Sentences with phrase «get over a publisher»

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Although NBCUniversal is taking over the ad sales, it won't get access to data about Apple users or individual publishers» audience.

Kolondra told Fortune that Opera, which is being taken over by a Chinese consortium, has no intention of getting publishers and ad networks to pay for having their ads bypass its blocking system, in the fashion of the controversial AdBlock Plus.

(Facebook began testing video ads with half a dozen publishers over the summer, with publishers getting 45 percent of the revenue, but isn't letting publishers sell video ads themselves yet.)

It's great for publishers like Sullivan over at Search Engine Land who get paid by the page view and need to establish themselves as key sources of information (though at the end of the day isn't Digg itself getting the brand value?).

I think it was Jack Canfield (author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.

'' From the records, Metuh got over N400 million, he has not said anything because we need the public money to be returned so that it's going to be used for public good,» Mr. Magu said during a meeting with online media publishers in Lagos.

Publishers have a massive problem with perception of value CNET) Here's something that tends to get lost in the debate over e-book prices: Paper doesn't cost very much.

Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), publisher of The Washington Post, is going over a list of financial and legal documents once again, rehearsing her answers to the questions she will be getting from bankers about selling shares in the company to the public for the first time.

These numbers aren't bad, but they're not going to get agents and publishers fighting over the chance to represent you, either.

Traditional publishers do this all over the place with ebooks (and they don't always indicate that what you're getting is a sample in their description).

Hi, I learnt my lesson with Xibris who is under the wing of Penguin House they were over the top with praises but got nothing right they didn't follow any of my instructions for my artwork or cover the did nt edit my manuscript as I paid $ 3500 for and received delay after delay after 8 months which they promised 6 weeks and my book would be in my hand and on shelves, I pulled the plug and cancelled payments through my bank and received all my money back I sent all 9 consultants emails on my termination of our contract due to their unprofessional ism and prying on new authors Plus I sent 9 written termination letters as stated in their contract I now have learnt research every publisher outlet in legitimacy saves on the heartache

When the world's largest publishers struck e-book distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.

The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for eBook sales.

But she got nowhere with a few agents and was turned down over a hundred times by publishers.

Walter John Williams — Well yes, Hachette is mean to authors, if by mean you mean that Hachette, and other publishers, try to get authors to sign contracts that favor the publisher over the writer.

And getting your panties in a twist over calling a publisher a legacy publisher is like getting them in wad over calling someone an author instead of a writer.

As if that story you labored over for several years to get written, edited, accepted by a publisher, and then edited some more until it was fit to ship is somehow less worthy, less real, than books manifested in paper and ink.

Set price and discount to get your profit amount Aerio will pay you, over and above your regular royalty from the publisher.

And according to agent Meredith Barnes, some agencies are indeed charging way too much for the service — especially when they pay themselves 15 % to «represent» the client to themselves as «publishers» who get another hefty cut — often over 50 %.

We deliver essential book development, book printing and binding services with one aim: to help first - time and veteran self - publishers get to market while retaining their authors» rights and full control over their work.

The benefits are all too obvious as the author gets to exert complete control over the entire publishing process, not to mention the often tedious chore of having to court publishers to... [Read more...]

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

Publishers have to get real or hand the market over to Amazon.

The 3 Holy C's George Berkowski (serial entrepreneur, product developer for the taxi app Hailo and new launch, Ice Cream) had made waves pre-conference in an interview with the Bookseller where he asked how any industry paying # 28k a year could expect to attract talent (software developers don't get out of bed for # 50k)-- and also his skepticism over the publisher's marketing efforts of his own book, How To Build a Billion Dollar App.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

Over the past few years, OverDrive has been building relationships with education - focused publishers and getting them to offer schools special deals.

One of her big accomplishments was getting several of the top six publishers to loan out their ebooks to libraries all over the USA.

The monopolist publishers get what they deserve when the took over all the passion publishers and made authors into slaves.

WSJ: When the world's largest publishers struck e-book distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.

«Authors and publishers have been selling books on Facebook for over six years now by setting up shops with 3rd - party services, and now Facebook wants to get into the act.»

The advantages of self - publishing, as she sees it, include testing the market («sometimes self - published books get picked up by publishers») and having control over the way the book turns out.

And the biggest myth to hit indie writers (because traditional publishers repeat this over and over) is that indie writers can't get their books into bookstores.

Yet it gets repeated over and over like «You need an agent» phrase by traditional publishers.

Publishers can get their content closer to consumers and shorten delivery times to customers the world over.

There may be a reduction in titles, but I think over time when you see things level out, you'll see more opportunity for authors to get into the market, even through traditional publishers.

If you're a beginning author, you may be surprised to know that if you get picked up by a traditional publisher, you'll still have to do most of your own marketing after the publisher's initial promotional push (bookstores, etc.) is over.

It says a lot about the problems they faced over their years as a manga publisher and makes me more thankful than ever for the great titles we did get from them, some I know we'd never have gotten from anyone else (Key to the Kingdom — I love it, but really?).

If you are a publisher or author with a book that's perfect for summer reading — for adults OR kids — now is the time to make sure that your Amazon page is ready to go and you have a marketing and sales plan to get the word out about your book over the summer.

And as Kris pointed out in her blog, with traditional big publishers switching over to electronic books and more print - on - demand books, they get out from under shipping and printing and warehousing costs, and that ugly return system gets cut down.

An ideal use of social media is when a digital friend picks up your new book because she loves your genre and she's watched you agonize over getting a publisher or struggle through all the hoops of self - publishing.

I saw writers out there struggling to find freelance work and getting rejected over and over again by publishers and agents who saw no potential in their books.

Traditionally published authors didn't want to speak on such matters as pulling back that veil might get them in hot water with their publishers, and there was no other avenue for publishing then them so there was a cone of silence over the industry.

2012 Publishers Weekly advertorial they spend $ 550 on each and every new author just to get them to fork over their credit card to get started, and the first time they hit your credit card you are going to spend $ 1375 no matter what you think you are going to spend, and over the «lifetime» of account the author will spend $ 5000.

the publishers hate Amazon due to the old $ 9.99 price point and have never backed off on that hate (7 years and they still cant get over it).

When an agent a number of years back got drunk and pushed the publisher of Bantam Books into a closet, over three quarters of her clients fired her the next day.

That's why I always tell folks to get an IP attorney to look over any contract from a publisher or from an agent.

They like to get the inside scoop on what it's like to be more or less screwed over by a company like Random House only to emerge from the dark wilderness and into the welcome arms of a family run publisher like StoneHouse / StoneGate Ink.

This week's Question of the Week: Is it time for self - publishers to get over self - publishing?

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Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Over the past few months, I've gotten a number of questions from writers who've received spam — excuse me, invitations from a website called Publishers» Desk.