Sentences with phrase «number of authors signed»

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The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

While the question of a direct Petrine source, therefore, can never be fully answered, there are a number of signs that the author of the gospel put together a mass of material, some of which was already in small collections, whether written or oral.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

Increasing numbers of institutions require all authors to sign a statement indicating the contribution of each author.

The author, a Stanford University mathematician, talks his way into Italian research libraries in search of early manuscripts, photographs all 11 street signs on Via Leonardo Fibonacci in Florence and strives to cultivate a love for numbers in his readers.

Secondly, the authors of the dictionary — and this is an easy criticism of a work which has emerged over a number of years and can not be expected to keep up with every change in common usage — will need to pay attention to the influence of political correctness, which has resulted in changes to many signs in BSL in recent years.

The authors suggest that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an initiative signed by the Obama administration in 2012 that allows certain young undocumented immigrants to work legally in the U.S. without fear of deportation, could help shore up the numbers.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

John Cater, author of the report, commented: «There are worrying signs that the profession is failing to attract enough entrants and failing to retain existing teachers in sufficient numbers and with appropriate specialisms to deliver the revised curriculum to a rapidly increasing school - age population.

Now, attorney Tonja Carter reportedly advocates on behalf of the author, but that relationship has come under fire for a number of recent events, including one in which the author accidentally signed away her rights to her original work while the attorney was looking on.

There is so much to learn and signing up to the Author Marketing Club has been a good way to tap into this knowledge and use a number of useful tools such as the blurb writing boost.

When publishers talk about authors who have great platforms, they are generally referring to authors who have great websites and / or blogs (meaning interactive, functional, and with a clear and easy - to - find sign - up form); authors with a high number of followers across various social media platforms; authors with previous publications (of either books or articles); and authors who already have a fair amount of media exposure under their belts — through a list of public speaking engagements, YouTube videos showcasing their talents, radio links, TV footage, and / or a media packet.

Simon & Schuster isn't the only major publisher to sign up with Oyster and Scribd, but it is still a major «get» for both services thanks to the number of big name books and authors in the publisher's catalog.

While there was some anger from the indie publishing community at the thought that self - published authors would lose the control over their books that makes them independent in the first place, the number of authors who signed up caused the number of borrowable ebooks to skyrocket.

Actually authors get paid more than a dollar, plus a number of extremely popular authors have signed up along with many publishing houses.

Playster in hand with their questionable affiliates make many bogus websites, numbering in the many thousands, that abuse thousands of authors copyright rights, in order to profit in bad faith and deceive people in signing up for free trials using the bait of PDF...

If a hybrid publisher has a requirement that the author must pay for a specific number of books, it's a good sign the company is merely a dressed - up version of an old - school «vanity» press.

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

The number of authors to sign the letter exploded during the summer from 12 to over 900.

He will be editing a new series of biographies, Amazon Lives, and has already signed a number of authors to the project.

Founder Tom Waters, himself a best - selling author who has conducted a number of ebook signings, specifically for U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East as part of several USO tours, recently attended thriller the BoucherCon Mystery Writing Conference in St. Louis this past weekend in order to host an on - site live ebook signing.

In order to traditionally publish a non-fiction work, an author has to be able to prove his solid numbers, or platform, in terms of viable customers before an agent can consider signing on to represent the author.

It is normally a one day event that focuses on having a number of authors do book signings, pose for pictures and interact with their readers.

PRH makes up roughly half of the Big - 5's gross sales, so doubling those numbers to 30,000 authors and 500 new annual debuts yields a reasonable estimate for the total number of signed Big - 5 authors today.

We've described a number of times at GigaOM how Amazon (s amzn) is disrupting the traditional book - publishing business, both by allowing authors to self - publish and do an end - run around the traditional industry, and by signing writers to its own imprint — as well as starting its own e-book lending library and other ventures.

While there is no guarantee of the number of titles to be signed each year, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan will monitor the WestBow Press catalog for talented authors that rise to the top..

