Sentences with phrase «publishing houses get»

In fact, the best summation I heard was the 90/10 rule — 10 % of the authors at the Big 5 publishing houses get 90 % of the attention.

It is increasingly the option of choice for all writers as traditional publishing houses get more and more frozen into only taking on well - known authors and risk - free content.

Not just books, but * authors * have been treated as fungible widgets for decades, a process that has gotten worse as the old publishing houses got bought up by soulless corporations that make the «Zon look like a feel - good co-op run by gentle hippies.

Two years ago, when the major publishing houses got together with Apple and conspired to fix e-book prices, they did so not because Apple was sexy and Steve Jobs was a benevolent god and the iPad was about to launch, but because Amazon was the devil.

-LSB-...] years ago, when the major publishing houses got together with Apple and conspired to fix e-book prices, they did so not because Apple was sexy and Steve Jobs was a benevolent god and the iPad was just -LSB-...]

The publishing house gets its income from the sales of your book.

A self - published author needs an ebook, because they do not have a publishing house getting their book into bookstores, or otherwise marketing their book.

and gives me an opportunity to let me use my creative skills along with my qualifications in such a way that the publishing house gets known for its creativity and unique designing of content and graphics.

Not exact matches

But the decision about whether to publish on your own or try to get a deal with a mainstream publishing house depends on yo...

A $ 20 donation gets donors a ticket to the publishing house's 15th birthday party and a $ 60 donation gets a donor a subscription to the quarterly newsletter or two - volume set of The Best of McSweeney's in a tote bag.

Getting an FHA loan for a condo allows you to reduce the amount you need to put into your down payment, but the Department Housing and Urban Development publishes a list of HUD - approved condo projects that you'll need to reference first.

The strategy, published today, includes measures to help first time buyers get on the housing ladder through a government mortgage indemnity scheme, which is something that the Association has been calling for.

Tomorrow, the Westminster Policy Institute publishes a report looking at some of the most controversial developments, including housing projects, energy installations and new airport capacity, asking how government can overcome the difficulty of getting projects approved.

Sammy Awuku, who has obviously got wind of the secret recording has tried to do damage control by distancing himself from the tape, claiming the voice on it is not his and threatening to drag to court any media house who publishes or broadcasts it.

And the deputy prime minister has got his way in publishing a bill on House of Lords reform, set to have its second reading next week and to dominate the Commons for weeks ahead.

This is your house, you decide what and how gets published.

Nowadays, we don't have to wait for a major publishing house to offer us a book deal to get our novels or manifestos in print.

The book is a Luxembourgish cooking book I got to know during my internship at the publishing house.

Of course, there is the BDSM (we get handcuffs on ankles, sex toy teasing, 9 1/2 Weeks style shenanigans with ice cream, almost exclusively played out to slowed down versions of a retro hit) but more often we get wedding porn, fast car porn, big house porn, workplace porn (Anastasia's publishing house office is ridiculous) etc..

In the previous film, Jack was the old fiction editor at the publishing house, the one let go after he got handsy with Anastasia.

Maybe I just have a personal attachment to Monster House, as it was the first film I ever reviewed that got published in a newspaper.

Later she gets a job as a reader in a publishing house whose smug and cynical editors are looking for «a Jewish writer».

In Australia, a Standing Committee on Education and Training of the House of Representatives published «Boys: Getting it Right.

The new generation of publishing houses focus on getting independent authors onto various ebook distribution platforms such as Kindle, iBooks, and Nook.

Indie - publishing an ebook gives you the flexibility with your pricing you would never get with a publishing house.

The Rogue Reader initiative in New York, created and housed by Movable Type Management agent Jason Allen Ashlock and Adam Chromy is, similarly, a self - publishing program, a form of «assisted publishing» developed by an agency to take a part of clients» output in hand and help get it to an audience without a publisher in the traditional role.

Kimberly: It might not be my place to say this, and of course I respect any decision you may make, however, I honestly feel that your standard of writing is excellent and your style so unique that you would be able to get this published easily in a main stream publishing house.

First, I'm not going to get into Carina Press, the digital publishing house that Harlequin has launched.

Some of them go on to get published by other houses.

The vast majority of indie writers I know sell their titles for way, way cheaper than the big publishing houses do, because they've discovered that selling a novel for $ 2.99, $ 3.99, or $ 4.99 is going to get them way more sales than trying to sell at $ 12.99 or up.

The media makes a big deal about those who have scored by self - publishing and have gotten million - dollar contracts from the big houses.

If you traditionally publish with the big publishing houses, at the very least you should get a well designed, well edited book.

Once upon a time the only way to get published was to enlist an agent and publishing house to do the work for you.

Probably (1) get bought — or at least read; (2) make you money; (3) if self - published, get snagged by a «big house» and do more of [1] and [2]; (4) establish you as an «expert» or «authority» in its topic field; (5) get potential readers to want to know -LSB-...]

And then you've got ta look for an agent, because these days, unless you're going small press, the only way into a big publishing house is through an agent.

Basically, when you can't get a publishing deal with Hay House, they send you to Balboa, Simon and Schuster happily guides you to Archway, Thomas Nelson to WestBow, and Readers Digest to LifeRich, all white - labeled by Author Solutions.

A query letter is the only way to get a literary agent to read your completed or partial manuscript (and get published by a traditional publisher like Random House)-- 98 % of the time.

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

Large publishing houses refused to deal in the novella or short story and the only way to get these in the market at all were through sparsely read magazines and anthologies, despite the fact that many of our most endeared classics fall into these categories.

Numerous Traditional Authors have left traditional houses because they get tired of being jerked around and only getting a small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they publish through an indie house.

That means that after the publishing house sells a copy, they have to pay taxes (VAT is 24 % in Romania btw) and the author gets exactly squat.

Japanese publishing house, Fukkan, is getting ready to reprint a 428 page book that has all the inside looks at the story boards plus additional production materials from the classic 1997 psychological thriller, Perfect Blue, directed by the late Satoshi Kon.

We don't all have time to wait a year for a book to reach the shelf, nor do we all want to wait to get screwed by bad agents, bad marketers, or evil publishing houses.

Unless they change what they offer writers, writers are not even looking at getting a contract with a publishing house.

I chose to publish via Amazon this summer because for me, getting my novel in the hands of readers and focusing on crafting a quality product is what matters most — not lining the pockets of literary agents, editors, marketeers, and publishing houses.

I don't believe in vanity publishing so I struggled to get published by a professional publishing house.

Once the long arm of the bureaucracy gets behind e-books, the publishing houses will have no choice but to cave.

A statistic that is very real these days is that your chances of getting picked up by one of the big publishing houses is under 1 %.

Robin Duval says he wanted a self - publishing house which would not only print his book, but then market it to the book trade - to get it to those making the buying decisions.

It means that you, the author, get to do all the tasks that a publishing house would do if you sold the book them.