Sentences with phrase «publishers are on board»

Some of the largest Publishers are on board, such as Penguin, Simon and Shuster and more.

All of the major German publishers are on board.

A lot of speculation has been shared since the disagreements, primarily over the fact that several publishers were on board with OverDrive until the lending catalog became compatible with Amazon's Kindle.

Being U.S. East Coast — centric, it was taking on Amazon's more sophisticated readers who expect the widest possible selection of books just a click away — but not all the major publishers were on board with the subscription model, and this was always going to be an issue.

Not exact matches

Publishers including Activision, Warner Bros. and Electronic Arts are on board, but none have announced games for the Switch yet.

Williams goes on to say that the «magazines» the site helped create, such as Backchannel, were effectively experiments designed to showcase what Medium was capable of as a host, to help convince publishers to come on board.

Depending on the airline and airport, these may get you access to special check - in or security lines (which are often faster), or early boarding on the flight itself (for first dibs on overhead bin space), said George Hobica, publisher of AirfareWatchdog.com.

As Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, given the job after her husband died, she isn't taken seriously by the men on her paper's board or very well - respected in the newsroom.

She was also recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors at the Brewers Association, the not - for - profit trade organization that promotes and protects independent breweries; the BA is also the publisher of CraftBeer.com.

The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned Friday, January 4 by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive map exposing the addresses of gun owners on the website www.lohud.com.

The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned today by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive map exposing the addresses of gun owners on the website www.lohud.com.

«This is a very good way to do things because it minimizes the cost to taxpayers without having to duplicate existing infrastructure,» says Frederick Dylla, CEO of the American Institute of Physics and a board member of a coalition of publishers that runs CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), a system for providing links to papers on journal's sites.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

But finally they just wore down the moderates on the board, and they ended up with a standard to replace that old, bad strength - and - weaknesses one that been used against evolution with a phrase that is still going to be used to beat up the publishers, still going to be used to try to get evolution taught as bad science in the state of Texas.

Paradox Interactive is hosting its annual PDXCON this weekend and many retailers are getting on board with sales on the publisher's best games.

In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state school officers, legislators, state board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's school - improvement efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...

This past September, the board rejected the books, submitted by six publishers, on the grounds that they were «watered down.»

Board member Terri Leo sprang the proposed changes on her colleagues and on publishers Nov. 4, just as the board was set to vote on the textbBoard member Terri Leo sprang the proposed changes on her colleagues and on publishers Nov. 4, just as the board was set to vote on the textbboard was set to vote on the textbooks.

Posted on November 23, 2016 · Textbook publisher Cynthia Dunbar was defending her company's Mexican - American Heritage book in front of the State Board of Education last week when she made an interesting argument.

Posted on September 30, 2014 · The Texas Board of Education is considering more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for approval for use in public schools statewide.

«As a founding member and board member of the National Corvette Museum, this was a great project for me to volunteer my time in helping to organize,» said Lon Helton, CEO / Publisher of the Country radio and music industry trade publication Country Aircheck and host of the syndicated radio show heard on more than 300 stations nationwide, Country Countdown USA.

Publishers like EA, Disney, Gameloft, Ubisoft and Double Fine are on board as partners — considering the fact that the box runs on Fire OS, the Android - based OS that also powers Amazon's Kindle tablets, there shouldn't be a limit to the gaming titles available, though the controller will have to separately bought for $ 40.

When 24Symbols launched in 2010 as a Netflix - style model for ebook consumption, publishers weren't quick to jump on board, at least not in... [Read more...]

Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital lending, as five of the Big Six publishers are not yet fully on board with allowing libraries to include their titles in ebook lending programs.

What you say applies perfectly to someone with your profile — a successful author with an established fan base — and I'm not surprised Amazon took you on board as an author when they struck out in their new role as publisher.

Kobo and iBooks both appear to suffer with back - catalog and niche - publisher availability, and Kobo often has higher pricing on the less popular titles, but availability and pricing of current popular titles is even across the board.

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital disPublishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital dispublishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

And let's be honest, even with the big publishers on board, don't expect to ever get free access to the latest best sellers.

It's an indication that not all publishers are on - board with the new service.

You claim to want to move the discussion ahead, but you're offering up generic criticisms of publishers that don't apply across the board, and you're making huge assumptions that every author is a savvy businessperson and has the desire and wherewithal to take on the role of a publisher.

And publishers have been reluctant, and late, getting on board.

Because of fear, publishers are all jumping on board the 25 % of net bandwagon because they have no clear idea of price points and discounts that would be needed to stay with a 15 % or 25 % of retail model.

A debut author is not going to be in the same position and if that debut wants a traditional print publisher on board as well, then they will have to acquiesce to the electronic royalty structure being offered.

One of the initial flaws with subscriptions was that even the most innovative publishers who came on board with an attitude of experimentation were not willing to put their front list titles up for grabs.

Strunge stated that not only are the publishers he's spoken with on board with his concept, but that the public libraries are excited about this as well.

There is enough major publishers on - board that most publications are available.

They are constantly developing new technologies and getting major publishers on - board with their content delivery systems.

It's been difficult to get publishers on board with the concept without a clear structure for royalties, and it's been equally difficult getting readers to shell out money to consume books when they've been happy with their reading options all along.

This is purely an estimate, as publishers and digital comics distributors don't release sales figures, but ICv2 editor - in - chief Milton Greipp sits on the board of directors of comiXology, the largest digital comics distributor, so he probably has a pretty good idea of what's going on.

It's been difficult to get publishers on board with the concept without a clear structure for royalties, and it's been equally... [Read more...]

Warnings to traditionally published authors have even been posted on message boards, encouraging them to contact their publishers as these authors do not upload their own titles or establish their keywords.

Brooke Warner, the author of Green Light Your Books and board member of IBPA (Independent Book Publishers of America) says, «I advise authors with [print - on - demand books] never to specify how their books were printed [when they are] talking to book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...»

We all know comiXology is the biggest digital distributor, and with six of the top seven publishers on board, you are starting to be regarded as a digital monopoly.

And legacy publishers seem to be the last in line to get on board with change.

We met with a lot of publishers who are now on board with the idea of releasing their titles to our catalog for immediate sale to customers,» says Neller of On Demand's presence at BookExpon board with the idea of releasing their titles to our catalog for immediate sale to customers,» says Neller of On Demand's presence at BookExpOn Demand's presence at BookExpo.

With over three hundred titles available already and more publishers coming on board for the live full version, it is obviously a model that publishers are interested in adapting to.

That is then coupled with an attitude that can be found on the Kindle author boards, which says that anyone giving a self - published author a bad review is «jealous» — or in extreme cases that bad reviews are obviously the work of the evil publishers, trying to knock the competition, and that the last thing you should do is pay attention to those nit - pickers who point out problems with your work.

Carol Stephenson, University Library Sector Over the past 27 years as an academic librarian, Carol Stephenson has been engaged in issues affecting scholarly communication from roles at the university, provincial, and national level and from participation on publisher advisory boards.

I'm on the Board of Directors of Library Renewal, a group dedicated to finding ways to make the ebook experience a good one for libraries, publishers, and authors.

While details are still vague, although the publishers promise complete transparency once they finalize all aspects of the deal, the companies did release a few key names of their higher positions and name how many seats on the new board of directors will go to which of the two imprints.