Sentences with phrase «number of authors held»

A growing number of authors held out hope that Amazon would intervene on the author bullying issue after Amazon acquired book review and discovery site Goodreads, but that hasn't come to pass.

Not exact matches

Grant Williams: Founder of Real Vision TV and author of investment newsletter Things That Make You Go Hmmm..., Grant has three decades of experience in the financial industry and has held senior positions at a number of investment banks all over the world.

Dr. Robledo Montecel has authored and co-authored a number of publications focusing on effective bilingual education, school holding power and parent leadership.

Huge numbers of authors, both self - published and traditionally - published, have to hold down a day - job, meaning they do not «make a living» from their writing.

The first is Metadata API — which allows access catalog information such as title, author, description and title samples.The second is the Availability API — which provides unique title - availability information from library holdings including number of units or copies, units available for lending, number of copies on hold, etc..

Unfortunately, I've also been in contact with a number of authors who had less than stellar things to say about the company, and at a certain point I realized that they weren't going to hold up with a good review.

With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.

This is Dan Brown's third year to hold the number one spot, James Patterson holds three of the top twenty positions for three different books, and it is author John Grisham's third consecutive year to appear in the top twenty.

In that original post, I discussed a number of the opportunities and challenges that hosting a book signing event hold for self published authors.

In addition to authoring a number of feature articles for entertainment publications, Sami holds a degree in Journalism and a Masters in Business and Entertainment Management.

Chris Bohjalian is the author of twenty books, including The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; The Double Bind; and Midwives which was a number one... (more)

The number of today's bestsellers from small to medium publisher debut authors is also growing year over year, although not at the same explosive rate with which indie debuts are grabbing and holding slots on the charts.

Chris Bohjalian is the author of twenty books, including The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; The Double Bind; and Midwives which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club.

Demand in any format rests on what it has always rested on in print: the author's reputation; the past circulation of the author, like authors, and / or the subject, with the subject more important if the author is less well known; buzz in vendor reports, in the media, and on the web; the size of print runs and the promotional campaign; the number of holds; patron requests; and reviews, which nearly 40 % of respondents say are still required to place an order.

In addition to authoring a number of feature articles for entertainment publications, Sami holds a Bachelor's in Journalism and a Masters in Business and Entertainment Management.

Following an event held at in Edinburgh, it was revealed Ayr came second to Falkirk when it came to the number of authors, per capita, publishing their work via Kindle Direct Publishing.

We looked at the number of titles in each category that held slots on Amazon's thousands of hierarchical bestseller lists and sublists, as well as the daily unit sales of each, the gross dollars spent by consumers on each, and the share of author dollar revenue (in the form of royalties or revenue share) going to each.

Nicola has authored a number of publications in the field of Intellectual Property both nationally and in Europe — the last in terms of time being the article published on the March 2017 Newsletter of the IP Consultants Institute; Nicola has also organised and held seminars on the above - described topics in Italy, England, in the United States and in China.

Before they were renowned actors, prestigious producers, accomplished authors and popular celebrities, these people held a number of ordinary and odd jobs.