Sentences with phrase «know authors pay»

It just feels nice to know authors pay attention to who they're sending requests to.

Not exact matches

Only one program known to the author is produced in this way: the Seventh Day Adventist program «It Is Written,» which is produced by the central communication agency of the church from denominational funds, with local churches of the denomination paying for its broadcast in their local area.

Some might say my choice of e-book was odd, because I happened to know the author's work intimately: I downloaded and paid for a digital version of my own book Mind Wide Open.

«We think that if we look at something enough, especially if we have to pay attention to its shape as we do during reading, then we would know what it looks like, but our results suggest that's not always the case,» said Johns Hopkins cognitive scientist Michael McCloskey, the senior author.

The report's author, Max Eden, explains that while charter enrollments cost district schools over $ 400 million a year, after the state's «unique reimbursement» — which he claims is one of the most generous reimbursement plans in the nation — districts are getting paid a significant amount of money for students they no longer teach.

I pointed out to her, as an avid reader I would not pay for a well - known author this much money, she just got mad at me.

So I need to know which books by which authors (and the royalty for each) they are paying.

Although that approach violates most of what they taught us in media classes, way back when, paid book reviews have become mainstream, if not exactly something about which authors (the one in the know, anyway) would boast.

You know, the companies that authors paid to print books that, presumably, didn't measure up to «legitimate» publishers» standards?

Because the author never deals directly with the POD company or knows where the books are being printed, they remain unaware of the difference between the actual fees charged by the POD company and what the self - publishing company says is the printing charge, distribution fee, and the author royalty.As with any other product, the greater the number of middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer, the greater the price paid by the consumer.

You know, a publishing house that could offer royalty advances, but might also require the author to pay some of the costs, up front, and to provide a pre-launch list of people (maybe a thousand or more) who have ordered advance copies of the book.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

We know lots of paid review sources that are fully legit, such as Kirkus, City Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly for indie authors.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.

Sarah Bolme presents An Important Element in Publishing Nonfiction posted at Marketing Christian Books, saying, «With decreased time spent reading, decreased attention span, and knowing that the majority of readers don't read a Christian nonfiction book in its entirety, every author should pay attention to this important element for nonfiction books.»

Nope, this reader is not going to pay that much for a book, no matter how much I like the author.

Authors who self publish (I just put out my first ebook so I know) soon discover that it's really hard to get your work visable without paying big $ for it.

Here, we see that if we know we love an author, we're willing to pay between $ 4.99 to $ 9.99 and above.

Those reviewers don't know the author, but they are being paid for glowing reviews, a practice I hate.

(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.

Most authors are looking for someone else to do their marketing for them, because they don't want to do it (or feel overwhelmed by the process), and are eager to pay someone else who knows what they're doing.

Authors hate paying reading fees, I know, but I don't see any other way to separate the gold the tailings.

Just to let you know where we are in this case, which is proceeding with the deliberate pace of US litigation: In late 2014, Ellora's Cave sued Dear Author and Jane, its proprietor, claiming that Dear Author defamed EC by publishing a blog post stating that EC was not paying a set of its authors, editors, and cover artists in a timely fashion, and that there were additional indicia of financial difficulties, as evidenced by tax liens.

In fact, it's not even well - known in the author community that paid book reviews exist, and even less is known about the value of such reviews.

We still allowed these authors to sell and sign their books however they simply paid a table fee, supplied their own books, handled their own money transactions and put a sticker on the book (one we provided) so the book store cashiers would know they had already paid for it.

Most readers won't pay $ 10 even for a well - known author that they like.

The answer to that question is «I have no idea, but I, and any other author paying attention, know that clause is in publishing contracts.»

Getting to know other authors in your niche can pay off in blog hops, anthologies, boxed sets and joint promotions.

Hell's bells, if we have to make sure we send an edited manuscript to our agents and editors before they «edit» it — and yes, there are a number of authors who pay freelance editors to go over their work before submitting it because they know there will be no real editing done by their editors at certain legacy publishers — and we have to do our own marketing and promotion and do it on our own dime, why are we giving legacy publishers the majority of money earned by our hard work?

What authors didn't know back in December was how much they would be paid per book for the «Borrows.»

They're not anxious to have the material that they pay a lot for, and authors get compensated for, to have it be, you know, hacked and available — made available for free.

Today's authors have started to catch on to the fact that they no longer have to depend on and pay a third - party publisher to do the work that they can do themselves by self - publishing.

These and many other indications, of course, tell us that despite our inability to measure the true breadth of self - publishing — as long as the key metric, the ISBN, depends on authors to pay much more for their identifiers than the industry does — we know that self - publishing is growing.

Personally, I've never paid any of the big sites to promote my free book, although I know many authors do so to good effect.

Microsoft is betting big that people will be more likely to pay for a title if it is from a well known author.

Pronoun knew they had to present a better alternative to most of the major online bookstores, which only pay authors between 60 % or 70 % per each sale.

Additionally, many self - publishing companies charge outrageous amounts of money for tasks an author with a little know - how can do on his own, but yet still take an additional majority percentage of the royalties, even though the author paid for an expensive package.

I felt cheated and annoyed after paying $ 14.95 for a well - known author's ebook novel this summer only to discover several typos in close proximity and ten or more throughout the book.

I managed to find the last books I bought from B&N on free sites (I know, not usually good idea, but I didn't cheat the authors because I HAD paid for those books which B&N would not let me freely access).

In the same way that you can't offer professional advice to friends or family, because it's not worthwhile if they didn't pay for it from a strange professional, even many reader friends will be unimpressed or actually hostile toward your books — perhaps because it breaks their idea of authors being strange, artistic, ethereal beings hunched over a typewriter in a stone tower or something, I du n no.

A vanity press, also known as a subsidy press, is where the author pays a fee for the publication of the book.

After reading affordable and well written indie books, I wondered why I'd paid upwards of ten dollars for a well known author's book.

I also knew that the best editing work was in books: because they were long and authors would pay more.

It's no less true for an author: selling a book to someone ill - suited to your writing (or even «meh» about it) is great for that 64 cents (the royalty a paperback pays), but not so wonderful, as the reader who feels was ripped off is going to take it out on your reputation (because most readers have no idea how little of that cover price goes to the author.

No, self - publishing means that authors are publishing their own books instead of getting paid by publishers for their books.

The way KENPC is figured is not known, the way pages read are calculated isn't at all clear, and what authors are going to get paid per month for each page read is variable and has been going down for a while.

There's not an easy way to give all that stuff (and actually know what you're doing so it works) and still make a profit, at a price authors are willing to pay.»

We all know far too many publishers that went under after failing to pay their authors as promised.

Authors shouldn't pay for their own print runs unless they know exactly how and to whom those books will be sold.