Sentences with phrase «publishing contracts only»

We can offer publishing contracts only for completed manuscripts.

Not exact matches

The success of a postdoc's appointment, which can only last 5 or 6 years, is evaluated by «the number of papers published, the authorship rank, the renewal of [the postdoc's annual] contracts, and other factions that fall entirely within the discretion of the [principal investigator (PI)-RSB-.

And now that I've got myself a nice little career as a scientist (I use the word «little» literally — I have only 15 months left on my contract), I am much more excited at the prospect of getting published.

The ministry has also started contracting with a variety of publishing houses for textbooks that are sensitive to the large country's regional differences — in the past, only one publisher provided books for all of China's 220 million students.

Conducting a search on ERIC, I found only two additional pieces also contracted out and published by the US Department of Education, although the first piece is more about describing what states are doing in terms of SLOs versus researching the actual properties of the SLOs.

I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to older models of publishing, e.g. arranging eBook contracts in which the eBooks are overpriced and the author receives a small royalty — ugh, who would want that?

This article explained that of all manuscripts that authors submit to publishing houses, only 0.5 % will end up with a book contract.

It's especially painful to read even the short excerpts from Sean Penn's book because his publishing contract validates the notion for authors that they only have to finish their stories, not write cleanly, diligently, with an ear for the reader and the love of the written word.

And in traditional publishing for the last sixty - plus years, the only game in town was to form a partnership through a contract with an established publisher to get your work to readers.

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If I have a publishing contract with a company but they are only using ebook rights and are willing to let me print copies and distribute them myself do you think it would be worth it?

The amended French Intellectual Property law clearly states that a publishing contract not only covers the «manufacture of copies» but also the «realization in a digital form».

Only after that happy thought had settled in did I realize that it also meant Timebound was still in the contest and had a shot at one of the publishing contracts.»

Even if you're only interested in publishing a 7 - page Kindle book, there's a contract involved.

Hurray for your happy - ending, but I was wondering if there are clauses in publishing contracts regarding these late changes to e-book only?

Selfpublished authors can now get an author profile (which was previously only possible if you had a publishing contract) and can book advertisement options like banner ads, newsletter placements and individual campaigns.

Of course, I've been reading publishing contracts for a long time, so that might be my impression only.

There is only one fly in this ointment: a traditional publishing contract with a boilerplate non-compete clause the publisher is determined to enforce.

I can only think of one self published author friend who earned a traditional publishing contract.

Traditional publishing and digital publishing: We do accept manuscripts for consideration for both kind of contracts, traditional and digital publishing only.

This practice is only hurting the authors that are stuck in bad contracts with these huge corporate publishing companies.

The one about the unpublished sci - fi writer who had to be convinced to try self - publishing, only to find the money rolling in along with a traditional contract and a major motion picture deal.

If exclusively (i.e., Raider is the only one with the right to publish), you can not publish elsewhere unless you can terminate the contract with Raider.

What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the shelf - life of new books in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of hardcover and paperbacks end up in landfills; (4) the timeframe between book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested in authors who only have one book up their sleeves.

Not only was it sold once... the publishing company came back and paid to republish after the contract was over in 2016.

The only way out of many of these messes for a publishing company is through bankruptcy to break the leases and contracts, just as Borders tried and failed to come through.

High - visibility examples of newly configured efforts are put into the spotlight, of course, by news - making events including agent Kristin Nelson's ability to parlay author Hugh Howey's self - published ebook success with the Silo Saga (Wool) trilogy into print - only contracts with Big Five publishers.

Before Amazon launched its Kindle Direct Publishing programme (KDP), the only real way to get your book published was to get offered a contract by a reputable publishPublishing programme (KDP), the only real way to get your book published was to get offered a contract by a reputable publishingpublishing house.

Not only do I have a project I originally started with them, Fiction Vortex has also contracted with me to release my very first novel - length work, the short - story - novel that started my professional writing journey, which created the world of Iric, Sparrow, Faline, and many of the other characters you have seen here or in my published stories.

The only type of publishing contract I'd be interested in was one where a substantial sum was involved.

Publishing companies are offering increasingly obnoxious contracts that attempt to take total control not only of a writer's books but also his / her general writing life.

Most publishing contracts ostensibly last «for the life of copyright,» but that's only if the contract remains in force, and isn't terminated before the copyright term expires.

Agents not only find the most appropriate houses and editors for a romance book, but they work to negotiate publishing house contracts in order to get the best advance possible for the author.

That is the only reason that I might want their imprint on my books (and I do expect to publish more with the same imprint, and they will be ours), if I get recognized by a traditional publisher who wants a contract and I can agree to their terms then fine, let them put their imprint on there.

Any decision to bypass a book publishing agent and hire a contract lawyer is only possible once a publisher has expressed interest in your manuscript.

Go to a site like Publishizer.com and not only earn money and followers, but also a publishing contract.

The publishing contracts with HS had a clause giving 50 % royalties for things like e-books to the authors, but the license with HE gave HS only 6 - 8 % of cover price, meaning the authors only got 3 - 4 % (50 % of 6 - 8 %).

The prize was a publishing contract, and at that point (March 2012) I had not only committed to indie by publishing my book, I had just founded The Indie Writer's Network as well.

I'm here to argue that we should not only care about fair contracts in trade publishing, we should actively support the advocacy efforts of our sister author organisations:

They only publish e-books, but no publisher will pick up a print contract if Amazon controls the e-rights 3.

I firmly believed that if only I could find a way to ditch the day job so I could go away somewhere and just focus on writing, then I could finally make my novels good enough to get that traditional publishing contract I wanted.

The «out of print» clause is often one of an author's only ways to terminate a publishing contract unilaterally (a legal term that means «one - sided» — and, in this case, means the author's right to terminate without the publisher's consent).

This was a reason I turned down contracts too, this book is for my sister so the April third release date was a must, the only way to manage this, is to self publish.

Author Jim F. Kukral founded the Author Marketing Institute after signing a contract for his first book with a large publishing firm in 2009, only to realize that much of the book's marketing was left in his own hands.

An agent can not only get your manuscript into the hands of an acquisitions editor for a major publishing house, he / she can negotiate your contract, getting you more in royalties and / or free copies of your book.

The «out of print» clause is often one of the author's only chances to terminate a publishing contract without the publisher's advance agreement (the legal term for this is a «unilateral» termination right).

This is an interesting case, in that Nash chose to self - publish only after having come out with six books through traditional contracts.

In traditional publishing, an author's only chance to publish a book is to sign a contract with a publishing company, which is extremely difficult.

To my surprise, the author who made this suggestion said that not only did she receive an offer of a publishing contract at a conference but that's how all her author friends got published.

But now with indie publishing we don't have to wait on late contracts, late payments, and agents who only block what we do.