Sentences with phrase «last traditional deal»

Jeff describes the business reasons why he walked away from his last traditional deal.

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That is why we have been so deeply disappointed over the last nearly two years in the CCCU leadership's unwillingness to deal decisively with whether or not the organization will take a stand for traditional marriage.

This last has been forgotten in a good deal of traditional analysis of human life, and failure to see that we have those «feeling - tones» is bound to produce a sadly distorted idea of personality.

In a separate statement, Cuomo condemned the «rushed, secretive approach» to the bill passing, even as some compared it to the traditional last - minute maneuvering and deal - making that typifies budget making and legislation in Albany.

The governor was sent for a loop when federal prosecutors subpoenaed his executive chamber on April 29, and he shrunk from the traditional deal - making of the last six weeks of the legislative session.

When it comes to Most Popular Trucks, the redesigned 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban are the real deal, with traditional body - on - frame construction and — when combining their annual sales figures — six - digit delivery totals: The 204 - inch, three - row Tahoe rang up 97,726 sales last year (+17 percent) while the even bigger Suburban, able to distribute nine occupants along its 224 - inch length, tallied a 7.3 percent growth rate last year and 55,009 sales.

Now I could go on and on about the illusionary «support» traditional publishers and agents say they give writers, but anyone who has dealt with that system for any length of time knows that's just gotten worse as well in the last ten years.

Last time I looked into it, a traditional publishing deal was no indication of quality either.

«Last year I self - published a novella, and all it did was encourage me to get an agent and seek a traditional deal for my full - length novel,» gripes one Rob W. Hart.

Yet I discovered over and over the last few days as Barry Eisler turned down a half - million dollar deal and Amanda Hocking, a young writer, is thinking of taking a deal, that the myth of security and safety in traditional publishing is as strong as ever.

Publishers Lunch notes that Howey «had already made a traditional publishing deal in the U.K. (with Century) and agent Kristin Nelson and her sub-agents have already licensed the book in over 18 territories» and also lists some other print - only deals publishers have made in recent months — including Simon & Schuster's print - only deal last year with bestselling self - published author John Locke.

The last real advantage that traditional publishers have is an «in» with major reviewers, which can get your book a great deal more publicity.

Traditional publishers have always made box - sets for print books, and over the last few years, they have become popular for ebook bundling, rising high in the bestseller lists as customers snap up the deals, boosted by BookBub and other promotions.

Last, Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants, got a movie deal for his self - published novel (which a traditional publishing house has since picked up).

Last week, Barry turned down a $ 500,000 book deal with a major trade publisher for his next two books and declared his intention to self - publish, while Amanda accepted a $ 2,000,000 offer from a traditional publisher to publish four new novels.

Because traditional publishing deals are so last century.

Traditional publishers have been doing box - sets in print for years, and in the last six months, they have become popular for ebook bundling, rising high in the bestseller lists as customers snap up the deals.

A lot of emphasis has been placed in the last year on e-book authors that later become even more successful through a more traditional publishing deal.

Traditional global warming theory would suggest winter warming trends, but several regions such as those we deal with here have a negative trend in temperature over the last 25 years.

Although its traditional strength has been in private equity transactions — a field it dominates — it was also ranked first last year by the website Mergermarket in mergers and acquisitions, with 447 deals.

Traditional payments giant First Data sent a ripple through the bitcoin community last month when the company announced it had acquired mobile gift card provider and long - time bitcoin industry advocate Gyft as part of a deal with undisclosed terms.