Sentences with phrase «publishers are in talks»

According to the WSJ, HarperCollins Publishers is in talks with Apple about providing ebooks for Apple's tablet.

Not exact matches

«We are in early talks with several news publishers about how we might better support subscription business models on Facebook,» Brown said.

Facebook (fb) is reportedly in talks with major record labels and music publishers to reach a deal that would see its billions of users allowed to include music in videos uploaded to the platform.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

«I was already talking to a bunch of publishers about an open standard for this kind of thing even before Google announced AMP,» Abrams said in an interview before the Google announcement.

• Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is in late - stage talks to acquire Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME), the publisher of Fortune, Time, Sports Illustrated, and People, for roughly $ 2 billion, according to Bloomberg.

At Inman Connect New York 2015 in January, Trulia's then - CEO, Pete Flint, sat down with Publisher Brad Inman to talk about real estate as a game: companies can be fiercely competitive one day and on the same team the next day.

While «toys - to - life» is often talked about in the context of huge publicly - held game publishers, there is opportunity for small startups to create games that implement physical and digital components, which could be encouraging news to some of the 300 Avalanche workers who've been scattered to the winds.

Everything from submission to pornography to finances and date nights are discussed here, with a candidness that will, says the publisher, «send shock waves throughout the evangelical world,» vowing it will be among «the most talked - about Christian marriage releases in years.»

You don't have enough king James scripture verses in it for any Christian publisher to be interested in putting it out (I've talked to Christian agents about this, and they are as frustrated as the writers at how boxed in to rigid rules Christian books have to be) and that is a sad fact about book publishing today.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

That, to me, is a huge step, that a mass - market publisher has published an entire book talking about women's negative feelings in a way that validates us.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genreIn this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genrein other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

BW Publisher Damon K. Jones drops by the Mornings With Bob Marrone radio show on 1230 News Talk WFAS, to discuss what's going on in Westchester County, Thursday morning.

«I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into taking the bite, I taste only shame,» writes Jena Morrow in her memoir, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale (Moody Publishers, 2010).

As far as corporate talking points for video games go, it's unusual for a publisher to tout that its action epic is presented as if it were shot in one continuous take.

Publishers often talk in terms of copies shipped, but it leaves us without any idea of how many copies are actually in players» hands.

NPR talked to someone at the Association of American Publishers, who said, «There's been no time in American history where this number of school districts wanted to swap out all their reading and math materials at all grades for new things.»

Now, with some understanding how things operate, it's easier talk to publishers, editors and successful authors in a time when the industry is changing so much.

HarperCollins Publishers announced that they are in talks with Apple over the new Apple Tablet, which could hurt the prospects for Amazon's Kindle, Jeffrey Trachtenberg reports.

Emily Victorson, co-founder and publisher of Allium Press of Chicago, will talk about how publishing with a small press differs from self - publishing, when it makes sense to pursue traditional publishing, the advantages of working with a small press, how to identify small presses that might be interested in your work, how to pitch to a small press, and how being published by a small press can be a valuable first step in your publishing career.

So unless you are talking with every one of your publishers, and know exactly when every penny is coming to you and how much, your «Perfect» agent will stay in business on your back.

In this talk, Healy reviews recent copyright developments around the world and some that are pending and explain how business - critical their implications are for publishers and users everywhere.

Julie Matysik, Editorial Director, Children's and Education, Skyhorse Publishing: «The German publishers we met were so dedicated to their lists and you could feel the passion they had in talking about particular authors and projects and that's something that I believe every acquiring editor needs to have.»

Publisher's Marketplace also notes that Slaughter is «in talks for her novels to be turned into a television series.»

Where can I find the «recent revelation that Amazon is in talks to purchase big 5 publisher Simon and Schuster»?

Asked if the higher pricing of e-books, in the wake of publishers» new agency agreements with Amazon, had also figured in the slowdown of e-book sales, Reidy noted that in the wake of publisher settlements over e-book price - fixing charges in the case with Apple, «I'm not supposed talk about pricing,» but added that «our data says that our pricing is effective.»

All this talk of paying your dues, being knocked back by agent after agent, publisher after publisher until you finally develop the spine and sensibility required to call yourself an author... It's nice and everything, and it strikes a chord with every aspiring author who grew up with the expectation that this was the only way it was ever going to happen, but it just isn't a necessary rite of passage in the modern day.

One of the big problems in the traditional publishing industry is that the major publishers simply don't have time to talk to their authors.

The publishing industry could be turned onto its head with a recent revelation that Amazon is in talks to purchase big 5 publisher Simon and Schuster.

As the agency liked the book, but claimed there's only a handful of «notable» publishers who handle the topic and genre I chose (but one I'm an expert in), he talked about the possibility of seeking out a co-publishing situation.

As if in echo of the forthright debate about self - publishers» balance - sheet woes that London author Roz Morris opened (see the «provocation» on it at Writer Unboxed)-- and naming an issue we'll be taking up on 30th November at The FutureBook's Author Day — McLaren is ready to talk of a glutted marketplace, of lower unit sales, dwindling revenue... and yet of an optimism not always encountered in this discussion: «Hard work will be rewarded.»

And when I mean traditional publisher, I am talking about the large publishers in this instance.

Book publishers have been in talks with Apple and are optimistic about being included in the computer, which could provide an alternative to Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Reader and a forthcoming device from Plastic Logic, recently allied with Barnes & Noble.

I'll have some new blog posts for you this week (specifically I want to talk about my experience with selling advanced reader copies from my site — how it went, what I learned, etc.), but for today, I thought the self - publishers out there might be interested in an interview I did with Joanna from The Creative Penn..

Yes, book agents and publishers are certainly more knowledgeable than everyone else I've talked about in this article so far.

But there is so much to talk about when a writer decides to become a publisher, I thought I would just do these in a new series.

I just want to hear a publisher either admit it, or try to talk in circles without actually answering it (so authors who either might not know, or are on the fence, will be able to see the truth about which side publisher execs are on).

January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self publishing route at all.

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Earlier in the discussion I talked about how smart it would have been (still would be) for publishers to invest in companies making POD machines so there would be less waste of money, time, and trees.

The Publisher's Association's Statistics Yearbook, as reported in the Guardian, talks about a massive growth in eBook sales, where consumers spent in 2011 # 92M, while print lost 7 % to previous year, totaling sales to # 1.579 B. Notice the M versus the B.

Are we still talking in the context of who is and who is not an eligible publisher?

But in this case I'm not referring to just «anything,» I'm talking about submitting to an agent, editor or publisher.

However, I still don't really believe — and I can't prove it exactly, but I'm pretty sure — from when I talk to editors and writers, that they're not getting a lot of developmental editing from publishers because they're in a hurry.

No matter what anyone tells you (like that agent you've been talking to in Wichita, KS), it's much easier for a New York literary agent to meet (or be introduced to) editors and publishers.

When it came time to put my novel out there, I was in the process of digesting all the talk in the industry about self - publishing vs the time it takes to even be acknowledged by a traditional publisher.

I have a non-fiction book coming out in February in hardcover and I'm talking to the publisher about bringing a novel of mine related to the non-fiction book out as an ebook.

It often begins with talking to local publishers who are in the business of serving their own markets.

The RNIB is making inroads in making this a reality with collaborative talks with the Publishers Association, EDItEUR, Dyslexia Action and JisTechDis on ironing out a broad strategy.