Sentences with phrase «publisher taking any interest»

It is validating and reassuring to have a publisher take an interest in my manuscript.

Not that I have any hopes of a large traditional publisher taking any interest, at this stage of the transition, but a small press would be nice.

They couldn't imagine a publisher taking interest, so they put one finger dramatically into the air and yelled «To the Internet!»

Not exact matches

In addition to the design changes and features for making money, Medium is also taking another interesting step — it is making it easy for publishers to adapt their content so that it works with Facebook's Instant Articles and Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages standard.

While Team Ninja and publisher Tecmo Koei didn't elaborate on how Move and Ryu's katana will work together, we're holding out hope for optional 1:1 motion controls - or at the very least, something a little more elegant than waggle.If you're not interested in waving a glowing wand around, though, take heart: Ninja Gaiden 3 still feels pretty great with a regular controller.

This is an interesting take on the Every Student Succeeds Act offered by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

If you're ready to take the risk that your book won't be a big performer in the publisher's catalog, you won't find a more interesting or exciting business.

There's a popular belief among authors that if they self - publish and demonstrate that their books can generate huge sells, a traditional publisher will take an interest in their work.

Ms Hamilton was completely unforthcoming when asked about claims that «publishers» had taken an interest in her venture, and I'm skeptical that any serious publisher would have time or interest in these sites.

A representative from Bloomsbury, who publishes the Arden Shakespeare series, says «the Arden General Editors and Arden publisher, Margaret Bartley, took considerable risk in publishing this title because they believed it was in the best interest of Shakespeare scholarship.

She took an interest in writing from an early age, purchasing Writer's Market and submitting her stories and novellas to publishers from the time she was twelve.

Profiles of small publishers or agents who are interested in your genre (take them from websites — you don't have to bother the agents and editors)

Already they are taking a risk in working with a new writer and hoping they can get a publisher interested, so spending time working on revisions with you makes that risk more steep.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

It's important to reconcile and take into account the interests of all the relevant parties: publishers, librarians, wholesalers, booksellers and authors.

I don't understand why big publishers have no interest in taking in all the data and making changes.

It's interesting to me that publishers think they need to retrain people to adapt to the new prices and are willing to take a hit to do so, rather than think they need to alter their model at all.

One of the first sites that operates through user - interest dollars was Unglue.it, who as early as 2011 was working to solicit donations to take existing books and basically «unglue» the copyright status; for enough donations, the rights» holder — either the publisher, the author, or the author's estate — would be compensated to release the book into public domain.

«It took Edelweiss — and the growing interest among book buyers to carry self published titles in their stores (see recent articles in the Christian Science Monitor and Publisher's Weekly that note increasing interest from indie bookstores in self - pubbed titles)-- to help solve the problem.»

Since I don't, I realize now (from your article) that it would have taken a long time to find a publisher who is interested, let alone one that will market the books.

In the interests of self - presrvation, perhaps traditional publishers might take a hard look at the wisdom, or lack there of, in focusing all their attention on a handful of authors while the rest languish unattended.

Putting out 35 glossy pages every month is costly and it took years of experimentation for publishers to triangulate the sweet spot of issue length, reader interest, and expense.

Assuming that sales and platform are one of the things that they would look at, I'm curious to hear from those of you who've done it whether you'd be willing to share ballpark figures of what kinds of sales numbers it would take to even get a traditional publisher interested?

Online eBooks are now selling more than hard copies, and authors no longer have to wait for a publisher to take interest.

If your book is under an exclusive contract, the prospect of republishing your book could be of less interest to a traditional publisher since it could take legal action to wrest it away from the original publishing group or service.

LOUISE: It basically took the exact same trajectory as my first publishing deal: sales got smaller and smaller and the publisher's interest got smaller and smaller.

What level of potential sales would it take to interest a publisher?

For indie authors interested in the findings of DCL's survey and the steps that can be taken to ensure formatting quality, their site offers a webinar on the information and the following press release outlines the suite of tools available to authors and publishers alike.

And it continues to pain me to take the author's side in this because that's also taking the side of... an actor I'd rather not acknowledge (not the author, but the «competing publisher,» who was engaged in an unacceptable conflict of interest and that's the good part).

As the Big 6 publishers — now down to 5 — spend more money on one - offs by Snooki than on cultivating mid-list authors such as Mr. Sepinwall, the onus is on self - pubbed authors to produce interesting, thought - provoking, quality books — of which we're hoping The New York Times and other mainstream publications will continue to take note.

Although I did get contacted by a literary agent in Korea who said a publisher there was interested in the foreign translation rights which also led to another literary agent in Japan taking on the book.

You might be interested in an earlier post called Why Book Publishers Love Short Stories — take a look.

The move suggests a future in which publishers might co-fund projects across different forms of media, in collaboration with other interested parties — readers, other media companies, the artists themselves — enabling them to share the costs of publication, and thus take greater risks.

If interested, a publisher may insist you take down the book and you can't do that if you're only 10 days into your 90 day exclusivity agreement.

Then add in author percentages, interest on the money spent on the project, and other factors including how much each electronic distributor (such as Kindle) takes and traditional publishers have a bottom line in pricing e-books they have to stay above.

«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.»

In Chick Lit, there is Tracy Bloom, who couldn't interest publishers in her book No - one ever has sex on a Tuesday, so took on the task herself.

A client with a self - published book asked me the other day how he could get a mainstream publisher interested in taking on his book.

Harder to land an agent (many of whom won't even respond to queries they aren't interested in anymore); agents are flooded by queries; submissions from agents take much longer to be evaluated by editors; publishers are much more risk - averse and seemingly chasing after the same trends.

One of the most interesting developments is the proliferation of authors and publishers taking advantage of the elasticity, connectivity and network effects of digital texts.

Interesting Jan and yes, book covers are critical but we took this «as read» assuming book was already with the publisher... So the first three items are more for while you're twiddling your thumbs waiting for the book, followed by hitting those reviewers as soon as those ARCs are available, and good to have the infrastructure built when you do start soliciting reviews.

Editors trust agents to screen out unpublishable work or work that would never interest them, so when a literary agent takes a manuscript to a publisher, it will receive fair consideration.

An Interview With Hybrid Author Michael J Sullivan Really interesting interview with a guy who indie published, then took an offer from a major publisher, and for his latest book has gone back to indie publishing.

While conceding some qualms about «potential conflicts of interest that arise when trade publishers (here, Penguin) expand into self - publishing,» she takes on several specific criticisms and fields them crisply.

The remaining 55 % of the cover price is equal to what the publishers were taking for their work — the editing, the proof reading, the cover, the marketing and publicity etc. and of course NY premises, and interest on those advance payments and a few other things besides a profit, which is what they could take as an oligopsony.

But suddenly (without going through an agent) an Irish publisher has now taken a keen interest.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

Of course, there are plenty of issues to be ironed out with such a concept, as publishers too want to take care of their own interests, and understand that the latest titles may be excluded, similar to how Netflix's streaming service works.

Well, unless you're a huge star, publishers aren't interested in buying backlist, so those books were basically taking up space in my closet.

And I don't think it denigrates authors to say that some authors wish to stay with the publisher they started with, even when other publishers have begun to take interest in their work.