Sentences with phrase «meant author advances»

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He's the H.G. Wells Award — winning author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, a tour of the frontiers of bio-medicine and what coming advances could mean for the human condition.

If you've read the blogs we posted in advance of the event, especially the one authored by former Danville Independent Superintendent Dr. Carmen Coleman (Innovation in Danville, KY Schools) you'll recall that Danville educators started with the question, «What does a Danville diploma mean?»

For those authors going the traditional route, that very likely means no payments after the book is released because the advance isn't earned out.

The pre-order status only meant authors had the advanced money to hire their services, just as a major publisher would have done for them, and then readers received the book for their generous effort.

This means that indie authors can't determine in advance what their royalty rates will be under KU.

If the average advance paid to a previously unpublished (traditionally) author if $ 5,000, does that mean an indie has to sell that much before being considered a pro?

This author's book cover showed the agent that she meant business and that author soon received a large advance and book publishing deal.

Book royalties and book advances are the means by which publishers pay authors for their work.

Statistically speaking, most published authors can't live on advances and royalties alone, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to make it.

On the plus side, working with a capable device means publishers / authors can create advanced formats of content that looks its best on the eReading devices.

What Turow means is that the vast majority of authors receive an advance that their publisher wants and expect to earn out.

It would mean a world of shrinking advances for authors, missed gems for readers, and a lack of sustainability for publishers.

And to pay for this all up front — which means that at a point where authors in a traditional publishing arrangement are able to spend their advance, self - published authors have to go in the hole, in the hope that revenue sales will get them out later — a risk that a traditional publisher would assume.

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That means most publishers pay more to authors than what prevailing royalty rates might indicate, though there are reports that advances are declining.