Sentences with phrase «now by the big publishers»

You can't extrapolate on what books are going to be big and which ones aren't — if it could be done it'd HAVE been done by now by the big publishers.

Not exact matches

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

(And by the way, I'm rooting for * any * platform or company that gives authors a fair shake, whether it's Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo, small - to medium - size presses, some new distribution system being dreamed up right now in someone's back bedroom, or even any of the Big 5 publishers willing to significantly change their contract terms and treat authors more equitably.)

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

As the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take note.

Now, B&N has once again jumped to the front of the promotions line by being ready for the DoJ settlement with the Big Six publishers.

But now they've also moved into direct competition with the big publishers by opening «Amazon Publishing,» with its own genre imprints, such as Thomas & Mercer for mysteries and thrillers.

Book promotion is the other area once covered by traditional publishers and now left largely to book authors, even when you publish with the bigger and more reputable houses.

A good number of vanity publishers are now owned by big publishing houses.

And now big publishers are being crowded out of the bestseller lists by independent authors, and are being forced to lower their own big - name titles to $ 5 just to compete with indie authors at $ 1 and $ 3.

If I were an agent or big five publisher I'd be very worried by now... Or take your advice.

Now it's everywhere, everyone is doing it, and it's totally accepted by big publishers.

Similarly, the agency - pricing control afforded by the new contracts Big - Five publishers Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have signed with Amazon.com now allows them set their own final retail prices for many ebooks.

In the US, the most mature market, independent authors are now collectively earning more from e-books than authors handled by the so - called Big Five publishers, according to advocacy website Author Earnings.

In all my dreams about getting published by a «real publisher» (before I realized how much smarter it is to go indie), I never even dared to dream as big as I've done for myself in 2013... and I also realized that what I've achieved this year is small - time compared to what's possible now with a career as an author.

Because I fear new writers may be duped into staying away from all these legitimate mid-sized, smaller and digital - first publishers and steered toward the subsidy or vanity presses now owned by the Big Five, thinking anything with a Big Five label is somehow more «traditional» or «legitimate».

Between the election cycle and big publishers learning how to create visually stimulating videos, the feed began to feel dominated by news outlets instead of everyday people, and now Facebook is evening things out.