And did
you know authors assume the bulk of marketing their book to the public?!
Not exact matches
Most biblical
authors assume that their readers want to
know how to obey God and follow Jesus better.
@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't
know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the
authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&ra
knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other
Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&ra
Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also
knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&ra
knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is
assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»
To
assume that Christian
authors of the New Testament in the first century could have
known what God had said elsewhere, and that Christian thinkers of the 20th century, on the basis of that Scripture, could pass judgment on any non-Christian revelation without thoroughly objective and unbiased study would be, at the very least, parochial.
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and
assume they did not mean to be hurtful, and let's engage the content of The Gospel Coalition post instead of criticizing the character of the
authors, who very few of us
know personally.
Helena is a traveller - from Colchester to Rome to Jerusalem - who begins her travels not
knowing where she is going or why, but who ends the novel by being led, we
assume, by a greater
author who works through and with the narrator and his characters.
The
author may have
assumed that everyone
knows that beets need to be peeled, but I don't think that's the case.
I thought it didn't look enough to have just 1/4 cup flour plus 1 tbs but I decided to follow the recipe anyway,
assuming the
author knew best!
In principle that could reduce the threshold for an efficient win to (1 / n), but I don't
know of any
author who
assumes that amount of control over opposition voters, since Duverger's Law kicks in.
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.
When an
author goes the traditional publishing route the publisher presumes to be the authority and
knows better than the writer and
assumes creative control of the writers intellectual property.
I don't
know of one
author that we haven't reverted when the license was up,
assuming we were out or low on stock and only selling minimal amounts of ebooks.
If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always
assuming that the book is well - written [I've
known self - pubbed
authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).
How does a publisher decide which books they'll devote full marketing energy (
assuming the
author isn't a
known entity), and does their active promotion determine which book will become a title everyone has heard of?
Sometimes the uneducated
author ends up in this place because she
knows enough to go to a book distributor or retailer for self - publishing help, and she
assumes it's best to hire the distributor or retailer to take care of her other needs.
It's not unusual for
author to
assume that radio show producers or hosts changed their minds — you
know, that they've caught onto the fact that the
author wasn't worthy of the book promotion opportunity, and it was all a mistake.
Particularly around matters of sales and marketing, publishers have a tendency to
assume that they
know best (which is sometimes true) and that consequently
authors have little value to add (which is emphatically not true at all.)
People I'd never met used my fiction as a way to psychoanalyze the
author, going on about my tormented psyche, insisting I was obsessed with violence against women, as if they
knew me, as if
assuming something about me magically made it true.
David, self - published
authors — being reliant on themselves for marketing — will
no doubt embrace the same methods that successful «traditional»
authors employ...
assuming they have a demonstrable sales effect.
Integrity Reviews abound on the web these days but it's often difficult to
know which to trust, especially when there are businesses who are paid to post glowing reviews, and
authors who solicit their friends and family to post 5 - star reviews, or even resort to writing them themselves under
assumed names.
Every one of their
authors would benefit greatly from this knowledge, which I
assumed any publisher would
know about.
Amazon will certainly
assume that a publisher (especially a well -
known one) has the right to distribute an ebook for an
author.
I
assume that most
authors know by now that typing in ALL CAPS is similar to screaming at someone in person.
I do
know several commercially published
authors who hire people to do their on - line promotion for them — newsletters, contests, setting up mailing lists — and that seems perfectly reasonable and above - board and worthwhile
assuming the VAA
knows what the heck s / he's doing.
Author services companies that
assume no risk have
no right to charge for services AND share profits.
I was shocked and a little outraged to learn it was possible to hit the NYT list multiple times and still earn such a modest income from it, because like everyone else I
know, I've always
assumed that any
author on that list is doing very well financially.
Assuming your
author is a generally healthy and grounded person, your
author knows all these things.
No, I'm
assuming that the 1.74 is an average, which if we
assume a bell - curve distribution means that most
authors will sell more books at this lower price point.
Only, where the self - pubbed
author has
known all along that he'd need to drive sales online, the mainstream - pubbed
author has likely
assumed brick and mortar stores would always be his prime sales channel.
I'm going to take a step back, because I'm
assuming that everyone listening to this how has an understanding of what an
author platform is — we
know it involves a website, we
know it involves an email list, and we
know it involves some social media platforms.
While I felt pretty silly for
assuming for so long that the books sent to me by ENT were handpicked, I was also excited to learn something every novice self - published
author needs to
know: You have a world of marketing prospects to choose from.
Signed books, particularly hardcovers, always go over well with readers, and some bookstores may order additional copies of a book (
assuming they think they can sell it well) if they
know in advance that an
author will sign copies.
People who
knew the
author had «self published» would then
assume that the content of the resulting books was likely to be inferior in quality and not worth reading.
Authors tend to
assume that publishers are going to A)
Know what they're doing and B) Do what's best for the
author.
They're doing a rather good job of getting a lot of self publishing
authors into their stores, which helps, but
assume that at the moment there is not much that can be done to fix up the store as we
know it.
This performance — which lasted just under an hour — was
no doubt inspired by the 1974 National Book Awards ceremony, in which a comedian accepted an award on Pynchon's behalf and delivered a rambling, pseudo-scholarly speech that left many in the audience to
assume he was the
author.
The amount of different material that was in the paper, was far more than I could possibly research to verify, or find more detail on; so I typically take those articles at face value, and
assume the
author / s
know what they are talking about; So I made no Judgement of Ruddiman as a result; I thought the idea was interesting.
If they didn't believe a Mexican telling them that raters can't be biased with respect to the outcome of the study — since said outcome in entirely in their hands — or the importance of independence, and bliindness to the identity of the
authors / participants, I
assume they just asked some white people who would
know, some social scientists who are experts in subjective rater study design, interrater reliability, etc..
Unless you are claiming, somewhat sensationally, that the
author hacked the Vatican web site and inserted his book details without anyone
knowing, we must reasonably
assume that the Vatican endorses it.
Instead, the 5
authors have decided that carbon dioxide (24 %) and methane (19 %) are the dominant greenhouse drivers of recent temperature variations, and water vapour and clouds apparently
no longer
assume any role.
Essentially, the
authors used a quadratic function to simulate the upward trend from 1850 to 2000, and then, convenient to their thesis,
assume that from 2000 onward, the trend
no longer has a quadratically increasing component but devine it will simply have a linear component.
Who
knows how many «relationships» an
author investigated before finding a» significant p - score» Can we really
assume that these scholars will reveal just how many bogus relationships they tried to extract from a data set before finding some spurious correlation?
But if we do not separate the two, people are going to
assume that amateur skeptic scientists and
authors do not
know the difference.
Instead of being a process as originally envisioned (and as this
author originally was trained) in which clients choose «
no - court» lawyers (usually for their divorces) and then, if needed, mutually hire various other kinds of professionals (such as property appraisers, tax experts, pension advisors, educational experts, child development or parenting specialists), these newly reconstituted collaborative law groups posit that collaborative law can and should be viewed as a «therapeutic jurisprudence» team approach in which divorce emotional and relationship issues are
assumed to be addressed along with the legal issues.