Sentences with phrase «more independent authors»

MONEY: Prices are another great bonus, some authors (more independent authors sell their eBooks for $ 4.99 while the paperback might be $ 9.99.

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

The tide turns as more independent authors (Real self publishing properly using their own ISBN's) find success and traction in the marketplace building significant readerships.

I'd love to see more independent authors enter a market that's far too dominated by a few publishing giants.

Things have changed quite a bit since then and, while inspiring stories of success still abound, the hard, ugly truth is that there are now more independent authors, and more books getting published on a daily basis than ever before, which further reduces the odds of any one book making it big.

That would have more stores possibly carrying more independent authors on the shelves.

I learned that I had to bend my way of thinking from traditional publisher strategies to a more independent author approach.

Not exact matches

Independent authors enjoy more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties for traditionally published books.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.

Joline Godfrey is the CEO of Independent Means and the author of Raising Financially Fit Kids; Our Wildest Dreams: Women Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good; No More Frogs To Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls; andTwenty $ ecrets to Money and Independence: The DollarDiva's Guide to Life.

What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

While research on the independent effect of Pitocin on breastfeeding is not sufficient to draw direct conclusions, according to Linda Smith, author of The Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding, its effects on factors related to breastfeeding are more clear.

Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just, as the authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.

What more might he have been capable of, had he been able to make a living as an independent author, with rights to income from reproduction of his works, and without the self - censorship that patronage implies?

Ma has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer - reviewed journal publications and has been recognized with the Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Research by the American Physical Society and the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

«We found an independent effect of each, which suggests that doing more of them was better,» says lead study author Sarah Anderson, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Ohio State University.

The independent style title — whose covers are more likely to feature authors than fashion models — is growing its club, which meets for sponsored events ranging from architectural tours to cards nights.

The independent style title — whose covers are more likely to feature authors than fashion models — is growing its club,...

They are the world's largest ebook distributor for self - published ebook authors and have published more than 420,000 titles by over 120,000 authors and small independent presses.

For over ten years she has been helping authors and independent publishers produce books that win awards and, more importantly, stand tall to compete in a rapidly changing book market.

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Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

Our authors talk about how to do that, too — from teaching study skills for independent learning to making students more aware of their own behavior to enlisting them to help their teachers turn schools around, embrace technology, and learn new professional skills.

The aim of the partnership is to foster independent reading and discussion of important literary texts, including novels and short story collections from a range of genres and authors, both historical and more contemporary.

Specifically, the 1966 report entitled Equality in Educational Opportunity and commonly referred to as the Coleman report in deference to its senior author (Coleman et al., 1966) involved more than 640,000 students in grades 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 and concludes the following: «Taking all these results together, one implication stands above all: that schools bring little to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context» (p. 235).

The rise of the independent book publishing industry has given a voice to hundreds of thousands of authors, more than 16,000 of which, from more than 120 countries, have realized their dreams of publication through Trafford.

I do wish libraries would buy more copies of independent work, for example, especially of local authors and that book clubs would take advantage.

Recently I was introduced by my author friend Orna Ross, founder and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, to a new way of squeezing more words out of each day: using voice recognition software.

If you'd like to find out more about it, you may like to read the blog post I've just written in my capacity as Commissioning Editor for the Alliance of Independent Authors on their blog of self - publishing advice here: http://www.selfpublishingadvice.org/voice-recognition/

For me, stickler for proper word use that I am, it's about the misappropriation of terminology (seriously, if you don't own your ISBN number and have granted rights to someone else, you are no more — and no less — independent than a commercially - published author) and the use of euphemisms — trying to escape the negative implications of something by calling it something else.

To be honest, I hadn't even noticed the 50:50 split until I flicked through Quick Change while researching an article for the Alliance of Independent Authors» self - publishing advice blog, in which I address the issue in more detail from the author's viewpoint.

Susan, I'm not opposed to self - publishing, I just believe that the small, independent has more to offer most authors.

Independent and self - published authors release more books on a monthly basis than the trade houses do.

As independent publisher Colin Robinson of Or Books cautioned: «It's possible that some of the publishers I've never heard of are in fact imprints set up by the author of the book but, especially as several appeared with books by more than one author (or at least one author's name), it seems unlikely that more than a few are.

His latest business inspiration — a call to arms suggesting to independent authors that they should just eschew traditional publishing or demand it pay them like indie publishing — is potentially much more toxic.

The question we all need to ask as independent authors / writers / whatevers is this: Are we replacing an old system of gatekeepers and page - sweat for a newer broader, far more profitable version?

The book was particularly to address the rapidly expanding group of self - published or independent authors — but what author doesn't want to sell more books, even those commissioned by traditional publishers?

Ideally suited for the program are early - stage companies that support book publishers, including independent authors, or help retailers, libraries, or educators connect with more readers.

There are a lot of other independent authors who've hit that mark (with many selling more than 200,000 already), some with fewer total books out, but I feel like this is an encouraging start to my writing career.

Second, price pressure is the only leverage independent authors have in trying to compel solution providers to become more efficient and competitive.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

I won't deny Amazon has pushed the industry to become much more open to indies, and has empowered us by giving power to independent authors and publishers where there was little before, but that doesn't mean we should let Amazon off the hook with nearly anything.

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To learn more about the benefits of joining the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), visit their membership website: www.allianceindependentauthors.org.

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).

NEARY: With the platform in place, Douglas County Libraries turned to independent publishers as well as self - published authors and services like Smashwords, to get more content.

If you are an independent author looking to make your titles available on Total Boox and need more information about our service, you may send an inquiry to [email protected].

You can also go cruise on Google for other «best of 2015» fiction lists, such as those from or by Small Presses, Independent Publishers, more Indie / Self - Pubbed authors, Debuts, Flash Fiction, and on and on.

This $ 5.99 book from the Alliance of Independent Authors reviews and compares all the players in self - publishing, like Kindle, Createspace, Author Solutions, Lulu, IngramSpark, Apple iBooks, and more.