Self - publishing is hard work and comes without the distribution leverage and
prestige of the big houses.
Not exact matches
When the direction
of our lives — not our geographical location, but our inner direction — is dictated by the compensation or
prestige levels
of employment, or by our dreams
of a
bigger house or new car or nice vacation trip or comfortable retirement, then we have chosen to place these first and God second, and the god we worship is not God.
Tom Hanks stars as Post editor Ben Bradlee, and Meryl Streep plays publisher Katherine Graham, in what's sure to be one
of the
big prestige movies
of the season, and second this fall (after the Liam Neeson - starring «Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White
House») to focus on the power
of the press amid presidential scandal.
The New York - based publishing
house, whose roots date back to 1817, was the only one
of the
Big Five publishers to offer some
of its backlist titles — and perhaps more importantly, some
of its
prestige — to these startups at launch, helping to kickstart the fledging Netflix - like e-book subscription market.
And I also weighed all the wonderful pluses that came with being traditionally published by a
Big 5
house — including having a «team» behind me every step
of the way, having the «clout» and
prestige of having finally «made it,» being able to reach a wider audience through print distribution.
Third, although traditional publishing
houses have editors and you have already paid for one, the
prestige of being accepted by them, with the orchestra
of copyeditors, cover artists, and marketing experts behind them to help you, will relieve you
of a lot
of the work for your next
big project.
Apart from their
big,
prestige museums (the Art Institute
of Chicago, the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the Getty, the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art and the National Gallery), these cities also boast private
house museums (think the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection and the Barnes Foundation), contemporary museums (La..