But I wasn't walking away from robust print sales, and unless and until I can regularly hit the NYT list as a self - published author — enough to give the bookselling industry enough of a jolt to push me past the anchor that is my past Bookscan numbers — it would be foolish of me to sign a contract expecting robust print sales in the future.

Founder Tom Waters, himself a best - selling author who has conducted a number of ebook signings, specifically for U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East as... [Read more...]

Also, a number of authors — who've been thwarted by bookstores and libraries when they call to request permission for a book signing — find themselves selling their work at events that are not strictly bibliocentric.

For a number of years, these two companies have allowed authors to sign people's Kindle and ePUB books by interjecting an extra page into a purchased book.

Authors may be unknowingly signing away rights to their books for a number of years.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be participating with a number of area authors in Maryland at group book signings.

Now, go look at the number of authors who have, after long careers with legacy publishers, have decided not to sign contracts when offered.

It was launched only hours after a letter, written by author Douglas Preston and signed by a number of authors calling on Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette and asking readers to email Amazon founder Jeff Bezos direct with their protests, went public.

Compared to other countries, I'd say the number of authors who sign up for KDP here in Germany is smaller, and that's because of Tolino.»

As an author mindful of conventions, I opted out of using iUniverse when I realized it carried a stigma, even after having signed a contract, used a number of its services and received its Editor's Choice award.

An increasing number of trad published authors are reporting little or no promotional help... basically the publisher requires the author already have a proven following before even signing them up... and then hands them a to - do list that basically is things for the author, rather than the publisher, to do.

In these videos the author hosts a contest or random giveaway that will allow a certain number of fans to get a free signed copy of the author's current or next book.

We will be signing books (brought or bought) along with a large number of other SF / Fantasy authors: Alma Alexander, Devon Monk, Barb & J. C. Hendee, Mark Ferrari, Shannon Page, Brent Weeks, Claude Lalumiere, Camille Alexa, Wendy Wagner, David Levine, Mike Moscoe / Shepherd, Jason Hough, Ken Scholes, J. A. Pitts, Patrick Swenson, Leah Cutter, Blaze Ward, Tina Connolly, Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Bellet, Fonda Lee, Jason Gurley, Kristi Charish, Laura Ann Gilman, Randy Henderson, Django Wexler, and Jennifer Brozek.

The exhibits, author signings and seminars began Wednesday afternoon, and again, record numbers of new authors were gathering at the UPubU stage to catch twenty minute talks on everything from self - publishing to distribution to promotion.

«I think it is very likely that we will see a number of self - published authors sign contracts with traditional publishers this year for the paper rights only, leaving the authors in control of their electronic rights.»

Longtime bestselling romance author Lindsay McKenna left Harlequin for self - publishing in 2014 and then signed with Kensington in 2015 — and has a number of indie titles in addition to her Kensington titles slated for 2016.

Today, Kobo offers about 10 % higher royalties on most sales than competitive platforms, between September and November 2012, Kobo is offering a further 10 % royalties in a number of categories to authors who have signed up for the service.

Realistically, there are a limited number of people in a designated location who will attend a talk / signing for an author.

If you haven't already signed up for your Author Central page through Amazon so you can take advantage of their free bookscan numbers, do so.

I challenge anyone from the «huge number» who signed the Authors Guild letter to write a guest post for my blog about why they did, defending their point of view.

I'm an Australian author with a number of books traditionally published in the UK and US (with St Martins» Press and Houghton Mifflin) and in translation, as well as indie ebooks, and I've recently signed some titles to Yeeyan for the Chinese market.

VARA provides its protection only to paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and still photographic images in single copies or limited editions of 200 or fewer copies that are for exhibition only and that the author has signed and numbered.

In 1970, Genet was amongst a number of intellectuals to sign a letter protesting the French government's ban on Pierre Guyotat's second novel, Eden Eden Eden (1970)-- a scandal that secured the author's reputation as a literary outlaw and, according to Edmund White, «the last great avant - garde visionary of the 20th century».

Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by Elsevier: * A retraction note titled «Retraction: [article title]» signed by the authors and / or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.