Not exact matches
While this strategy works
just fine for large
publishers that already have
established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for
just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.
Simon and Schuster has
just reached a new agreement with online bookseller Amazon, and empowers the
publisher to once again
establish their own prices on eBooks.
Established in 2011, Literary Agent Undercover serves: 1) Unpublished authors
just getting started, 2) Self - published authors who now want to find a real
publisher, and 3) Previously published authors that have lost their agent and / or
publisher.
They not only have access to many
publishers that authors
just can not reach, but they have
established relationships with sub-agents to sell their authors» works internationally.
Whether they have dreams of making it big or
just plain desire to produce in the medium they love, creators are foregoing the route of submitting to the numerous
established indie
publishers and going it alone.
For instance, if you are an
established publisher promoting a new book in a popular series, you may not want to give away a full copy of the new book — maybe
just the first chapter.
Publishers are looking for authors who will sell well from their first release so, in essence, they are looking for
established brands and not
just new authors.
Though with KDP, the term «
publisher» is used to describe anyone who wishes to sell an e-book, not
just established name brand publishing houses.
Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from
publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional
publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long
established authors and
just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.
Just as the Independent Alliance was
established to secure better terms from chain booksellers as well as from online players and supermarkets, so the indie booksellers» version would exist to secure the same from larger
publishers, along with a range of other benefits.
Here are
just 13 examples of
established publishers and imprints that accept unsolicited, nonfiction proposals.
What's more, the partnership is not
just another sign of
just how
established brands face challenges from all across the board (and Faber's own brand is threatened too), but it shows that savvy
publishers like Faber can move fairly rapidly in the digital space.
The big
publishers haven't yet gone out of their way to take the market, they have
just established a foothold.
If we don't maintain other avenues for
establishing a literary reputation and finding some kind of readership — things like traditional
publishers and reviewing, where the writer could
just be a writer and not have to wear the flak hat, the salesman hat, the editor hat, the
publisher hat — if we don't maintain those, then we hand over the literary world to the personality types who are, I would say, less suited for the kind of work I care about.
Children's books published through a non-traditional route are
just as worthy of recognition as those published by an
established publisher.
The midlist authors with
established careers could venture out on their own but a wise
publisher wouldn't want to give them cause - they could
just go on to another
publisher.
«The game industry has long been asking for a census to better understand
just how many people are creating games professionally in North America, and as the organization behind Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com and the Game Developers Conference, the CMP Game Group felt that it was our responsibility to use our expertise to
establish an accurate view of its size,» said Simon Carless,
publisher of Game Developer Magazine and director of Game Developer Research.
And if they are famous,
established developers and / or one working with a well -
established IP, it begs the question of why they can't
just get funded from the existing «smart money» investing in games, i.e.
publishers and VC's.