Sentences with phrase «paid copy edit»

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Here's what Facebook tried to get away with in 2009 (a public backlash forced it to tone down the language): «You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.»

«If they go for online only, the costs for web hosting, copy - editing, and advertising (if needed) can be easily paid out of membership fees.»

The arrangement is also potentially a lot more expensive for authors, e.g. Archway offers Simon & Schuster copy editing for $ 4000 beyond what you have already paid (for that price I did it myself for The Russian Embassy Party).

If you're not in a position to pay for editing or cover design right now, I'd suggest taking on some paid writing work (which almost certainly means writing non-fiction — e.g. articles, blog posts, sales copy, editing / proof - reading for local businesses).

If you'd be happy to simply print a dozen copies of your novel to give to friends and family, then paying for editing or cover design is probably overkill.

Also, I am not full - time editing and marketing for K. W. My freelance copy editing and copywriting business is growing, and attention must be paid to those clients, too.

The publisher pays for all production costs, including editing, cover design, printing paper copies, warehousing, distribution, and sales calls to bookstore chains.

As an indie author, it's significantly cheaper to pay for copy - editing of a shorter novel, and the production costs of printing the final books are also more affordable.

That means you have to pay for cover art, editing, proofing, formatting, print copies, reviews from Kirkus and PW, on and on...

I guess my concern is that there are already too many writers out there paying for editorial services and not getting what they are promised because the «editor» isn't editing but proofreading or, at best, copy editing.

Everything else embedded in the cover price is cost of acquisition (ie, paying the author), editing costs, preproduction costs (copy editing, layout, art direction, etc.).

If you haven't paid for professional copy editing of your sales pitch, back cover copy, book info on Amazon, etc, you should.

If money is a challenge — at least get your book edited; have a professional cover designer create your cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space — at least you've get the visuals of a solid book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).

Whereas editing is usually a paid task, you can ask for volunteer beta readers in exchange for a free copy of your manuscript.

Out of that gross revenue, the publisher pays about 50 cents to convert the text to a digital file, typeset it in digital form and copy - edit it.

For cover design, typesetting and copy - editing, the publisher pays about80 cents.

You'll pay a bit more if you need development as well as copy editing.

You are one short step from succumbing to the vice of copy editing, a thankless job, poorly paid, and earning the practitioner no respect whatsoever.

CreateSpace, for example, doesn't charge upfront fees, but you'll pay if you want additional services like copy editing and design layout.

I pay about $ 1,200 for a copy edit on a 100,000 - word novel, which my editor typically turns around in five days or so.

That fee happens to cover the same design, copy - editing and printing services I ultimately wound up paying much more for on my own.

Don't pay your so - called publisher for copy - edits or cover design.

I paid for the ISBN, barcode, proof copy, family / friends editing (for cheap), and a couple Facebook ads (for the first book).

If I sell 600 copies then I've paid for the above copy - edit and could sink that $ 200 into a better cover or maybe wait if the book is going to be in a series and redo books 1 and 2 when I get to 3 or some such.

Skipping a good copy edit is hard to accept but paying twice what my outside estimate of a book will sell in the next 52 weeks is a pretty hard thing to swallow.

To get a high quality self - published book, you should pay for general editing, structural editing, line editing, cover design, a barcode, and ISBN number, proof copies — all out of your own pocket.

Why would anyone spend months writing a book, researching a story, paying hundreds — editing costs around US$ 1,000 for a standard sized book, cover design — a couple hundred, reviewing it, proofing it, sending out free copies — at your expense — to key reviewers — in the hopes that they -LSB-...]

My goal with this post was to convey that indie is such a different animal than traditional, that one should NOT view it as a fallback unless ALL the responsibilities are understood (performing or paying for artwork, editing, publishing, promoting, etc.) or one's goals are extremely modest (e.g., I just want to publish 10 copies of my autobiography for my extended family).

But which kind of editing should an indie author pay for; copy editing, line editing, or proof editing?

You can expect to pay anywhere from $ 300 to $ 1000 to have a novel - length (60,000 word) text professionally copy edited.

Publishers, aside from paying their staff, rent, utilities, etc., have to pay royalties to the authors, pay for copy editing, proofreading, typesetting, printing, warehousing and shipping for traditional books.

Authors who tick none of these boxes would be well advised to spend time and money on making a title look professional, the survey found: self - publishers who received help (paid or unpaid) with story editing, copy editing and proofreading made 13 % more than the average; help with cover design upped earnings by a further 34 %.

They pay for top cover art, provide copy - editing and production out of their pocket.

Part of my paid job is editing books, and I know I don't do a great job of copy editing myself.

He also «edited» my copy, uninvited, because he didn't approve a couple of copy lines (he wasn't being paid or hired «to edit.»)