Sentences with phrase «of big book publishers»

Clip: Debaters, including Vox's Matthew Yglesias, look at how Amazon drives down prices and the «tyranny» of big book publishers.

A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast.

Not exact matches

Knowing that e-books would be a big selling feature of the tablet, Apple arranged an «agency model» with several book publishers that would allow them to set their own prices.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yeaOf the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yeaof fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.

Karen developed all the recipes for «ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine» by John LaPuma, M.D. (Crown Publishers 2008) as well as The RealAgeDiet and Cooking the RealAge Way by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and John LaPuma, M.D..

A big thanks goes out to publishers BenBella Books for providing me with a review copy, one for giveaway, and one of the delicious recipes from the book to share with you here.

Mary Steenburgen has a couple of scenes as a big NYC book publisher.

Liz Tuccillo Film release date: Feb. 12 Starring: Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Leslie Mann What it's about: From the co-author of the mega-popular book - turned - movie «He's Just Not That Into You» comes the story of a single 30 - something book publisher who lives in the Big Apple.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

Instead, they may say they only plan to pitch your book to small publishers — or a combination of big and small publishers.

As a publisher, my biggest concern is the clutter of the books being put out by the major publishing houses along with those that are just put up directly by authors.

Of course, it's important to note that most published books are not error - free, whether they are from big name traditional publishers or small indie micro-publishers.

If you are looking to publish your book with one of the big publishers because of their promotion abilities, read this article before you make your decision.

He keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to our business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

My post was about the high prices libraries pay for ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most of those publishers.

More and more very lean book publishers — without big organizations — are emerging from other media as a result of the fact that books can be published without big print runs or big sales forces in the digital era.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

# 6 Go Straight to the Publisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a boPublisher — Just as I wouldn't start by trying to break in with a big publisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a bopublisher, neither would I spend a lot of time trying to get a book agent.

One of the biggest advantages of having your book published by a leading traditional publisher is the sales and distribution infrastructure that will get your book into hundreds if not thousands of stores upon release.

The book jacket would list the name of a previously - independent small publisher that had been gobbled by a bigger one.

Big vs. Small Publishers: Some literary agents will (hopefully) believe your book has a good chance of being published with a major publisher.

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

The iBooks Store offers customers a wide selection of both paid and free Chinese language books from top local publishers, including «Big Head Son & Little Head Dad» by Zheng Chunhua, «The Family Belongings of Chinese People» by Ma Hongjie, and for the first time in China, Stephenie Meyer's «Twilight» series will be available in a digital format.

«Libraries are standing there with fistfuls of cash in their hands and saying to the big publishers, «We want to buy your ebooks,» and the publishers are saying no or they're charging way too much for their books.

Next Big Book's Alex White spoke to Good e-Reader about what publishers can learn from tracking this kind of online reference, specifically as it relates to their first major customer, Macmillan, who signed a three - year deal with the company.

«The big incumbent publishers are all trying to transform themselves into software companies,» MacInnis explained, «and the notion of the print book is not going to be around for a while.

Not only do the Big Six still produce some of the finest books in the world, but thousands of legitimate, well - edited small publishers exist, in all genres.

Not everyone does this, but enough authors do, so the big 5 are threatened because many self - published authors know how to put out a quality book, and they are not constrained by the marketing or accounting departments of a big publisher.

Traditional press gives more of a name brand backing to your novels, but often even the big five publishers depend on the authors to market their own books.

The move on part of Simon & Schuster shows the publisher is betting big on its book videos to gain more exposure and is onto a well charted route towards achieving this.

In other words, Next Big Book helps publishers know which of their efforts are paying off both in terms of actual book sales and in reader buzz through social meBook helps publishers know which of their efforts are paying off both in terms of actual book sales and in reader buzz through social mebook sales and in reader buzz through social media.

One of the major plagues for authors and publishers — from the lone self - published writer to the Big Five — is book discovery.

The big problem with the unlimited model is that publishers want to be paid for the full amount of the book's purchase price if a customer reads a certain number of pages.

This practice of windowing has attracted strong criticism from librarians culminating in the national lobby group taking out a full page advert in Sweden's biggest national newspaper slamming the practice, and criticising publishers for mercantile behaviour and failing to see libraries as strategic partners in reader and audience development for their books.

As a typography snob, I get snarky about their production values sometimes, but all - in - all, big publishers have done a remarkable job procuring real talent and accomplishing the impossible — selling millions of books.

As an independent publisher, I get a bigger share of the pie, and I work directly with the online retailers to merchandise my books.

This was a reducibly foolish argument: publishers are paying less for books, therefore the agent deserves a bigger piece of the smaller pie than the author of the book.

«One of the biggest issues facing publishers today is knowing a lot about the people who are buying their books,» Weiner told Mashable.

One particular hot topic at Digital Book World 2014 was the three big problems facing book publishers today: the lack of bookshelf space at bookstores, how readers will discover new authors and books, and the rapid changing pace in the publishing indusBook World 2014 was the three big problems facing book publishers today: the lack of bookshelf space at bookstores, how readers will discover new authors and books, and the rapid changing pace in the publishing indusbook publishers today: the lack of bookshelf space at bookstores, how readers will discover new authors and books, and the rapid changing pace in the publishing industry.

Publishing Perspectives spoke with three publishing practitioners who will discuss this challenge at this year Frankfurt Book Fair's October 8 CONTEC 2013 Conference during the panel discussion «Big Data / Little Data: The Practical Capture, Analysis, and Integration of Data for Publishers.»

The first titles from the publisher include The Cat's Pajamas (Nov. 14, 2014), a children's book by Daniel Wallace, also the author of Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, and Slim and The Beast (Feb. 3, 2015), by debut novelist Samuel L. Barrantes.

Some publishers of big name authors will spring for production of a book trailer, but the rest of us — traditionally published or self - published — have to create one on our own.

A lot of authors forget this — big publishers would never stoop to begging for reviews in the book itself, but it can be a powerful trick for indies.

In that discussion, I was surprised to learn that one of the biggest issues book publishers deal with every day is royalty inquiries from authors.

Hopefully, the absence of some major authors from eBook stores will be temporary — but in the meantime, you could be forgiven for thinking that publishers really do want to hand all the cards to Amazon — they're the cheapest and, for whatever reason, they are now the ones with the biggest range of books, some of which UK readers can not, right now, buy electronically in a format compatible with their own devices.

And there's the overtake by Big Publishing of smaller and independent houses, of course: Krüger has no love of a house that can put out more books than its publisher can read:

«The Big 5 publishers do have a model of «We will buy your book for life plus 70 years.»

More than half of all the books sold aren't from the Big Five, or the 1195 other publishers of the AAP.

We are in the age of «Guerrilla Publishing» — you shouldn't be trying to play the game that big publishers use to sell books.