Sentences with phrase «publishers do»

The book publishers do not restrict the down load of purchased ebooks so where does B&N get off playing parent and telling us we can not down load our purchased books.

Working on a revenue - sharing basis, we will even provide a six - month trial period before which the publishers don't have to pay anything.»

Will the major publishers do that?

Currently publishers don't have a way to submit newer titles in KFX and the official Kindle Previewer tool does not support enhanced typesetting.

Nor am I claiming that publishers don't often try to copy - cat success.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

Many industry experts are in agreement that the current e-book subscription system is deeply flawed and publishers do not commit front - list titles that are on the bestseller lists.

Why do publishers do this one platform at a time and why a limited range of titles?

Readers don't care about length as much as editors and publishers do.

If Coker's second linkbait advertorial for the Huffington Post didn't add anything new to the conversation, it did at least spawn a new hashtag on Twitter, #publishersmatter, and generate some interesting discussion around the value publishers do, and don't, offer authors nowadays.

If publishers don't sell to Amazon, they miss a giant opportunity for author exposure, making a partnership with Amazon a near necessity.

If branding and direct engagement with readers, two things many comics publishers do very well, is truly the holy grail for traditional publishers, does the comics industry offer any lessons, positive or negative, to learn from?

There are small and micro presses that will do everything the legacy publishers do and still give us a bigger piece of the pie.

If publishers don't like your books, ask them why and how you could improve.

As you start to launch more books, which many Kindle publishers do once they start to crack selling on Amazon, having this data becomes a lot more valuable and time saving.

The majority of publishers don't accept unsolicited manuscripts, so finding someone to represent you and your work is essential for getting that elusive book deal.

There are many sub-genres with good markets that traditional publishers don't touch.

With ebooks (and e-audiobooks) publishers don't have to sell to libraries.

So, though what is done varies somewhat by publisher, publishers do actually market ALL of their books.

Small and self - publishers don't pay advances, so the writer must work ahead of the payday.

Saila says newspapers generally spend more on marketing ebooks than independent publishers do.

I've seen many other publishers do the same thing?

Traditional publishers don't take unsolicited manuscripts, so you're often at the mercy of an agent's preferences and workload.

One con to the trad pub method is that publishers don't mirror the wants of the actual market.

Publishers do these price pulses in order to raise the visibility of a book before jacking up the price again.

The point all this begs to make — most germane to our our subject of self - publishing — is that writers whose books are in the hands of traditional publishers do not have the freedom to take their books for long walks down every possible promotion and marketing avenue, or to even have their books follow circuitous alleyways that can lead to fields of light.

Three things publishers don't know about the digital future (which platform will win?

The records can only be opened and read by using special bibliographic software which libraries have and most publishers do not, unless publishers are creating their own cataloging for their titles.

Four things publishers do know about the digital future (yes, people will read from screens.

Small publishers who do edit, print, market, and do all the other things that traditional publishers do, don't pay advances, but do pay royalties.

Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their ebooks, and Amazon will pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money on Amazon right now.

Yet, most authors aren't prepared to shoulder this burden, and most publishers don't provide much instruction.

Well, let me share a dirty little secret that publishers don't want newbie authors to know.

The stuff that traditional publishers do to market books, doesn't work in the same ways for indie authors.

Publishers don't believe that digital books should be cheaper than the print versions.

If other publishers don't want to make DRM - free PDFs available, then I'm more than happy not to buy their products...

Robert Gottlieb, chairman of Trident Media Group, was more forceful in his statements about the potential for trouble if publishers don't handle subscription options appropriately.

Real publishers don't make those kinds of promises, because they know the reality of the publishing business.

He told a rueful joke about complaining to his publisher once, «You don't even know who reads my books,» as Amazon tracks its customers, only to be told, «But other publishers don't know that, either,» as if that excused data - ignorance.

«If traditional publishers do not innovate, another company will.»

Publishers don't rely on them.

Even when I was in my forties, I was advised to keep my age secret when querying, because publishers don't want to invest money building a «brand name» for an author who doesn't have a potential forty - year trajectory for churning out product.

Writers may be solitary beings but author publishers don't have that luxury.

So what can Italian publishers do to prepare themselves?

Steve Z said, «I actually don't know or remember what Hugh's calling was for in terms of copyright... but why would we change it if we and all the other publishers don't have an issue with it?

To make more of Power Readers day, in other words, publishers don't have to wear aprons and offer recipes as if it's all cupcakes and silly fun.

Few people have a technical background, so setting up a DIY author website seems like a daunting task, and many authors and publishers don't feel confident talking or negotiating with a potential website developer.

Indie presses, which is defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates, do everything trad publishers do, but on a smaller scale.

Right, few publishers do take unagented submissions.

Honestly, with as much as most publishers don't do to push their backlist titles, I think almost every contract should have a time limit.