Sentences with phrase «publisher is a bad deal»

Most of the time, a vanity publisher is a bad deal for the author.

Not exact matches

Making games for cellphones was the worst place to be, he says, since they had to deal not just with demanding publishers, but also with wireless carriers that knew nothing about games.

But then when a publisher has to deal with something that's even worse, like a phone carrier, it's atrocious,» says Piotrowski.

Now I could go on and on about the illusionary «support» traditional publishers and agents say they give writers, but anyone who has dealt with that system for any length of time knows that's just gotten worse as well in the last ten years.

Not because the ads were bad or poorly designed, but the brick - and - mortar bookseller audience that reads them are predisposed against self - published books, especially POD like mine, due to the inability to return unsold copies and the inconvenience of dealing with an individual publisher.

It is obvious that Scribd made bad deals with the publishers.

As you noted above with publishers, negotiability is going to depend on how badly the parties want the deal (i.e. if an agent or publisher really wants the work and the author has options, then the agent or publisher is likely to be willing to negotiate the terms of the contract).

Experienced authors will not sign a contract with a non-compete clause, and publishers aren't going to promise not to publish books that compete directly with the author's, so it's just a bad deal.

Of course I am unhappy with the fact that European publishers are translating a lot of the good, and a lot of the mediocre, and even a great deal of the bad books from the States into European languages, whereas our American friends are very reluctant.

I've read from other writers that this is a big deal with traditional publishers, and that, if you can't sell first publishing rights anymore, deals will be a lot worse.

If an author's book sales are bad, most publishers are less inclined to give an Author another book deal.

While considered by many authors to be a gatekeeper in bad cahoots with publishers, the agent, in fact, is heavily invested in his or her clients» work and is risking a great deal of time and effort on the hope that an author's book someday will be salable.

But it is based upon the personal and professional experience of reviewers, editors, and publishers having waded through a great deal of self - published books that are poorly written and badly in need of even the most basic editing.

The deal for self publishers is just too good and publishers response is to make their terms worse and worse (I mean I'm hearing this from so many many authors) um offering worse and worse deals to try and stop authors from being hybrid is so not going to work for you guys.

I've heard the «what if Amazon turns evil» argument a lot of times, but my reading of the situation is that the fear of Amazon some day abusing its power to force a bad deal on authors has to be weighed against the simple fact that publishers are currently forcing authors to accept bad deals.

Trafford is the worst publisher I have ever dealed with.

In short, getting a publisher or a publishing deal is often not a great idea, because most small presses won't market you or might even screw up basic things like cover design, and you'll have less control to make smart marketing decisions so your book may perform worse.

Stat based publishers can be the worst to deal with as they will only surrender their review copies to sites that obtain large amounts of visits per month, a good example being Capcom or Sega who ask for nothing less than 250,000 hits to your site per month.