Sentences with phrase «made by other publishers»

Switch is also less well - served with what are called «third party» games (i.e. games made by other publishers that appear on multiple platforms), including big titles such as Destiny, Grand Theft Auto, Star Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty.

Not exact matches

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Austin made a major push to cultivate relationships with other countries during the first International sessions at Austin Startup Week.
If content marketing predictions made by leaders like Joe Pulizzi, Sarah Mitchell, Carlos Abler, and several others are any indication, 2016 could truly be the year when brands finally start to de-silo their content efforts and operate as fully functional publishers.
The Carnegie Corporation, it should be said, is not the author, owner, publisher or proprietor of these or of the other publications issued by the staff of The Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed therein.
Some other papers, published in traditional subscription - based journals, are made freely available on an author's website or through an institutional or government archive, often after a 6 - or 12 - month «embargo» imposed by the publisher to protect subscription revenue.
By putting this stuff out there, you insult all writers, all publishers — big and small, agents, and all others who strive to make the publishing industry an inviting business to work.
When I stated that a self - publisher must write like a traditional writer, I am basically saying that the writer must follow all the steps above, whether particular tasks are handled by the same person, or payment is made for services rendered by other professionals.
But while everyone else here is taking author's creative content and using it to make an income, we indie authors are supporting ourselves by not giving our rights or work away to publishers, doing everything ourselves, taking control over our own marketing platforms, and urging other authors to do the same.
Objectionable material: • Obscene or distasteful content • Profanity or spiteful remarks • Promotion of illegal or immoral conduct Promotional content: • Advertisements, promotional material or repeated posts that make the same point excessively • Sentiments by or on behalf of a person or company with a financial interest in the product or a directly competing product (including reviews by publishers, manufacturers, or third - party merchants selling the product) • Reviews written for any form of compensation other than a free copy of the product.
This publisher is still making money on Sarah's books, and on books by the other authors they have cut off just as they did Sarah, and yet telling these same authors there are no sales or minimal sales.
«We made Focus by Firefox because we believe content blockers need to be transparent with publishers and other content providers about how lists are created and maintained, rather than placing certain content in a permanent penalty box,» Mozilla Chief Legal and Business Officer Denelle Dixon - Thayer wrote in a blog post.
That's the simple revelation made charmingly real in How to Play the Harmonica (and Other Life Lessons) by Sam Barry, a former Presbyterian minister now working for a major book publisher (and co-writing the Author Enablers column for BookPage).
The other thing is that they have historically been given short shrift by publishers and make almost nothing for their hard sophisticated work.
Black, Moschovakis, and other publishers hope that the free - PDF approach will help make poetry more widely available, particularly to readers in geographically isolated locations, and grant more freedom to writers and publishers by working outside the traditional publishing system.
The hybrid authors surveyed reported themselves to be more motivated by money than the others and less impressed with publishers» ability to add any value by making a book «more like what the market wants.»
A program designed by Audible.com to allow writers, publishers, agents (whoever holds the rights) the opportunity to match their work with an actor, reader, producer of their choosing who will record the book, upload it to the Audible.com site, and Audible will make it available for sale on Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes (and others depending on the distribution deal you select).
So, in other words, at these average price points, every time a hardcover sale is replaced by an e-book sale, the publisher makes $ 2.20 more per copy and the author makes $ 1.58 less.
The indie publishers accepting submissions earn profits by making upfront investment on publishing books of other authors.
I think that it's important that indie authors help each other out by recommending services that they have used, and I hope this post helps indie authors make a decision as to which service they ultimately use, whether it's BookBaby or another publisher.
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.
Free news, stories, YouTube videos, games, and other content generated by users but enabled by online aggregators and pirates have undermined the leverage of authors and publishers who depend on copyright protection to make a living.
«However, it is my duty to make sure that Amazon's arrangements with publishers are not harmful to consumers, by preventing other ebook distributors from innovating and competing effectively with Amazon.
If you look at the comments made by Barry Eisler about why he decided to take a deal with Amazon instead of self - publishing, he says virtually nothing about the money, or about other factors that traditional publishers are used to focusing on.
And it's hard not to feel just a little bit sad that publishers are making many of the same mistakes we've seen made in other industries — most notably by the recording industry.
Self - publishing makes sense in many situations: for instance, when the author has identified a market that isn't currently served by trade publishers, and has a plan to reach that market; when the author is publishing a book to accompany some other form of presentation or workshop; and when the author is willing to sacrifice the advantages of trade publication in order to enjoy more autonomy over the process.
Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.
For established hardcover authors and other genres that are hardcover heavy like thrillers, literature and science fiction, the inroads made by self publishers on the low end were not significant.
The real money makers — cookbooks and crossword puzzles — are clearly not even making B&N much cash, which suggests that the other publishers who depend on fast - turnaround, low - cost content to support the grand publishing pyramid where The Corrections is supported by sales of Kim Kardashian's tips to a better marriage, are pretty much sunk.
TOR Books decision to go DRM - free: By going DRM - free with their sci - fi / fantasy imprint, Macmillan sent a strong signal to the market, particularly to the other major book publishers who will gradually make similar moves in select imprints.
The Guide makes vendors and other resources easy to find by separating them into 35 distinct categories within the 3 main tasks the self - publisher must deal with.
Agreed, Microsoft can subsidise cross-buy if they are the publisher, but other publishers will want to make money on PC, and Xbox and PS4 by selling the game 3 times or more.
Dark Day Interactive - is a small indie Development company, based in Australia and the United Kingdom, with past experience in the video game market, with the current release of Once Bitten, Twice Dead on PC, and iOS hits like Sky Island, the team has taken there past skills and knowledge from other projects and combined them into one tight company, answering to no major publishers, only making games they love, for the community and helped shape by the community.
Although some Nintendo games and games made by third - party publishers allow you to play against randomly selected opponents, communication is often restricted unless players have registered each other as friends.
Egged on by the publishers, he turned to the others, the ones busy doing the real work and asked for better tools, for more enemy types, for less coffee making.
Dungeons & Dragons had made it difficult (but not impossible) for other tabletop role - playing game publishers to carve out a niche, just as Magic the Gathering had made it essentially impossible for anyone else to compete in the trading card game space (not withstanding Pokémon, which was made by the same company).
The studio is still part of publisher 2K, which is also exploring new options for the future of BioShock - likely, a new game made by a developer other than Levine.
Much later, the game was negatively received by authors David Wesley and Gloria Barczak, who labeled it and the other Mario games manufactured by third - party publishers in the 1990s, which were made without the supervision of Nintendo, as «a flood of ill - conceived Mario spin - offs» that almost destroyed the Mario brand.
I sought to make the point about some of the faux research done by legal publishers (and others) in http://www.slaw.ca/2011/09/12/professional-information-publishers%E2%80%99-pr-whatever-that-is/
In the past it has been offered almost exclusively by commercial publishers, but now it is brought to the public by the same body that is proposing to make factums accessible; can we keep one and exclude the other?
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