Sentences with phrase «many of the major publishing houses»

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

According to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Culture, part of the funds will be also invested in small publishers, most of which usually are unable to compete with the marketing efforts of major publishing houses.

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.

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.

«Sure, every local bookstore promotes local authors, but its bread and butter is the same stuff that Amazon sells — mass - manufactured goods whose intellectual property was produced by one of the major publishing houses in Manhattan.»)

As a self - published author, you won't have the support system of a major publishing house willing to defend you in a court of law.

After five of the major publishing houses made a deal with Amazon to set their own prices, e-book at both indie booksellers and on Amazon cost the same.

Whether you are an aspiring self publisher or the CEO of a major publishing house, a freelance designer or sales person, this book provides you with the insight, background, statistics, figures, and examples to help you make sense of the business, economic, and marketing concerns of epublishing on its own and in context with print publishing.

Whether you are an aspiring self publisher or the CEO of a major publishing house, a freelance designer or sales person, this chapter will provide statistics, figures, and examples to help you make sense of the business, economic, and marketing concerns of epublishing.

So what I'm going to do, in a very rambling fashion, is pretend that someone just put me in charge of a major publishing house.

Per the FTC's new disclosure law, I'll also say that, if I do happen to mention a book, unless otherwise noted, it came from publicists and the marketing departments of major publishing houses.

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.

Authors, especially indie authors who don't have the legal clout of a major publishing house behind them, have been forced to overlook the theft of their work for so long that it's finally come home to roost in our political arena.

After noteworthy success with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint, PubIt!

If you're serious about creating a book that will compete in the marketplace with books coming out of the major publishing houses, you need a product that is built to the same quality standard.

After all, that is why most writers hope and dream to be picked up by one of the major publishing houses.

It was designed by the president of a major publishing house, and most editors require this template or something close to it.

It assured each Publisher Defendant that it would only move forward if a critical mass of the major publishing houses agreed to its agency terms.

One of my 2.5 novels made the rounds of major publishing houses in the early 1980s, while I built a career freelancing to magazines.

The problem though is getting your manuscript past the acquisitions editor of a major publishing house.

Leap forward another five years, and we might be talking about the collapse of major publishing houses.

Someone from one of the major publishing houses surfed my site from within their network domain.

«While the venture promises to access the expertise of a major publishing house, it will be completely operated and staffed by Author Solutions.

The reality is that a number of major publishing houses (the legitimate ones) have partnered with Author Solutions.

«I think most self - published authors understand and appreciate the power and capabilities of major publishing houses,» he said.

But before you go into the publishing business, be realistic about your odds of profitably selling a cheap retail product to an unidentified or general audience without the endorsement of a major publishing house or a celebrity.

He explains that corporate owners of major publishing houses expected impossible 15 to 20 percent profit margins in an industry with traditional margins of 3 to 4 percent.

Many of the major publishing houses are based in New York, and it's far less expensive, and far less disruptive, for them to travel to the Javits Center than to go anywhere else.

Technology now gives independently published books quality to equal that of major publishing houses, and there's no reason your book publicity can't be equal too.

I think that, because self - publishing has gotten easier, because the tools have gotten easier to use and there are so many more services available to self - published authors, you can compete directly with the work that's coming out of these major publishing houses.

They are very new author friendly for a division of a major publishing house.

This is a resume building internship where candidates will learn how to contact editors of major publishing houses as well as producers to consider our proposals for talent and titles we work with.

Michael R. Bromwich had been employed at the court's demand to work in - house at Apple, after the company was found guilty of conspiring with five of the major publishing houses to raise ebook pricing.

He spoke of rejecting a recent offer by one museum to give him a major one - man show («They weren't willing to demonstrate a real commitment»), and of refusing the repeated overtures of a major publishing house that professed interest in doing a book on his work («They demanded a picture before they would proceed»).

Not exact matches

«One of my most valuable failures came at an early age, when I failed to convince a major publishing house to buy out Student magazine,» Branson recalled.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Anastasia «Ana» Steele (Dakota Johnson) is now working as an assistant to Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), the fiction editor of a major Seattle publishing house.

The Texas textbooks, most of them from major publishing houses, were written to align with instructional standards that the Board of Education approved back in 2010 — with the explicit intention of tugging social studies teaching to the right.

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.

In fact, many publishing houses could consider their authors to be their primary customers, with author services being one of the major components of the business.

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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.

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.»

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 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.

The problem with this, however, is that this means that the major publishing houses now have bumped the prices back up for a LOT of new ebook releases.

Major publishing houses were reneging on deals with already signed authors; changing royalty payments from a percentage of the retail price to «net» of what was received.