Sentences with phrase «more of a book publishing»

Perhaps half or more of the books published this year will be self - published, but the great majority of reviewers categorically refuse to review any of them, and the great majority of bookshops (and the slight majority of libraries) categorically refuse to carry any of them.

The company takes more of a book publishing approach to writing games, where it's possible for anyone to use their engine and publish a game with it.

Not exact matches

The publisher won't help you as much as you might expect or need, and promoting a book is a huge investment of time and energy — exponentially more so if you self - publish.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Answer: Since the groundbreaking book The Socratic Method to Build Pipeline was first published by Microsoftus Excellis in 368 BC, we've seen a wealth of content built to «win more business.»

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

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.

The 90 - year - old «Queen of Suspense» has published more than 50 books, and she told CNBC recently it's still a thrill.

«The net effect is that the number of new books published each year in the U.S. has exploded by more than 400,000 since 2007, to approximately 700,000 annually,» according to the report.

Her advice is simple, and perhaps intuitive, but it acts to squash any doubt that a more complex or expensive approach is required to understand the mechanics of book publishing.

The movie may not have answered those questions, but the book adaptation of the movie, which Disney / Lucasfilm had to sign off on before it was published, is more conclusive.

And in even more dire news, the season is likely to be shorter as the Thrones producers begin to wrap up the multiple story threads as well as while fans of the original book series wait for Martin publish the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter.

More than a century later, Selby's grandson published the never - before - seen photos in a book: «When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906.»

His book, Discover Your True North, was first published in 2007, but later this month, he will release an updated version, more than half of which will be new content based on interviews with 48 additional leaders.

He's published more than 50 novels and non-fiction books, many of which have been adapted into TV shows and movies.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

The number of self - and hybrid - published business books has more than doubled in the past four years — from 9,839 in 2012 to 20,499 in 2016, according to the research firm ProQuest.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

Winston Churchill refused to listen to wealth advisors» advice and often acted contrary to what they suggested, according to David Lough, a private banker of long standing who has recently published a book entitled No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

His published works include hundreds of scholarly articles and more than 30 books, most recently The Arab Christian and Palestine: The Prize and Price of Zion.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Orthodoxy was first published in London by John Lane Press in 1908, and it has never gone out of print» with more than two dozen publishers now offering editions of the book.

In some of the more asinine Amazon reviews, you will see that people have complained that the book, published by Thomas Nelson, employs «too many big words» and that «literary fluff» clouds any clear, straightforward presentation of Christian theology.

With that thought in mind and with encouragement from Harish - who has published more than a dozen books on Indian spirituality - I decided to try for an arranged marriage in India, where this system has operated with a high success rate for thousands of years and is still the dominant marriage system, as anyone who reads an Indian newspaper's matrimonial section is sure to discover.

She has written more than one hundred articles and blogs and has contributed to nine books, most recently Living Faith: The Fragrance of Christ, published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief.

When one reads Studs Terkel's book, Working, a series of interviews with more than 100 workers published in 1974, one gets the impression that most people keep working for lack of alternatives, not because they get much fulfillment from their jobs.

When my book was published, Cardinal Hume was furious, since it inevitably highlighted his volte - face in the face of pressure from some of his more liberal bishops: this made him look weak.

I first went to India in 1962 and Bede Griffiths» Christian Ashram, published in 1966, was one of the few books I found which resonated with my first hesitant attempts to discover a more universal expression of Christianity.

I am near to being done with this book, but more importantly, am almost ready to launch the related project of actually helping you get your book published.

Finally, remember also that if your eBook takes off and sells thousands of copies, this will make your next book much more desirable for the traditional publishing houses.

Besides, if you are thinking of self - publishing five or more books, their prices are better anyway.

«44 This statement exhibits an mischaracterization of Bergson so extreme it defies words; if ever there was a more persistent opponent of Descartes» conception of natural science than Bergson, I do not know who it might be — with the possible exception of Bergson's process blood brothers — Peirce, Dewey, James, Whitehead and Hartshorne.45 In Lowe's defense it might be said that the eight or ten books that do the most to establish just how non-Cartesian, and indeed revolutionary Bergson's view of science was were all published after Understanding Whitehead.

Following are some of his more provocative reflections on that subject, excerpted from his recent book, Gravity and Grace (Augsburg Publishing House), copyright 1986; reprinted by permission.

Yes, it is probably in one of his manuscripts that deal with the Life of Messiah or you can wait a few more months unril his book Life of Messiah is published.

As a self - published Christian fiction book becomes a bestseller in the US and the UK, Christianity magazine considers the blessings and dangers of Christian... More

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

This volume, as the title page indicates, comprises three small books on Jesus, the earliest of which was published in 1941 and all of which have been continuously in print for more than a decade.

More particularly, we should have said that the book is published by Transaction, and we are sorry for that inadvertent omission since Transaction is one of the feistiest publishers around.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Since many of my books are digital, I did appreciate the chapter on Electronic Publishing and Marketing, but would have appreciated more details on how to market the book and turn site visitors into book buyers.

Her chief references, however, are to the Nazi government, perhaps because in 1951, the year her book was first published, more was known of Germany than of Russia, but also because she is German and experienced first - hand the rise of Nazism.

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

The ideas of Baker's article are more expansively treated in his new book, The End of Secularism, published in August by Crossway Books.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

Most of those who understand publishing as mission think the denomination's role is to improve upon the independent publishers» popular offerings, producing «more responsible» devotional and self - help books.

A prolific writer, he has published more than a half - dozen books, the most important of which are the three - volume collection, Contemporary Halakhic Problems.

When I first saw the title of this book I assumed it would be a pamphlet along the lines of those very useful booklets published by the Catholic Truth Society, setting out Catholic doctrine in simple terms for the interested reader without the time or inclination to read more weighty theological works.

I can connect the discovery of my American theological self more or less with the writing of my book The Parables, published in early 1967.

The book was relatively controversial among some Christians for it's metaphorical depictions of God and some of its theology, but became a run - away hit among religious readers: Though it was originally self - published, The Shack has gone on to sell more than 10 million copies.