Sentences with phrase «major book publishing houses»

Because of the existing relationship that Amazon has with major book publishing houses around the world from its bookstore business, along with its leverage in the industry that allows the company to make the best deals for them with publishers, authors and retailers, Amazon is expected to find great success amid the current competition.

It's a whole lot easier to publish a short story than a novel: there are thousands of literary magazines and contests in the US, but only five major book publishing houses.

the organization of major book publishing houses based primarily in New York City and owned by a handful of (primarily foreign) media conglomerates....

In addition, learning outside the classroom takes place during visits to major book publishing houses, magazine media companies, and digital content companies across New York City.

But I'd so much like to catch authors before it's too late to get a book publicist really excited about a project: before a major book publishing house has given up on promoting the book (or lost interest in selling the book) or before an author has committed to working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a book about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.

Not exact matches

But instead, she receives a major rejection from a publishing house for her book The Lost Innocent.

Nowadays, we don't have to wait for a major publishing house to offer us a book deal to get our novels or manifestos in print.

But I finished my first book, snagged an agent, then was rejected by all of the major publishing houses.

I then moved on to Rodale Press and then Salem House where I helped bring British books to the US, finally moving up the publishing ladder to Pantheon's Associate Publisher, where I worked with some of the major cultural icons of our time, including Noam Chomsky, Studs Terkel, Matt Groening and Art Spiegelman.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

Why is it that the major traditional publishing houses have staff whose responsibility it is to secure editorial book reviews for upcoming releases?

Jaffa Books was founded in 2011 by publisher Jacob Coates as an alternative option to the major publishing houses.

And, to answer the question above about selling hundreds of thousands of books without a major publishing house — check out a post I wrote in August of last year when I hit the 100,000 milestone in crime book sales.

Mark's authors have been published with major publishing houses such as Harper Collins, Thomas Nelson, and Penguin Books, resulting in millions of books Books, resulting in millions of books books sold.

Instead of self - editing, and making my own cover, and throwing it onto KU, I started my own company, and I decided that I was going to release a book that was competitive with and indistinguishable from a release by a major publishing house.

His authors have been published with major publishing houses around the world like Harper Collins, Thomas Nelson, and Penguin Books, resulting in millions of books Books, resulting in millions of books books sold.

It's interesting to note that the chains and major houses who hooked up early on with POD publishing services haven't done much that's noticeable in support of the resulting books.

-- Despite (I'm assuming) no discrimination against self - published books, ALL of these books were published by major houses — Random House; Little, Brown; Free Press etc..

You publish a book with a major publishing house... and no one asks you to rate anything.

«With their new pricing formula, Penguin Random House is recognizing that libraries are key players in the publishing industry, both as major purchasers of books and e-books, and promoters of literacy.»

The problem is that in the indi market there also it a lot of crap that would be filtered out IF all the books were subjected to the filter major publishing houses usually provide.

Emboldened by whatever prestige their affiliation with a major publishing house my bring, they move on to writing the next book.

Even if you're fortunate enough to find an agent and / or secure a book deal with a major (or minor) publishing house, you'll often still be expected to have had your manuscript edited — at your expense.

Since an agent's main job is to become familiar with the interests of acquiring editors and executives at the major publishing houses, and sell them books, it makes sense for most agents to live in New York.

And even though I didn't care about it at the time, when I pick out any of those books now, it's not surprise that they were all from the major publishing houses.

That includes authors at all stages of development, everyone from beginners to previously published authors who've published many books with major publishing houses.

In 1967, he launched a freelance writing career, and has had some fifty books published by many major houses.

I've sold about 25 books (also many short stories, essays, and articles) and have been published by a variety of major houses and small presses.

Not even the books of the major publishing houses.

Your book should look like it just came off the press of a major publishing house, and then you need to be willing to invest in marketing.

They email or call a book publicist and say, «My book was published by [fill in the name of a major publishing house] in 2008, and that publisher failed to promote my book.

A cover I like, that's on a major publishing house book and selling well (can't remember which one), is a blurry picture of some wet leaves, with a girl's hand / arm running through it.

These days, authors whose books are being carried by major houses as well as those who are self - publishing, need to know how to promote and market their books.

Established in August 2011, Literary Agent Undercover has already helped dozens of authors (in the United States and abroad) get the attention of literary agents and / or get book deal with major publishing houses.

The multimillion - seller author placed an ad last weekend in the New York Times Book Review and in Publishers Weekly (depicted below) advocating for government intervention — the same sort of bailout Goldman got — in order to save an industry besieged by bookstore closings and consolidation of the few remaining major publishing houses.

It'll playback DRM'd books you can purchase through the Connect Bookstore (more on that later), with titles provided by all the major publishing houses.

One editor at a major publishing house, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of employer sanctions, told me that agents of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Target are frequent participants in meetings about potential books.

Her books were published to great acclaim by a major trade publishing house until a couple of years ago when they decided, for reasons best known to themselves, not to continue.

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A New York literary agent can spend more time with editors and publishers at major New York publishing houses (the people who buy most books).

They say the Gatekeepers (agents, slush readers, and first - line editors) are there for a reason, ensuring that new product is of the highest possible quality, that they've ensured that booksellers aren't loaded down with crap (and said brick and mortar booksellers are in complete agreement, only accepting books from major, established publishing houses), and that they and their staffs produce a truly professional final product, handling editing, design, and marketing so the author only has to worry about the words.

I really never thought it would get published, let alone acquired by this major publishing house, and I was literally speechless when I got an email confirming their interest in acquiring Strays for the Aladdin Books imprint.

The third major publishing house in two days has decided to delay the electronic - book publication of some titles next year, as the debate over the timing and pricing of e-books heats up.

With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.

Any publisher — whether he's from a major publishing house or a room - over-the-garage author who publishes his own writing — can tell you that the most significant expenses involved in creating a book are not in which format to use.

The «gatekeepers» who previously determined what books got to market at the major publishing houses have long ago lost their exclusive status.

Despite the fact that many people would love to have a book published by a major publisher such as Random House, I made the decision to turn Random House down.

New York Book Editors is a premiere affiliation of editors who have spent at least four years at New York's major publishing houses.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

According to a recent article in TechCrunch, such major publishers as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., and Berrett - Koehler have already begun explore the book promotion value of Scribd.