBook Bestsellers chart reveals how indie - published titles account for 39 % and represent the majority group that outperforms the other groups: Small / medium publisher, uncategorized single - author publisher, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

Orna Ross worked for 20 years in media and publishing and published fiction and nonfiction with both small and corporate publishing houses before striking out on her own in 2011.

Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.

NYC publishing houses did things as they had always done them, and for the most part hired from other (generally smaller) NYC presses.

Most small publishing houses will be able to use this model for their first time authors.

I published two books with a small publishing house but couldn't get a contract for my other manuscripts.