Sentences with phrase «of readers and authors»

Within the larger Goodreads community, you can join smaller groups of readers and authors who share similar interests.
I agree, but B&N surviving by selling more and more non-book items is not encouraging from a publishers point of view (or that of readers and authors).
At Smashwords, we go to great lengths to protect the personal privacy of our readers and our authors.
There are a lot of unanswered questions so far and, based on RH's history, I'm not convinced this is anything more than another way for them to try to line their own pockets at the expense of readers and authors.
We strongly encourage our friends of readers and authors to step forward and tell us what their bedtime reading will be.
Despite the impressive number of readers and authors previously mentioned, imagine the bigger scale of countless overseas audience waiting to explore the intricate history of Chinese literature.
is not in the best interests of your company or the broader publishing industry — let alone in the best interests of readers and authors.
David Young of Hachette Group made what was possibly the most profound statement of the piece by beginning his explanation with the importance of readers and authors to the industry.
Let us hope the true Indie authors do not get a bad rap because of one person who obviously was looking to make a buck at the expense of readers and the authors he / she stole from.
If you aren't a member of the Goodreads community of readers and authors, just sign up here.
It's a wonderful event, full of readers and authors and energy.
If I find three WTFs before I finish my 40 - minute walk, the clock stops, the book closes, and I go off to write up a report about what went wrong, for the benefit of both readers and authors alike.
Kindle forums seem to be a mix of readers and authors, quietly enjoying their books.
Through services that rise to the challenges inherent in quantitative system - scale studies, the journal aims to publish and facilitate research for our communities of readers and authors.
Amazon may not be the perfect company, probably because one does not exist, but they are on the side of the reader and authors and publishers will have to either agree to play by Amazon's rules or go somewhere else.
Once you've read it you may want to draw it to the attention of all your readers and author friends.
Of course, a lot of these blogs simply aren't that great; they end up petering out with the waning interest of its readers and author.

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The pay - per - page system actually makes a lot of sense because it provides for an objective way of assessing an e-book's value to its readers, and authors get payments accordingly.
Professor and author Dr. Barbara Oakley helps readers learn to retrain and reinvent themselves during a time of rapid technological change with her book, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential.
The answers are rarely so straightforward, a point the authors make abundantly clear as they walk readers through the logic and evolution of the modern day org.
Authors who post their ideas and sample pages to Inkshares» community of 100,000 readers, for instance, will be published if their ideas get 750 preorders from readers.
This exchange will mix up the authored content and subject matter on your blog to entice your readers to check out content by a well - known source, and your content on their blog will diversify your exposure and result in an influx of traffic.
«This is not to say that headhunters do not play a valuable role,» said Max Steuer, reader emeritus at the LSE Centre for Philosophy and one of the authors of the paper.
Because list post authors have already organized the key points of information for their readers, website visitors find this type of post less intimidating and more easily accessible than other content formats.
Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.
The aim of the series was for authors to honestly discuss business challenges they'd faced and offer actionable insights, which our readers would find useful for launching, running, or working at their own startups.
The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only, and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times.
A story with millions of your own adventure in it — looking for readers, writers, ghost writers, authors, editors, reporters, journalists, bloggers, influencers, entrepreneurs, sponsors like you who want to help by giving $ 1 or more and spreading this campaign and the story to the world.
But it seems to me that one of the problems with academic articles is that the reader doesn't get a chance to comment on the article, and the author doesn't get the chance to read readers» comments and respond to them.
Lastly, our good friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers know as the authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation with Demelza Kelso Hays and several other contributors.
They test ranking of author informativeness both directly via future stock returns and indirectly by level of reader interaction (comments).
This event is sponsored by Morningstar, John Wiley and Sons Publishers, The Reader, The University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Business Administration and Omaha Airport Hudson Booksellers and is an excellent opportunity to visit with several Buffett authors, newsletter editors, stock analysts, Berkshire managers and fellow shareholders.
It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.
He expected that his reader would in turn have enough imagination to conjure up a sense of an implied author, and he did everything he could to help him do so.
In Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the reader is to reflect along with the author on what purity of heart is, how to acquire absolute confidence in Divine providence, and what it means to follow Christ.
The author is trying to intimate that this is not true, and thus he is misleading, even deceiving his readers in the interest of good PR.
The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.
The issue seems rather to be whether the advantages of such moves outweigh their potential for creating confusion and for misleading not only readers but authors as well.
In her new book, For the Love, the author and speaker encourages readers to live out of grace, and to use grace to accept criticism and give correction in the context of loving community when needed.
Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.
Indeed, it can even be read as a mockery of the whole literary enterprise, pairing dull and uncomprehending readers who ploddingly manage to miss the obvious, with clever authors (both the fictional Vereker and the actual James) who feel compelled to play the trickster, taunting their readers with the hint that there is something — indeed, the whole point of it all — that they don't get.
Its authors, Norman Dennis and George Erdos (neither of them Catholic) quoted The Ecclesiastical History of England by the Venerable Bede to remind readers of an earlier time when society had been in an equally parlous state.
The special approach to the subject and the nature of the book itself combine to give it a less theoretical character than most of the author's work, and it has always appealed to American readers.
They allow the poem to be utterly serious when its author wants it to be (one can not imagine such playfulness being allowed in the climactic visions of Paradiso XXXIII), and they allow readers to think that Dante is at least as sane as they are.
If it no longer betrays «the freshness and vividness of original composition,» at least it bears the marks of the hard age in which it arose, reflects the circumscribed outlook of its author and first readers, and reveals most clearly the paucity of the materials at the author's disposal — especially for a presentation of Jesus» teaching.
It serves, moreover, to correct the impression sometimes gained by readers of certain of his other works — that the author is one of those who emphasize Pauline and Johannine theology at the expense of the teaching of the Jesus of the Synoptics.
But for now, lest it appear to some readers that we are in dialogue with a phantom scientific ideal rather than with one that is seriously held, let us recall the famous statement of F.H.C. Crick, the celebrated Nobel - prize winning molecular biologist and author of the book, Of Molecules and Meof F.H.C. Crick, the celebrated Nobel - prize winning molecular biologist and author of the book, Of Molecules and Meof the book, Of Molecules and MeOf Molecules and Men:
Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»
In this chapter the author prepares the reader to deal better with the rest of the book by carefully defining the concepts of «pluralism,» «understand,» «action,» and «practice.»
Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.
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