Sentences with phrase «money over the publisher»

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On Medium, publishers have full control over their content and spend exactly zero time, money, or effort on tech and hosting, instead focusing their resources on producing great content.»

Medium's sales pitch is that it will take over all of the messy hosting and content - management duties that publishers typically must spend a lot of time and money on.

'' From the records, Metuh got over N400 million, he has not said anything because we need the public money to be returned so that it's going to be used for public good,» Mr. Magu said during a meeting with online media publishers in Lagos.

But it costs a lot of money to make AAA console games — reports pegged the budget for The Phantom Pain at over $ 80 million — and it's increasingly difficult for publishers to break even on that kind of cost.

The winners — two teachers and the publisher of a newspaper written for and by teenagers — will receive between $ 225,000 and $ 355,000 each over the next five years to pursue any project they wish with no requirement to account for the money.

Hi, I learnt my lesson with Xibris who is under the wing of Penguin House they were over the top with praises but got nothing right they didn't follow any of my instructions for my artwork or cover the did nt edit my manuscript as I paid $ 3500 for and received delay after delay after 8 months which they promised 6 weeks and my book would be in my hand and on shelves, I pulled the plug and cancelled payments through my bank and received all my money back I sent all 9 consultants emails on my termination of our contract due to their unprofessional ism and prying on new authors Plus I sent 9 written termination letters as stated in their contract I now have learnt research every publisher outlet in legitimacy saves on the heartache

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.

(I seldom did, with 12 books by major publishers... never any publicity, little editing, very little money over the small advance, sigh.)

Or is it you publishers are just too cheap to invest some of that money you've scammed from authors over the years to build some infrastructure to sell direct to customers because you know that without a middleman such as Amazon and Apple, you will no longer be able to shield exactly how much you've scammed from authors by claiming the middleman took a big chunk of it?

Hell's bells, if we have to make sure we send an edited manuscript to our agents and editors before they «edit» it — and yes, there are a number of authors who pay freelance editors to go over their work before submitting it because they know there will be no real editing done by their editors at certain legacy publishers — and we have to do our own marketing and promotion and do it on our own dime, why are we giving legacy publishers the majority of money earned by our hard work?

But beware publishers who charge a lot (over $ 2000ish) for design and formatting... they are making money on the front end and may not care about how well the book actually sells.

I'd recommend doing it yourself; you're likely to earn more money over time unless the publisher is planning some kind of new marketing and promotion push.

Considering that the company was hemorrhaging money when Daunt took it over, forfeiting this revenue stream seemed crazy, and it also offended many publishers.

Scholastic, the world's largest children's publisher, has been pushing digital reading largely to their school customers as a convenient, money - saving tool that provides access to a wide variety of vetted, curricular content, so it's a natural progression then that the children who read on computers and devices in school as part of Scholastic's Storia platform would then carry over that high interest in digital to their home reading.

In this episode, we're going to go over the steps you can take to investigate an offer before you hand over any money or personal information to a service provider, agent, or publisher.

When a writer puts up a book on Kindle, the writer takes over the publisher duties, which is why the writer can make more money.

And here's Joe Konrath over here making money hand over fist self - publishing on Kindle (even if Publisher's Weekly is in total denial about it).

The problem seems to be that, whilst Publishers should have an incentive to maximise their revenues from Amazon, and thus maximise royalties to authors, they appear to be screwing both themselves, and their authors, over by settings prices at levels that ensure that they both get less money out of Amazon than they might otherwise do.

I can see why Apple is jaded with the platform, they colluded with publishers to implement agency pricing and had to pay over a hundred million to appease the Justice Department and give that money back to the customers that paid for ebooks.

(Indie Publisher does not do the math of how much money they would make at that pace over ten years, or even consider the book might grow in sales if there were more books up.)

A premium book trailer for over $ 4000 US and a statement of,» we gaurantee you are published with one of the largest publishers, or your money back» would have me rushing towards the exit!

I have been talking to POD publishers all over the country and none of them, except Dog Ear, were much more than a phone room and send money today.

The erosion of traditional gatekeepers like reviewers, critics, newspaper book editors, and other refined literary tastemakers makes it clear why even a conservative publisher might lose its head over the prospect of all that money — and be tempted to go into another racket.

It will take a lot of time and in some cases a lot of money for publishers and retailers to switch over from the old epub2 format to the new one.

Naturally this means the lion's share goes to the author, and with all the publishers trying so hard to be competitive they're doing that on a slim percentage, with well over half (increasing with sales) of the money coming to the author it's a great time and reason to stick to Trad.

So when I went to the SF section I'd skip from publisher to publisher, then go back over the others if I had any money left.

This is the big advantage that traditional publishers have over self - publishers, they have marketing departments and money to promote a book.

Many publishers had to spend such a large sum creating an Amazon digital version, they had no money left over to create epub versions for anyone else.

Why take the time, energy, and money to do all the work yourself (or hire designers / editors to assist you) when you could pitch the book to traditional publishers, hand the book over to them, claim a nice advance, and sit back while they do the heavy lifting?

Amazon's business decisions are to grow, expand, squeeze out (maybe) other publishers and make money over and over.

If one publisher insisted on the agency model, selling Stephen King's books for $ 9.99, they would make more money per sale, but lose more over the long run because another publisher would offer their books under the usual terms, letting the retailer set the price.

Stephen King and James Patterson are not bad at business or math, and they aren't at all happy that Amazon is trying to muck with their business (which includes many more sellers than just Amazon,) in order to gain more control over the marketplace and get more co-opt money from publishers.

2) You clearly know nothing about how vendors like Amazon get to pay publishers monies and in particular the returns system that applies to over 70 % of the market, including Amazon's print sales.

A deal sealed over a weekend — Pearson and Bertelsmann are combining their consumer book publishers Penguin and Random House in a joint venture to save money that can be invested in the future of digital content.

And if you can make a career of being consistently contrary, you can aspire to be like Jim Grant, publisher of the Grant's Interest Rate Observer newsletter of stock - picking and monetary policy, who hosted Bogle, amid a conference of Grant fans, in an ornate ballroom at New York's Plaza last week, for a «Great Debate» over how best to manage other people's money.

TimeSplitters 4 and TimeSplitters 2 HD still had no publisher, however, and even though Free Radical had money in the bank, It wasn't enough to fund over 200 employees forever.

26 % of Youtubers with over 5,000 subscribers reported that they had received money from publishers in exchange for recording videos.

You can go on and on about console power differences and achievements, but if there is money to be made, publishers will start to come over.

The game currently has over 64 million likes on its Facebook page and is now considered the most popular app on Facebook surpassing Farmville 2 and while it certainly brings money to its developer King Digital Entertainment plc, its success in the gaming industry is apparently not enough to guarantee its publisher an impressive performance on Wall Street.

Everyone knows video games have to make money somehow, but the question over how games make money became one of the central arguments in 2017, as various big name publishers brought one of the most popular ways to monetize mobile and free - to - play games — loot boxes — into the mainstream.

It's entirely possible Bethesda is in the same situation, where the vast majority of the games they put out don't make any money, or not the kind of money most publishers would be pumping their fists over.

Now, studios feel like they must develop over a widening generation gap in order to please their publishers and make the most money.