Sentences with phrase «quality of a publishing house»

The range of services offered by tredition can best be described as follows — we offer the freedom of self - publishing and active marketing, combined with all the services and product quality of a publishing house.

All the Freedom of Self - Publishing combined with Active Marketing as well as the Service and Product Quality of a Publishing House.

Not exact matches

The findings, published in the November issue of Social Science & Medicine, indicate that neighborhood quality has significant and long - term effects on child and adolescent problem behaviors, findings that can help inform national, state, and local housing policy and community investment decisions.

Alinea houses 100 employees and publishes a broad variety of learning materials — based on quality, professionalism and strong didactics.

«In terms of quality, it's the same or better than publishing with a traditional publishing house, because it's the same pool of talent.

Back before the digital age allowed self - publishing to become even remotely doable, traditional publishing houses were the gatekeepers of quality.

Edward Tufte took out a second mortgage on his house to self - publish The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in 1982, because no printer could meet his quality standards.

So basically, one can not be considered to be an «Author» unless one is lucky enough to pick up a book deal from a publishing house irrespective of the quality of the work said person has produced?

Because the big 5 publishing houses never put out a book where they saw dollar signs, and the content was of dubious quality.

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'm happy to hire a team of professionals to help me produce a quality product, but some writers might prefer to leave all that up to a publishing house.

We believe the quality should be the same as if it came out of a major New York publishing house.

A division of Baker Publishing Group, Bethany House has been publishing high quality books forPublishing Group, Bethany House has been publishing high quality books forpublishing high quality books for 50 years.

These days many US based publishing houses are guilty of below quality products.

In the context of publishing, it means developing a body of quality titles that an imprint or house (or a niche driven community) can be proud of, written by authors that the publisher and readers are happy to claim as their own.

They say the Gatekeepers (agents, slush readers, and first - line editors) are there for a reason, ensuring that new product is of the highest possible quality, that they've ensured that booksellers aren't loaded down with crap (and said brick and mortar booksellers are in complete agreement, only accepting books from major, established publishing houses), and that they and their staffs produce a truly professional final product, handling editing, design, and marketing so the author only has to worry about the words.

What is at issue here is nothing less than the quality of education and the independence of publishing houses.»

Acting as a clearing house for Jewish Book Month events is part of the Jewish Book Council's overall mission to promote the reading, writing, publishing and distribution of quality Jewish content books in English, as well as to serve as the coordinating body of Jewish literary activity in North America in both general and Jewish venues, advising local communities on exhibits, book fairs, book club appearances, author tours and other literary programs.

Because of Yvonne's beliefs and because of the company's thousands of satisfied clients, Quality Press has become the number one Self - Publishing - Book Packaging house for African Americans in the nation.

You know, as the publishing houses come under increasing pressure to «dumb down'their output, self - publishing may in fact become the best option for authors of high quality literature who the publishers don't regard as sufficiently commercial.

I am a member of NetGalley and have been approached by publishing houses for my quality reviews.

Writing is rewriting as they say, and when you don't have an editor polishing the work as they do at most publishing houses, then the quality of the writing is degraded if you don't have the discipline of making it the best it can be when you self - publish.»

The readers don't care if it was published by CreateSpace or by Random House, as long as it's a quality book,» says Tiemann of the experience.

«As the field of self - publishing matures, the quality of both content and format for many of these titles is becoming indistinguishable from those published by traditional houses,» said Mr. Barblan.

If I say yes to you, the rest will think I'll say yes to them, and next thing you know, to make sure the books I sell remain high - quality enough for my customers, I'm screening which books make it on my shelves and which ones don't, which basically means I'm doing the job of a publishing house now, and damn it, I'm trying to run a bookstore, not a publishing house, so no... you can't put your self - published book on my shelf.

If you're serious about creating a book that will compete in the marketplace with books coming out of the major publishing houses, you need a product that is built to the same quality standard.

While the service offers much of the same things you would expect from any other quality publishing house, the thing that stands out the most about Outskirts Press is that with them you have the ability to set your own royalty rates.

