Sentences with phrase «lots of publishing deals»

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As a renowned authority on the use of media in instruction, and a celebrated professor of education at the Ohio State University, Edgar Dale (1900 - 1985) published a lot during his career — and none of his writings ever dealt with percentages of remembering from reading, hearing, seeing, and so on.

There's a lot of overhead to support, a venerated way of life, a whole galaxy of people who love books and earn their livings by publishing them — not writing them, God forbid, as that's so pedestrian — but who appreciate them as only MFAs dealing with empty nest issues or investor banking husbands who don't spend enough time at home, can.

It's a business, and dealing with a lot of local, one - book, self - published authors isn't very good business.

You hear so much that's down - and - out about the industry and lots of conversation about pricing... but we've seen lots of debut novelists coming up... The publishing industry will be where we put it... we need to be proactive, not reactive... savvy about how we deal in content and where we're putting it.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

I'm guessing that a lot of authors are not aware that even if they do not have an agent to represent them when dealing with a publishing contract they can always hire the services of an Intellectual Properties lawyer.

But lately, a lot of self published authors are answering calls from agents and editors who want them to consider a traditional publishing deal.

Although if you have a lot of free cash you can obviously take a page from the publishing industry itself and try to advertise your way to success — at which point the industry might take notice of your sales volume and give you a book deal, even if your writing is crap.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

We are not so dimwitted that we don't know how to tell a good deal from a bad one;) For a lot of us self - publishing was a choice, not a necessity.

This doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad deal: publishing services cost a lot of money.

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In other words... there are a lot of other publishing agents making six - figure deals that don't report them.

There has been a lot of media coverage surrounding authors who take a less than traditional route to publication, such as Amanda Hocking who inked a four book deal with St. Martin's Press following her unique success as a self - published ebook author on Amazon.

The Author Solutions deal finally allowed Barnes and Noble to make a lot of money from their cadre of self - published authors.

There's a lot of emotion in writing and I think the self - published author has to distance himself from it when dealing with the promotion side of publishing.

Just as it's a fact of life that we'll get rejected a lot over the years, whether it's for a job or for a manuscript that we're trying to get published, it's also a fact of life that it's not easy to deal with.

Lots of major companies deal with them such as; Adobe, Apex Covantage, BookNet Canada, Bowker, Copyright Clearance Center, Google, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram / VitalSource, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), John Wiley & Sons, MBS Direct, Newgen, Penguin Group US, Safari Books Online, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Taylor & Francis, and Zondervan.

The argument that I think Hugh keeps making isn't that if you self - publish you will succeed (if success is selling lots of books), but that the same amount of effort put into self - publishing will be more productive than if you had chased after a traditional publishing deal.

I am happy for you and happy because I love a weird publishing deal and I love a plan and I love looking forward to having (a lot) more of your books!

I think that, as publishing becomes increasingly concentrated in a few global corporations, we will see a huge gulf open up between a handful of familiar names, often getting deals beyond the time when they have done their best work, and a lot of indie authors.

There's a lot of experimenting going on with lower - pricing, greater volume, and fluctuating royalty deals, but generally you can make a lot more money self - publishing — if your book sells.

Fact is, there are still a lot of people out there who believe self - publishing is only for people who couldn't get a «real» publishing deal, and if you sell a product full of errors, that reinforces the stereotype.

If you had an idea for your own series, there was suddenly a lot of creator owned deals being made, or you could form your own company and self publish directly if you had a little cash.

The bottom line here is that as Amazon's power to sign up books away from the major publishers grows, the retailers who depend on publishers for a flow of commercial product suffer along with the publishers... B&N's decision seems to me like the right move for them... On the other hand, authors and agents who might have considered an Amazon publishing deal will have to think twice if they know very few bookstores will carry it... There are a lot of smart people engaged in a pitched battle here.

Sure, it * can * be easy if you're doing it wrong — and yes, lots of people will do it wrong — but to do it right takes a great deal of self - discipline (even more self - discipline than it takes to publish traditionally, since the only deadlines and bars set for you will be your own).

There aren't a lot of details on what this deal — which partners Digital Manga with Tezuka Productions — entails, but we do know it encompasses both series that have never been published in English and titles that have.

For non-fiction, a super idea on its own could be enough to get a deal even with a small platform, but the chances (and potential advance) go up along with the size of your platform... (lots of authors hope to trad publish because they DO N'T have a platform, but you actually need to build one yourself.)

The right way to look at it is that whether or not you have a trad publishing deal, doing self publishing will make you more money than if you gave it a miss — plus, you and a bunch of readers will have a lot of fun!

But Oyster and Scribd's libraries are also filled with a lot of self - published ebooks via a deal with self - publishing site Smashwords.

Justine Bylo [00:04:40] One of the things that I've been hearing a lot is that my authors who are what we call, hybrid authors, so they have both traditional publishing deals and then also self - publish.

And to be honest with you, a lot of authors have difficulty getting traditional publishing deals, right?

Instead what I'll probably do is self - publish as well as I'm able, sell a lot of copies and get picked up by a publisher once I've proven myself (this happens pretty often, it's actually the fastest way to get a publishing deal...).

Something we've heard a lot of lately is that publishers have to diversify the way they deal with copyright, a large part of which is selling or acquiring rights outside the traditional publishing channels of book fairs and trade shows.

All right, I'm probably not super-qualified to speak on behalf of publishers, because aside from the one I'm currently with, I haven't had a lot of success dealing with traditional publishing houses.

Many just didn't deal with the nitty - gritty nuts and bolts of self - publishing, and truthfully, I felt a lot of the bloggers tended to accept everything a self - publishing service claimed or fed them, without asking the right questions or looking deeper into the whole vanity press history.

But sadly there are still some influential people who believe that, first, self - published authors sell a lot of books because they are cheap (Kill Me Again is currently in the Kindle UK top 20 and only one book in the chart is more expensive) and, second, that if the writing was good, the author would be offered a traditional deal.

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.

We learned a great deal of new information on RAGE 2, and even saw the game in action for the first time, though published Bethesda Softworks promised a lot more to come during their own E3 2018 Showcase event (set on Sunday, June 10th at 6:30 pm Pacific Time).

But good news, we might now be a whole lot closer to getting the Knight of Shovelry to appear in Super Mario Maker, as Nintendo are to publish the game for its release in Japan, so if that doesn't seal the deal, I don't know what will.

Sony makes consoles because they believe in a philosophy of making money through content publishing deals, a successful model that has made them lots of money in the movie and music industries.

The November 2015 deal between Lex Machina and legal publishing giant LexisNexis made a lot of sense at the time because the case law analysis system needed tons of legal data to make itself a valuable tool.