Sentences with phrase «higher than the fiction»

Non-fiction in many cases can be priced higher than fiction can.

My own sweet spot for fiction is lower than for reference material, and non-fiction for entertainment is somewhere slightly higher than the fiction level.

Not exact matches

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

In the current study, published this week in PLOS ONE, a computer accurately predicted the genre of fiction works about 50 % of the time, much higher than the 17 % expected from random guessing.

Despite its increasing popularity (and glowing endorsements by high - profile vegan converts like Bill Clinton), The China Study is, in many ways, more a work of fiction than a nutritional holy grail.

Is it fact or fiction that muscle - building athletes require substantially more protein than the average person (in body building handbooks recommendations are given such as 1 gram protein per pound of body weight per day, which are much higher than the RDA of 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day)?

The decade after provided us with several entries in this vein of high concept romance — Stranger Than Fiction, Lars and the Real Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks, 2013's About Time — all films I enjoy and admire.

Cuaron's Children of Men is a harrowing, if not altogether successful vehicle that provides a provocative scenario that definitely does keep the interest level high, while also raising a few more questions than your typical dystopian science fiction premise.

Oscar - winning screenwriter - turned - director Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») is not to be underestimated; he adapted Molly Bloom's truth - is - stranger - than - fiction gambling thriller starring twice - nominated Jessica Chastain («The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as a brilliant skier - turned - high - stakes - poker - wrangler — she's a long shot in this year's overcrowded Actress category.

12, reviewed more than 350 pieces of artwork from a monthly magazine for teens and 50 fiction writing samples produced by high school students from a similar publication.

But I'm not sure I can offer any meaningful analysis of the publishing model, partly because I started with a higher profile than many fiction writers might.

In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

That's the same as with any short story submission, certainly, but with one of these, the bar is sometimes a bit higher than «normal» fiction.

Several non fiction authors have been priced so high (in one case I found that the kindle price was higher than the print price) that I won't buy them even though I would otherwise.

Nonfiction is bought in much higher numbers than fiction because the number of books sold is generally higher.

European comics were historically more diverse and often higher - quality (in terms of art and story craft) than American comics; in addition to drama, fantasy, and detective books (including classics like The Adventures of Tintin), many European comic book series are historical fictions.

A user might be interested in both science fiction and biographies, but if the last few books she has read are science fiction, the recommendation system will assign a higher value to that topic, leading the user to receive more sci - fi recommendations than biography.

Once a book has been flagged as unsuitable for all ages (and we're talking strictly about honest to God erotica here, rather than general fiction containing elements that may not be suitable for children (Lord of the Flies is pretty violent, but it's on the high school English syllabus in many countries)-RRB- it should be a simple matter to keep that book from appearing in a general search.

Their test scores are higher when reading narrative fiction than when reading informational text.

Books you can still run but don't have any guarantee whatsoever (and no prorated refund in store credit)- 1) Books in the following genres: YA Fantasy, YA SciFi, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children's Books, any very niche Non Fiction genre, any books on Politics, Poetry, Coming of Age 2) Books priced higher than $ 1.

Academic and text books tend to be illegally copied more than fiction due to their high prices and the fact that students often only need them for a term prompting student pirating networks, she added.

For the Hit Man Series, I ranked higher in mystery than I did in thrillers, though I ranked consistently higher in action / adventure and science fiction and fantasy.

Non-fiction sells more than fiction, so if you're an expert writing about something even a small group needs to know, you can often demand higher prices than the standard fair, even as a first - time author.

High street booksellers punch above their weight in the value of each book that they sell, with adult non-fiction being bought for around 20 % more in bookshops, children's books at around 25 % more, and adult fiction at a whopping 50 % more than books bought through online channels.

KU works really well for short fiction (where the payout of a borrow is much higher than you'd make as a royalty... at price points of $ 0.99 and $ 1.99) and non-fiction (where if they like one they might go and read all of your non-fiction on similar topics).

The Simon & Schuster ebook collection will span its full range of popular school titles from PreK books through higher - level fiction and nonfiction for young adults.The partnership brings the total of Follett's offerings through Titlewave to more than 250,000 ebooks.

Rather than existing in some high fantasy world with science fiction elements to a greater or lesser degree, we play in a world that, save for monsters and a few other elements, is very like the real one.

If you take out the bristlecone pine record and use all the other datasets you find that, just as history confirms, there was a Medieval Warm Period during which temperatures were considerably higher than they are now (THIS, TOO, IS PUREST FICTION.