Sentences with phrase «owned by a big publisher»

Then, Sundberg derided developers who sell out to major publishers too quickly, before they've given their properties time to mature: «American developers tend to sell their companies way too early, and then they whine about not getting enough money when their projects become successful after a couple of years of being owned by a big publisher and not really being in control.»

Unfortunately, a lot of studios are owned by these big publishers and they take their stear from them while Larian are free of that influence.

Not exact matches

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thPublishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (thpublishers themselves (the nerve!).

These big publishers are owned by giant companies with interests that are much greater than making money in publishing.

Because the five biggest book publishers are all owned by companies that have either newspapers or television networks within their group.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

Kristen: Authors published by a Big Five publisher are often responsible for much of their own marketing and publicity, and chances are slim that their novel will be the one that takes off and veritably markets itself.

While it's owned by Penguin Group, a traditional publisher and one of the «Big Five,» Book Country is truly an independent entity that helps authors looking for traditional paths to publish their work, as well as indie authors.

These so - called statistics — big data — can be seen in real - time by the publisher within their own dashboard.

«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).

I wonder what could happen if the Big Five publishers of the Anglo - Saxon world banded together like this to form an Alliance to defy Amazon, produce their own eReaders, develop their own software, and build up a robust ecosystem, to directly compete with Amazon, whom they so loathe yet can't live without... Off course the devices, software, and ecosystem would have to be absolutely top notch to make people actually consider leaving Amazon (the Big Five might want to capitalise on AudioBooks by making eReaders that allow you to plug in a headphone).

But many major traditional publishers will remain, all owned by what will become the big four in short order, maybe down to the big three.

But now they've also moved into direct competition with the big publishers by opening «Amazon Publishing,» with its own genre imprints, such as Thomas & Mercer for mysteries and thrillers.

If they move quickly, they can build up their own ecosystem (jointly owned by the Big 5 Publishers), their own eReader base, their own customers.

A good number of vanity publishers are now owned by big publishing houses.

By finding readers, they are creating their own markets, and big publishers are beginning to notice.

Amazon certainly seems to be trying to corner the publishing market by creating their own publishing firms and then offering higher advances than the Big 6/5 can, drawing authors away from the big publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then whBig 6/5 can, drawing authors away from the big publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then whbig publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then what?

And now big publishers are being crowded out of the bestseller lists by independent authors, and are being forced to lower their own big - name titles to $ 5 just to compete with indie authors at $ 1 and $ 3.

Publishers, writers and editors have criticized Amazon, by far the country's biggest bookseller, for everything from setting e-book prices too low to publishing their own books and competing with its suppliers.

But since Amazon has been effective in trying to control price to stomp out book - selling competitors, and since it uses its still considerable leverage to extract a bigger cut of sales by doing things like freezing publisher book sales in negotiations, some publishers are renewing and expanding direct mail sales but with e-books as an experiment, just as Amazon is experimenting — for the third time in its history — with publishing books with their own imprint, as well as selling them.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

The bigger problem these days is that by the time you're selling on your own, a traditional publisher might not make any sense!

MI: True — but at the same time, the Big Six publishers are also owned by what in many cases are large international media conglomerates, and I don't believe that their interests ultimately have anything to do with creating a more competitive bookselling marketplace, or a world that is ultimately better for book buyers and readers — or authors, for that matter.

Similarly, the agency - pricing control afforded by the new contracts Big - Five publishers Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have signed with Amazon.com now allows them set their own final retail prices for many ebooks.

but the ebook market is still tiny, so any discounts would be dependent on the relative power of the companies selling physical books — and indeed other things since the big six publishers are owned by multinational parent companies who sell lots of other things via these stores.

Because I fear new writers may be duped into staying away from all these legitimate mid-sized, smaller and digital - first publishers and steered toward the subsidy or vanity presses now owned by the Big Five, thinking anything with a Big Five label is somehow more «traditional» or «legitimate».

This figures gleaned from the latest data crawl, covering the quarter to May, show that self - published ebooks and ebooks from small and medium publishers have captured sales lost by the Big 5 and Amazon's own imprints compared with the previous quarter's survey.

He added that although Ninja Theory has developed its own titles before, such as Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, it was becoming harder convince publishers to provide backing, particularly given the success experienced by established IPs in the modern industry, and the increased risks involved in developing big - budget titles.