Sentences with phrase «publishers being greedy»

It seems to boil down to the idea that the author / publisher is greedy and doesn't deserve to be paid twice for the same content.

u shouldnt have to pay extra for dlc on a game to get a worth while strory out of it just because devs / publishers are greedy dlc should be bonus but in destiny's case the trying to make the dlc the main story wich is fucked up

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«Publishers may be greedy, but they are not evil.»

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authorss fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authorss share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authorss a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authorss O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Authors have divided themselves into two camps, the making a living wage by self publishing crowd of which I belong, and the gatekeepers like James Patterson and Scott Turow who have made a shitload of money with traditional publishers who have eleveated them to a position of being «overlords» of the literary world and encouraging greedy publishing houses to bar the door to new aspiring writers who are not represented by agents.

Before they could position themselves as the «champion» of the consumer against the greedy publishers who want to keep e-Books from diminishing print sales, but their suit of armor is tarnished now.

Yes, «greedy publishers» are one of my favorite memes, because you know, Amazon, Apple, et al, are such wonderful non-profit organizations!

Perhaps just as importantly, it would allow publishers to gracefully exit the ebook pricing, DRM and staged release debacles of the past, and finally be seen as offering a valuable service to consumers instead of being the big, greedy bad guys.

It's almost funny — Publishers treating readers like a sliding switch they can keep amping up as they get more and more inefficient and greedy.

If Hagens Berman's case finds that Apple and the publishers colluded to set ebook prices at such a high level for their greedy little Mr. Burns moment, damages could be awarded to the plaintiffs, plus an injunction could see ebook prices lowered.

Now, as the gates of the internet are harder to hold (there being billions) than the gates to a handful of retail book - chains that the traditional publishers maintained their monopolistic control over, I for one think that if Amazon gets too greedy, competition will come and eat them.

It just goes to show how excessively greedy big publishers are in this day and age.

$ 14.99 is way to high for regular text - based ebooks; publishers are being overly greedy.

That's how it maintains the low, low prices customers love, while driving booksellers out of business and framing publishers as greedy villains — even though books are the * only * product we sell, whereas books are just the gateway drug Amazon uses to lure customers through the door.

Greedy publishers could quickly kill this concept, insisting on some sort of monthly fee or other upcharge for their content to be part of this solution.

It does exist and with time it'll destroy publishers and authors who are greedy and / or selfish.

The production costs for an ebook are miniscule, and even if you add a traditional publicity budget, the big publishers must still be making over $ 15 + per copy — and that's plain greedy!

Prices on ebooks are way up because publishers got greedy and still wanted to use the same business model as for print, which with a lower overhead brings much larger profits.

Note: I'm aware this post is likely to engender a lot of «greedy publishers» comments.

That title is a little ridiculous, they are just a greedy gaming publisher.

That's what I like about games that have a currency you purchase for cash which most publishers and devs are completely oblivious or too greedy to do, which is to allow gamers to also earn that currency just by putting time into the game.

I think maybe some people may have thought too we already built it in the game, and had taken it out like a greedy publisher or something like that... even though that wasn't the case, we had a lot people that worked really hard behind the scenes over the last month, and thankfully we had the support of pretty much everyone at SEGA, which was awesome, and everyone worked really hard, and it's kind of like trying to hit a moving target when you've already said, «here's the plan, let's go», but as of yesterday (January 24), the Super Sonic DLC is free for all platforms.

Only way for EA to stop or for other greedy publishers to stop is for the regulators to step in and put an end to all this high way robbery.

While some F2P implementations can be obnoxious and greedy, he insists that overall it has hugely expanded the market for countless developers and publishers.

now i found why Chillingo's pricing policy is that greedy... its simple as hell... just 2 characters... «Chillingo is a leading Independent Games Publisher and a division of Electronic Arts.»

Perhaps in another game, from a publisher that's less of a greedy scumbag, I'd be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was just a poor design choice meant to keep people playing for longer.

EA / Dice are becoming a greedy publisher / developer by rushing this game out to capitalize on The Force Awakens» success.

Publishers don't like them because it deprives them of ad revenue, and site visitors love them because they're greedy, freeloading savages who don't care about anything but themselves.