Sentences with phrase «only things the publisher»

The only thing a publisher has to offer at that point is a marketing machine, in exchange for a significantly reduced profit per sale on the part of the author.

When the contract does list the marketing services, they usually include only things the publisher (or its «marketing arm») can do in - house — and that the writer can do more cheaply for himself or herself — for example, press releases and posts for the author's and publisher's own social media channels.

Of course, that's not the only thing publishers are upset about.

Not exact matches

The stat shows not only how tough things are for publishers on Facebook, but also that things have gotten tougher — even before Facebook's latest news feed algorithm tweak takes effect.

Not only is Monville's story powerful and largely untold, it also hits a burgeoning market for book publishers, Kraybill said: the cross-section of evangelical spirituality and interest in all things Amish.

It's a shame that the only bad thing I have to say about the series is how it's being handled by its publisher.

Japanese publisher Capcom hasn't been doing as well as it did years ago due to a variety of reasons, but things seem to be improving not only for them but also for the industry as a whole.

The publisher's known to have a thing for announcing release dates, only to change them again and again.

The publisher's known to have a thing for announcing release dates, only to change...

My publisher did sort of the same thing for me, only backwards.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

Not only will the book be available in twenty minutes or less (simply upload it to Amazon Kindle Direct or a number of others), but you'll have full creative control and no silly publishers to tell you a damn thing!

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.

Publishers have only been doing the whole e-book thing with libraries since around, some of them as late as last year.

NEARY: And one other thing that publishers might sit up and take notice of, says Jamie LeRue: With a digital platform in place, libraries can not only distribute e-books: they can publish them.

And, as I've already quoted from the FAQ — which was, like the rest of the site, developed with input from publishers — sales figures are not the only thing that matters to publishers who are looking at self - pubbed books to consider for acquisition.

Successful Query Letters — The only thing stopping you from getting a top literary agent (and book deal with a major publisher) might not be your book — it could be your query letter.

The second thing you need to do is take the What Type of Self - Publisher are You test at http://www.selfpublishing.com/type/quiz/. The test only takes a few minutes to take.

If you use some embedded font only for headings and similar things but you don't set default font family in body tag CSS (font - family: serif;) then when you turn on «Publisher font» all the paragraphs that are not using your embedded font are displayed as sans - serif, using Helvetica font.

Many are afraid to say anything about the bad behavior of these self - publishers because the immature have a tendency to strike back irrationally, taking things out of context, being rude, and try to apply everything they say against all self - publishers even though they are clearly only speaking about some, and the others blindly support them because they band together as one homogeneous group without realizing it is these bad apples who are destroying the reputation of the rest.

The only thing the publishing industry can do to harm Amazon is not to sell their titles there, and even then, unless they are colluding illegally to withdraw their products from Amazon all at the same time, that action is more likely to harm the publisher than Amazon.

It's basically your biography, but it should only include things that are relevant to your writing... things that will prove to literary agencies and publishers that you are the logical person to write a book like yours.

The only thing a settlement with the Justice Department will do will prevent the publishers from dictating an ebooks retail price.

«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.

Or do people only buy [x] type of novel therefore publishers make it the only thing available?

Not only that, but the self - publishing world arguably demands more of writers than any traditional publisher, requiring them to become their own editors, marketers and agents, among other things.

But I wanted to write this article to show that it isn't always this personal thing against self - publishers, generally it is a matter of volume control and unfortunately there isn't many ways to curb that besides not accepting requests (a blogger might try to set limits to say books with only a four star or above rating, etc, but often I find many bloggers experience authors and companies ignoring those guidelines so more drastic measures are taken).

Of course it would be best to use a few reviews, and many traditional publishers sometimes use only reviews — because people trust them more, and you can use the right reviews to say things about your book that you couldn't say yourself.

From the sounds of it, traditional publishers are realizing they will have to adapt to keep up — which can only be a good thing for the entire industry.

Like many new writers, I was convinced my first book was «The Next Big Thing», and only a huge deal with a big traditional publisher would do.

Hopefully, the worst thing to come from this data collection would be a stab at the artistry of writing, where publishers only take on projects that meet the guidelines of the latest reports on digital reading or where authors feel pressured to adapt their plots lines and characters to the latest figures on what readers want.

If you look at other publishing sites like ours, they all have payways, publishers lunch, the book seller, digital book world, they all have subscriber only content, our news site, will ALWAYS BE FREE, but launching new things gets more attention on us, as long as we do new stuff and do nt step on any toes.

As things stand... you're effectually saying that all these folks suggesting grammar corrections = self - publishers, who don't know quality — but that means self - publishers are the only ones who know or care enough about correct grammar to comment, which means that self - publishers are the ones who know correct grammar.

For one thing, these authors and small publishers receive only the read - through rates of KU per page, and not the full selling price.

Fake Traffic and Programmatic Advertising — One thing I noted last week in Popping the Publishing Bubble is that the lack of alignment between advertisers and publishers doesn't only hurt the latter; the former often pay for impressions that never, well, impress.

The only thing completely new is coming from Indies, unless you count the short stories and novellas publishers are having authors like Veronica Roth, Veronica Rossi, and Kierra Cass write.

Let's also note that Western comics are a much more competitive space — while Manga is primarily dominated by a single publisher (Viz, with over two - thirds of the titles placing), and only eight manga publishers placing any titles in the Top 750, I count fifty - four imprints, representing thirty - nine distinct publishers, on the Western side of things, which strikes me as a very good thing.

And the sales forces of most publishers took over the control of what was bought, only letting in clones of the very same thing that had sold before.

About the only thing we seem to disagree on is whether that means publishers should thus be allowed to set prices on their ebooks.

In brick - and - mortar bookstore days, the only thing a bookseller, author or publisher could really know about a book was how many copies it sold.

This myth comes from traditional publishers because, in this modern world, it's about the only thing they can shout to the skies long enough for beginning writers to believe.

This only makes sense since book publishers must use their diminishing budgets on «sure things» rather than taking a risk on an unknown author.

Only things are much, much tighter and hard to get into traditional publishing now as traditional publishers go through all this flux and upheaval.

Agents base their acceptance or rejection of a book on only one thing: whether they are able to sell it to a publisher and not necessarily if the writing is good or not.

For one thing, there's only one traditional publisher I'd ever allow to have a book of mine.

This «People's champion vs Publisher's champion» thing is ridiculous, and it's only reinforcing my belief that you think you're smarter than you really are.

Well, I only got a couple of personalized rejections from agents — although one of them did so with regret, saying that my book (he had read the whole thing and loved it) just wasn't «marketable» to the publishers he knew in New York.

Heck, I would like to traditionally publish — but only with one publisher and that publisher isn't actually all that «traditional» when you look at the greater scheme of things.

On Tuesday, I read an interview with «applied futurist» Tom Cheesewright, who contends that e-book sales statistics «are completely wrong — they only take account of established publishers, so it's measuring the wrong thing.

The only thing that has saved the publishers from being accused of that is the fact that retailers have always had the right to sell paper books at a discount if they wish.