Sentences with phrase «over traditional authors»

Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.

Authors: Hire An Agent's «Agent» to Sell Your Book Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.

And indie authors continued to rise marginally over traditional author sales, but it had slowed way down from the heyday in 2009 - 2014.

Indie authors continued to rise marginally over traditional author sales, but it had slowed way down from the heyday in 2009 - 2014.

Not exact matches

«Today, the percentage of «traditional families» in the U.S. has slipped from more than 45 % in 1975, to just over 20 %,» the authors say.

The author discuses the benefits of growth hacking and provides some examples to help you understand the power it has over traditional marketing.

However, he points out that the authors don't actually test whether social factors or more traditional resource limits keep predator numbers stable over time.

The study's authors say that achieving sustainability requires that wealth — including the value of natural capital, human capital, as well more traditional contributors to wealth — not decline over time.

«Metalenses have advantages over traditional lenses,» says Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at SEAS and senior author of the research.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

The author concludes that although the advantages gained and maintained during years of participation in activity - based science programs is not sustained in years following, the more activity - based approaches result in gains over traditional methods in a range of outcomes.

This new study looked at an introductory biology class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that averaged nearly 400 students and was taught by one of the authors over six semesters — three in a traditional lecture format and three through active learning.

An author fortunate enough to have a book acquired and published by a large traditional publisher will usually be required to sign an agreement that gives the publisher final say over a wide variety of issues include title, format, cover design, word count, price, release date, marketing, sales, distribution, etc..

A key thing I learned in traditional publishing: the second any author thought they «had it made» their career was over.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

I agree that traditional publishers have stifled creativity and passed over too many excellent authors for the sake of the bottom line.

Authors carve the creative control over their work, and they've come to realize that self - publishing affords them an almost equal chance for income potential as a traditional publishing deal, as evidenced largely by the fact that 24.8 % of those who responded said they'd published through a traditional publisher who offered a royalty split, but who did not pay them an advance.

I can name over ten authors alone without Google who started seeking traditional publishers.

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.

The traditional industry is fighting with all its might and enlisting the help of entities that once had authors» interests at heart (note the placement of the apostrophe on the plural form of «author»), but who now cater to the powers that are still trying to hold court over the industry.

I am both published through several «traditional» publishing houses as well as the author over over 30 self - published titles.

No longer are talented and qualified authors at the «mercy» of traditional publishers to be passed over and shunned by an editor who is looking for a safe bet or the «old tried and true».

As a traditional and mainly self - published author whose books have sold over 850,000 copies worldwide, I think that I know a little bit of what it takes to be a success as a writer.

In a Digital Book World 2014 full report, titled What Advantages Do Traditional Publishers Offer Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - Traditional Publishers Offer Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publAuthors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publauthors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - traditional publishing vs. self - publishing?

This is when I seriously started looking into self - publishing, because the only things that I could see making a difference and helping an author find a reader base — are things a traditional author will have no control over.

-- 59.4 per cent of self - publishing authors do so to have creative and financial control over their work, followed by just over one - third who were unable to interest a traditional publisher in their work.

Authors skilled in multimedia have an advantage over those who release only in traditional print form.

There may be a reduction in titles, but I think over time when you see things level out, you'll see more opportunity for authors to get into the market, even through traditional publishers.

Ben Cameron is the founder of Cameron Publicity and Marketing and has over 20 years» experience in book publicity, marketing, publishing and sales with both traditional publishers and self - published authors.

If you're a beginning author, you may be surprised to know that if you get picked up by a traditional publisher, you'll still have to do most of your own marketing after the publisher's initial promotional push (bookstores, etc.) is over.

Over the same ten - year period of the traditional publishing contract, the indie sales would get the author $ 36,500.00.

When that's not available, what is the likelihood of that debut author or midlister walking away from a traditional book deal over eRoyalties when the current percentage of sales done electronically is not even 1 % of the total book sales overall?

These companies thrive by working with authors not willing to wait for traditional publication, or wanting more control over their book, or just wanting to get a family story in print.

Unlike that traditional model, where a large publishing house generally has to apply an infallible, top - down policy over, say, whether or not to use full stops to punctuate abbreviations, I can create the style DNA of a book as more of a consultation, informed by the author's preferences.

It is hard to believe that tighter controls on uploaded material can not be put into place, but with the sheer volume of books being published in e-reader format, often by the authors themselves who have opted to break away from the traditional publishing model in order to have more control over their work, e-book piracy may only get worse.

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

A bold, new phenomenon has taken place in publishing, arguably started by the indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new content.

Verdict: 4 Stars A bold, new phenomenon has taken place in publishing, arguably started by the indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new... [Read more...]

Because after all the layers and players of the traditional publishing process get paid — editors, printers, warehouses, distributors, etc. — there is usually little left over to pay author royalties.

2) Expect to have differences of opinion regarding cover art — With traditional publishing, it's one of the main things authors have the least control over.

She has complete faith in the traditional book publishing companies over here as they offer various exclusive services such as offset printing services, valuable and up - to - date information in the favor of the book authors and also allows them to have a creative control on various aspects of publishing and promoting their books.

Additionally, there may be authors who begin in either self or traditional publishing, but cross over permanently to the other model.

As for there not being a wide selection of children's lit for ebooks he needs to quit looking at over priced traditional publishers and toward the enormous number of self - publishing authors who are bypassing the gatekeepers and publishing youth orientated literate by the bit loads every month now.

I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.

Authors who have taken a dive into hybrid publishing were able to keep more of their money (little to no fees paid to a third - party vs traditional publishing fees), have more control over the publishing process, and had more time to devote to writing.

Additionally, Unbound functions as a traditional publisher once the crowdfunding phase is over — having marketing and editorial support from experienced industry professionals is a huge advantage as a debut author.

Traditional publishers are deluding themselves if they think they hold the whip - hand over authors.

While the avenues for publishing your book have expanded exponentially in the last decade, a lot of aspiring and previously published authors still find that traditional publishing is a goal of theirs and addresses their needs over self - publishing or hybrid publishing.

«We have over 200,000 publishers as clients, and we work with traditional publishers, small publishers, and self - published authors.