Sentences with phrase «higher than the publisher»

We could not, however, continue with them as the cost of obtaining permission was higher than the publisher was prepared to pay.

Not exact matches

Rather than building costly specialized infrastructure dedicated for the top video sites and charging high prices for this access, ISPs and network providers should focus on how to segment video traffic for fast delivery to publishers of all sizes.

Though a few mainstream media companies such as Disney were among them, they also included Netscape, Yahoo!, CKS, America Online, and C / Net — the kind of high - flying Internet companies Wired magazine wrote about rather than the sorts of print publishers Wired Ventures resembled.

For example, a high - authority site (like an international news publisher) will always pass more authority per link than a low - authority site (like a domain that just emerged and posts questionable - quality content).

Comey's book, «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» is already looking like a best - seller, with publisher Macmillan ordering an initial print run of 850,000 copies, more than five times the 150,000 in the initial pressing for Michael Wolff's «Fire and Fury.»

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

While it's true that the standard of quality for Nintendo games is much higher than what most gamers expect to get from run of the mill publishers like Activision, Ubisoft, and EA, there is more here at play that just delaying a game.

Such groups helped persuade the state school board last year to require publishers to make more than 300 changes in high school...

An evaluation of five U.S. higher - education textbook publishers, representing more than 85 % of college textbook sales, found an 82 % increase in textbook prices since 2002, as compared to a 28 % rise in the overall Consumer Price Index during the same period.

You are more than likely looking at buying copies of that book at $ 9 / book, $ 3 / book higher than if you had printed them yourself as a self publisher.

We are a royalty - paying non-subsidy publisher and our royalties are significantly higher than those of traditional publishers.

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

Today «high discount» clauses, calling for a royalty of something less that 15 % of retail (and sometimes a lot less than 15 % of retail) will often apply to more than half of the sales the publisher makes.

Publishers made sure there weren't enough takers for ebooks by pricing them higher than their printed counterparts.

If you can get this across to the reader and immediately get them interested, you have a higher chance with an agent or publisher reading more than the opening paragraph.

Royalties: Small publishers often pay a higher royalty rate than the big publishers, because they have lower costs.

It's the case where I set into the deal, having done research on the company, with a very strong feeling that my income potential from the book will be higher with the publisher than without it.

Big publishers» prices will always be higher than Indies» because of overhead issues.

All major publishers have gigantic slush piles stacked high with far more manuscripts than they will ever be able to use, most of which are of poor quality.

EBSCO offers more than one million high - quality e-book titles and 100,000 audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses from around the world.

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

All publishers run return rates of higher than 40 % that are in the mass market field particularly.

I agree that the model they have with services like Overdrive is somewhat problematic, more of a lease than ownership, and I agree that traditional publishers have been unreasonable here, but e-book lending is an extremely high growth, high use area for my library system.

Obviously, this makes translation not only prohibitively expensive for many publishers — other than the handful of language markets that can provide the highest financial return — but also a laborious process that makes these books slow to reach their intended audiences.

The psychology of the situation really matters, as does the fact that the publisher looks rapacious and immoral for selling e-books at a higher price than hard copies.

With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the cost to purchase and give away the ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the ebook edition price of this title at $ 9.99, higher than the $ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered Books).

I've also learned that while I can write a book quite fast if I have an outline, it takes a lot longer than I anticipated to edit one to get it to a high enough standard to submit to a publisher or self - publish.

Under the current system, the major and established publishers enjoy higher status than foreign publishers.

Suppose, totally hypothetically, that higher prices than what Amazon demands are necessary to allow publishers to give large advances like the $ 50,000 advance Tao Lin supposedly received for his novel Taipei.

I feel right now I've found a happy medium with higher royalties than the big six authors, but some of the benefits they have (although not all)-- I signed with a big independent publisher, however I wouldn't rule out either of the other two options in future.

To the point, why take 1 - 2 years to write a good book at a higher price than spend less time on a $ 0.99 book, the industry can allow for both without a big publisher being involved.

Yes, POD does normally carry with it a slightly higher cost per book to print, but because authors are printing only the books they need and profiting from their books directly without sharing a huge cut with publishers, that cost is more than offset (see what I did there?).

The company has teamed up with local publishers in various countries to offer their products on the Kindle, but in India for example, the prices of the three local newspapers offered on the Kindle are higher than the news - stand price for a physical copy.

Nor did the MFN ensure Apple that the Publisher Defendants would not set a higher retail price on the iBookstore than they set on other Web sites where they controlled retail prices.

Apple and the Publisher Defendants recognized that coupling Apple's right to all of their e-books with its right to demand that those e-books not be priced higher on the iBookstore than on any other Web site effectively required that each Publisher Defendant take away retail pricing control from all other e-book retailers, including stripping them of any ability to discount or otherwise price promote e-books out of the retailer's own margins.

There is the fact that, if you pick a reputable and cost - effective publisher, you will get higher royalty checks than a traditional publisher.

She's got some damned good stuff in there, including about the Traditional Publishers showing higher than expect profits because of lower costs.

As a result of discussions with the Publisher Defendants, Apple learned that the Publisher Defendants shared a common objective with Apple to limit e-book retail price competition, and that the Publisher Defendants also desired to have popular e-book retail prices stabilize at levels significantly higher than $ 9.99.

Now that the Publisher Defendants control the retail prices of e-books — but Amazon maintains control of its print book retail prices — Publisher Defendants» e-book prices sometimes are higher than Amazon's prices for print versions of the same titles.

Even as publishers in the United States levy agency - pricing on their ebooks at much higher rates than the Amazonian $ 9.99 preference, many observers fear, as Wischenbart cites, that this is driving readers away from trade ebooks and contributing to the slowing of digital growth in sales.

In the end, major publishers are screwing readers over high e-book pricing and the ball is in the indie authors court to be able to demonstrate that they can prove to the big trade houses that they know more about effective e-book pricing than they do.

Believe me, I know a lot of Indie authors who put out a much higher - quality product than some publishers.

So is Rowling being held to a higher standard than other authors and publishers?

But publishers and online retailers warn that when Amazon expands its retail offerings, it will struggle to replicate its efficient business model in Brazil, where labour costs are high, taxes complex and less than 20 per cent of roads are paved.

If an e-book is the same price or higher than the paper book, it's pure price gauging by the publisher.

In just the month of July, seventeen publishers reported a total of $ 82.6 million in ebook sales, according to Publisher's Weekly, which also noted that this sales figure was 105.3 % higher than in July of 2010.

They may not pay much of an advance, but they may also offer somewhat higher royalties than a traditional large publisher.

Although it's difficult to tell from Nielsen's numbers, it's also likely that print sales are getting a somewhat artificial boost over e-books because publishers have been keeping the price of electronic editions higher than they would otherwise be.

As an independent publisher you will receive a higher royalty for your book than you would if you signed a traditional publishing deal.

Now, the head of the Douglas County Libraries has come up with a creative solution by publishing each month the price list for bestselling ebooks that libraries are being charged by publishers, prices which are sometimes as high as the hundreds of percents higher than for print editions.