Sentences with phrase «much of the publishing industry»

Amazon took its lumps over the negotiations, with authors and much of the publishing industry railing against the company's willingness to use its dominant position in the e-book market to press for cheaper prices.

It is a very exciting concept and it is a very bold step in a new direction when much of the publishing industry is struggling to maintain the traditional publishing and corporate structures they grown accustomed to and found success with.

So much of the publishing industry is based on personal relationships — and the author - agent one is a critical one.

It is another indication of what is wrong with so much of the publishing industry.

Not exact matches

But on May 10, when Globe editor John Stackhouse handed control to U2's Bono and Bob Geldof, who signed on to publish a special edition on Africa, it was yet another signal of how much the Canadian newspaper industry has changed.

But none of those publications care much about the technology industry and its masters — and certainly none of them has ever delved into Thiel's personal life, as Gawker - owned Valleywag did in 2007 when it published a claim that Thiel is gay.

«There's much to be said for the fresh perspective of a group of tech - savvy executives from outside of the newspaper industry,» said publishing veteran Jim Friedlich of Empirical Media.

Pretty much everyone in the online publishing industry has at one time or another thought they had the makings of a viral post — only to have it fall short of their expectations.

I didn't really know much about the publishing industry back then and, in hindsight, that was probably lucky as Barefoot has always strived to be more of a pioneer than a follower.

You know, these days, of course, if you are in the print publishing industry, you have to be very aware, too, of how much people's reading habits and their information needs are also being addressed by the Internet, not to mention video, and so you try to put together a magazine with some of those things in mind.

Recently, the book publishing industry has been the subject of much attention as it integrates digital publishing with print publishing.

The Spanish - language publishing industry has developed with a great concentration of rights - holding — and therefore commercial control — in one country, Spain, where the «big three» (Planeta, Santillana, Random House Mondadori) have their headquarters, despite the fact that the Latin American countries in the aggregate are a much bigger potential market with hundreds of millions of readers.

And, my favorite, this comment, which echoes something both Nawotka and I here at Publishing Perspectives have written about men and reading in the past: we've wondered aloud in print when the industry will wake up to the opportunity of a huge sector of the population (that would be guys) who don't seem to read as much as women do.

You hear so much that's down - and - out about the industry and lots of conversation about pricing... but we've seen lots of debut novelists coming up... The publishing industry will be where we put it... we need to be proactive, not reactive... savvy about how we deal in content and where we're putting it.

Evanovich isn't saying much about the «private» details of the negotiation, but industry pros are wondering if she might take her fan base and self publish if she can't find a publisher ready to pay the asking price.

While the news of the 79 % increase in self - published sales is exciting for the way it demonstrates how much of the associated stigma is dissolving, there is still a long way to go before the bookselling industry reaches that long - awaited prediction of ebooks wiping out the print market altogether.

Much of the ongoing drama between the self - publishing proponents and the traditional publishing industry boils down to one chief concern: money.

Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger publishers put into their titles.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

Not many of us are honestly concerned with the standard of the publishing industry because the publishing industry is a sham, between the prerequisites of literary agents, editors, and prepaid marketing agents the only difference between me and a published author is how much I paid to publish.

Much of this behavior has nothing to do with book pricing or lack of discoverability for new titles — two issues that continue to plague the publishing industry — but have a lot to do with time.

Back when I was completely ignorant of the publishing industry, I wasted so much time on social media, chasing influential people, and more or less wringing my hands about the things that didn't work out.

This week, the publishing industry came together at Digital Book World 2014 — described as a reflection of the current state of the publishing industry and the changes it has experienced — to tackle discussions such as «change management, technology and start - ups, data - driven decision making, cutting - edge tools for ebook production, and much more.»

When you self - publish with IngramSpark, you have access to one of the publishing industry's largest global print and ebook distribution networks which makes opportunities to sell your books that much greater.

But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to hit the bestseller lists is being seen in fiction — which often doesn't report to these lists, or authors are selling lots of copies of all of their books, as opposed to one, singular title.

