Sentences with phrase «in the hands of every reader as»

But I knew I wanted to get my books in the hands of readers as fast as possible.

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As with Facebook's Instant Articles, however, Medium's offer to publishers brings up many of the same risks: Number one being that your fate — and the discoverability of your content, and any relationship you have with your readers around that content — is essentially in the hands of a third - party provider.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

The New Testament: A Translation by david bentley hart yale, 616 pages, $ 35 David Bentley Hart's new single - handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair - minded reader by turns as startling, incisive, audacious, smug, shrewd, and quirky to the point of exasperation: everything, in....

One of my goals as a Bolivia Blogger is to remind myself and my readers that we may be tying our own hands when we insist that we can't afford to help those in need.

I'm sure you already know this, but for the benefit of some readers, we may as well point out that multiple errors have been made in copying, whether by hand or press over the generations as well.

Those who bewail the abstractions of theology teachers will be surprised to know of these churchly concerns in systematics classes, as will the Atlantic readers who were recently led to believe that «the hands that shape the souls» of the next generation of pastors do not hold hymnals.

This all - too - brief statement concerning interpretation, on the one hand, that sees its task as thoroughly grasping historical content, and, on the other, interpretation that hopefully comes to a hearing of God's Word addressing the interpreter is not intended to lead the reader to a choice and to prejudice him in that choice.

On the other hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his experience and so share his confidence in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of Jesus» confidence and courage....

Lewis warned readers of the hazards of relying on intellect — particularly apologetics — over spirituality, writing, «That is why we apologists take our lives in our hands and can be saved only by falling back continually from the web of our own arguments, as from our intellectual counters, into the Reality — from Christian apologetics into Christ Himself.

Note that this physical conception of the media is essentially technological, that is, each of the media is not defined merely as the end product in the hands of the consumer / reader / viewer.

Counting free and paid downloads alike, «How Campaigns Can Use the Internet to Win in 2012» has landed in readers» hands 5325 times as of midnight, September 30th, not counting the times the PDF has been circulated via email or other channels.

Shortly afterwards, a reader sent us a link to cases of political corruption involving Lally, his questionable campaign disclosures, even a book casting him into history as the recipient of one of the largest penalties ever handed down from the Federal Elections Commission in 1998:

Meanwhile, the issue has been a subject of debate online today, as readers quickly pointed out perceived Photoshop fails, one featuring Reese Witherspoon and her three legs, and another with Winfrey and three hands, the latter of which was featured in a behind - the - scenes image.

They work along the same lines as contactless payment cards and are convenient for those who may not always have a hand free to insert a pass in a reader — a vital consideration for teachers carrying lots of books, paperwork or that all important cup of tea!

So children are being denied independent and guided reading time with texts of high interest and potential access and instead are handed texts that are much too hard (frustration level) all year long without ever being given the chance to grow as readers in their Zone of Proximal Development (pardon my reference to those pesky educational researchers like Vygotsky.)

On the other hand, if you want to keep your options more open and read things in a format compatible with the highest number of current mobile devices, you should definitely have Acrobat Reader around for reading PDFs, and Adobe Digital Editions is probably your next best bet since that'll talk to the Nook as well as to the Sony Reader.

Instead of trying to target readers with a «read everything you possibly can get your hands on in a month» idea, Rooster is looking at reading as something that consumers can do in bite - sized pieces whenever time allows.

«HarperCollins is always keen to experiment with getting our authors» work into the hands of readers in as many different formats as possible.

In total, they printed more than 4,000 advanced copies of the debut novel, as they knew that getting the book into a lot of readers» hands was a key way to help make it a breakout hit.

parenting, school, books reading kids, people... the best gift is the knowledge, when my daughter was in 3 grade she was an avid reader, and want to know everything before talk about, so my husband had an stroke she become more obsessed with the subject, she wanted to be a doctor since she was 3 years old, anyways me as a nurse had my books and she saw me one night refreshing myself about strokes me half ways sleep, lack of caffeine then we start talking the doctor and me and she was raising her hand and the doctor ask her, you want to know when daddy is coming home, sweetie?

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

As a Kindle publisher, the new Kindle Fire HD means your work can be in the hands of millions more Kindle readers.

Your friends, family, and publisher will do everything they can to spread the word about your work, but at the end of the day, with more books than ever being published and read, authors who think their work is done after the finished manuscript is in simply won't be read as widely as an author who (respectfully) continues to do everything he or she can to get their book into the hands of readers.»

While some modern readers would argue that the collection is no longer complete, Eliot's primary goal is still achieved by The Harvard Classics serving aptly as a jumping off point for education and discussion; imagine what his joy would be, knowing they can all be held in the palms of our hands.

His argument begins by noting the conundrum which pinions the educated reader: on the one hand, our universities inculcate in us the value of exhaustively knowing a formidable body of classic literature; on the other hand, to read exhaustively is so impossible that, as Bayard phrases it, «reading is first and foremost non-reading.»

