Sentences with phrase «now working with a publisher»

Not exact matches

Historically, Activision has worked with Major League Gaming (MLG) and other event vendors with Call of Duty eSports, but the publisher is now running its eSports internally.

«Now, Nike is a big supporter of the culture, whether media, contests, skater sponsorships, shops whatever,» says Ryan Stutt, publisher of skateboarding and snowboarding magazines KingSh * t and KingSnow (disclosure: I worked with Stutt years ago at SBC Media).

We're now working with media savvy publishers like CBS and MTV, but as far as those who are doing smaller blogs and creating dedicated chat - oriented sites, it would be hard to single out one above the others.

Techland has been developing games for over 20 years, even working as a distributor and publisher in Central and Eastern Europe, and now it feels the time is right to move into global publishing with all the experience it's been able to gain through those years.

That said, the only platform specified by Amazon was PC, so a console version remains unconfirmed for now, though the likelihood is high, with even a Switch port seeming somewhat plausible given the publisher's close working relationship with Nintendo.

Working with sector computing experts including Miles Berry of Roehampton University and Naace, the inspirational Terry Freedman, who had formerly worked for QCA and Tom Barrett, now senior consultant at NoTosh, and publisher Rising Stars, Switched On Computing had been created.

While many publishers are working hard to refine their textbooks to align with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), many classroom educators are working just as hard to make the best of what they have on hand right now.

All of these works are now assets which can make money for the publisher far into the future with no significant costs and no need for promotion.

For many years now, the bugbear of small book publishers working exclusively with Lightning Source or its sister company IngramSpark has been poor availability listings on Amazon.

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.»

The most innovative, exciting work now is coming from the REAL small publishers — the ones with the REAL editors, and, especially, the REAL rejection slips.

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.

Raven, who designed her first book in 1995, is now flooded with work, again mostly from self - publishers.

I had a few readers for my WIP (reworking it now after rejections from publishers), and I always find it amazingly - pleasant to have someone to discuss your work with, an occasion to gossip about your favorite characters or have the readers tell you what they expect to see in a sequel.

Now I'm going to have to work with marketing to iron out a couple of problems, one being that B&N has the book's publisher listed as Outskirts Press instead of Curlew Press.

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

Viz is working with the Japanese retailer Animate (which has been publishing yaoi manga for the Kindle for a while now) and the publisher Libre, but they can license books from other publishers as well.

This could mean working smarter with authors, bringing books to market quicker than they do now (often it takes a publisher 18 months to publish a book), and creating exciting partnerships with indie authors.

Now Mark, Renee, and their expert team work with authors, businesses and small publishers around the world to bring beautiful books to life.

This experience includes inside and outside book printing and general commercial printing, owner of a specialized Independent Publisher, successful self - publisher as well as just under twenty years» experience working with self - publishers as a principal and founder of RJ Communications, now Self PublishiPublisher, successful self - publisher as well as just under twenty years» experience working with self - publishers as a principal and founder of RJ Communications, now Self Publishipublisher as well as just under twenty years» experience working with self - publishers as a principal and founder of RJ Communications, now Self Publishing, Inc..

Many of you will be familiar with RosettaBooks as an E-Book publisher (producing backlist works of familiar authors ranging from Winston Churchill to Kurt Vonnegut), but now you can use their new e-reading app for mobile phones and tablets.

Now, thanks to that investigation, the original class action suit which sought to return some of the $ 250 million that some estimates claim consumers overpaid may fall by the wayside as three of the publishers involved are working to reach a settlement with all fifty individual state governments.

The Stockholm City Library is working with publishers, now, to set up a pilot project for a dual licensing mode based on the library helping the publishers digitize their backlist and, in return, getting decent lending terms.

The percentage of indie authors who never worked with a traditional publisher is rising from year to year (now 60 %) as is the percentage of authors who never even tried to find a publisher (35 %).

Prices for Kindle e-books can now be set at 12.99 or 14.99 in deals similar to those that Apple has with publishers providing digital works for iPad devices that make their US debut on Saturday.

Not only does Open Library have over one million public domain books available as digitized Adobe downloads, but they also now work with libraries and publishers for a book borrowing program in BookReader, PDF, and ePub formats.

