Sentences with phrase «negotiating with publishers»

After that the developers have been negotiating with the publishers, and finally signed kunabi brother (guys who made award winning game blek, now want to try publishing, and EL will be their first title).

The fund launched in 2010, with not just the intention of making great games, but to improve the situations indie game developers find themselves in when negotiating with publishers.

Libranda is negotiating with publishers in Latin America and hopes to work with local online retailers and booksellers (some of which have a more mature market and established customer base than their counterparts in Spain).

Which is why many, major authors, some of whom aren't even with Hachette, are publicly upset that Amazon keeps doing this with authors when negotiating with their publishers.

Negotiating with publishers is costly, as is adding and supporting ebook conversion features.

Most authors often blame their book agents for not securing a contract because they think that the agent didn't do well when negotiating with publishers.

First, it shows that libraries can build and maintain their own platforms, directly negotiating with publishers to secure better prices and terms.

Hagman notes, however, that her group is negotiating with publishers for varying levels of access.

How can we negotiate with publishers if we don't understand what they are going through?

They no longer consider using competing e-readers — which forces readers and authors to accept whatever pricing Amazon negotiates with publishers.

That position has given Amazon a lot of leverage to negotiate with publishers on terms for distribution.

After a while, some authors, not wanting to negotiate with publishers themselves, or feeling they didn't have the skill, started hiring others to do their negotiating for them.

If yes, did you already have this agent or did you find them after you'd decided to negotiate with the publisher?

People scoff at debut authors who want to negotiate with publishers over, for example, conditions related to film rights: «It's your first novel.

The Legal Department regularly holds contract seminars to instruct members how to negotiate with publishers and agents.

Sharp also said it will negotiate with publishers and content providers outside Japan to set up country - specific e-book stores.

They come from the supplier with conditions, which the supplier has negotiated with the publisher.

Still, if you have a solid media platform and truly expect to sell more copies of your book than the maximum stated in your contract, you may be able to negotiate with your publisher to add a higher «bucket» (for example «25,000 + copies»), with a more favorable royalty percentage, to the royalty schedule.

The injunction also prevents Apple from simultaneously negotiating new no - discounting agency deals with the major houses, instead forcing the tech giant to negotiate with each publisher separately, in exclusive windows, staggered six months apart.»

First, the current purchasing model used by bookstores is one they basically negotiated with the publishers (from what I've been told).

Balcells has retained digital rights to all of their books up to this point, putting them in a strong position to negotiate with publishers on their own terms.

Not only that, they will represent you and negotiate with publishers, allowing you to worry less about publishing woes and letting you focus on writing.

Apple said at that point it stepped in to negotiate with publishers to set up its own iBooks ebook store.

It seems that Sony doesn't want to do the hard stuff — negotiate with publishers, persuade them of the opportunity, support indie publishers, and so forth.

You'll make more money sooner, and you'll own the rights when it comes time to negotiate with publishers (if you even care to).

As for Apple's role, Justice says «as it negotiated with the Publisher Defendants in December 2009 and January 2010, Apple kept each Publisher Defendant informed of the status of its negotiations with the other Publisher Defendants.

While Amazon usually doesn't take payments for features of that kind, several of the other retailers continue to negotiate with publishers for online placement of books.

The eBooks are available in ePub or PDF format with DRM, but they have a flexible platform and offer free eBooks that do not have protections (negotiated with publishers).

Xbox One Backward Compatibility brings together the best game titles playable on existing consoles and has included 297 titles so far, including the recently added «Haunted House,» «Injustice: Gods Among Us,» «Trine 2,» «Oblivion,» «Medal of Honor: Airborne,» and «Astropop,» but one game has remained much sought after, «Call of Duty: Black Ops II,» which Microsoft is trying to negotiate with its publishers.

Not exact matches

They were negotiating with Warner Music over the rights to publish and annotate the company's lyrics on their site, having already made similar deals with all the other key publishers, and thereby dodging a serious legal threat to the site's business model.

The exemption would allow publishers to negotiate collectively with major digital platforms, like Facebook and Google, in order to guarantee a business model in which those digital giants fairly compensate publishers for the content that gets shared on their platforms.

Once a publisher has decided to publish a book, the editor negotiates the terms and conditions of a contract with the author.

Negotiate with your current publishers and see if you can increase your fees.

The Gazelle Project got its name after Bezos had suggested that his staff «negotiate» with small publishers «the way a cheetah pursues a sickly gazelle» (243).

When Amazon reached a negotiating impasse with book publisher Macmillan over the agency model, Amazon temporarily stopped selling Macmillan titles.

HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc..

That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so - called «agency model» (in which the publishers set the prices of their books, not the retailer) with one publisher at a time spread out over a period of six months each.

At this year's Digital Book World event, there's a highly anticipated panel on publishers selling directly to readers, branding themselves for their loyal fans in such a way that there's no need to haggle with Amaz — make that, negotiate with book retailers.

Apple and Kobo both told me straight up that they can't negotiate new publishing contracts at the same time, due to the DOJ settlement with Apple and the contracts the publishers signed for the out of court settlements.

When i talked to Apple and Kobo about life after agency pricing they all told me they had to negotiate new contracts one by one and let a certain amount of time pass (normally six months) before they can sign a new contract with another publisher.

«We developed the «Scorecard» to ensure that librarians have the information they need to better negotiate ebook licensing agreements with publishers,» said Erika Linke, co-chair of the DCWG's business models subgroup.

As a literary agent, I've negotiated 200 + contracts with more than 20 publishers, and worked with more than 100 authors to bring their books to publication and build their careers.

Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.

Assuming an agent / publisher's vetting, continue the print career (if you have one), while attempting to negotiate for your erights, or at least a higher ebook royalty... WHILE at the same time using ebooks to get out previous work, or recent work that went nowhere with your agent but was considered salable (as with my thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, now on Kindle and soon all the formats), and also perhaps some new work targeted for ebook format only.

As you noted above with publishers, negotiability is going to depend on how badly the parties want the deal (i.e. if an agent or publisher really wants the work and the author has options, then the agent or publisher is likely to be willing to negotiate the terms of the contract).

Their knowledge of contracts, born from years of negotiating with the Big Six, also make them less willing to fight clauses on which they know publishers won't budge.

When it came time to negotiate the next contract with your publisher what would you do?

Few people have a technical background, so setting up a DIY author website seems like a daunting task, and many authors and publishers don't feel confident talking or negotiating with a potential website developer.

I hope more established authors continue to independently publish (using professional editors) and that e-book prices will drop a bit from the craziness we've been seeing since the price fixing when the publishers negotiated new pricing with Apple when the i - Pad was released.

Unless you are getting a huge offer, meaning up into six figures or more, you do not have the clout at the moment to negotiate with a traditional publisher in any way that will allow you to keep your rights on your work.