Sentences with phrase «only by the larger publishers»

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If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

There's an insane amount of competition for consumers» attention, and only the luckiest, most heavily promoted, and best ebooks will sell in large quantities (by large quantities I mean in the hundreds or thousands; again a reason why publishers, in my view, should not be spending a lot of money creating and distributing ebooks if they expect a return on investment on most of their books).

Thus far, in relation to content published by large - scale publishers, DRM - free files of this content have mostly only been available directly from a few publishers and not at large online stores that sell content by multiple publishers.

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.

In short, the only clients that agents (who, contrary to popular belief, do not, by - in - large work for authors, but are little more than slush filters that publishers generously allow authors the luxury of paying for) can look forward to having, and being eager for publishers to exploit in the traditional way... are losers.

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.

On the other hand, most best - selling books by large publishers do have DRM attached, and you can only read them on the family of devices you bought them for: so e-books bought from Amazon will work on any Kindle (or Kindle 2, 3, or 10), and B&N e-books will work on the Nook.

But if you don't, commercial publishers not only don't get in the way of your dialogue with your audience, they enhance that dialogue by ensuring that your books get greater visibility, thus making it possible for a larger audience to exist.

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

POD technology is heavily used by not only self - publishers, but by large publishers for printing backlist titles, and new academic and professional titles with small markets.

No doubt there is a place for ebooks by professional publishers but only as a part of their larger delivery strategies.

At the time I started publishing, any information about the sector was either tightly held by management at the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger ones.

We even have situations where the largest legal publishers sponsor and promote «legal marketing» programs put on by recent law grads whose only claim to fame is that they have not been able to get a job and that they have been able to game Twitter with software so as to generate untold thousands of Twitter followers — like that is any measure that you have a clue on to advise law firms how to use the Internet to build and nurture relationships.

«AOL is building toward becoming the world's largest mobile technology company, and through solutions like ONE by AOL: Publishers, we are helping to grow the revenue pie, not only for AOL, but also for the 75,000 publisher partners that we work with,» AOL spokesperson Gerasimos Manolatos told the E-Commerce...