My attempt to restore this weekly feature on my blog was thwarted a few months into the year by a series of challenging, distressing, exhilarating, and generally overwhelming events — from editing a new speculative fiction anthology to the death of my mother - in - law, from a six - week home renovation to a partial roof collapse at my place of employment that caused 100 - hour work weeks, from caring for a sick bunny (he's better now, thankfully) to building a new website for one of the small - press publishers I work with.

I now spend most of my time working with authors who are planning to either self - publish or to submit their manuscripts to agents or publishers — all those years spent working on the inside have given me a pretty good idea of what the dreaded gatekeepers are looking for!

I think I may actually try a different tack with each of the two books I'm working on right now... one of them seems like it may be more appealing to big publishers.

Both European and US authors working directly with Amazon can now access a royalty of 70 % of the cover price on their titles (as against c. 7 % working through a publisher) which increases the chance that authors may choose this route.

Now one thing I personally wouldnt have a problem with is if the price went up a bit and that extra went to the author, but that is not how these things work, this will endup being just like itunes / mp3 sales, authors / artists wont see any real bennifit from it, but the publishers will see a boost in per sales profit...... and a loss in overall sales.

It started with a small Canadian publisher, then got picked up by a larger US publisher and I'm very excited with how they look now,» says Fewings of her history with publishing her works.

The BlackBerry PlayBook and its QNX - based BlackBerry Tablet OS is going to deliver an awesome gaming experience, and we've already seen that EA (who I believe bought your publisher, but now you're so big you don't need a publisher so I don't get what your corporate dealio is anymore) is working with RIM to put Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris onto the PlayBook.

So given the above, and a heaven sent opportunity (via Hugh Howey) to get a better deal for the people he supposedly works for, from the people he fights with for them... Does he blog... 1) Now there is evidence that self - published authors can achieve the same or better status and sales and a far, far higher income, I will point this out to them and to the publishers (that I fight with all the time) and tell them they've had a bumper year of profits, and unless they want to lose their authors, we'd better re-negotiate a much better deal on e-books.

No, I no longer work with an agent and now that I'm an indie author, I no longer work with traditional publishers.

zuuka holds a market leading position now — working with large international publishers such as Random House, Harper Collins, Thienemann and Carlsen, and selling top - ranked book apps through the iTunes store.

I just worked harder than almost everyone and have now published over a hundred novels with traditional publishers.

Interestingly enough, quality of fiction out of traditional publishers can now vary just as much as it can with self - published work.

But for the sake of the math, let me just say that there are twenty major outlets for book sales right now that any indie publisher can get to with almost no work and almost no money.

Now, odds are low that a literary agent, editor or publisher is going to use your contact page to send you a desperate «Please, please, work with me!

I mainly worked with publishers, not so much with authors, like I do now at Ingram.

With so many people now choosing not to tread the traditional publishing path, self - publishers need to make sure their work really shines and is the best that it can be.

He now works with Library Renewal, a nonprofit group working to create an infrastructure for e-content acquisition that bridges the gap between publishers and libraries.

Eoin has worked as Commissioning Editor with one of Ireland's oldest independent publishers Mercier Press and at Nonsuch Ireland (now The History Press Ireland).

An experimental ebook that allows an unsuspecting world to try your work, and if they like it helps builds a platform for wider sharing — with or without professional help in future (this is now an established route to finding a publisher)

I've been working with traditional publishers for close to 4 years now, and in my opinion, self publishing high - quality books is a good way to gain experience in the industry and build a platform to use down the road.

Now that's he's a proven force to be reckoned with and has eliminated a major stigma in the literary world, it's certainly less of an uphill battle in reaching his ultimate challenge — simply put — «My goal is to make authors and publishers who work with Smashwords more successful than those that don't.»

Right now, I think if you look at the major publishers who are involved in the publication of what the industry refers to as trade book, bestselling fiction and non-fiction works, they have very different positions with respect to e-book borrowing from libraries.

Now, you may be a fabulous agent with your clients» interests at heart, and maybe I'm wrong and you indeed work for writers and not publishers.

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.