Sentences with phrase «major publishing houses like»

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One of my clients who was a Senior VP of Digital at a major publishing house is fond of saying, «I'll take one email address for every 10 Facebook likes and every 100 Twitter followers.»

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 sold.

While some would say being published by a major publishing house makes one a legitimate author and being independently published or self - published means you are not I would say that is like saying only a person who has a recording produced by a major studio can be claimed to be a singer.

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.

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.

I used to consult publishing houses in norway for translation rights, and you're one of the people I would have love to have gotten over, but the vast majority of fantasy readers in norway are at least semi-fluent in english, so there's not much pull there unless you have a major breakthrough like Pat Rothfuss or a movie / TV deal like George R.R.Martin or John Scalzi.

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.

The Twitter feeds for major publishers like Simon & Schuster or HarperCollins are always working to promote new titles, and self - published authors and small publishing houses usually work even harder to talk up their books anywhere and everywhere.

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

Whether a non-fiction print edition from a major publishing house or a genre fiction ebook from a self - published author, contracting the services of a group like MethodApps can easily provide the extra push needed to market a book, especially if the app is sold or distributed in the same sales channel as the book and can therefore be bought at the time of the book purchase.

Making a general, sweeping statement like that of Grodin creates the illusion that all eBooks are too expensive, when in fact it truly relates only to a portion of the market that is getting smaller by the day — that of major publishing houses.

Finalists this year include a wide variety of books from publishers large and small, hybrid presses, traditional houses, self - published authors, major national groups like the American Cancer Society and even The White House Historical Association.

In an effort to restore price competition for ebooks in Canada, the Canadian Competition Bureau has announced a consent agreement with Apple and three major publishing houses — Hachette, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — that requires them to allow Canadian retailers like Amazon and Kobo to offer discounts on their ebooks.

It will be interesting to see if (Larry) Kirshbaum can use his connections to woo a major fiction author from a traditional publishing house — someone like David Baldacci or Nicholas Sparks.

And we will see great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the traditional institutions much like what is happening today with the major publishing houses.

But I can guarantee this: unless you're an author who has already hit a major bestseller list and / or your book is the most important book being published by that traditional publishing house's imprint and / or you got paid an advance of $ 50,000 or more (in small genres like sf or westerns) or $ 100,000 or more (in larger genres like romance and mystery), your book will not get a single title ad.

Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels being made into a major motion picture.

Authors that have worked with major publishers like Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House all have one thing in common; they must present their marketing plan to the publishing hHouse all have one thing in common; they must present their marketing plan to the publishing househouse.

To those (like me) who are still publishing with the major houses: I've read wonderful novels in the past few years that failed to find a home.

Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels (Herogiri) being made into a major motion picture.

Authors do not have the resources to negotiate like a major publishing house; they must accept the standard contracts offered, and in the case of service to vendor contracts, they do not even know what is in them.

Well, before I sent my book out to agents, I hired a «book doctor» who was a former acquisition editor from a major New York publishing house (like most editors he worked at a few different houses).

So who should be able to set e-book prices — the major publishing houses or retailers like Amazon?

I strongly believe your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book's advertising materials, and my motto is to keep it short and sweet on the likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff's Notes version of the book.