Sentences with phrase «if other publishing houses»

I don't see anyone budging anytime soon, but if other publishing houses start making deals with Amazon without all this fuss, I bet we'll see Hachette bend in the end.

Not exact matches

If you are publishing through a publishing house (traditional or e --RRB-, the other thing to remember is that an advance is exactly that - an advance on your royalties.

In short, if Notre Dame, or Belmont Abbey College, or Tyndale House Publishing, or Hobby Lobby, or any other employers «liked their plans» without such coverage, they could not keep them that way.

Even with those two facets, most titles don't ever make it to the silver - screen — even if published by Random House or any of the others.

If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

not my forte... I have had other publishers offering deals etc. but if i had money to begin with i would have gone to a traditional publishing house.

Down the road, most literary writers will likely follow the hybrid model, meaning that they'll publish some books with traditional publishing houses and others on their own — if they want to publish frequently and consistently.

It would be interesting to know if Overstock is actually doing as the name implies and gathering up leftover merchandise — in this case, books from publishing houses — or simply brokering the books directly from the publishers like any other retail outlet.

-- This may vary depending on the size of the publishing house, but most publishing houses have at least one person on staff dedicated to marketing and promoting their titles (so yes, we will do everything we can to promote your book), but if you are thinking of hiring a freelance publicist any way (perhaps to continue promoting a book a year after it goes on sale and we've moved on to other titles), it goes without saying you should inform the in - house publicist (preferably before doing so).

Unlike many self - publishing companies or other eBook conversion houses we care if your book sells.

I will, however: — write in my blogs about things other than publishing — work on my next novel and story collection — play lots of sims — write and share a short illustrated story, to see if I can — tweet whatever I want — read and review books when I want — make art, if I feel like it — make some new things for my Etsy shop — upload multitudes of unsorted travel photos from this summer — clean my house and get ahead of my laundry situation — help my son learn addition and subtraction — get away from the internet sometimes — experience daylight

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

But it takes someone with a professional publishing background to apply the quality sheen your book will need if it's to compete with the thousands of other books produced by high - spending publishing houses.

If you're hoping to make a business out of publishing your own (or others) work, be sure you pick a platform that levels the playing field between your book and those from Penguin Random House.

If we're not with a publishing house and aren't distributed by anyone (or just through the Createspace options), do we have much of a chance getting into bookstores other than local shops like Half Price Books and Book People?

Not only do all large CBEs fit the dictionary of puppy mill, but a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»