Sentences with phrase «other big publishers do»

Not exact matches

Even if publishers do widely embrace EPUB 3's accessibility features, another big unknown is whether e-readers and other devices will support them.

The reason for this is that if Harlequin actually pulls off doing this imprint of theirs, it's highly likely that other big NY - based publishers will follow suit.

I just incorporated a company to do other business... can I publish using this umbrella name or should I create a new company under the bigger company to become a publisher or Press... thank you so much again

Other big - six publishers also have restrictions on e-book library lending, or do not make e-books available at all.

I do talk to the CEO's of the biggest publishers but I can assure you that when we happen to see each other at charity functions or industry functions the people who run publishing companies don't sit around taking about how long their company takes to revert rights to authors.

It's too bad that the recent meeting between the leaders of the American Library Association and top executives of Penguin Books as well as other Big 6 publishers did not «help» Penguin to reach a conclusion more favorable to libraries than this complete withdrawal.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

But here's the other side of the argument: most Big Five publishers, after your book has been out three months, they're done with you.

But if you can't find an agent to represent you, or if your book isn't appropriate for the Big Five, you'll quickly run into the following quandary: How do you evaluate the merits or ability of a small publisher without an agent or other publishing professional to guide you?

It's about what publishers do or don't do in marketing and also has some links within it to other specific Jane Friedman posts of a very helpful sort if you're trying to figure out how to make books sell, whether big press, small press or self published.

I wonder how long before the other big publishers start doing the same thing.

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 reason a self - published author would accept an offer from a big 6 or other publisher is because, no matter how well you're doing as a self - published author, your distribution will be limited.

I think the biggest thing to come out of the SDCC was all of the digital content; JManga will be releasing cancelled series from TPop and other publishers (does this mean I can finally read Moyashimon???) which is a huge boon.

«It does mean that it won't be open this Christmas, which might marginally affect Bloomsbury and the other publishers of Harry Potter worldwide, as maybe people will be talking about the brand slightly less and therefore buying fewer physical editions — but honestly, Potter is such a big brand, it is never far from readers» minds.

There is already speculation that other Big Six publishers like HarperCollins, who owns Autonomy, will be making similar moves into broader markets, affording authors who don't have the opportunity to publish via the very limited constraints of the traditional markets in their countries the opportunities that self - published authors in other regions have already been enjoying.

Other than these same publishers wanting that one big blockbuster a year or so, I really do wonder if they don't want to move away from genre fiction.

The point I was making... is that people developing the chops to do this will find it sensible to do it for other authors, and that indie authors will find lots of help from places other than the big publishers... A one - to - one relationship between an author and a publishing machine is inherently inefficient.

I think it is early days from which to draw any broad conclusions, but it seems inevitable to me that the big publishers» power is reduced as the parts that nobody else can do (putting books on shelves) become less important compared to the parts that others with much less scale can do (delivering ebooks to the marketplace).

What traditional publishers are doing is relying upon those handful of big name authors entirely as their publishing model, forgetting that the majority of their «other» sales are what makes them the money.

Coming at it from the other end if the Big Publishers are so outraged at Amazon's pricing and the way it effects small book stores (which they keep trumpeting in the press) why do they keep giving Amazon the best discounts?

Piracy doesn't seem to have become nearly so big a problem for book authors and publishers as it has been in other industries.

There are other writers I enjoy reading who are also not on Twitter, which seems like a career - damning thing to do, although most of them are established writers with high level platforms in the form of big name publishers or national magazines and papers.

Besides, this whole story ignores the fact that if Amazon is such a bad company why doesn't Hachette and the other big old fashion publishers sell their books somewhere else and pull all their products from Amazon?

First, do you see the goal of Hachette and other big publishers to keep the price of e-books high; I've never seen the logic in pricing e-books higher than regular paperbacks, which they are largely replacing.

I don't believe big publishing houses have any need for self - publishers other than to sponge money by selling them false prestige.

I've heard from quite a few creators and retailers that juggling numbers on major releases from the Big Two doesn't leave a lot of time / money to support other publishers, and what is there tends to go to recognizable brands with media pull.

Why did he team up with a Big 5 publisher and other publishers in other countries to have print editions of his work which are more expensive than the e-books?

And the good Laura Hazard Owen in Big - 5 publisher Macmillan makes many more ebooks available to libraries at GigaOM did us the favor of a quick wrap on where the other major US publishers now stand on library ebook lending:

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

Nor, do I suspect, they know a self - publisher from a traditional publisher (other than the big names).

Random House was not included in the DOJ's original lawsuit, because it adopted agency pricing over a year after after the other big - six publishers did.

It remains to be seen whether other big - six publishers that don't allow library lending of any e-books at all but do offer unrestricted audiobook downloads — Hachette, for instance — will follow Penguin's lead.

I think we can safely say the big publishers» parent companies make lots of money from other stuff, just like Amazon does,

The publisher will be using these types of «multi-faceted mini-games» with other upcoming titles as well; Saints Row 3, to be revealed in December, will have «the biggest trans - media play anyone has ever done,» Bilson teases.

To some in that still - big world of other publisher - run studios, that might sound like lunacy, but having someone tell Rockstar North what to do would likely be, says Semple, «the biggest risk of all.»

Unlike other publishers, Nintendo doesn't always release the official soundtrack album for their games, and generally, only the biggest of releases get one (often via Club Nintendo only).

Furthermore, the global nature of these games means that it doesn't matter where the cheating is taking place, as it has the potential to negatively impact other gamers around the world, and this sets a big challenge for game publishers.

I honestly don't care myself, Nintendo is so unique, I would rather they stay the way they are than sway to big third party publishers and game developers to try to conform to the other two consoles.

I really hope other players «get» these games as much as I do, because sometimes it seems like lots of people are only interested in big budget publishers

Other big - six publishers also have restrictions on e-book library lending, or do not make e-books available at all.

Bethesda games regularly get excused for their bugs, as do games from Ubisoft, EA, and other big publishers.