Sentences with phrase «publishing is a bad idea»

FYI from someone a little further up the tree and with contacts: Betting your last dime on traditional publishing is a bad idea.

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A new study published in the journal Neuropsychologia shows a link between daydreaming and high levels of intelligence and creativity, debunking the idea that dreamers suffer from low attention spans and are worse off for it.

Nintendo has the cash, it wouldn't be a bad idea to see if they can scoop up the publishing rights for the next installment.

The city cautioned that the scores had large margins of error, and many education leaders around the country believe that publishing teachers» names alongside their ratings is a bad idea.

Even worse there is the idea that you will self publish your worst stuff and forever ruin your name as a writer.

Learn what makes a great book cover idea to set your book apart and make more sales One of the worst elements in self - publishing is the cover.

Leaving aside the fact, as @stevemosby pointed out on Twitter last week, that all publishing is vanity publishing, the idea that it's bad to have the courage of your convictions appears to be limited to the publishing industry.

I'm picking up the idea that because a lot of self - published work is poor (And as somebody who is clearly self - publishing their own articles here, I can see why you think self - published writing is bad) you are concluding that anybody who self - publishes is generating poor writing?

I have heard over and over how publishing a book of short stories is a bad idea.

For the longest time, as long as I have been in this business and working to be in this business, which now boarders on 35 years, the idea of self - publishing your own work was always a bad idea.

In short, getting a publisher or a publishing deal is often not a great idea, because most small presses won't market you or might even screw up basic things like cover design, and you'll have less control to make smart marketing decisions so your book may perform worse.

No, not erotica, although that's not a bad idea — the print version of EL James's originally self - published Fifty Shades of Grey sold 100,000 copies in its first week in the UK, becoming the fastest - selling book this year.

Forcing someone to publish something is a bad idea, forcing news to balance views is also a bad idea.

Dr. Ioannidis [«Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,» in PLOS Medicine] found that the more popular an idea becomes and the more researchers the idea attracts the worse the resulting science will be.

The second piece is that we've actually built in, to our technology, the ability — it's almost like an automated fraud detector, and my partner, Mark, had to deal with this issue back at Rent.com, in terms of the property management stuff, so he's got experience in building this piece — but the basic idea is that we have a baseline from where our company is starting from, based on those published attributes, and if that changes dramatically, or if things start to disappear because they're getting negative attributes, say because it's made in China, and then they pull that off, that'll actually get a worse score if they don't publish the source of where it's made vs. if they publish that it's made in China or made internationally.

So as an incentive for coming up with a better method of driving out the bad, and protecting colleagues who may be new to publishing and working in institutions where it is hard to garner advice beyond unhelpful publish - in - the - top - journals, I offer an idea of my own, ready to be bested.

Using a PC connected to any network without current security software is undoubtedly a bad idea, but How - To Geek has published a guide explaining how to update the key manually so you can keep receiving Windows updates anyway.