Sentences with phrase «if big publishers»

If the big publishers capitulate and abandon agency, the other retailers, in order to remain competitive, will be forced to abandon their agency agreements with the publishers as well, otherwise Amazon would have the ability to underprice them.

Sometimes, I wonder if big publishers DO know, but just don't care.

Besides, if big publishers want to price their books at whatever, then I can do the «unknown, but an inexpensive risk» pricing on mine, and with my lower overhead, I do well with this tactic.

If the big publishers had to depend on this kind of income, they'd be done for.»

Coming at it from the other end if the Big Publishers are so outraged at Amazon's pricing and the way it effects small book stores (which they keep trumpeting in the press) why do they keep giving Amazon the best discounts?

Even if the big publishers are as slow to see the wisdom of this bundling model as they have been over the past five years to adapt in business - positive (rather than defensive) ways to the ebook revolution, it's worth noting here that, as is so often the case, Amazon has a secret weapon on this terrain.

(Yes, I know it takes money to make money, but if big publishers aren't pushing short story collections — or even publishing them — that's probably a clue about the size of the market.)

And even if the big publishers are not interested in getting in on the ground floor of book bundling, I'd be surprised if some of the smarter new compact - size publishing companies like Open Road and Turner Publishing didn't find it appealing.

The Kindle market will soon call the shots if the big publishers won't start to embrace it rather than fight it.

If these big publishers were only publishing one book (or even only one hundred books) per month, they sure couldn't afford the big buildings.

Not exact matches

If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.

Even if publishers do widely embrace EPUB 3's accessibility features, another big unknown is whether e-readers and other devices will support them.

But science budget expert Matt Hourihan of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) made some informed estimates of how the cuts would play out (assuming Congress approves all of the cuts, which is a big «if»).

He stands ready to help organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers used successfully in 2003 when another big commercial publisher, Elsevier, bought Cell Press and tried to raise its journal prices.

It could be argued that most, if not all, of the big - name publishers played it safe at E3 by sticking to their franchises and annual outings.

Maarit Rossi in Finland wonders if all classrooms might need a common «global curriculum,» and Carl Hooker in the United States writes, «if we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students.»

«If we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students,» writes Carl Hooker (@mrhooker).

If you're ready to take the risk that your book won't be a big performer in the publisher's catalog, you won't find a more interesting or exciting business.

And even if you're successful in finding a traditional publisher for your book, there is no guarantee you'll be offered big money (or any money) as an advance (up front payment) on your book's sales.

If big - name publishers make these mistakes, then self - publishers are more at risk.

If a publisher doesn't offer any customization, or won't even have a phone call or let you meet an editor or designer, you're just one person in a big assembly line.

It may sound like a big job but indie and self - published authors need to think more like a publisher and therefore as a business if they want to get their work to a larger audience.

If the book becomes a big seller in ebookland, I suppose it's possible an agent or even a big publisher might come calling.

Penguin is one of the big publishers behind Bookish, so it will be interesting to see if there's any connection there, or if Bookish is ultimately scrapped in favor of Penguin's own initiative.

If you are looking to publish your book with one of the big publishers because of their promotion abilities, read this article before you make your decision.

The reason for this is that if Harlequin actually pulls off doing this imprint of theirs, it's highly likely that other big NY - based publishers will follow suit.

The problem is indeed that traditional authors expect to have their book published, get a big advance, and if it doesnâ $ ™ t earn out hard luck for the publisher - they have to take risks.

If Book Expo wants to become a trade show where authors big and small can get a chance for their books again, then it has to help publishers make these major shifts.

This will allow Adobe to clip the ticket on a big chunk of the ebooks sold if it gets the kind of support it's hoping for among ereader hardware manufacturers (Sony has already announced Digital Editions support for a future Sony Reader), e-bookstores, publishers etc..

One of the biggest advantages of having your book published by a leading traditional publisher is the sales and distribution infrastructure that will get your book into hundreds if not thousands of stores upon release.

Authors need to focus on the big picture first, then follow up with sentence - level work if the problems are severe enough to frustrate an agent or a publisher.

If any key people from D Publishing / Dymocks are reading this, I have nothing against Dymocks (or publishers or booksellers, big or small).

When it comes to the big six publishers, most of them don't allow their ebooks to be borrowed from the public library or, if they do, charge exorbitant amounts.

Soooo, Michael, if a person writes something, no matter how important the content, never gets it published by Big Boy Publisher, then that writer, or if it's a team of writers, can not claim to be authors?

For us as publishers it's also a real big pain and if we could remove DRM... we would do it so quickly,» said Malcolm.

The big problem with the unlimited model is that publishers want to be paid for the full amount of the book's purchase price if a customer reads a certain number of pages.

I believe that the Big 6 publishers will continue to lose authors to independent publishing if they don't find a way to improve the terms of their contracts.

Even if you hoped to end up with a Big 5 publisher.

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Self publishers and small publishers always seem to have trouble with editing, but if the small publisher hadn't picked up this book, would a bigger publisher have eventually picked it up?

Anyway, if Amazon really did buy its own big fat pet publisher, that could represent some major upheaval.

If you absolutely can not conceive of life without an agent and a publisher, I would strongly recommend holding on to your rights until Amazon goes through the rounds with the Big 5.

In any case, those who self - publish successfully are either those who have already made a name in the traditional field, or if they are one of the few who made it big from the start, eventually get signed up by traditional publishers anyhow.

If the big five abandoned print, or left it to small publishers, they would probably make bigger profits focusing on digital.

(Although I'm guessing that if they got a contract with a big traditional publisher whose editor told them to cut out all - ing words at beginnings of sentences or lose the contract, they'd probably accede.)

And since most big publishers still aren't doing this, if you're self - publishing the free campaign is the Ace up your sleeve; the one trick they can't match us on.

If this is true and Hachette holds out... and then the same thing happens with another big 5 publisher... suddenly you don't have 25 % of all the available trade books available on Amazon.

If this were a love fest, then publishers would not have all reduced royalty rates on ebooks in lock step fashion when ebooks went big.

Well, Amazon takes a cut out of that, and if you the author are not also the publisher, the publisher takes a BIG cut out of that, and if you have an agent, they take a cut, and eventually, a trickle of income slides into the author's pocket from the sale of that book.

If you're a genre reader, too, most of the titles you're likely to be interested in will in fact be from the big publishers that use agency pricing.