You look for publishing resources to learn as much as you can about the ever - changing world of the publishing industry and you turn to your peers, fellow self - publishers, who face the same roadblocks.

While I don't think much of the dinosaur publishing industry, I have no illusions about Amazon's altruism either.

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In another new twist, PLC organizers and recognized publishing thought leaders Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader will be joined by analysts and executives from both inside the industry and out to discuss the most political and fraught subjects facing publishing today: the future of Amazon and B&N, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various publishing start - ups, and much more...

IPR License's head of business development, Jane Tappuni, will moderate this discussion, which will ask how — when both the industry and consumer base in much of world publishing is dominated by women — the C - level jobs are overwhelmingly held by men.

Glance over at Explaining the Agency Model for E-Book Pricing in Layman's Language for a super-quick overview of what the agency model actually means, since unless you're a writer or otherwise connected with the publishing industry, most of the brouhaha in question actually won't mean much to you.

He pointed to this as an indication of just how much the publishing industry is changing.

The problem with EPUB isn't so much the technologic path chosen (it's just a zipped web with metadata and a table of contents) but the fact that the publishing industry, and the technologies serving it, can't adapt fast enough, and the EPUB standards group is therefore encouraged to make every change a very bureaucratic process.

These and many other indications, of course, tell us that despite our inability to measure the true breadth of self - publishing — as long as the key metric, the ISBN, depends on authors to pay much more for their identifiers than the industry does — we know that self - publishing is growing.

Those publishers also cast aside warnings that compare the current state of the publishing industry to the state of Kodak during the rise of digital photography, as well as those that compare how much better new authors can do for themselves than with a «traditional publisher».

The large publishers are not setting much of an example to the industry on how to innovate, so we must look to startups to invent the future of publishing.

The publishing industry is in the midst of profound change that goes much deeper than simply using new tools and technology to publish in new formats.

Frankfurt Book Fair has grown into an event that encompasses so much about the publishing industry, with special events focused on self - publishing and six different exhibit halls dedicated to various aspects of digital publishing.

With so much talk in recent news about the poor quality of indie authors» works and data that shows that only about 59 % of self - published authors go so far as to pay a professional editor before hitting that publish button, it's easy to forget that the traditional publishing industry has its fair share of mistakes, too.

Now that the mainstream part of the publishing industry has seen the light, so to speak, it's our mission to continue providing a platform for exploring the evolution of the tools of publishing, but just as much or more so to provide a forum for sharing across and within all content industries and all markets.

Meanwhile, I also ponder, as I did yesterday, that to many readers with no need to be familiar with publishing industry issues, the outrage and frustration of us writers looks like so much greed.

Watching this launch has been incredible — it's funny how sometimes we can learn so much more from people who are outside of the publishing industry.

I intend to self - publish down the road, but this experience is teaching me sooooo much about the publishing side of our industry, that I wouldn't miss it for quids.

You have ZERO credibility here, and between the «book burning» issue, the lack of courage in posting your real name (I think that's because you're afraid people will find out that you are one of the people Writer Beware has already exposed as a fraud) and your noisy, Scientology style efforts at discrediting some of the most respected experts in the publishing industry, you're only convincing people to think that pretty much anything that comes out of your mouth is a lie or a misrepresentation of the truth.

It was about so much more than just writing a book, I became a perpetual student of publishing so I could learn everything possible about the industry and then share it with others.

As much as traditional publishing gave way to indie publishing with the advent of new platforms such as Kindle and Nook, so too did the video game industry change.

With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates, much as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.

DBW 14 saw much talk this current landscape, including the quickly - receding shelf space in brick and mortar bookstores, as well as the accelerated pace of change in the publishing industry.

Here's what she said in a post from 2005: «The publishing industry has changed so much in the past 10 - 20 years that the advice of someone who broke in more than a decade ago may no longer be accurate, if that person is basing the advice on his / her own experience.»

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