Sentences with phrase «published by large publishers»

The printing and shipping of the physical objects accounts for at most 10 % of the cover price for any of the books published by the large publishers.

My first book, Face - Off, was published by a large publisher when I was 18 years old in the early 1990s.

A Guardian story mentions that Amazon is promoting a Change.org petition largely supported by people who haven't been able to get their own books published by the larger publishers.

Even if your book has been published by a large publisher, it is still the job of an author to be responsible for the sales and marketing of their book.

Not exact matches

It is the case that large - and middle - sized for - profit publishers and university presses as well as a number of new small presses now publish substantial numbers of books by mainline Protestant writers.

The journal is one of more than 270 published by Medknow, a company based in Mumbai, India, and one of the largest open - access publishers.

An author fortunate enough to have a book acquired and published by a large traditional publisher will usually be required to sign an agreement that gives the publisher final say over a wide variety of issues include title, format, cover design, word count, price, release date, marketing, sales, distribution, etc..

Published by our local publisher, Sasquatch Books, this little board book (or larger paperback version) are the perfect gift for anyone with young children.

Driven in large part by Publishers Lunch, the most widely read daily dossier in publishing and known as «publishing's essential daily read.»

Authors in the study indicated that they turned to self - publishing after having difficulties engaging a traditional publisher and feeling challenged by marketing their book in such a large market.

Our technology is used worldwide by 2 of the Big 5 publishers, some very large independent D2C publishers, several hundreds of medium sized publishers selling D2C, quite a few independent eBook web shops and also numerous web shops of smaller publishers, self publishing authors and systems integration.

Join those of us who are tired of being dictated to by a few large traditional publishers, snobbish reviewers, and uninformed columnists, and buy ebooks published by real people for real people — Indie Authors.

The novel I was too afraid to send out to agents would be published by one of the largest publishers in New York.

Amazon shocked the publishing world late last week by removing direct access to the Kindle editions as well as printed books from Macmillan, one of the country's six largest publishers, which had said it planned to begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books.

Penguin, thought to be the second largest trade publisher in the world, is now also one of the largest self - publishing platforms in the world: Author Solutions has published about 190,000 books by about 150,000 authors.

If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

23 are large publishing houses, and another 9 are small, and it appears that 3 are self published (I should add that this is a real achievement by the self - publishers).

Imagine you're the best - selling author of a highly regarded crime fiction series published by one of the world's largest publishers, and you notice that most of the sales of your novels are as e-books.

Digital sales of titles available in smaller markets physically AND digitally but made through sites that record those sales in the larger market (eg titles published by local publishers or foreign publishers available on Amazon.com Kindle store)

Submission guidelines are usually clearly set out for any publishing house, indie or large publisher so stop wasting people's time by submitting to the wrong place.

And that libraries can assume a pivotal role of local publisher - guide by creating community publishing initiatives that can integrate all book formats, bound and digital, into the larger library world.

Other industry watchers speculated that although the publishers and bookstores can not slow down Amazon, the large technology companies, such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Google, who may be threatened by dominant Amazon's Web Services unit, might enter the book publishing market as competitive counter measures.

The cons of self - publishing are that a large percentage of your time is absorbed by formatting, cover design, uploading, promotion, and the dozens of items you never thought about when you were with a publisher.

«My previous books have been published by large, mainstream publishers.

Thus far, in relation to content published by large - scale publishers, DRM - free files of this content have mostly only been available directly from a few publishers and not at large online stores that sell content by multiple publishers.

If you want to be published by one of the «Big Five» publishers — the New York houses that represent the large majority of what you'll find in your average bookstore — then you do need an agent.

A place for authors, typesetters, designers, publishers, etc. to exchange ideas that will help self - publishers create professional - looking books to compete with those produced by larger publishing houses.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will also be supported by HarperCollins, the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, which has been awarded global publishing rights to the films for adult tie - in books.

It started with a small Canadian publisher, then got picked up by a larger US publisher and I'm very excited with how they look now,» says Fewings of her history with publishing her works.

She continued «As large publishers work these new standards and capabilities into their existing workflows, they can buy time today by working with third - party experts to convert existing titles and add interactive components to published work.

The e-commerce giant's deal to sell books on its U.K. website published by Penguin Random House, the world's largest book publisher, is set to expire by the end of the month, according to an Amazon source.

2) Because a book is not bought by a large traditional publisher, the book is not good enough to be published.

These contracts were usually offered on a «take - it - or - leave - it» basis by larger entities who, recognizing their unequal baragining position, offered non-negotiable contracts (the very nature of a contract is that it should represent the negotiations of the parties) that sought to force their unreasonable terms on naive authors and novice publishers, so eager to be published and distributed that they skimmed by the small print.

Ruth Bonetti has been published by a large publishing house (Oxford University Press published Enjoy Playing the Clarinet with its accompanying piano book) and a smaller Australian niche publisher (Albatross Books) and a music publisher.

Sarah Bolme presents A Marketing Snafu posted at Marketing Christian Books, saying, «A large number of books by small publishers and independently published authors cross my desk each year.

In the investigation launched by the Department of Justice against Apple, Inc and five large publishing houses for alleged price - fixing in order to severely wound Amazon.com, the publishers have successfully been divided as to the outcome.

Miller, whose book The Hand of God (Vamptasy) is published by an independent publisher, saw this as a chance to give back to a larger community of authors who all have the same goal: producing inspired works in their fields.

We've worked with authors published by virtually every major indie publisher, and developed innovative, cooperative relationships with some of the largest self - publishers.

It's tough to get traditionally published today by a large publisher.

Indeed, people write in larger numbers than were ever accepted by publishers, as I saw when working in publishing in the late 80s / early 90s.

It might be time for a concerted push by the large publishers and / or publishing organizations to raise awareness that treating MathML development as a peripheral need has to change.

Over past decade, this change of the large number of smaller or independent publishers being consumed by larger publishing houses has caused many publishing houses to avoid taking any kinds of risks in terms of financial gains.

Sometimes you get tired of being outmaneuvered In some senses, what Amazon launched yesterday with Amazon Encore is neither that amazing a project, after all there have been several small - press or self - published titles taken on board by large publishers as I've mentioned on this blog before, nor is it even that innovative, Authonomy is at its core a way to tap the self published and slush - piled manuscripts out there in the wild.

But she does show that the fracturing of the market is such that even self - publishers have huge potential wins coming their way By dint of the large numbers now engaged in self - publishing books, some of the books will be decent at least.

In 2012 Seattle - based online retailer's AmazonCrossing imprint published more works of fiction and poetry in translation than any other press except for Dalkey Archive, and is the largest publisher of literature in translation so far this year, according to the most recent update of the «Translation Database» compiled by Open Letter Books Three Percent at the University of Rochester.

Vanity presses, otherwise known as «self - publishing companies» or «subsidy publishers,» will publish any book written by anyone with a large bank account and a spendthrift attitude.

support all authors whether they are self - published, used a subsidy press, or were published by a small, medium, or large traditional publisher - but, please, please, be sure your book is edited professionally (and that doesn't mean spell - check, it means a professional editor)

While many legacy publishers may not like to think about how large the self - publishing movement is (Smashwords alone, has announced that writers have self - published more than 250,000 books on its platform), it appears that making money off self - publishing authors is just fine by the traditional houses.

In the past, many authors were surprised to find that they were responsible for book marketing & promotion, even if their book was being published by a large trade publisher.

But the reality is that I am still staggered by the amount of debut authors being published every week by large mainstream publishers from the tiny percentage of submitted manuscripts which see the light of day.