Sentences with phrase «publishing less numbers»

I also notice that indie authors are publishing less numbers than we did in the golden days of indie, where there were a thousand ebooks a day and this and that, and I think pretty much across the board, everybody's numbers are down.

Not exact matches

There have been many studies published over the years that working less results in higher productivity (hint: the optimal number is less than 40 hours per week).

My recent valuation can be moved up a bit after taking another look at the numbers (the analyst valuations I reflect in my articles have improved since I published my article), but the near - term upside still seems to be less than 5 %.

The record number of workers paid less than the living wage, now more than 5 million, is costing an estimated # 2.2 bn a year in extra spending and lost revenue according to analysis published by the IPPR with the Resolution Foundation.

Updated figures will be published on Thursday and they are expected to show an increase in the number of children living in households whose incomes are less than 60 % of the UK average — the current measure of child poverty.

You've done all the right things — dissected those fetal pigs, sat through numerous exams, published a number of papers — and have hurdled all the milestones more or less on schedule.

According to a report published today in the journal Nature, female cardinals learn the same number of songs as males in less than a third of the time.

Now, a study of nearly 1 million engineering paper co-authorships puts hard numbers on the problem in this male - dominated scientific field, and finds a paradoxical trend: Female engineers are publishing in slightly more prestigious journals on average than their male colleagues, but their work is getting less attention.

One limitation to the current study is that it analyzed less than 2 % of the total number of papers published from 2007 to 2013.

This previous study — also published in the British Journal of Nutrition — showed that organic crops and crop - based foods are up to 60 % higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally - grown crops and contained less of the toxic metal cadmium.

A study published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research compared the effects of high - resistance circuit training (HRC), 3 - 6 sets of 6 exercises, 6 reps, less than 35 - seconds recovery versus traditional strength training (TS), same reps, sets, number of exercises but with 3 - minute recovery.

I mean, the truth is, I probably have hit publish on way over 1,000... but after losing archives over the years, deleting old posts, etc. etc. etc... the number is less.

For me, stickler for proper word use that I am, it's about the misappropriation of terminology (seriously, if you don't own your ISBN number and have granted rights to someone else, you are no more — and no less — independent than a commercially - published author) and the use of euphemisms — trying to escape the negative implications of something by calling it something else.

I fixed the link and also am aware that most self - published authors couldn't care less about having an ISBN number.

Plus, the average number of books sold by a self - published author is less than 80 copies.

Now, thanks to the growth of self and independent publishing in the audiobook world, and the explosion in the number of narrators with home studios and editing skill, high quality audiobooks can be produced for less than $ 3,000.

That means a number of shady outfits have sprung up to help get you published for the right price, and the result is that academics who are published by lesser known but still reputable presses can be pulled into the vortex of accusation that surrounds these disreputable agencies.

The greater the number of books that are published, the less the chance a reader is denied something they love because of some editor's downturned thumb.

Now, thanks to the growth of self - publishing in the audio book world and the explosion in the number of narrators with home studios and editing skill, high quality audio books can be produced for less than $ 3,000.

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

More recently, the percentage of self - published books compared to other e-books rose, but the overall number of e-books sold decreased, meaning the impact of self - publishing on overall book sales remains at less than 10 % of sales.

I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.

We are only talking about bestsellers here — books that make up less than 1 % of the total number of titles published annually.

A number of us were talking a week ago about this topic and my conclusion is that less than 5 % of all authors will even begin to understand this new side of publishing.

You must remember I've just published my 6th book and it takes time, as I said — also, when I did really well with my first two there were a hell of a lot less books on Amazon UK, only about 1,200,000 I think,, and it was fairly easy to get to number one in the free downloads, which automatically led to a place in the paid Top 100.

The end result is less money in the pockets of the publisher and that means less money in the pockets of authors — and, since the traditional publishing industry lives and dies on Bookscan numbers, it means there may be some authors who will not get new contracts because their sales figures were hurt by this dispute.

Hopefully as a result they've learned their lesson looking at the (better) feedback from recently published authors on the «email submission» link in your piece above, and judging from the many members who contribute to the site and the lesser numbers being accepted in the 2010 publishing round.

In fact, the largest number of editorial horror stories I've heard have come from not from writers at big and medium - sized publishers, but from unpublished or self - published writers who hired less - than - qualified independent editors (there are a lot of them out there), or from small press authors whose inexperienced publishers employed editors without the proper professional skills.

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

To close, the survey concludes that vast number of non-traditionally published authors made less than $ 500.

Most New York published authors now sell less than 3,000 books during the life of their book — surely a number that many, many self and independent published author can run circles around.

After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/ Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.

I wasn't promoting the self - published books, and it was definitely less than over the Christmas but I don't recall the exact numbers.

Less than 1 % of books make it into a bookstore and the numbers are even lower for self - published books.

Most New York published authors now sell less than 1,000 books — surely a number that any self and independent published author can run circles around.

You keep mentioning that the average price of e-books is already below 9.99, but I think that this number does not mean what you think it means because it includes an awfully lot of ebooks that are given away, or sold less than $ 9.99 outside of the traditionally published channels.

Third, I've not found anything that shows if the report took into account the number of e-books that were published either directly by the author or by small presses — and let's face it, e-books from those sources tend to not only be less expensive than those from the major publishers but much less expensive.

What's significant in relation to Locke hitting the million - seller Kindle ebook mark is that it showcases that while choosing the Kindle Direct Publishing route removes agents and publishers from the equation, Locke makes less money with his 99 - cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption of ebook preorders, even though preorders are proven to sell more books, or witness the large number of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or less can make their cover look amazing).

The number is the same as in January — the month before the explosion of self - publishing — but there are less titles in Top 50 (4 vs. 8), and an average price is much lower ($ 1.34 vs. $ 1.99).

An article in the New York Times, published less than two months ago, reported a figure of 550,000 certified PSLF participants — 25 percent higher than the number Delisle's paper reported.

Although it's nice to publish big, fancy numbers on these updates I really wish the run in equities was much less and I'd actually have larger ownership stakes in many companies because my money would have bought more shares.

Even though he is highly secretive in discussing their trading (Peter and his team have written little and said even less on how they trade), this article, published in Quantitative Finance, is one of the few pieces out there, and it has a number of gems in it.

Although a recent study published in Veterinary Economics found FLUTD as the number one reason cats are presented to the veterinarian (outside of routine care), the Cat Behavior Survey uncovered that less than half of cat owners (46 %) would take their cats to a veterinarian for urinating outside of the litter box (inappropriate elimination)-- one of the warning signs of FLUTD.

Hilton no longer publishes a list of hotels by category and the number of category 1 hotels has dropped to less than 50 in 2018.

When Nintendo published the game in America three years later in 1989, they made a number of upgrades to make it a little less irritating.

Signed in plate not numbered from an edition of 3000 published in 1973 less

In our paper published last night in ERL we show the newer Church & White data set with less smoothing in Fig. 3 (orange line), and you can see it is more «wiggly» — hard to tell whether these wiggles are true oscillations in global sea level or again an effect of the limited number of gauges.

But while the authors seem confident that Brazil's existing protected areas will be enough to stave off large - scale drying in the Amazon, a number of other recently published papers (see «related articles» below) suggest a less rosy outlook.

Indeed, figures published by The Law Society stated that while almost half (48.8 %) of all practicing certificate holders in England and Wales are women, less than 1 in 3 (29 %) are partners with the number even lower in the Magic Circle.