Sentences with phrase «power in the hands of readers»

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Prior to self - publishing becoming a viable alternative, the power to decide what readers could purchase rested in the hands of agents and publishers.

I don't think there is cause for thinking that «the power is in the hands of our opponents» or that «a lot of readers... see us as ditherers and cranks.»

But even as «The Eighth Seal» keeps the power of the story in the readers hands, the political horror thriller is looking to shake them up as well.

Kate Tilton presents Five Things You Need To Know About Self - Publishing by Cassie Phillips posted at Kate Tilton, Connecting Authors & Readers, saying, «The power to create and share work is firmly in the hands of writers with the self - publishing revolution.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Let's face it: no matter how many eReaders and eBook formats have bombarded the market, the power to hold the key to reading passion lies in the hands of the reader.

Based in Oakland, California, Solio is part of the Better Energy Systems coporation, which creates hand - held solar charging devices that store energy to be used in powering lights, smartphones, MP3 Players, GPS devices, digital cameras and handheld readers.

-LSB-...] In the previously cited blogpost, Furlong further states that: «Full - service firms can use Twitter effectively by harnessing the power of their practice groups to dive deep into a subject, engage readers on the specific issues that concern them, and demonstrate a mastery of the subject area at hand.

Although the chapter requires the reader to have a more than basic knowledge of the enforcement system in the European Banking Union and of prudential banking regulations, it manages to demonstrate the difficult balancing acts, for example, between broad administrative provisions on the one hand and the different aspects of the legality principle on the other hand and between administrative enforcement on the one hand and the principle of the separation between investigatory and adjudicatory powers on the other hand.

The SIM slot is located on the left and the volume rocker and power button on the right — the latter of which is slightly perforated, so you can tell it apart in a pinch (odds are, though, that you'll mostly be using the finger reader to unlock the handset most of the time, so you avoid fumbling through the security code with one hand).