Sentences with phrase «offered by the larger publishers»

Not exact matches

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.

If you're overwhelmed with the conflicting and often suspect information offered online by large companies catering to the «hobbyist» publisher, rest easy.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's reading content, is working to bridge the end of one school year with the beginning of another by offering free reading apps and digital learning games aimed at providing an incentive for students to self - teach during their vacations.

This should tell publishers that there might be some potential in developing their own e-reading apps, especially if they were able to offer incentives for in - app purchasing, but by and large, that would require readers to not only know the title and possibly author of the book they want to purchase, but even to know the publisher in order to search in the correct app.

These contracts were usually offered on a «take - it - or - leave - it» basis by larger entities who, recognizing their unequal baragining position, offered non-negotiable contracts (the very nature of a contract is that it should represent the negotiations of the parties) that sought to force their unreasonable terms on naive authors and novice publishers, so eager to be published and distributed that they skimmed by the small print.

Carlton says, publishers now are «mining» ebook bestsellers for break - out authors that got discovered by readers and are offering them «the chance to «sell - out» for a large audience.»

Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.

This whole sorry situation is one of the reasons why independent, direct - to - the - reader distribution that's made possible by the internet has appealed so strongly to self - publishers and book readers who are looking for more than what's offered to the largest possible audience.

Nonfiction e-books are offered by 33 % and are thereby the largest group, but publishers only offer an average of 35 titles.

Many of the large publishing houses, Hachette included are still selective in the releases they are offering library, and there is some controversy over offering eBooks to libraries by all publishers.

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

The services offered by any large traditional publisher or self - publishing vendor don't work.

Publishers love them because of the larger install bases offered by the older consoles, but it can be a risky move early in the life cycle of a console when developing a unique identity is important.

«Our goal is to be the platform that embraces both ends of the spectrum; our role should be to offer a creative palette that's equally as engaging to a team of seven people who are just emerging with their first console game as it is to a team of many hundreds backed by a large publisher, working on the latest instalment of a high - end blockbuster.

Located on the mezzanine, the bookstore offers MNBAQ publications, a large selection of books by Quebec publishers, galleries, exhibition centers and major events in contemporary art in Quebec.

It also provides a large collection of the Publishers» works and these two elements are offered by the Law Society in a single environment.