Sentences with phrase «means big authors»

Publishers will try to hold the line on their 25 % net ebook royalty structures, which means big authors will see their royalties suffer as prices drop and as the unit sales advantage of low prices decreases, and as the disadvantage of high prices increases.

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To the author of this article, coming from me may not mean anything to you, but I'll say it anyway, you deserve a standing ovation for an exceptional piece of work, big respect to you, please keep up the good work, all true fans must read this piece.

Parenting coach and author Elisabeth Stitt's new book, Parenting as a Second Language, lays out Elisabeth's grounded wisdom on the big picture of what it means to be an effective parent.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

«The effect is almost as big as financial literacy,» meaning people's ability to digest complicated financial information, says Jan - Emmanuel de Neve, an author of the study.

This will be my last blog post before the big day and I'm so thrilled to be joining a group of authors to bring you some encouragement for your hearts AND an awesome giveaway as we honor the true meaning of Christmas.

Be ready to go head to head with the big - name authors and the major houses, because «success» is soon going to mean something completely different from what it means today, and once we get there, the genie will never go back in the bottle.

That means you need your author brand to appear on the big 4 social networks and learn the author strategy to use them together for greater impact.

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that 99.9999 % (I might be missing a few nines) of all indie authors would love to have the problem of decreased sales due to this legal battle because that would mean they have a BIG 5 contract and are selling a lot of books.

According to the Alliance of Independent Authors, Flipkart's decision to pull out of the e-book business means that Amazon Kindle is now the largest online reading platform in India (though Flipkart is obviously trying not to give Amazon, one of its biggest rivals, more business, as its choice of Kobo shows).

I use questions and processes I've honed over the years to help aspiring authors get clear on the real story they were meant to tell, organize their material in a powerful way, and write a book that tells their story and delivers their big message.

What they mean is, «big name» authors, with well - known publishers stamped on the side of their novels; I am treated with disdain for just stepping into their store, as though I'm going to poison it with my presence.

Once again, there are rumblings among indie authors about how big, bad Amazon is being mean.

The partnerships with the big publishers means that there are plenty of big name authors here including Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Walter Isaacson and Michael Crichton.

AG is not known for a reputation of supporting self - published authors, and some commenters see this as a move to provide a cheaper, faster solution for bigger authors and major publishers who want to get swift take - down notices against indie authors who still don't have the means to defend themselves.

Indie authors were once the authors who'd been published by independent publishing houses; by some definitions, that would be any publisher who wasn't one of the Big Five, meaning the powerhouse game changer Sourcebooks and even Amazon Publishing.

Being able to say you're a published author is a big deal, but before you publish your book, you need to explore what you want being a «published author» to mean.

Which kind of sucks, because it means that if you have a strong author platform, a big email list or legions of fans who can post quick reviews, those reviews might be deemed «suspect» and possibly removed.

They talked about the biggest 2014 developments in book publishing — from audio to subscription models to the «bleeding edge» of self - publishing — and what those mean for indie authors.

As an Indie author (which really means «self - published» but we say «Indie» because it sounds WAY cooler, like we're SO artsy we have no use for abstracts like success and money,) I'm required to work the big room, über - conscious of marketing, promoting, publicizing, advertising, and, ultimately, selling my humble work.

In Salon's version of reality, authors were united in their love of traditional publishers like Hachette before big, mean Amazon came along and started to divide us by, well, offering us money.

A very interesting post I also think it's a bit silly for people to be attacking Amanda Hocking; I mean, if I were pottering along as an Indie author and then some big publisher waved two mil in front of my nose, I'd be all like «sign me up, biatches».

This biggest question, I believe, every self - publishing author needs to ask themselves is this: Simply because we can handle everything ourselves, does it also mean that we actually should do so?

This means a lot to me as it is recognition for writing and judged by a number of big - name thriller authors.

While we hear a lot about services for self - publishing authors these days, we don't always hear specific details of how a Big Six house (Macmillan) or a highly regarded new - media publisher (Open Road) means to add value for authors.

What that means to me is that if BookBub selects your book, you're hanging out with a small crowd that includes a bunch of big name traditionally published authors.

It's the 9th best - selling hardcover fiction title on the list, which means it should hit the NYT Hardcover Fiction somewhere around # 9 this week; no mean feat in a season crowded with big name authors.

If you're a new author without a loyal fan base to draw on, a higher price point means the reader is taking a bigger gamble, from the reader's point of view that is.

After all, it makes sense, because more time and more money spent on books mean bigger compensation to the author.

I mean, considering the fact that the biggest offline seller of books in the US Borders is facing huge financial issues, and the predictions that have been made that Amazon's e-Book business is going to make $ 2.5 billion in 2012, why should the Author's Guild be concerned about some minor issue of Text to Speech on the Kindle!

And a book that does not get the big push and doesn't sell well means the author will probably be let go — without, by the way, retaining the rights to his work.

Rather, it means that instead of those authors having several big customers and a large number of small ones, they will now only have one customer, Amazon, and if they lose that customer they will have no market at all.

Related reading: Having just spoken at O'Reilly Tools of Change's Author (R) evolution Day (#ARDay) on DRM and more, Cory Doctorow looks at this story and writes: Indie booksellers sue Amazon and big publishers over DRM (but have no idea what «DRM» and «open source» mean).

Boo hoo, all the authors (trad pub) interviewed vilifying Amazon, talking about how Amazon is so big, mean, terrible, stealing money and food and possibly even sex from them.

The biggest problem for self - publishing is not self - published authors, but content farmers, who not only publish public domain books, but thousands of dummy books meant to trick readers into buying them.

That means if you choose to create your author website with Wordpress, you are using the same technology relied on by big -LSB-...]

It means that the creative control remains very much with the authors and their vision can be realised without the commercial constraints of the big publishing houses.

Essentially, this means that self - published authors who can get some sales success and whose books are popular with customers on Amazon can be published by the biggest book - store on the planet with a database of millions of customers.

Hopefully at some point of time it means indie authors can afford to stay indie and still make big money.

And that bigger cut means less for the publisher and the authors.

One of the biggest mistakes I see authors making in YA manuscripts is thinking that teen voice means snarky and sarcastic.

We're generally interested in the bigger picture, and what it means for all authors.

Which means hearing experts hold up NYT bestselling Big 5 authors as the perfect example of what publishers do well while claiming that any self - publishing success story is an outlier and a fluke.

Anne Womack crystalized this sentiment: «We would love for the Big 5 publishers to recognize libraries as partners, as a means to get their books into the hands of hundreds of readers who may very well purchase more of the same book / author in the future.»

Many authors think signing with a literary agent means they've hit «the big time.»

Here is the chart that means the most to us as authors, and we see that self - published authors now command more daily income from digital royalties than all Big 5 published authors, combined.

The big trend I noted at BEA this year was a lot of the indie authors, I mean, I talked to Hugh Howey, and he said he doesn't know any indie author who's signed a traditional deal, including himself, where it was a print deal, who was happy with that deal, who was happy with the way it turned out.