Sentences with phrase «printed by a big publisher»

Readers didn't care that my book wasn't printed by a big publisher.

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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!).

While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).

Readers deserve and expect quality printed books that are indistinguishable from those published by Random House, HarperCollins, and the other big publishers.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareRecently, Big 5 publisher Simon & Schuster announced the launch of two adult trade speculative fiction imprints: Saga Press, which will do both print and digital, and Simon451, which will also do print an... -LSB-...]

Whether your book was produced and printed by you or by a Big Five publisher, at the end of the process, you will still be holding a physical book in your hands, asking yourself how you can tell people about it.

In this case the agent and author worked together to find Greenpoint Press, a dedicated publisher utilizing print - on - demand technology to publish important books that might be overlooked by the big commercial presses.

I bring this up because in reading one of the Hachette versus Amazon articles the writer pointed out how much gaming is already being done by the Big Publishers, such as buying ebooks themselves to increase the subsequent print order from Amazon.

I'm talking books printed by the big six publishers.

«We (he and his agent) both understood from the beginning that it would likely be against my best interests to take the sort of deal that would be offered (by Big 6 NYC publishers), but we also dreamed of a future where publishers and authors had a different sort of relationship... And so we pursued an impossible dream hoping that the strangeness of our demands (for a print - only deal where he kept his digital rights) might pave the way for future demands from other authors.»

High - visibility examples of newly configured efforts are put into the spotlight, of course, by news - making events including agent Kristin Nelson's ability to parlay author Hugh Howey's self - published ebook success with the Silo Saga (Wool) trilogy into print - only contracts with Big Five publishers.

Pre-orders and publisher push (ie, anointing Author A as the next big thing while Author B is not given the same push) determine print runs as well as the number of books sold vs. the number printed for the previous book by that author.

Because many big publishers are basing their digital strategies on the mistaken view that digital is just another format and the best way to deal with it is by tightly integrating the print and digital sides of their businesses.

Successful self - published authors like Howey, who did well by ultimately selling print rights to a Big 5 publisher while retaining digital rights, are less likely to see any benefit in prestige or marketing when there is diminished gain from a rapidly diminishing retail presence.

As a print publisher, you can use ACX to find talented professionals to collaborate with, and expand your business by establishing a brand - new audiobook division, however big or small.

The e-sales will help to offset the considerable losses all the big publishers are suffering from decreased print sales and increases in distribution costs, fuelled by the increase in oil prices.

IngramSpark is an award - winning online service for indie authors that provides the same quality print and distribution services enjoyed by big - time publishers.

First, five of the Big Six publishers do not make eBooks available for lending by libraries without restrictions, and the only one that does, Random House, charges libraries three times more for eBooks than it does for print books.

IngramSpark ® is an award - winning independent publishing platform that offers the same fully integrated print and digital products and global distribution services enjoyed by big - time publishers to the indie - publishing community.

I don't see the new shape of things as many do: the twilight of the dinosaurs, the old - thinking Big Five print publishers staggering, falling to their knees and heading for extinction as they're overwhelmed by a nimble army of small, warm - blooded mammals whose claws are the sharp, smart, flexible tools of electronic publishing.

While big - name publishers like Kodansha and Shinchosha announced that they will simultaneously publish new titles in both print and electronic formats by 2012, consumers still don't see much advantage to reading e-books at their current prices.