As I said,
publishers get to stage their pricing, starting high and gradually lowering it, to cover the costs of acquisition, editing, marketing, etc..
Not exact matches
Mark Malatesta is a former AAR literary agent turned author coach, now helping authors of all genres (including children's books), at all
stages of development (novice
to veteran),
get top agents,
publishers, and book deals.
Many authors come in the early
stages because they want
to make sure the book is marketable
to publishers, and for help
getting a great agent.
It's quite funny actually — The minute you reach the
stage where you can
get by without
Publishers and Retailers they will flock
to you.
At this
stage, they've focused on
getting a selection of Australian titles, mostly from indie
publishers, but are also talking
to the major international
publishers about supporting the service.
My primary hope was
to get to the
stage where you
get the free
Publisher's Weekly review, thinking that maybe there would at least be a nice tagline in the review that I could tweet.
Since the reveal of the PlayStation 4 back in February when both big
publishers and smaller indie games
got to share the
stage, Sony has been winning over indies left, right and centre.
Although the name was never meant as anything more than a placeholder, it
got them through
to a
stage where a
publisher was willing
to pick it up and back it properly.
Infinite Interactive fleshed out Steve's early prototype
to get it
to a
stage where they could show it
to some potential
publishers.