Sentences with phrase «publishers get nothing»

That's a case in which trade - and textbook authors are watching their publishers get nothing for the use of their titles in close to 100 school districts and ministerial areas of Canada.

The iBook publisher gets nothing, no email, no blinding flash of light.

Not exact matches

Your first round of publishers will have nothing to go on except these posts to determine your level of expertise, so get ready to impress them.

Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live» (publisher review).

Hi, I learnt my lesson with Xibris who is under the wing of Penguin House they were over the top with praises but got nothing right they didn't follow any of my instructions for my artwork or cover the did nt edit my manuscript as I paid $ 3500 for and received delay after delay after 8 months which they promised 6 weeks and my book would be in my hand and on shelves, I pulled the plug and cancelled payments through my bank and received all my money back I sent all 9 consultants emails on my termination of our contract due to their unprofessional ism and prying on new authors Plus I sent 9 written termination letters as stated in their contract I now have learnt research every publisher outlet in legitimacy saves on the heartache

I got a free consultation from a lawyer about a contract I was being offered by a publisher and he gave me two key pieces of advice: an audit clause means they have nothing to hide and allows you as an author to play IRS and look at their books if you think you're being cheated (an expensive process, but a good publisher wouldn't be afraid of you using it) and believe their BBB rating if they have one.

Sales are what get the attention of the publishers, and unless it has sold a bunch of copies they want nothing to do with self published titles.

It is so easy to finally get up one's courage to send out a query letter to an agent or a publisher, hear nothing back, and assume there's no chance to get published.

I could argue until the cows come home about whether traditional publishers are old, inefficient, and outmoded — get a bunch of authors together, and we talk about almost nothing else.

If authors decide they'd rather pay a lot of money (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to get their book printed — to say nothing of how the authors would then have to market, warehouse, distribute and sell the book — instead of work to write a story that publishers would actually pay the authors for, that's up to the authors.

I'm getting huge, negative feedback from indie publishers that they have set up accounts with B&T, get accepted, paid the $ 350 for an indie publisher and then nothing happens.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with this if they're transparent about their operations — and not trying to deceive you about the type of deal you're getting — realize that such publishers may have less motivation to acquire books that have a good sales outlook; they may accept nearly any book where the author is willing to subsidize its publication.

The publisher gets paid nothing, and neither does the author.

Not for nothing did Gayle Feldman, covering the American Association of Publishers for TheBookseller quote one publishing executive saying, «things are going to get ugly» as the US Department of Justice circles with warnings of a collusion suit.

Nothing worse than having a favorite series fizzle out because the author got double - teamed by «ordering to the net» intersecting with publisher ambivalence.

And, while I always say nothing ventured nothing gained, getting published by one of the «Big 5» publishers isn't very probable for a new author.

After contacting Trafford and getting a response that was difficult to understand from the foreigner on the phone, he wrote a letter of complaint to the publisher and has heard nothing.

I've tried other publishers, and got almost nothing in sales.

The publisher and the author sell more units making the same on each unit as they do on hard cover and the reader gets a price that takes into consideration that he has purchased ONLY intellectual property and has NOTHING concrete to line their shelves or share.

@Kristin — the way it looked to me, and it was a major factor in my decision to self - pub via POD and e-books, was that I would have to provide 95 % or more of the marketing (the POD publisher gets it listed on Amazon, B&N, Ingram, etc. — and of course listing there means almost nothing without additional marketing).

2) You clearly know nothing about how vendors like Amazon get to pay publishers monies and in particular the returns system that applies to over 70 % of the market, including Amazon's print sales.

You might as well get used to that fact and prepare for it, because like I said before, these little skirmishes between Amazon and Big 5 publishers are nothing but noise.

By Amanda DeMarco For a small publisher, getting titles onto bookstore shelves is a crucial challenge, to say nothing of gaining attention for them once they're there.

And there's been nothing on my blog for a while, oh dear... My excuse for tardiness in posting anything is that I've been busy getting my second novel MS ready and submitting to publishers — and preparing a plan for self publishing... More Not slacking off, really

There was nothing illegal per se about the contracts the publishers had with Amazon or that the publishers were able to set the retail price under those contracts (Apple was doing business under an agency model for years before they got into ebooks and continues to for its app and music sales).

Some authors have always dreamed of working with a traditional publisher, and nothing will satisfy them until they get that experience.

Those against raised the specter of abuse (there are several questionable agents in Writer Beware's files who soak their clients for billable hours while doing little or nothing to place manuscripts with reputable publishers), the loss of agents» entrepreneurial edge if they got paid no matter what (the fact that the agent profits only when the writer does is at the heart of the traditional author - agent relationship); and, of course, the possibility that only wealthy writers could afford to have agents.

So, it's got nothing to do with us as indie publishers, and everything to do with how astronomically expensive it is for a corporation to make even one small change.

My point is that publisher do little to nothing beyond getting you into the big box stores.

- Announce game for Spring 2015 - Tell people in January the game is «pretty much finished» - Announce game is coming out in September instead - Launch 2 additional Kickstarters for a Legends-esque game spin - off with absolutely nothing to show (until the last minute) and an anime - short of said spin - off - Deny rumors that any money from the new Kickstarters will be going into the original project and affirm that the funds are «completely independent» - Deny rumors that original project is getting delayed - Admit near end of spin - off game Kickstarter that a publisher was lined up all along for it - See spin - off game Kickstarter crash and burn - A couple days later, announce delay of original project

Sometimes I wonder if these Japan publisher gets the gamers at all because the way they act sure look like its not the case SE and capcom both doing a lot wrong this gen. I mean FF13 - 2 and now lighting returns yet nothing on versus 13?

If it doesn't get publishers seriously thinking «maybe we should make something for the Switch now» then nothing will.

Platforms: Xbox One (Reviewed), PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch (Q1 2018) Developer: Clever Endeavour Games Publisher: Clever Endeavour Games Release Date: December 15th, 2017 There's nothing like a good ol' fashioned multiplayer party game, and it doesn't get much better than -LSB-...]

Between mid-July and the end of August, all the publishers fly to Antarctica or hibernate or play stupid drinking games until they get a month long hangover, because absolutely bloody nothing comes out.

Which is worse; A copy of Call of Duty not being purchased because someone doesn't want to pay $ 70, or a pre-owned copy selling with nothing of that sale going to Activision, only for the owner to then go and get all the DLC packs, which then supports the developer and publisher?

If such assessment was made about a regular, multi-platform publisher, the idea would surely have been abandoned — however, since it was, in a way, a very prestigious project that was eagerly anticipated by a small, albeit quite important group of dedicated players, the work was eventually carried through, and the players got an amazing, absolutely unique game, the production of which was only motivated with the need to have extraordinary games available for PlayStation — otherwise, it would have been nothing more than a super-modest indie game.

Simply showing screenshots of a new game is nothing more than putting unedited press material on a site, readers quickly realised, that they can get the press releases directly from the publisher (e.g. the official site of the game) and that there is no need to rely on press outlets to get PR material.

The old legacy publishers got mad, ended up in court lots and achieved next to nothing.

There is nothing you can do to fix it without getting written permission from the publishers who have probably long ago sold the rights to do this to somebody else for an immense amount of money.

Buy (or get the publishers to donate) a bunch of magazines that the attendees are interested in (nothing to do with law, just slap a «Compliments of...» sticker on them), stand in the aisle facing oncoming traffic, and hand them out.

Publishers will get to keep 100 percent of the subscription revenue and the customer data, while Facebook charges nothing and the mobile web workaround circumvents Apple's standard 30 percent fee on subscriptions.