Sentences with phrase «of author compensation»

Greenfield goes on to raise a question of author compensation in the scenario of library lending, too.

There is, in the aggregate, a great deal of confusion, of question, and — most evidently — of unahappiness in the entire topic of author compensation in traditional publishing.

Unearned advances are a substantial part of author compensation.

Not exact matches

The influx of foreign workers also held down wages, the authors concluded, with compensation being 2.6 % to 5.1 % lower than if foreign workers were not allowed.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

«It's a sound idea, but it gets a lot harder to do the bigger the company gets,» says Bruce Ellig, former worldwide head of human resources at Pfizer Inc. and author of several books on compensation.

He is the author, with Lucian Bebchuk, of Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press, 2004).

The author of this report further certifies that no part of his / her compensation was, is, or will be directly or indirectly related to the specific recommendations or views contained in this research report.

«The compensation,» writes a German author, «for the loss of that sense of personal independence which man so unwillingly gives up, is the disappearance of all fear from one's life, the quite indescribable and inexplicable feeling of an inner security, which one can only experience, but which, once it has been experienced, one can never forget.»

However, I never accept any other form of compensation for the book reviews or author interviews you see on The Lunch Tray.]

The authors collaborated with Colorado's largest workers» compensation insurer, Pinnacol Assurance, to examine the claims data of 314 businesses from a range of industries.

The study's three China - based authors have been removed from their posts, while parents of the children who participated have been offered generous financial compensation.

According to the authors, one major issue with China's current compensation schemes is that their implementation typically relies on the simple metric of forest cover and ignores biodiversity.

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While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

EPI's new report, authored by Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel, is a repeat of its 2008 report, and as such, it ignores the important work on teacher compensation that has been done since.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

Authors or submitters of articles are not entitled to compensation, and shall not be paid.

Teacher turnover in early education is high, with low compensation a primary factor in teachers» decisions to leave.Marcy Whitebook and Laura Sakai, «Turnover Begets Turnover: An Examination of Jobs and Occupational Instability Among Childcare Center Staff,» Early Childhood Research Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2003): 273 — 293; Child Care Services Organization, Working in Early Care and Education in North Carolina: 2012 Workforce Study (Chapel Hill, NC: Author, 2012), 19 — 21.

She was the co-lead author of It's More Than Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largesCompensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largescompensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).

He has been the lead or co-lead author of numerous evaluations (including It's More Than Money, Catalyst for Change, and Pathway to Results, the first comprehensive, longitudinal evaluative studies of the impact of performance - based compensation on student achievement, teacher effectiveness and systems change) and articles, and provides briefings to members of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures and departments of education, and the media.

As the authors make clear, the current defined benefit pension systems in place across the country do offer a higher maximum level of compensation for the minority of teachers who stay in the profession and remain in the same pension system for their entire careers.

To examine the impact of Act 10 on Wisconsin's teacher workforce, the authors use 10 years of data from the DPI's all - staff files, spanning from the 2005 - 06 school year to the 2015 - 16 school year.37 This administrative data set includes information on staff demographics, compensation — including both salaries and benefits — and experience.

Expert presenters Marcus Winters of the Manhattan Institute and Michael J. Podgursky, author of Reforming Educator Compensation, expanded on this notion during the Productivity Forum.

For publishers and authors, it offers the prospect of fair compensation for readership through libraries.

Author compensation for subsidiary rights is essentially that Dymocks gets NO LESS than 20 % of what they call the Cost Price (which, for books, is basically defined as 50 % of the retail price, so an author gets NO MORE than Author compensation for subsidiary rights is essentially that Dymocks gets NO LESS than 20 % of what they call the Cost Price (which, for books, is basically defined as 50 % of the retail price, so an author gets NO MORE than author gets NO MORE than 40 %).

Ostensibly, this includes reviews from paid review services such as Kirkus, but also includes reviews from anyone to whom the author's book was gifted, as Amazon considers this a form of compensation.

If your book manages to make it through their process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author their ever was), you'll still see less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

Dear Mercy — I love the idea of library inclusion for self - published novels, but how will authors receive compensation for their work?

When Kindle Unlimited customers read at least ten percent of an indie author's book through the service, that will count as a «read» for compensation from the KDP Select Global Fund, just as if a non-member had borrowed the title through KOLL.

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

If your book makes it through the traditional publication process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author there ever was), you'll still be seeing less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

I purchase most of my print books second - hand due to financial considerations, and the authors don't receive compensation for these purchases.

Regarding royalties, it goes like this: Smashwords Wholesale compensation = 60 % of retail (when sold on sites other than their own) Example: if your eBook is selling for $ 7.95, the author would get $ 4.77.

Self - published authors especially stand to gain from this beta period, as this is a chance to grow their reader base with only the limited investment of letting people read their already - written works without compensation, a far cry from the thousands of dollars many successful authors spend on publicity for their books.

Many have proposed that the settlements the publishers in the case have had to pay out — much of which will again be in the form of compensation to the actual ebook buyers — will be so detrimental that the publishers will have to reduce their operations and not take risks on debut authors until their losses are recovered.

New concerns are growing among UK publishers over the fair compensation for their authors when it comes to library lending, specifically of ebooks.

At the risk of taking sides on this issue, it would appear that Amazon attempted to work out a system of compensation for the publishers, although admittedly the terms of those agreements were confidential; nothing has been mentioned so far about how the authors were to be compensated, either.

• While in some cases authors may still be making royalties off of third party sales, these sellers may also be obtaining books in ways that will not result in author compensation.

If the cost of producing the academic book actually lies in the compensation to the author, plus the additional cost of producing a digital version with enhancements — such as the bar exam prep's forty - plus hours of embedded video lecture from noted law professors — how can publishers continue to make a profit on a book that costs a fraction of the print edition?

As nice as these cash bonuses are, the real compensation comes in the form of an endless supply of great free books to read, increased notoriety and experience as a book reviewer, and the knowledge that you are helping authors and readers.

Author compensation will be similar to borrows under the Kindle Owners» Lending Library — a percentage of money from a fixed pool.

It's a medium point where the author gets just compensation and the reader gets hours upon hours of reading material.

Her commentary, on the site of theAlliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Self - Publishing Advice Blog, suggests a new sense of author unity rising along with concern for author compensation.

On Saturday, Howey criticised Amazon for its «biggest screwup in this affair thus far» — the company's rollout of the KENPC, the standardised page the company is using to calculate authors» compensation:

Just as she points out that dwindling compensation for authors will drive authors — and good content — out of the business, Franklin says that publishers are in a kind of mirrored, precarious bind: «We do not forget, he writes, «that, like all businesses in a capitalist world, we must make a profit.

E-book royalties are made out of hot air, and the reporting of e-book royalties has been complete garbage, so it's been difficult for authors and agents to determine what the just compensation should be.

At the Society of Authors» site in the UK, you'll see «The Tide is Turning,» an update on that nation's controversy over author compensation and exclusivity clauses on author appearances.

They will be trying new books as rights holders come forward to join the experiment — perhaps poets or authors of books related to this year's election, or nonprofits with great content to release in return for reasonable crowd - funded compensation.

Like interning or freelance writing with no contract or financial agreement in place beyond maybe a few bucks, guest blogging to help out other authors and hoping to gain a few readers, blog tours where again, you read and review to help out other authors, and yes, even blogging, all of it is done for free with little to no compensation and no guarantee it will further your writerly aspirations in the long run.