Sentences with phrase «only big publishers»

We could be looking at a very different mobile market within China in just a few years from now, one where only big publishers are successful and there is no indie developers.

Only the biggest publishers have the clout to overcome the marketplace power of Apple and Amazon to dictate how the sales structure will work.

The only big publisher with a constant presence here is Planeta.»

Penguin was the only big publisher that did not take part in the proposal.

Only the biggest publishers are on Agency.

Sony isn't the only big publisher to bet on new properties recently.

Not exact matches

Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

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.

In the Netherlands, for example, Elsevier — the world's biggest academic publisher — has agreed to make only 30 % of Dutch - authored papers freely available by 2018, and only after a significant increase in the annual sum libraries pay.

It's so big that (possibly apocryphal) stories have popped up about the government forcing publisher Square Enix to only release new games in the series on Saturdays, to avoid obsessed gamers skipping out on school and work to stand in line at a store.

Truth to be told, Bethesda is possibly the only big third - party publisher to focus almost exclusively on single player games these days.

Project CARS was scheduled to release last year during the holiday season among a bevy of bigger titles from large publishers before Slightly Mad Studios and Bandai Namco decided to delay not only the Wii U version, but the other console versions as well.

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

Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.

The agents can't find new publishers with (in their belief system) only the big five left.

As for big authors staying with big publishers, I am confident they are not only laid well, but get a far better deal than any of us will ever see.

``... Much of what was covered at Publishers Launch BEA... centered on whether or not size will really matter and what the behemoths of the industry, which only seem to be getting bigger, mean for everyone else.»

Seeing acceptance by a legacy publisher as my only legitimate path to reality, I spent years languishing, working to improve my craft, waiting for my «turn,» my big break, for a bolt of literary lightning to come down from the heavens and strike me.

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.

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Last year, self - published e-books accounted for over 31 % of Amazon's Kindle Store sales, whereas Big Five traditional publishers accounted for only 16 % of sales according to an recent Author Earnings report.

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.

It's only my second novel, I'm still a newbie, but here's the question: what are the biggest reasons for seeking an agent and / or traditional publisher?

But of course, since traditional publishers only pay attention to their big blockbuster writers and leave newbies to do their own marketing, one might as well go ahead on one's own and reap the (70 % royalty) benefits instead of the standard 8 % on nothing once «costs» have been paid...

Random House is the only big - six publisher that makes all of its e-books available to libraries, but it sharply increased its prices in March.

And the agents, editors and PR reps hired by these big publishers are only looking out for themselves.

The New York - based publishing house, whose roots date back to 1817, was the only one of the Big Five publishers to offer some of its backlist titles — and perhaps more importantly, some of its prestige — to these startups at launch, helping to kickstart the fledging Netflix - like e-book subscription market.

Yet one only need to point to Snooki and other celebrities to see that objective validation from a big publisher is about how much money can be made, not the quality of the writing.

As I've said many of the bigger publishers and other smaller digital publishers have totally different models for digital only lines that pay more to the authors.

Owen also pointed out that HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher that has signed on with Scribd, «just as HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher making its books available to Oyster or to another recently launched ebook subscription service, eReatah.»

When you are your own mini publisher, you only have yourself to blame if it doesn't go right - but you don't have that with a big publisher.»

If these big publishers were only publishing one book (or even only one hundred books) per month, they sure couldn't afford the big buildings.

With only one of the «Big 5» publishers currently signed on to both Scribd and Oyster, book availability seems like one area that libraries lead on, at least for now.

While only partially relate - able to Hugh's post, I'd like to briefly recount a recent experience with one of the Big 5 publishers * coughHatchettecough *.

An offer from a large publisher, such as one of the Big 5 publishers, can also start at no advance (most often for digital - only imprints) but range as high as the $ 65 million the Obamas just received for their two books.

In terms of what his analysis offers to the industry — «I'm trying to solve the [same] problem the Big Five is trying to solve,» he said from the stage — Data Guy focused, in part, on an interpretation of debut - author unit sales, with 22 percent of them in 2014 coming from Big Five publishers, 11 percent in 2015 coming from Big Fives, and only 9 percent coming from Big Fives in the first quarterly report of 2016.

On February 2, Random House, the only one of the «Big 6» publishers to provide ebooks to libraries without restrictions, made an announcement that they would continue their generous policy, but that there would be a price hike to deal with some of the issues surrounding permanent access to ebooks.

Maybe you could blog about the changes to our eco-system since the high point in 2011 when self - published authors could suddenly find deals with big publishers like Amanda Hocking... If only I'd read this article in the UK Guardian in 2012, I might never have self - published at all, here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/24/self-published-author-earnings

People are beginning to notice that big publishers are not really all that interested in authors or readers; they are interested in consolidating control of distribution channels so that the only participants in culture are creators who work for little or nothing and consumers who can only play if they can pay.

If an agent isn't seeing what you are seeing or there is genuinely a place in the market, just not big enough to profit a Traditional Publisher, then Self Publishing sounds like perhaps the only option — best of luck

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.

«After only a month KDP Select has dramatically changed things — finally indie publishers are playing as equals with the big publishing houses in the world's biggest eBook marketplace,» said Serhiy Grabarchuk, Co-Founder of the Grabarchuk Puzzles company.

It would only take one of the big six publishers selling the ebooks through their own website to change the landscape of the industry.

I think one of the big reasons why digital has not cannibalized print is that there are only two major publishers; DC and Marvel.

Baen Books is the only close to big publisher who I know is doing it right: all e-books are sold at a maximum price of $ 6.00, the author gets more dollars out of that price than he does out of the hard copy sales, and there's no DRM locking the text down and keeping the user from moving what he has purchased to whatever platform he wants to put it on.

A lot of self - published authors have been rising in the bestsellers ranks and making a point to the Big Six publishers that they aren't the only way to go in the publishing world.

These points are valid enough, but honestly, when it comes to promotion, most traditional large publishers focus their time only on a handful of books that they think will go big (or have started that way and will go bigger).

I'm sure we'll also see publishers experimenting with more electronic only titles in an effort to get some titles out more quickly, expand the kinds of books they can acquire, and to give their biggest authors an alternative to self - publishing.

The other big publishers have been less than generous: HarperCollins» e-books «expire» after 26 uses, Hachette and Macmillan only make part of their list available, and others like Penguin and Simon & Schuster don't allow library lending at all.

The only publishers that have a clear demonstrated advantage over self - publishing (resources, marketing, sales) are the bigger ones.