This past week a client's
old publisher came to us with the idea of giving away one of her earlier novels as a promotion to sell her other older titles.
Not exact matches
Elinor Tatum,
publisher and editor - in - chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation's
oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I've heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won't
come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.
Gamers are conditioned to be a cynical bunch, especially when it
comes to big
publishers and console makers peeling off digital copies of
older games, but this year held strong value for PlayStation Plus subscribers, particularly those looking for new experiences.
Traditional publishing, at least the big
publishers (and their smaller group of
older medium - sized
publishers) have decided that the only way to
come out ahead in this is to make sure the
old way of doing things remains.
So, to summarize — we are traditional
publishers, by strict definition, and trad
publishers come in small, medium and big sizes, and some are young, and others are very
old.
I could argue until the cows
come home about whether traditional
publishers are
old, inefficient, and outmoded — get a bunch of authors together, and we talk about almost nothing else.
Louise Ross relied on her husband, James, a 31 - year -
old barrister, to
come to the rescue as Kindle, unlike traditional
publishers, offer no help in this department.
Valiant Entertainment is the second
coming of a
publisher that was, in its time, one of the real innovators in the comics industry, and the new kids (some of whom are actually the
old kids doing a second act) have shown they have a trick or two up their sleeve.
In preparing a book on Northern Arizona my traditional
publisher would not allow me to include a section on Route 66 which I have witnessed over and over how many people
come from all over the world to drive on Route 66, eat at the
old cafes and stay in the
old motels.
As they
come out of their hopeful chrysalis, legacy
publishers will spread their wings just enough to fly above the still - burning embers of the
old publishing world, while rising high enough to see a new horizon.
-
Publishers Weekly «The
Old West
comes alive in heart - wrenching, violent, and wicked racist color... Legal thriller and western fans will stay with it to the last page... Margolin's novel offers a compelling portrait of small town justice done right.»
Of course, that means the authors have to start insisting on very definite language on what «in print» and «out of print» means in their contracts — and you can bet the
publishers will kick and scream and thrown a tantrum a two year
old would envy when more and more authors start throwing contracts back at them and telling them to take a hike until they
come back with a more author - friendly contract.
But when it
comes to marketing and promoting, it seems we've taken one paradigm — the
old school «traditional
publisher buys your book,
publisher markets your book, you sink or swim on their efforts» — and are now insisting that everyone must follow the new paradigm — where we are all platform building, paradigm shifting, self publishing, networking machines.
And from what I've seen, most
publishers are just sticking to
old rules, which I think is going to
come back to bite them in the ass.
- Tom Spurgeon's «Sometimes They Make It Hard To Ignore Creators Issues» and «Twenty - One Not Exactly Original Notes On More Watchmen, Written At A Slight Remove» - Image Comics
publisher Eric Stephenson's «NO FUN» - Chris Mautner's «We've
come so far: On Before Watchmen and creators rights» - Rich Johnston's «The Ethics Of Before Watchmen» - Mindless Ones» ««The Second
Coming of Night Owl», and other stories...» - Tom Bondurant's «Grumpy
Old Fan Set your clocks back»
For those who haven't been keeping up with the long, kind of sad, story, Lohan initially indicated she was planning to sue the
publishers of GTA V back in 2013 when the game first
came out (yes, GTA V really is that
old).
Japanese
publisher Kemco has announced that its
old - school RPG Asdivine Hearts is
coming to the PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
When Persona 4
came out the PS3 had already been out for well over 18 months, but
publisher Atlus still decided to bring it to the
older PS2.
It's a solution worth thinking about for the
old economy players; and that means both firms and
publishers, because if Google don't do it, some startup will
come along and surprise everybody.