Sentences with phrase «name publishers took»

Before the big - name publishers took a gamble on the new platform they took a step back and watched how things progressed.

With many big - name publishers taking notice that Kojima is back on the market, so to speak, there is a possibility that he may partner with a new company in the future.

Not exact matches

The book's publisher takes its name from a pioneer of the Liturgical Movement in its classic period, Chicago's Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand.

Publisher Take Two Interactive has filed several trademark requests under the name of «Ghost Story,» but what it could mean is as nebulous ans the ethereal apparitions themselves.

This online experience will most likely be called Red Dead Online, judging by a domain name registered by publisher Take - Two this morning.

A last - minute problem arose in July 1998 when a Cologne court, responding to a case brought by the publisher Burda, ordered Ford to avoid the name «Focus» for the cars in the German market since the name was already taken by one of its magazines (Focus).

We've carried one self - publisher (and in this case he was entirely self - published; he took his stuff to a printer and had it printed) to success, but his first novel - was - traditionally published; he didn't enjoy that process, and he had enough of a name that - readers - were willing to trust him.

If you are going to be an independent or small publisher, if you are going to take on the time, expense and trouble of publishing your own book instead of letting a vanity press do it for you, you need to know the following about the name of your endeavor:

If there's not a readily - defined, ready - to - shell - out - cash market segment, a regular publisher won't take a chance on something unless they know there are hordes of sheeple to shell out that cash without worrying about anything but the author's name on the cover..

But it will take a publisher who can publish top names, do enhanced production and books, and knows how to put out top - quality leather and signed work.

As if in echo of the forthright debate about self - publishers» balance - sheet woes that London author Roz Morris opened (see the «provocation» on it at Writer Unboxed)-- and naming an issue we'll be taking up on 30th November at The FutureBook's Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.»

Even if your book page on Amazon gives your publisher name, CreateSpace owns the ISBN and you / your publisher can not take the book to any other book distribution or sales outlets.

According to Thomas Nelson publishers, research shows that consumers look at a book's title first and foremost when the author's name is taken out of the mix (well - known authors are sometimes the deciding factor in purchasing a book).

I began to follow the scam stories, and to take note of the names of agents and publishers that popped up over and over again.

There's a process in the UK to adopt a name, and in the United States to adopt a name, and it merely becomes the name of your publisher, the company that takes your book from manuscript to a printed book and then distributes it.

Early in the year, my publisher sent me a marketing plan with the dates of actions to be taken and the name of the person responsible for taking those actions — one advantage of having a traditional publisher, and still the tasks are the same.

(For instance, take a look at the screenshot of the Comix Experience digital storefront, above — why are we seeing a list of publishers in alphabetical order on the landing page, rather than images of recommended comics, or at the very least, publishers ranked by popularity rather than the first letters of their names?)

The only clue I got was from (believe it or not) the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association or ECPA (and it took me several clicks to find the real name of that organization, not just its acronym).

The panel included some of the most innovative names in independent publishing, all with the understanding that there are great books available that the larger publishers won't take a chance on.

The publisher of the ever - popular For Dummies series of titles has once again taken steps to combat illegal file sharing of its works, again successfully filing a lawsuit — for now, at least — against defendants named only as John Doe.

Three of the five publishers named in the class - action lawsuit and the Department of Justice investigation and suit against Apple and Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins have already settled out of court with the DoJ, but today the judge on the case took another of those three... [Read more...]

Organizations like the Independent Book Publishers Association are already taking strides in their author advocacy for all authors to bring issues like these to the forefront, but the only way to level the playing field and to eradicate discrimination in publishing circles is to name it when you see it.

The publisher will help you build your brand and get your name known, and you can take it from there.

He took pen names because his first publisher thought nobody could pronounce or spell «Czajkowski».

A lot of us are taking back our pen names, by putting on the cover and in description something like «Sarah A. Hoyt writing as Sarah D'Almeida» Agatha Christie books in the US often have completely different names than in the UK and publishers on line who know you might read both will say stuff like «And Then There Was None» originally published as «Ten Little Indians.»

Publisher's Weekly takes a look at Therese Fowler's upcoming novel, A Well - Behaved Woman: The name Vanderbilt carries a huge weight, conjuring images of mansions,...

«It took 29 days of calling,» Hudson writes, «until a guy named Brett at an indie publisher in Toronto called ChiZine didn't think what I was pitching sounded completely crazy.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

Publishers argue that they are the ones that are taking all of the risk signing you and that their name makes your book all the more enticing to the people who buy books for major retailers.

To his credit, Franklin does go on to name the percentage his house is paying to authors, and it sounds comparatively good: «So bookshops take more than half of the total and publishers give almost a quarter of their revenue to the author.

Does Jobs explicitly say he and the named publishers in the suit have made this super secret agreement to take down Amazon?

Only now, many authors have to work twice as hard, write twice as much twice as fast, and spend twice as much of their own money to market their own books without any help or backup or support... ya know, if they actually want to be successful — all in the name of taking back control from the publishers.

That said, as a blogger, I don't take many review requests in general, from either indie authors or big name publishers, but I have taken requests from both in the past.

Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Vigilant Addiction Studios Publisher: Vigilant Addiction Studios Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No How many times have we taken up sword and shield and stormed a dungeon in the name of loot?

Yesterday, a localizer for the publisher XSEED took a dramatic stance on what he saw as potential censorship, asking his company to remove his name from the credits of the upcoming JRPG Akiba's Beat after the developers removed a controversial phrase involving the KKK from the game.

With Brutal Legend «s fate still unclear and the game apparently without a publisher, speculation has been running amuck with people throwing names like MTV, EA, and even Gamecock into the list of publishers who might take the game on.

This online experience will most likely be called Red Dead Online, judging by a domain name registered by publisher Take - Two this morning.

Rockstar has been busy getting Grand Theft Auto 5 ready for launch, and publisher Take - Two has also been busy trying to get control of the GTAV.com domain name.

In the Japanese version, the game takes place in a generic boxing ring using the publisher's name in place of the HBO advertisements found in the North American version.

Run by artist Andreas Waris, Bad Reputation takes its name from the title of Penny Arcade's book on performance art, allegedly written in a seventh - floor office within the same building (where Arcade's publisher Semiotext [e] also rented its offices and provided studios to writers).

In 1962 Educational Testing Service (ETS)-- publishers of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the standardised exam taken by most US teenagers heading for university — published Isabel's test, having persuaded her to change its name to Myers - Briggs in recognition of her leading role in its creation.