Sentences with phrase «more traditional authors»

I notice more and more traditional authors are self publishing as well, especially books that traditional publishers don't feel are big enough to hit the sale numbers they want.

And as more and more traditional authors make the jump, and as the market matures, that is changing the market itself.

Not exact matches

It's not critical of traditional publishers to say, «More choice for authors is good.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

«Today, the percentage of «traditional families» in the U.S. has slipped from more than 45 % in 1975, to just over 20 %,» the authors say.

The author notes that more and more young people are rejecting traditional religion and taking up a variety of spiritual practices.

On the subject of the fall, the authors of the catechism tend to be more traditional, or less innovative and developmental.

A press conference was set up for the media to interrogate several authors who are of a more traditional bent on the historical Jesus.

They were much more than that: they were authors — authors who had made use of traditional material, but authors nonetheless.

«Traditional mothering magazines are much more prescriptive,» says Katie Allison Granju, author and essays editor at Literary Mama.

Lead author Jason Holloway, a Rice alumnus who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, suggested an array of inexpensive sensors and plastic lenses that cost a few dollars each may someday replace traditional telephoto lenses that cost more than $ 100,000.

However, he points out that the authors don't actually test whether social factors or more traditional resource limits keep predator numbers stable over time.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

«The chemistry of cells, unlike more traditional chemistry in test tubes, is highly dependent on where a chemical reaction is occurring,» said Christine Payne, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one of the paper's senior authors.

The study's authors say that achieving sustainability requires that wealth — including the value of natural capital, human capital, as well more traditional contributors to wealth — not decline over time.

On a more positive note, the authors do include many interesting examples of building design, both traditional and innovative.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City who studies how networked communication technologies affect scholarship, found in her experiments that, for authors, interactive peer review is «more work than a traditional review process,» she says.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

The authors present case studies in which difficult - to - express proteins are efficiently manufactured in perfusion hollow - fiber bioreactors, producing more concentrated protein product than could be achieved using traditional manufacturing platforms.

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In this work, published in JAMA in September, the authors sought to learn whether activity trackers helped people to lose more weight than a more traditional diet and exercise program.

«The pendulum is shifting back to wanting to meet in more traditional way,» said author / sociologist Dr Jan Yager.

Whether you're a multi-published author or just taking the first steps in your writing career, ACFW is the place for you to learn more about the craft and expand your knowledge of the traditional publishing industry.

«This is just more of the move away from traditional broadcasters into new areas such as cable and other platforms including satellite and mobile phone,» says the author of «New New Media,» adding «it won't be too far off that we will see a series that never aired on either network or cable, that began and ended just on the web on this list.»

The author concludes that although the advantages gained and maintained during years of participation in activity - based science programs is not sustained in years following, the more activity - based approaches result in gains over traditional methods in a range of outcomes.

The key flaw in their report, as we describe in more depth in the article, is that the CRP authors compare the racial composition of all charter schools to that of all traditional public schools.

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According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

The three major accomplishments of Shanker's career, according to Kahlenberg, were the founding of modern teachers» unions, his leadership of education reform in the»80s and»90s, and his dedication to «tough liberalism,» which the author described as a philosophy «more politically persuasive and substantively potent than either traditional liberalism or traditional conservatism.»

The AFT claims that the authors found that charter schools determine pay «in a similar manner to most school districts,» but Podgursky and Ballou in fact found charters far more likely to use merit pay and far less likely to use traditional salary schedules.

The authors of the CRP study, «Choice without Equity,» concluded that charter schools are much more segregated than traditional public schools.

Although the authors call for better linking of in - school and out - of - school competency - based experiences, the more intriguing take away from the report may be that afterschool programs can offer fertile ground for honing competency - based approaches beyond the traditional system.

The bill before the chamber, a state Senate draft authored by a staunch charter supporter would have bound traditional K - 12 schools to grant charters access to more pots of public funding.

Furthermore, the authors note, as the charter movement gained momentum and other states passed similar laws, a more market - driven vision of charter schools emerged that emphasized competition as an incentive for traditional public schools to improve, rather than the idea of charter - tested innovations that could boost public school practices broadly.

The author concludes that diverse schools will most likely need to eschew progressive pedagogy in favor of a more traditional curriculum, while offering something special to attract parents of all classes and races.

The report, authored by Mitch Price, also evaluates charter school collective bargaining agreements and concludes that while they tend to be more flexible than traditional district contracts, they also contain many of the same trappings.

The authors discussed a CREDO study that found low - income and ELL students in charter schools outperformed students in traditional district schools, but without a randomized controlled experiment, an alternative explanation could be that families who sought out charter schools were more motivated (70).

Self - publishing is a different animal entirely, although the more new authors understand about traditional publishing, the better they'll be able to navigate the self - pub route.

Yes, there are some guidelines that need to be followed, but unlike a traditional publisher, the author has much more say.

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

$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more most traditional publishers are charging for ebooks, but as an Indie author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting and willing to pay.

As the possible publishing choices have become more and more obvious to many, many authors (at least those without heads stuck deeply in the sand on one side or the another), a nasty problem with traditional publishing has cropped up.

Traditional publishers are far more likely to take a chance on an author when they know that he comes with an engaged following.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

If the author has a possible best seller or at least a great novel, and can obtain a stellar agent, all while continuing to produce more of the same quality writing (Pubs love an investment); Traditional publishing is the way to go.

These can include, but are not limited to, an author panel featuring traditional, hybrid and self - published authors from the community; presentations from local indie authors about writing, marketing and more; book readings and / or signings from local authors; presentations from local industry leaders; writing workshops and informative presentations and workshops about tools available to the writing community through the library.

And as indie publishing ate into the sales numbers of the traditional publishers and their authors, and discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even more.

In their blog post announcing the Macmillan acquisition, they state that, «Authors who want or need more support will be able to join additional paid tiers for a revenue share — or may have the opportunity to transition to a traditional publishing contract.»