Sentences with phrase «of big name publishers»

There are other writers I enjoy reading who are also not on Twitter, which seems like a career - damning thing to do, although most of them are established writers with high level platforms in the form of big name publishers or national magazines and papers.

As self - publishing matures, as the various distribution media for self - published works evolve, hopefully a way will emerge that helps assure a measure of quality without relying on the lumbering behemoths of big name publishers.

Not exact matches

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

This has piqued the curiosity of many big name publishers leading to the development of Battle Royale alternatives for them.

With multiple big - name publishers coming out of the woodwork to shift support of many console exclusives to the PC in the last year or so, the golden age of PC gaming is yet upon us.

Despite former EA COO Peter Moore saying the publisher wasn't interested in remakes because «it feels like pushing stuff out because you've run out of ideas,» here we are — Burnout Paradise Remastered is the company's first big name game to see a re-release on current - gen consoles.

It could be argued that most, if not all, of the big - name publishers played it safe at E3 by sticking to their franchises and annual outings.

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.

In a recent New Yorker piece on the US Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five publishers, five big tech companies were named as largely holding the fate of publishing in their hands: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

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

Getting signed by a big name publisher is the publishing dream of many writers, but what most people don't realise is that it's the opinion of your readers that really matters.

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.

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.

«Author Marketing Club comes as a boon to those who wish to be independent authors in the already overloaded tough world of literature, competing with big name publishers with deep pockets to promote their stable of established writers.

In any case, those who self - publish successfully are either those who have already made a name in the traditional field, or if they are one of the few who made it big from the start, eventually get signed up by traditional publishers anyhow.

What they mean is, «big name» authors, with well - known publishers stamped on the side of their novels; I am treated with disdain for just stepping into their store, as though I'm going to poison it with my presence.

But she also refuses to name the * kinds * of publishers who are interested in this - are they big NY companies, small pressses, Publish America, or what?

The Anne of Green Gables story of four rejections is the reason why so many of us do not bother with agents and so called big name publishers.

Many of their authors are picked up by big name publishers like Simon & Schuster or McCleland and Stewart.

Face it: Your book is competing with millions of other titles — many by Big Name authors from major publishers — for the attention, consideration, and purchasing dollars of your target reader.

The partnerships with the big publishers means that there are plenty of big name authors here including Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Walter Isaacson and Michael Crichton.

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.

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PubSmartCon, a writers» conference held in Charleston, SC, next month, has shifted the focus away from desperately seeking an agent or publisher and chosen to focus instead of building in time for authors to network, both with big names in the industry and with their fellow in - the - trenches writers to uncover their keys to success.

Her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door: the Path to a Better Way of Death, was named «One of the Ten Best Memoirs of 2013» and «A Big Book for Fall 2013» by Publishers Weekly, which gave it a starred review.

Think about those golden children of self - publishing who signed with the big name publishers and who have seemed to disappear into obscurity.

One final tip I'll leave with you today: study the bestsellers of your genre from the big name publishers.

So lovely to hear of an author who's had a great experience with traditional pubbing and a big - name publisher.

For those of you who don't know, the IDPF ePub format is an open standard eBook format that is fast being adopted by many big name publishers including Penguin UK and O'Reilly as well as projects such as Feedbooks.com.

Samhain has had some terrific success getting prequel and mid-series novellas from fairly big - name authors where the rest of the series is in print from a more, shall we say, traditional publisher.

Because, of course, only the big name publishers know what readers want.

Hi Everybody, Here's what looks to be an outstanding opportunity to get your unpublished manuscript in front of big - name publishers.

Some early estimates that have come out of the price fixing allegations between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers state that consumers overpaid for their ebooks by as much as a total of $ 250 million; all fifty states and the US commonwealths and territories are named in the class action suit to recover some of that overspending.

While bigger names from some of the bigger publishers often get some help in the PR department, authors generally have a lot of work to do in order to get their books in front of audiences.

Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big - name authors go indie.

Hachette has been the only large publisher to really say it will begin a massive effort to produce a number of big name titles in 2013.

After awhile some of the big name authors may shift to some of the independent publishers for better terms.

One of the biggest problems plaguing both readers and publishers — from the major household name to the individual self - published author — is discoverability.

One of our novels was traditionally published for a while, not with a big name publisher.

Yes, the company entered the mobile e-book business for IOS and Android devices, being backed up by some of the biggest publishers such as Shueish, Shogakukan and Kodansha, to name a few.

Sales for a small tier of mega-bestsellers like Patterson, King, Evanovich, Roberts, etc. skew toward brick & mortar print and away from ebooks and online because of the broad brick - and - mortar visibility you mention in airports, supermarkets, etc., and especially because of paid co-op placement in bookstores, which they benefit from disproportionately (Because publishers concentrate marketing spend disproportionately in their biggest - name tentpole authors).

It's hard explaining to people that publishers generally don't help with promotion unless you're already one of their big name authors.

I think that publishers will continue to try to restrict authors in new contracts as they attempt to hold on to talent, but it's only a matter of time before some of the big names abandon their publishers and go fully independent.

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The entire library system is finding that many big name publishers are steadfastly against the notion of customers getting digital content for free because they feel it devalues the books.

Also, and perhaps this will be harder to justify than the agency model that so many bookseller organizations and platforms have actually spoken in favor of, Penguin's CEO and Penguin USA's CEO David Shanks are both specifically named in the attempt to arm - twist the lone Big Six publisher who stayed out of the entire collusion, Random House.

Which, of course, is why the entire Establishment — Big Publishers, bookstores, agents, Big Name Authors, distributors, major periodicals (which benefit from publisher advertising), et al. — have aligned themselves loudly against Amazon.

The editor at Penguin Random House who asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of backlash from institutions in the literary world such as the Times and Amazon, termed this dilemma «the problem of continued consolidation,» referring to the increasingly common pattern of publishers relying on only a few big name books a year to achieve commercial success.

For me the key is in what do publishers offer and from some of the points raise in the debate, it's currently «being a big name».

Unfortunately the big name publishers like DC and Marvel aren't onboard with the concept of offering a user - friendly DRM - free option, but that's not really surprising.