Sentences with phrase «make money for authors»

Since we are here to make money for our authors, we still hesitated.

As I said, we're here to make money for our authors, not take it out of their pockets.

This is NOT going to make money for authors.

Finally, someone has solved the pricing problem for e-books in a way that makes money for authors.»

Not exact matches

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.

Adam is the author of 7 books including Lead The Field, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennedy.

It is said that Runciman once joked that, aside from himself, the only other author to have made more money for Cambridge University Press was God, with his book, the Bible.

Religion Can Make You Poor In her review of Lisa A. Keister's Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (February), Naomi Schaefer Riley takes the author to task for the superficiality of her analysis of her study's findings regarding religion's effect on socioeconomic status.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

Beth Kobliner is a commentator and journalist, author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, as well as Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not), a new book for parents coming from Simon & Schuster in February 2017.

«Our ultimate goal is to engineer microbes to make new versions of these antibiotics for our use, which will drastically reduce the amount of time and money necessary for new drug testing and development,» says Gavin Williams, associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.

Professor Peter Horton FRS, Chief Research Advisor to the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield and corresponding author of the paper, said: «Our findings bring into focus a key part of the food security challenge — resolving the major conflicts embedded in the agri - food system, whose primary purpose is to make money not to provide sustainable global food security.

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

There are authors that make money writing for chat bots.

Jeremy Irons plays an author / journalist who has lived on Hong Kong for fifteen years, scribing such works as «How to Make Money in Asia» (scratching out the «Make», and replacing it with «Lose» during a brief book - signing scene) He is in love with a karaoke - bar - owning woman played by the ever - radiant Gong Li, who has locked herself into an extremely complex relationship with a man about to gain political control of Hong Kong (Michael Hui).

In other words a huge investment of time and money which is justified only for a small percentage of presentations projects that come with a budget, leaving the rest of the presentations unpublished or just uploaded on slideshare.net (or some other PowerPoint archive) even when the presentation itself doesn't make much sense without the author's comments.

With Google's gift to mankind authors can make learning modules that are intuitive, persuasive, and effective while they acquire knowledge and gain skills.If you are an after course craftsman, then Power Searching is all that you expect to come out of design experts and content geniuses that love doing their job and are getting paid lots of money for doing it.There are a total of six - 50 minute - classes.

The author lamented the fact that children were being told that art, music and books «would not help them make money», and finished by praising the education system in Sweden for putting «tremendous value on children's books and children's imaginations».

They get a little bit of traffic because so many people are looking for book marketing, and then they make money by offering the thing that authors need and desperately want.

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

You get the author bump in your ranking for the download, but to make money, they need to keep reading

For example, new literary agents spend most of their time looking for new authors and pitching their work to publishers, hoping to make enough money to pay their bills so they can continue being agenFor example, new literary agents spend most of their time looking for new authors and pitching their work to publishers, hoping to make enough money to pay their bills so they can continue being agenfor new authors and pitching their work to publishers, hoping to make enough money to pay their bills so they can continue being agents.

She wrote a book called The Indie Author guide, which she has made available totally for free on her website (not exactly the behavior of a money grubber) I've read the book and it's filled with tips on how indie authors can get their work out affordably.

, extra money for fun outings with other authors or connections you meet, and some comforts for when you make it back to your hotel room.

So I think for people to make it as an entrepreneur, you actually have to be thinking about these questions of money, which a lot of authors from the years of traditional publishing and this myth of creativity being kind of God - given, that has stopped people thinking this way.

Brian Jud is the Executive Director of the Association of Publishers for Special Sales (APSS — www.bookapss.org — formerly SPAN) and author of How to Make Real Money Selling Books.

they look at new writers like on their income source, it is designed to make money for corporate crooks, not for authors.

Independent authors are experiencing increased sales by including their books in the US Kindle Owners» Lending Library through KDP Select, an option for authors to make money through the lending library and promote their book for free.

There are fewer ways for Indie Authors to find an audience than there were a year ago, and every day there are more predatory companies seeking to make money off of us.

The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).

I think he'd make a sh*t load of money that way — the entire emerging world of authors and readers are entering the web via smartphone — they have neither the time nor the hardware - / software - purchasing money for Calibre, Sigil or a new Kindle every year.

Questions such as, «How will an author make money from her own work if everyone is simply downloading it for free off an illegal sharing website?»

Then they found that they could make good money designing covers for other indie authors.

Since this post has been (mostly) about authors who've made enough cash to fill a swimming pool and dive in, visit Midnight Publishing's blog next week for a multi-part series to learn how you too can make some money with your writing — and maybe fill a kiddie pool with some green.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

Traditional publishing houses are sweating, and authors who went through the grueling process of courting them, and waiting (and waiting and waiting) are now feeling the sting, as people who do it themselves are surpassing them by making more money for their efforts.

The specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income because it is easier to make money by going indie.

When I tell these would - be authors the truth of the matter, as I have learned being in and around the publishing business for over twenty years, they decide that they should buy a few more lottery tickets because they have a better chance at making big money doing that, and it's a lot less work.

We'll, here is the kicker:» the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie.»

Their end goal is providing the best possible outcome for consumers in order to retain customers, and less about making sure authors earn as much money as they can.

-LSB-... here the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie.]

He's the host of The Rocking Self Publishing Podcast and also the author of Bootstrapping for Indies (Self Publishing on a Budget) and Audiobooks for Indies (The One - Stop Guide for Authors Looking to Make More Money Selling Audiobooks).

There are times when I wonder whether all the people writing books, setting up blog tours, and providing other services for aspiring self - published authors are making a lot more money than the authors.

Publishers will often overprice their books in an effort to make their money back, but that makes it a long, hard road for promotion (which they'll expect you, the author, to cover).

It signifies many things to me; it's part of a broader movement dear to indie authors around the world; writing, publishing and making a lot of money from book sales is basically all I plan to do for the rest of my life.

In this course, I interview CJ Lyons, NY Times bestselling author, about traditional publishing, covering everything from finding an agent, pitching, how the publishing process works, how the money works, the pros and cons, details of contracts and what to watch out for as well as the biggest mistakes people make.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.