Sentences with phrase «lesser known authors»

However, it stands for a great and rich visual history whose lesser known authors deserve to be recognized.

It will be harder for new authors or lesser known authors to break out because there won't be any individuals assigned at these digital marketplaces to help readers discover new books and new authors.

Like others have mentioned, I'd also like to see more reviews of digital first books and perhaps more reviews on books written by lesser known authors.

For the most part, stores have found that while virtual events can be successful for big - name authors, it can be hard to entice a large audience to interact virtually with lesser known authors.

With more than 20 million monthly visitors, Goodreads — which was acquired by Amazon in 2013 — provides a valuable platform to allow unknown or lesser known authors to «level the playing field» when it comes to marketing.

Amazon's plans would actually end up RAISING the prices of a lot of e-books that are cheap now, which would be not great for lesser known authors.

In my experience, it has been a gift to discover a lot of lesser known authors by grabbing a free offering, and if I enjoy the book I am not shy about paying for future books.

The Guardian picked up the story and talked about how publishers chase famous people for existing platforms, while lesser known authors can't get by.

And marketing still proves to be a black hole as far as what's successful for lesser known authors.

Prices would be even lower in many cases for books from lesser known authors or books that had passed beyond new - release status.

I have this idea for a small cottage industry — matching up lesser known authors with venues needing interest; i.e. older historical homes, etc..

Like chicks following a mother duck, the lesser known authors moved into the marketplace on the strength of the established authors» good names.

While the company is still ordering, albeit in lesser numbers, titles from the so - called best sellers, the orders of books from lesser known authors are reported to be basically nil.

They may also be more willing to consider lesser known authors» work if it fits their target audience.

However, more vocal opponents of the tensions included two literary agents who spoke about the impact this can have on authors, especially lesser known authors who rely on every possible avenue for book discovery, including physical bookstores» display space.

I often alternate between reading books from well - known authors that I like and lesser known authors who write in a genre outside my normal.

Laurie sounds very well read, so we'll stick to lesser known authors who meet this criteria in the hopes of digging up something new!

I'm certainly less inclined to just grab a new book at the higher prices, but I don't find it to that big a deal when there are still plenty of books for sale on special or at much lower prices by lesser known authors.

For curated self - published and small publisher titles, we have Kobo Next, which has been a rotated banner that appears in various different spots on the website and features a mix of well known plus lesser known authors and titles that our merchandisers feel are worthy of a second look (all divided by genre)-- much like that gorgeous table display that reflects a bookstore staff's selection:

Some say that this behavior by book agents in the early 20th century was responsible for the trend of publishers beginning to print fewer titles and take fewer chances on newer and / or lesser known authors... another trend that continues today, and continues to be debated.

And especially the novels by lesser known authors.

This set includes twelve Latin quotes, by both famous and lesser known authors, with their English translations, to use as display posters in the classroom, for example when teaching a unit on Romans or Ancient History or in any Latin class.

I feel the best way for a lesser known author to sell his or her book is still face - to - face.

I hate picking up a book by a lesser known author and hating it, only to find most of the reviews glowing because no one wanted to say anything negative.

«Well, perhaps if this becomes the new norm, enormous advances will become less common and there will be more money to go around for the less known authors»

Not exact matches

Unlike most stock market authors who automatically posit the stock market's prospects as knowing only one way (up), Katsenelson provides a refreshingly honest and sometimes humorous approach to a less defined future.»

To recite areas of research in which an author is ignorant is surely no worse, perhaps less so, than to charge an author with knowledge of which she pretends but in fact does not possess.

Some of the points raised by the numbered critique are excellent, but true the tone becomes less useful and condescending with some of the points (and I love that Hayward raises the point that this is no doubt the way the author feels he has been treated).

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

@jf I'll go you two better and name all three authors of the gospels that ministered with Jesus for three years more or less they were Matthew, Mark and John beyond them if you want to include the entire New Testament i would include James, Jude and Peter beyond that All the authors in the New Testament knew Jesus.

The author's understanding is no less a proposal (the creative aspect) about something than the interpreter's; but both, one no less than the other, also presume precisely to be proposals about some objective thing (the receptive aspect).

«Parents have less direct control over making older children sleep, so it becomes about making them a partner and teaching them the importance of getting a good night's rest,» says Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No - Cry Sleep Solution.

The author is also trying to stress in the book that potty training could be less stressful if parents know how to observe the signals being displayed by their kids.

A well - known author, Astrid was less known for her activism.

After all the resistance I've encountered here to the idea that maybe we should be doing less C - sections, and all the tireless defense of the blog author, I thought to myself... Matt, what do you really know about Dr. Amy?

Other less well - known experts of authoritarian parenting styles of the 1960's include authors Loise Bates Ames and Frances Ilg, who hosted a popular television show called «Parents Ask».

«All of this obviously was acknowledged and the individual who is the author of that report obviously was informed of all that and that's why I stand with this administration because I know they are dedicated to excellence: nothing less, nothing more than pure excellence.»

«[T] he increased reliance funding agencies place on [such] classic bibliometric indicators» as short - term citation metrics and journal impact measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the authors observe.

Locals no longer feel powerless and so are less likely to take out their frustrations on an unlucky big cat, says Chloe Inskip at the University of Kent, UK, an author of the study on tiger killings in Bangladesh.

Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.

«We've known that teens overall are becoming less likely to engage in risky behaviors, and that's good news,» said first author Richard A. Grucza, PhD, a professor of psychiatry.

«We know from previous research that lack of insurance typically results in diagnosis of cancer at a later, and usually less treatable, stage,» said lead study author Xuesong Han, PhD, Strategic Director, Health Policy and Healthcare Delivery Research, American Cancer Society.

«In no way is the nonsecretor mother's milk less healthy, and their babies are at no greater risk,» said David Mills, Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair in Dairy Food Science at UC Davis and senior study author.

«When you start to add more and more of the nutrients that the animal would normally be providing, the plant is no longer as dependent on that animal for those nutrients and so it starts to return less of the sugars back to the animal,» explained lead author Shantz, a doctoral candidate in the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory.

Even though tarantulas as a group are generally well known and easily recognized by the public from their appearances in popular culture, far less was known to science about their distribution, diversity and how they lived in the wild, according to the study's lead author, Chris Hamilton.

That phenomenon, consuming more when a «green» product is involved, is known as the «direct rebound» effect, and, the authors write, the larger it is, the less green the hybrid vehicle is.

«Many studies have looked at average snowfall over a season in climate models, but there's less known about these very heavy snowfalls,» says study author Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

«Studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's disease are less likely to develop cancer, but we don't know the reason for that link,» said study author Julián Benito - León, MD, PhD, of University Hospital 12 of October in Madrid, Spain.

«We know that physical activity is linked to overall good health, but not much is known about why people or animals with obesity are less active,» says the study's senior author Alexxai V. Kravitz, an investigator in the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — part of the National Institutes of Health.

«While racial disparities in surgical outcomes have been reported in adult health care, less is known about possible disparities in pediatric surgery,» said first author David I. Chu, M.D., a fellow in Pediatric Urology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).