Sentences with phrase «n't sell it to a publisher»

Most people don't know that Mark Twain self - published much of his own work, that back in the 18th and 19th century it was common, and we wouldn't even know about Tarzan or any Edgar Rice Burroughs if it wasn't for his son convincing him to self - publish his own work when he couldn't sell to publishers or magazines of the time.

If I can't sell it to a publisher by Christmas, I will self - publish by early 2015.

Not exact matches

Thus, while Spotify has profited handsomely from the music that its sells to its subscribers, the owners of that music (in particular, songwriters and their music publishers) have not been able to share in that success because Spotify is using their music for free,» the lawsuit said.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

There are more publishers to choose from now than ever before, and many authors make rushed decisions that result in poorly - produced products that don't sell.

Newspapers are finding that paywalls may not be a long - term strategy (which doesn't seem to have stopped magazine publishers like Time Inc., which owns Fortune, from continuing to try), and so they either have to go broad and mass like The Daily Mail or find another monetization strategy like The Guardian, which has a trust fund that was generated by selling its stake in Auto Trader for $ 1 billion or so.

IMPORTANT: Jack Canfield (co-creator of the Chicken Soup series), Jim Hightower populist organizer and speaker, best - selling author of many books, and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Robert B. Reich (former US Secretary of Labor), Anne Holland (founding publisher of MarketingSherpa.com) Ken Evoy (founder of sitesell / com and siebuildit.com), and several other prominent people endorsed the original, self - published version, Principled Profit: Marketing that Puts People First, but did not respond to requests to update their endorsements.

But if you're trying to sell a story or a book to a publisher / agent, let me assure you, the work doesn't even begin until you've finished writing the story.

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I think it was Jack Canfield (author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.

We wrote our book that summer and when we tried to sell it, book publishers didn't know who we were - while we were working moms, we weren't experts in the parenting market and so, we began to build our platform by hosting high profile events for working moms featuring women at the top of their game balancing work and family.

It hasn't come without criticism, as some publishers restrict access to content that's already shipped on the disc, and sell it later as a «DLC».

And then 3rd party publishers have the nerve to bitch and moan about their games not selling on Wii U. Fuck you Bandai Namco

When I give you 60 $ for a retail game, I won't ask the publisher for permission to lend it to my cousin or simply sell it because I didn't like it.

By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher «You ain't seen nothin» yet» is the phrase that can be applied to the automotive dealership buy sell world lately.

By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher You would have to be willfully ignorant not to know that there's a new breed of investors in the dealership buy sell world.

Obviously, if someone else owns the copyright to your book (such as a previous publisher), you can not upload and sell your book on Amazon's Kindle store, so make sure you own the rights to sell your book.

Relying solely on self - distribution can be challenging if the author doesn't have the contacts at the retailers but is super easy if the author / publisher plans to sell the book solely online.

You may have been under the impression that having a traditional publisher would mean that you would not have to market and sell your own writing, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Of course, that meant I didn't sell my manuscripts to a publisher.

If you have direct access to audiences, you may not need a publisher to help you sell books, especially if book revenues are auxiliary to speaking fees.

The publishers said they will «use a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of eBooks sold in each state» to determine amounts due, but did not specify how consumers will be reimbursed — by check, a discount on future purchases, or some other mechanism.

They want to believe a publisher will «take care of them» and sell their books, easy / peezy, but that's not how it works.

I self - publish, so I do pretty much everything myself; but I've heard several traditionally published indie authors say they were surprised to find out that even with a traditional publisher, they were expected to do a lot of the marketing for their own books, particularly if the publisher is small, since they were * not * a celebrity name that could sell itself.

A publisher may not like an author selling to international markets if they intend to buy rights — or the house could see a proven seller & pay more to buy it.

They are not Vanity Publishers because such would mean they send you thousands of unwanted books to your garage and you sell them even though they keep 50 % or so of royalty.

Add to that the ecologic cost to the plant of pulping and / or recycling books that aren't sold because publishers print so many more books than are actually sold.

However, after five major publishers made an agreement with Apple on ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began selling for $ 14.99.

CRH has a number of titles that have not sold to US publishers, although they sell well in the UK and other foreign markets.

Any self publisher who is only now waking to that fact is either a newbie, or hasn't been selling enough to be affected, or has been asleep for over two years.

Author may, with Publisher's consent, license other parties to reproduce, display, perform, distribute and sell copies of the Work, so long as such copies are not directly competitive with Publisher's.

You have to sell enough to interest publishers, but you don't have to grab the Number One spot to make it.

It's nearly impossible to start from ground zero with a book and sell enough copies to make it worth your while financially (and emotionally) if you don't have some kind of following in place already, whether you refer to it as your fans, followers, or tribe (publishers refer to it as your «platform «-RRB-.

Publishers employ editors and artists who have particular notions (based on professional experience with what sells and what doesn't) about how your book should sound and look to appeal to specific reader tastes.

Gone, But Not Forgotten has been sold to more than 25 foreign publishers and debuted as a miniseries in 2004.

So publishers who don't sell to libraries lose my business.

If the publishers would agree a deal with Tom Kabinet, they would get a share for every sold e-book, even when that was an illegal one, they did get some money to compensate that which they would never got if people only download them from usenet, but they didn't even react on that offer made by Tom Kabinet.

Regardless, Bowker bases its report on books with ISBNs, and a very large proportion of self - publishers don't use ISBNs, so their results are likely to significantly underestimate the percentage of self - published books sold.

This change means that the very publishers who sell their own works — whether they are the authors themselves, fully operating publishers, or authors with their own imprint for business purposes — can now be undersold and therefore not be the actual seller when a consumer (oblivious to the rule change) clicks «add to cart.»

There are not special programs or tools needed to do any of this, which makes it quite attractive to publishers and online bookstores looking to sell books and still maintain a degree of security.

I only imply that what is best for the rather small number of publishers who sell the majority of textbooks [1], is not likely to be good for the consumer.

For some reason, unknown to many even in the industry, retailers and publishers typically do not disclose their sales numbers; at the same time, authors can have their accounts closed and their titles removed from retailers» virtual shelves for disclosing anything even resembling information on how they're selling.

Despite efforts from different major publishers to sell books directly through their own websites, even in the face of pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.

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?

Maybe if you still want to get a deal with a publisher but definitely not if you want to sell independently online.

Getting published by a traditional press might give a writer a bit more «legitimacy,» but the writer still has to put as much if not more work into the process, especially post-publication when the book is suppose to sell and make the publisher a lot of money.

I had an agent and wonderful editors, but the truth is that no one cares about your career as much as you, and if you're not selling at the top of your game, a publisher isn't going to expend a lot of time, effort, and money helping an author raise that game.

(You are afraid if you don't sign, they will come to your home and never let you write again and never sell to another publisher with more reasonable contract terms, so you sign away your work for life.

Meanwhile, Apple hasn't provided newspaper and magazine publishers with any standardized method to sell their products, other than the obvious one: the iPhone / iPad app - development kit.

I believed whole - heartedly that if my books weren't good enough to sell to a publisher, they weren't good enough to publish.