Sentences with phrase «most major publishing houses»

Just as most major publishing houses will insist on dealing with agents, getting access national media will likely require an experienced publicist with pre-existing contacts.

Ebooks aren't the spawn of the devil people, despite what most major publishing houses would have you believe!

Most major publishing houses no longer accept unagented submissions.

Not exact matches

«One of my most valuable failures came at an early age, when I failed to convince a major publishing house to buy out Student magazine,» Branson recalled.

The Texas textbooks, most of them from major publishing houses, were written to align with instructional standards that the Board of Education approved back in 2010 — with the explicit intention of tugging social studies teaching to the right.

According to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Culture, part of the funds will be also invested in small publishers, most of which usually are unable to compete with the marketing efforts of major publishing houses.

Most Indies are untested and perhaps don't deserve the same league as authors in major publishing houses.

Since an agent's main job is to become familiar with the interests of acquiring editors and executives at the major publishing houses, and sell them books, it makes sense for most agents to live in New York.

A New York literary agent can spend more time with editors and publishers at major New York publishing houses (the people who buy most books).

Any publisher — whether he's from a major publishing house or a room - over-the-garage author who publishes his own writing — can tell you that the most significant expenses involved in creating a book are not in which format to use.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

These are books that are represented by agents (most likely) and subsequently published by a major house - known as the Big Six - and any of their imprints.

Most book descriptions, even books published from major publishing houses, are severely lacking.

Despite the fact that Amazon pays publishers the same price it would pay if someone bought the book outright, the Authors Guild believes this is a gross misuse of Amazon's power and that Amazon is acting without the consent of most major and minor publishing houses.

Publicists at major publishing houses sometimes create promotional packages for their most exciting books of the season.

After all, that is why most writers hope and dream to be picked up by one of the major publishing houses.

It was designed by the president of a major publishing house, and most editors require this template or something close to it.

Most of the e-books that sell in significant numbers are priced between 99c — $ 4.99 (with the exception of major titles released by publishing houses).

The misguided idea that self - publishing costs ridiculous amounts of cash is one that has been drilled into our skulls through years of dominance by the major publishing houses, and the apparent unattainability of a good publishing deal to all but the most fortunate and godly of writers.

Agent Richard Curtis is quoted in the story noting that major publishing houses could be risking «the most prominent aspect of their identity and their reason for being.»

But I can guarantee this: unless you're an author who has already hit a major bestseller list and / or your book is the most important book being published by that traditional publishing house's imprint and / or you got paid an advance of $ 50,000 or more (in small genres like sf or westerns) or $ 100,000 or more (in larger genres like romance and mystery), your book will not get a single title ad.

«The real monopoly, once you start examining business practices and attitudes, is Big Publishing itself,» he said, citing low digital royalties (17.5 percent on most titles, compared to the 70 percent that KDP authors [though not Amazon Publishing authors] receive) and the recent Random House - Penguin merger as evidence that «not only do the major publishers collude and act as one, they are slowly becoming one as well.»

Well, before I sent my book out to agents, I hired a «book doctor» who was a former acquisition editor from a major New York publishing house (like most editors he worked at a few different houses).

We will list books from major publishing houses, particularly those non-bestseller titles most likely to be overlooked by mainstream review media.

«I think most self - published authors understand and appreciate the power and capabilities of major publishing houses,» he said.

I think most, especially first time authors; fall into the mindset that offset is only for the major publishing houses.

Beyond Slaw, House of Butter, whose Sean Hocking, in my view, has been in many ways most instrumental in opening the legal publishing industry to critical scrutiny, is perhaps a little less prolific than before in challenging the major law publishers.