Sentences with phrase «interested than publishers»

What has been made unequivocal, however, is that developers who aren't told what to do can build something far more interesting than a publisher's best shots at success.

Not exact matches

North American publishers other than Orbis, Fortress and Eerdmans are showing little interest in the avalanche of theological literature that has been produced in Latin America — because it has a limited market.

Publishers and agents seem to be more interested in platform than content.

William Shatner is nothing if not diverse in hos interests and nothing shows that more than the announcement today that comics imprint Shatner Singularity has been launched by LNL Partners — publishers of Shatner's Man O» War graphic novel in the company's Cinematic Graphic Novel format.

So I would tend to blame publishers more than I would a decline in audience intelligence and interest in film.

While Team Ninja and publisher Tecmo Koei didn't elaborate on how Move and Ryu's katana will work together, we're holding out hope for optional 1:1 motion controls - or at the very least, something a little more elegant than waggle.If you're not interested in waving a glowing wand around, though, take heart: Ninja Gaiden 3 still feels pretty great with a regular controller.

With limited publisher sign on, Total Boox is, at present, more interesting as a concept than as an experience.

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

In an interesting aside, even traditional publishers are looking for the multi-book author, as it's becoming more lucrative to build an author's brand with readers than to sell a stand alone title.

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.

CN Times Books is the New York City - based U.S. subsidiary of Beijing MediaTime Book Co. LTD, a leading Chinese trade publisher that publishes more than 600 fiction and nonfiction titles per year, including books for children and titles of scholarly and academic interest.

While it's not in the interests of the author to give up anything without negotiation, the publisher is frequently in a better position than the author to exploit these rights (such as publishing translations), which will result in further payments to the author.

These big publishers are owned by giant companies with interests that are much greater than making money in publishing.

It seems some agents are more concerned with pleasing publishers than in protecting their clients» interests.

I still believe in the idea of publishing as a community service, though, and there are far more opportunities to do that today, and far more underrepresented communities to serve than there are established publishers interested in doing so.

With more than 30 globally deployed professionals that we call our «Reality Team» and a dedicated «Australian team» (with over 20 + years experience) we work to each Author / Publishers best interest, with rigorous attention to publication integrity whilst ensuring all rights and royalties are maintained.

Objectionable material: • Obscene or distasteful content • Profanity or spiteful remarks • Promotion of illegal or immoral conduct Promotional content: • Advertisements, promotional material or repeated posts that make the same point excessively • Sentiments by or on behalf of a person or company with a financial interest in the product or a directly competing product (including reviews by publishers, manufacturers, or third - party merchants selling the product) • Reviews written for any form of compensation other than a free copy of the product.

I'm not interested in a book that is going to generate less than $ 100,000 in revenue unless the editor or publisher has a compelling vision for the book and / or the author.

For now, more authors than ever are turning their backs on the industry before ever publishing their work, and it will be interesting to see how far publishers are willing to go to lure back their authors.

It's interesting to me that publishers think they need to retrain people to adapt to the new prices and are willing to take a hit to do so, rather than think they need to alter their model at all.

Let's see how much you need to spend if you can't get a traditional publisher interested (note that last part of the sentence): Editing: I can do it myself, but there are plenty of friendly people who are willing to do this for less than $ 200.

Rather than opening with the interesting news of what this highly respected pair have found in their most recent quarter of evaluation, they lead with a sarcastic recitation of ways they assert that the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the traditional industry have incorrectly characterized the ebook market in the past 18 months or so.

We know that Jeff Bezos is more interested in market dominance & profit than in authors, publishers, or even readers.

If your agent seems more worried about keeping their relationship with editors and publishers than in looking after your best interests, reconsider just who that agent is serving.

Online eBooks are now selling more than hard copies, and authors no longer have to wait for a publisher to take interest.

And this may interest those who have felt that Smashwords may be more dependent on subscription than Coker says it is, despite a 2013 deal that saw 225,000 Smashwords titles from 70,000 authors and small publishers go to the Scribd service.

For a novice writer penetrating the world of book publication, it is not uncommon that dreams of being a Hemingway can easily be dashed by overly cautious book editors and publishers who are often more interested in selling books than immortalizing an author.

Maybe, in the interest of publishers who have more of a stake in printed comics than DC & Marvel, Independent publishers might float around a possibility of forming a union.

The alliance is a network of more than 500 publishers in many parts of the world, all interested in bibliodiversity, a term referring to cultural diversity in publishing and literature.

As the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take note.

But I think it's interesting to be able to see how the traditional publishers think they can make a book — in many cases one that's already sold hundreds of thousands of copies — better than what the author envisioned.»

More than likely those incoming funds are automatically deposited by the publisher / vendor into an interest paying escrow account from which royalties will eventually be distributed by the publisher / vendor according to their royalty payment schedule — the publisher / vendor is already benefiting from their share of the income from the transaction.

The online-conVert.com site offers a lot more conversion options than that, but most self - publishers are interested in how to create eBooks.

Now here's an interesting fact, Publisher's Weekly Select, (the indie version of the website) has a ranking of 3,087 and they seem to charge more for advertising than Goodreads.

Self - publishers need to pay their editors before they see any return in this investment in their novels; but this also means that the editor is accountable only to the author rather than the publisher, and will always put the author's best interests and needs first.

This will be interesting to watch because it comes out of a traditional publisher, includes well - regarded digital innovator Sarah Lloyd, plans to poach other publishers» authors, and looks set to play by the new digital rules rather than those of its corporate parent.

It's interesting to me that the self - published works in this sample have a higher average rating than the e-books from major publishers.

And, like lots of businesses, it seems they're more interested in protecting their own short - term profits and salaries and bonuses than in working on a long - term, sustainable business plan that's fair to readers, authors, and publishers in the new digital world.

In America the Authors Guild, an organisation notorious for representing the interests of publishers rather than writers, and whose members are almost entirely traditionally published, recently announced: «the majority of authors would be living below the Federal Poverty Level if they relied solely on income from their writing.»

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

This is something that self - publishers and small - publishers have had to do all along, so it's an interesting turn in such a short period of time (less than 6 months ago, I wasn't seeing any of this).

This is contingent upon the publishers creating more interesting, beautiful and interactive illustrated titles than they have to date.

I find it interesting that the publishers, rather than offering a «suggested pricing» for ebooks are apparently trying to control that rather than the retailer.

For publishers interested in displaying more than ten titles at one show we also offer customized signage and meeting space for an additional fee.

It's an interesting look at one reason for self - publishing we hear less about than, say, avoiding a disadvantageous royalty rate with a publisher, or a faster route to market.

New App, Litsy, Aims To Be the Instagram of Books (Publishers Weekly) It will be interesting to see if this can actually be a real book discussion destination, rather than just a place to pitch books.

But again we are primarily interested in the portion of that gross consumer spend that actually goes to authors in the form of ebook royalties or ebook revenue share, rather than the portion that is dissipated on publisher corporate overhead.

Publishers are more interested in managing a sales mix of print and ebooks than Amazon, and that could lead to a natural slowdown in growth of ebook sales for those publishers in agency priciPublishers are more interested in managing a sales mix of print and ebooks than Amazon, and that could lead to a natural slowdown in growth of ebook sales for those publishers in agency pricipublishers in agency pricing.»

However, even access to every big publisher's catalog won't guarantee material for every possible library audience; frontlist title acquisition is driven by anticipated sales numbers and focuses on mass - market appeal rather than meeting the needs of smaller interest - based communities.

What is interesting for publishers to know about these apps are that they are far better digital editions than those that were produced by Future.