Sentences with phrase «into selling it to a publisher»

I went Indie first and then, once a had a four book series with a some positive reviews, looked into selling it to a publisher.

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«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.

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James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

The deal more deeply integrates AOL's content pages into the Google network, and allows the AOL sales force to sell image ads that will appear within Google's AdSense network of publishers.

There's no understanding what made Irving do what he did or, indeed, how he managed to get as far as he did — how he sold his brazen blarney to a publisher as upstanding as McGraw - Hill, how he forged Hughes» handwriting, or how he bedazzled and bullied his devoted, needy best friend Dick Suskind (Alfred Molina, reaching greatness in the portrayal of pathos) into participating as researcher and henchman.

Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

This is important to understand because the information that goes into a book proposal is the very same information that literary agents use to sell books to publishers; it's the same information that publishers use to promote books to bookstores, readers, and the media.

They provide avenues for publishers to sell the distribution rights into other markets and have the works properly translated.

Check with your publisher to understand the subsidiary rights written into your book contract, which outlines the different forms in which your book can be sold.

Hi JJ, yes of course, it's always easier to sell rights to books that are already selling well — but sometimes it's possible that you've written something that fits precisely into a foreign publisher's requirement and it's easier for them to buy the translation rights from you than try to commission a writer in their own country.

Getting published by a traditional press might give a writer a bit more «legitimacy,» but the writer still has to put as much if not more work into the process, especially post-publication when the book is suppose to sell and make the publisher a lot of money.

«Authors and publishers have been selling books on Facebook for over six years now by setting up shops with 3rd - party services, and now Facebook wants to get into the act.»

Hundreds of companies are ferociously competing to be your publisher - for - pay, selling you a package with one of their ISBNs that will put most of the money you earn from your book sales that you generate into their pockets, publishing your book the way they think will make them the most money, and claiming the majority of your book sales» profits as if they've done anything that remotely resembles what a mainstream traditional publisher would do to publish and promote your book, generate targeted reader interest, and earn every single sale to each individual reader.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

For those of you who don't know, the bankruptcy clause in writer's publishing contract is not valid, and when your publisher drops into bankruptcy, your book is an asset of the company and is treated like one and can be sold off to anyone for any purpose and you have no say over anything.

Publishers sell books into different outlets at different prices, and when they earn less they like to pay the author less.

This unprecedented event for intermediate fiction writers of all genres featuring international best - selling author Davis Bunn will go deep into the technique and structure needed in your fiction to make it grab the attention of publishers and readers.

If 10,000 books are sold into distribution, that means $ 52,000 goes to you, the publisher.

of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

Thus this growing movement of indie writers doing it all themselves, including selling to traditional publishers will split professional fiction writers into two major camps.

With eBooks accounting for 30 - 35 % of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

It will look the same to casual readers: one or two books a year break out into mainstream awareness and, backed by a large publisher, it will sell tonnes through bookstores, Tescos, and Walmarts.

Many of Vietnam's publishers often do not release new titles into the digital format right away and many large online companies do not sell directly to customers in Vietnam.

One obstacle that could still come into play, though, is the publisher - centric mode of selling directly to consumers.

But if Amazon isn't careful, this could be the final straw that spurs publishers into finding a new way to sell books.

An article in Publisher's Weekly outlines the demise of one such company, WinePress Publishing, who unfortunately closed its doors amid accusations of ripping off authors and its own employees, including allegations that its CEO was brainwashed into selling what had been a multi-million dollar company to her church pastor for only $ 10.

I still do, because in my opinion, the best writer is a writer who has choices, who can move into a future and write what he or she wants, and sell it either directly to readers or to a publisher.

Publishers are beginning to realize that evaluating the potential saleability of self - published books requires a more careful analysis, which includes bulk orders from niche organizations and groups, books that are value added give - aways, built into the participants fees or sold at trainings, specialty shops that don't report to Nielsen BookScan and other types of sales.

You probably will need a publisher to get into bookstores — though a lot of my successful indie friends have been selling foreign rights recently.

That's something that bookstore owners consistently discuss with me, is the methods of approach that independent authors and independent publishers use when they come into the stores to sell their books.

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

It is primarily a rights fair where publishers come together to sell the rights of the books they hold into different languages and territories.

The seemingly obscure offering had an initial printing of 16,000, but has since exploded into a runaway international bestseller, selling nearly 6 million copies — almost 4 million in the past five months alone, according to Debra Matsumoto, marketing manager at Laurence King publishers.

The publisher then puts the manuscript into book form and sells the books to the stores, which, in turn, sell them to your readers.

Authors who enter into a publishing agreement with a publisher or publishing service are authorizing said publisher to publish and distribute their books in exchange for royalties paid on books sold.

Maybe the great, big, green bookstore chain that finally got Starbucks into the correct proximity to the printed word is perfectly willing to turn around and under - sell its own former employee, Kachka, because it's trying to wrest more co-op concessions from publishers.

And it hurts the publishers, who are trying hard to get themselves into the «digital age,» but are being blocked by distributors who refuse to sell their content to adults with minds of their own.

Turkish Literary Agent Nermin Mollaoğlu offers advice to foreign publishers looking to both buy from and sell into this burgeoning market.

Since Apple was coming into the e-book market late and was trying to mount an attack on Amazon's (s amzn) entrenched market share, the deal with publishers to institute what is known as «agency pricing» seemed like a good idea: It gave Apple plenty of content (plus 30 percent of the revenue from each book sold), and the publishers got to control the price of their books, something they weren't allowed to do with Amazon.

Six years into my writing journey I was as yet unpublished when I learned an acquaintance sold a book to a publisher and it sent me spiraling into an ugly pit of jealousy and despair.

Some book publishers have even gotten into the «booking» business to participate in the lucrative revenue streams associated with publishing — but that aren't about selling books.

The publishers will focus on a release date of the book where the hope is a lot of copies will sell very quickly, then when that date has faded into the past, the book will be basically tossed out, reverted back to the author, considered worthless to the publisher if it is not selling some magic number of copies set by a computer buried in some bunker somewhere.

It's sensible because, by basing it on net pricing, publishers gain the flexibility to price their ebooks to their market, independently of p - books which sell into a different environment.

Some foreign publishers offer English language publishers an upfront fee to translate books into their languages and sell them on their own websites.

This company pretends it is a Literary Agency that will sell your books to traditional publishers, but all it is is a funnel into a maze of companies that demands an ever increasing drain on your wallet.

There are now people getting books into print for very little money, working online book review and publicity sources, getting attention in social media, and selling thousands of books at profits that obliterate what authors used to get as royalties from traditional publishers.

I'll also admit that there have been other folks who have asked Amazon and other online retailers to somehow clue buyers into the fact that the e-book they are considering purchasing is being sold directly from the author and not from a «real» publisher.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.