With headphone ports and adjustable volume controls, as well as the automated page turning feature which will mean the reader doesn't have to support the device in one or both hands, it is easy to overlook the robotic monotone voice and simply return to the days of enjoying the magic of words.

Libboo «s Jason Freeman, Minister of Strategic Growth, was on hand a Digital Book World to talk about the importance of a site that speaks to both sides of the book in terms of giving authors an option to aid in helping new readers find their titles, as well as giving readers a place to find content that has been vetted by their own social media contacts.

An in - house video advertisement for an all - you - can - read service was circulated on a Kindle forum this week promising reader access to popular titles such as the Man Booker prize winner The Life of Pi, Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants and the Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, «all in the palm of your hand».

In addition, any profits from sales of the book will be yours (not just a royalty percentage as with either a traditional publisher or a vanity press), and in some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readerIn addition, any profits from sales of the book will be yours (not just a royalty percentage as with either a traditional publisher or a vanity press), and in some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readerin some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readers.

While all of the essential elements are there, such as a loved one held hostage to force the main character's hand, a high - ranking government official with a lot to lose, plus a tribe of varied bad guys, it would be easy to think you've read this story somewhere before, except for the fact that the author does a great job of drawing the reader in through a very readable voice.

Yet unlike the old days, when most prospective readers were effectively hostage to book reviews as a means of learning about new books or even reading tantalizing excerpts, the internet allows you as an independent author to publish excerpts and sample chapters to your heart's content, demonstrating first - hand that your work has those qualities that your intended readers are interested in.

As of this week, Smith will be the sole UK retailer of the Kobo e-reader and its library of 2.2 million e-books, with the readers retailing from # 89.99 — putting it 99p behind the latest Kindle variant's # 89 — and over a million of the books available free of charge, including some truly astonishing - sounding titles, such as Slow Hands (but not that one), Kiss Me Deadly (but not that one) and Dancing In The Moonlight (but not that onAs of this week, Smith will be the sole UK retailer of the Kobo e-reader and its library of 2.2 million e-books, with the readers retailing from # 89.99 — putting it 99p behind the latest Kindle variant's # 89 — and over a million of the books available free of charge, including some truly astonishing - sounding titles, such as Slow Hands (but not that one), Kiss Me Deadly (but not that one) and Dancing In The Moonlight (but not that onas Slow Hands (but not that one), Kiss Me Deadly (but not that one) and Dancing In The Moonlight (but not that one.

When used as a simple web browsing device or as a book reader, I found it not too heavy (though heavier than the iPad Mini) and it didn't strain my hands, especially when holding it in the palm of my hand.

Seems to me that a chance to get it into the hands of someone trained to respond but to respond as — or «on behalf of» readers, as we tend to think of it in professional mainstream criicism — could be incredibly useful for an author community that talks to itself all day and night.

What matters is getting the book they have written into the hands of as many readers as possible in whatever form, print, digital, audio.

«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in school and will have different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat, agent at International Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned books.»

Breaux brings the reader into their world, he presents the information as deeply hidden secrets in the world of the otherworldly and emphasizes the dangers of this information getting out into the hands of mortal humans.

I don't think there is cause for thinking that «the power is in the hands of our opponents» or that «a lot of readers... see us as ditherers and cranks.»

But even as «The Eighth Seal» keeps the power of the story in the readers hands, the political horror thriller is looking to shake them up as well.

Nathan Bransford (@NathanBransford) explores the possibility of them as ebook readers in Hands - free Books Are Coming.

As Geller joins the CONTEC session talking of authors needing «a different type of help to get their message out,» Nelson arrives with a precise list of hands - on advisories, some of them particularly well - suited to the social - media leverage that has facilitated the long reach some of these authors have in connecting with their readers.

«So long as DRM stays part of the plot, every Kindle reader sold, every Kindle app installed and every Kindle title purchased will strengthen Amazon's hand... if you could buy an e-book in a standard format that, like an MP3 music file, would be playable on current and imaginable future hardware, it wouldn't matter which store sold it.

I still believe, as I always do, that readers should not feel pressured to read a story in a format not of their choosing, and I'm not trying to force anyone's hand or purchase here.

«I just don't get the same satisfaction out of reading as I do when I have a real book in my hands,» says reader Lisa Hahn.

Booksellers all over Europe fully support the objectives of the Commission's Digital Single Market Strategy and are very keen to take advantage of this opportunity to put more e-books in the hands of as many readers as possible, all over Europe.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

If so, building an email list of targeted and engaged readers is one of THE MOST important things that you can do right now — even as a complete novice without a book in hand — to significantly increase your chances of «making it» as a writer.

Anne Womack crystalized this sentiment: «We would love for the Big 5 publishers to recognize libraries as partners, as a means to get their books into the hands of hundreds of readers who may very well purchase more of the same book / author in the future.»