Here are a couple of resources for finding them: http://www.bryndonovan.com/2015/12/28/fantasy-publishers-2016-no-agent-required/ http://www.locusmag.com/Links/Publishers.html (look under «Specialty Publishers») https://www.sfsite.com/depts/small01.htm For self - publishing, I generally advise authors to avoid the Author Solutions self - publishing services (iUnverse, Xlibris, Trafford, AuthorHouse, BookTango, and the self - pub services Author Solutions runs for major publishers, including Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press and Hay House's Balboa Press), since I've received many complaints about quality, price, and high - pressure sales tactics.

The quality of the work was determined by the house that was publishing them and the team assigned to their book.

The publishing house that brought you «Fifty Shades of Grey» announces better quality and lower priced books for loyal customers

With many that go traditional, the main motive is the stamp of quality that publishing through a conventional house supposedly confers.

Some are also published by larger houses - I know Sarah has some work going on with Baen, a house dear to many of us for the quality it puts out.

Since its founding in 1976 by Ridley M. Enslow, Jr., a veteran of major New York publishing houses, Enslow Publishing, has specialized in quality series nonfiction books for children and youpublishing houses, Enslow Publishing, has specialized in quality series nonfiction books for children and youPublishing, has specialized in quality series nonfiction books for children and young adults.

Throughout the infancy and childhood stages of self - publishing, traditional publishing houses, respected newspapers and other media that reviewed books were only too happy to point fingers at the poor quality of self - published work.

It's popularly believed that (1) publishing houses serve as gatekeepers, maintaining publishing quality standards; (2) self - publishing has a lower barrier to entry, allowing people to publish junk; (3) authors self - publish as a last resort, when they fail to get past the publishing house gate - keepers, because their books aren't good enough; and (4) books published outside the publishing houses don't go through a team of book experts to be proofread, formatted, designed, etc., and so are terribly flawed by amateurish production values.

This will allow you to not be dependent on eBook conversion software created by someone else, and you will be able to construct your eBooks entirely from the ground up at a professional level of quality that even some of the big publishing houses lack.

The resources of the publishing house are behind the creation of the cover, which means (usually) a professional, high quality result.

Personally, I find that on average, the quality of self - published books is not of equal value to those that have been published with a publishing house.

But it takes someone with a professional publishing background to apply the quality sheen your book will need if it's to compete with the thousands of other books produced by high - spending publishing houses.

There is, I believe a significant difference between authors published by traditional houses and self - published books in that the latter lack the processes that we can count on to ensure a minimal level of quality, both of content and style.

Drinian Press is a small literary publishing house which supports emerging authors of quality fiction and creative nonfiction.

As author - publishing goes mainstream, more and more of writers are producing books that are indistinguishable in quality from those produced by trade publishing houses.

The biggest issue is the comparative dearth of quality titles — there are more than 100,000 titles overall, but the majority are self - published titles that don't come from the large publishing houses.

Technology now gives independently published books quality to equal that of major publishing houses, and there's no reason your book publicity can't be equal too.

In the old days, vanity houses were the only self - publishing option and most self - pubbed books were badly designed and poorly produced, Today authors can produce high quality books using any of these methods — and some authors combine methods, based on a specific project or need.

«As the field of self - publishing matures,» Barblan says in his statement, «the quality of both content and format for many of these titles is becoming indistinguishable from those published by traditional houses.

As the field of self - publishing matures, the quality of both content and format for many of these titles is becoming indistinguishable from those published by traditional houses.

It's about persuading readers that the quality of our book is up to the standard of anything they can get from any publishing house from anywhere around the world.

Typically your first piece heralds the decline and fall of the traditional legal publishing houses and their commitment to «the quality, expertise and suitability of their content», as cost saving and outsourcing become the order of the day.

«Today, I am pleased to announce that we are contributing $ 9.76 million towards the Quality and Accessible Legal Aid project,» James Bezan from the Canadian House of Commons said in a statement published on the ministry's website Friday.