Sentences with phrase «make money from authors»

Some of them only sound prestigious, and are nothing more than another way to make money from authors.

The lawsuit was filed in April 2013 by New York - based law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart, accusing Author Solutions of seeking to make money from authors, rather than for authors.

The problem is that publishers aren't set up to be able to make money from authors who haven't already made a name for themselves.

The self - publishing division was the subject of a lawsuit in the US, which was settled out of court last August, during which the business faced accusations from plaintiff authors of seeking to make money from authors, rather than for authors.

Those companies make their money from author services, and have no incentive to actively market or promote your book (though they'll charge an arm and a leg to a «press release» or signing nobody shows up to...) It can be comforting and convenient to get help, especially if you just want a book to show your friends and family.

They make their money from the author buying his or her books.

They know the unfortunate truth that a lot of people in this industry are making money from authors instead of for authors.

Also that there are more people making money FROM authors than there are authors making money.

So many people are making money from authors, but authors are making less.

There are way too many outfits making money FROM authors instead of FOR authors.

We especially want to help writers avoid the pitfalls of this ever - more complex business, where unfortunately, a lot more people are making money from authors than for us.

Not exact matches

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.

Mr. Yubas is the author of the book «Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea» as well as several articles, eBooks, Kits, audio programs, and DVD.

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.

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....

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.

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This way you are protected from online dating services which want to make their money off your correspondence and will be certain to correspond with the lady not with a hired author.

According to the report, 10 out of 20 states reviewed allow tax filers to bring in more from combined state and federal credits and deductions than they donate, a loophole that the report's author said makes their donations more like money laundering than philanthropy.

From an indie author's angle, they make more money, not less.

It's important, because some authors make more money from subsidiary rights than regular book sales!

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.

I'm just checking to see if you're getting any new income results from Indie Authors, and if things have changed in results since so many authors are going self - pubbing and it might be harder to make a splash (and Authors, and if things have changed in results since so many authors are going self - pubbing and it might be harder to make a splash (and authors are going self - pubbing and it might be harder to make a splash (and money).

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?»

Some of the greatest works in literature had authors who made little or no money at all from writing, yet I would never Dane myself with being their superior because I have a big house featured on my title page.

I would also suspect that many publishing - house - published authors, and Published Authors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-profesauthors, and Published Authors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-profesAuthors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-professional.

I'd be willing to amend «professional author» to simply «someone who makes money from their work.»

Real Authors are ones that make money from their books, anyone can submit a word doc, a real author lives from their book sales.

You say that someone who doesn't make money from their work is a writer, not an author, but what about the people that make six figures a year as a professional copywriter or social media manager?

Tonight we chatted with fantasy author Abigail Hilton about making money from Patreon, audiobooks, and web comics as well as full - length novels.

Let's Get Digital: How To Self - Publish, And Why You Should by David Gaughran (Goodreads Author) 4.56 · rating details · 16 ratings · 7 reviews From Goodreads: «You won't make any money from self - publishing.&raFrom Goodreads: «You won't make any money from self - publishing.&rafrom self - publishing.»

But it's the ability to market books effectively that is the key to making really good money from writing e-books, according to author and entrepreneur Joanna Penn, who gave up a lucrative career to be a writer.

Ellora's Cave has switched their business model from making money with their authors to making money off their authors.

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.

This is separate from the money you make as the author of the book.

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.

Because agents held the power (and the purse strings, as well, which was another business tradition that made no sense from the author's perspective — it boiled down to: «authors aren't good with money, so it is better to let the business - headed agent deal with it all.»

But if more than 400 authors want to use Dellarte, and if HQN wants to make more money from Dellarte, that really does tell us (RWA - members and non-members alike) something about HQN, doesn't it?

-- Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Author of Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career and Lecturer at Boston University and Harvard University Extension School

Either way when you do the math, authors are not making a lot of money from book -LSB-...]

Stephanie Chandler is an author of several business and marketing books including «The Author's Guide to Building an Online Platform: Leverage the Internet to Sell More Books» and «From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks and Information Products.&author of several business and marketing books including «The Author's Guide to Building an Online Platform: Leverage the Internet to Sell More Books» and «From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks and Information Products.&Author's Guide to Building an Online Platform: Leverage the Internet to Sell More Books» and «From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks and Information Products.»

Freemium self - publishers use tactics that aren't quite so obvious, but include overcharging for additional services (like the custom covers and book videos), overcharging for author copies, and the coup - de-grace: manipulating you into actually giving away your e-book to their customers under the guise of «marketing» (but, you only «earn the right» to do this if they have an exclusive on your book, thus preventing you from making money elsewhere).

For them to order only enough copies so that it would take one to two months to ship the books was just their tactics to get Hachette move... that was their decision to do... it's their store but it definitely hurt those authors if the other retailers weren't making up that money from sales from other retailers.

And if you want to make that extra effort too, think about buying your ebooks from other sites — especially directly from publishers, if you have that opportunity, because that'll have the added bonus of making sure more money ultimately gets into the hands of your favorite authors.

Artificially low prices save money for readers but may compromise quality and makes almost impossible for authors who want to make a living from their work unless they sell thousands of copies every week.

Only the big - time authors make real money from public speaking engagements.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of lmake your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of lMake contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of lmake them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

Either way when you do the math, authors are not making a lot of money from book sales.

Although CreateSpace versus Ingram is not comparing like for like (Amazon are making more money from their authors!)

All these people make money from the content that authors produce, and usually focus on huge margins — they get as many authors as they can and earn as much as they can from each author.