Sentences with phrase «rather than authors»

But perhaps that is a question that will be answered by the electorate, rather than the authors, in times to come.

Third, DRM will put the power in the hands of the technology companies that control the DRM standards, rather than authors and publishers, by locking customers and businesses into a proprietary platform.15 Author Cory Doctorow sums up the problem:

Founded in 2015 by local author Debbie Young, it is now a permanent fixture in the Cotswolds» cultural calendar on the closest Saturday to World Book Night, the global celebration of books and reading that is focused on readers rather than authors.

Those, however, were more useful for people in the early stages of researching or writing a book, rather than authors with a finished product.

So I wondered, would it be possible to hit zero and then keep progressing in the negative direction, so that rather than authors earning money from readers they're paying readers to read?

By continuously producing quality content and leveraging free promotions, you'll find that your competition will be other indie authors rather than authors who utilize publishers.

That is, they were editors rather than authors.

These translations reflect the worldview of the translator or the receptor rather than the author's.

The reason for this emphasis, I believe, lies in the interest of such scholars in interpreting text rather than author, in exploring the expression of the text rather than the intentionality of the author.

The Case Against Cardio piqued some great conversation and interesting criticisms (one soul out there in the webosphere took issue with the fact that I positioned Cardio exclusively from my personal perspective as a runner rather than authoring a more scholarly article.

Also, some things I'd rather decide for myself what they look like, rather than the author telling me.

Chief among them is the Author's Guild, an organization that actively works to block self - published authors from its inner sanctum by imposing hefty sales requirements before indie authors can join, thus making them a retailer's guild, rather than an author's guild.

It's not that strange that learning to be a publisher (rather than an author) might take a bit of time, too.

If you are not recognized as an author yet, you will probably want to emphasize the title of your book rather than your author name.

We might wish to be author - artists rather than author - business - professionals.

When browsing the iBooks store, I would also like to see the books sorted by title, rather than author.

Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering and Rachel Bernstein, Product Manager, Google Research said in a blog post «Talk to Books is an entirely new way to explore books by starting at the sentence level, rather than the author or topic level.

I mean already have to read Facebook posts from authors about hitting every conceivable niche bestseller list for that day or hour on Amazon but now I have to puzzle over what it means to be a NYT bestselling animal book (which is, I assume, by topic rather than author — though I suspect my collie Hamish would love to be on this list!).

And (2) the famous 70 - percent royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be figured on the actual price of the sale (in this case, 99 cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.

Publishing to the ebook format, again from the designer's point of view rather than the author's point of view, not only requires one to redo all the layout and design of the book, but simplifying the design anew is like doing your whole layout in Word or producing a cover graphic in MS Paint.

In fact, I would choose an audiobook based on the narrator rather than the author or even the genre of the book.

I wish writers would use their member - of - the - reading - public brains rather than their author brains every once in a while.

Another tactic is to upload a previous MOBI eBook: the logic being that if the customers get the wrong eBook, they'll blame Amazon rather than the author for releasing an unedited manuscript.

By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to use and adapt, she defines herself as an initiator rather than an author, and often collaborates with multiple institutions as well as many individuals so that the full realization of her artwork occurs when others adopt and perpetuate it.

Not exact matches

But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.

What you can do: Encourage employees to tweet with their own personal voice rather than taking on a scripted tone — a strategy Peter Shankman, founder of the New York - based consulting firm Shankman / Honig and author of Nice Companies Finish First (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) calls «shredding the scripts.»

By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»

By helping your employees build that brand rather than squelching individuality, you can build an army of very powerful advocates,» says Ted Rubin, author of Return on Relationship #RonR and Dynamic Signal adviser.

What's more, as the authors point out, the sectors in the U.S. economy that benefit from more trade, rather than are hurt by it, are rising.

To fairly assess a newcomer within weeks rather than months, it's critical for the manager to provide the right support, says Roger Chevalier, California - based management consultant and author of A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance.

Host and bestselling author Chris Hogan instills that readiness for retirement is about financial preparation rather than age, and his tone empowers listeners to believe that they are in charge their own futures.

According to Seth Godin, author of 13 bestselling business books, the job of a CEO is to think of big ideas rather than micro-communicating.

Breakthrough ideas ripple across time, as Where Good Ideas Come From author Steven Johnson says, rather than occur in an enormous rogue wave from out of nowhere.

Devora Zack, author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett - Koehler, 2010) says introverts can still enjoy holiday parties by understanding and working with, rather than against, their natural temperament.

Martin Lindstrom, author of Small Data, said shopping has become incredibly impulse driven: «I'm increasingly making decisions on my mobile based on where I am, rather than what I need.»

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

Too often we'll uncritically embrace a study that promises a great headline, rather than looking hard at the claims of the tall foreheads who authored it.

The Internet giant recently announced it would pay certain authors based on the number of pages read in a book, rather than the number of times that a work is downloaded.

In «Mushrooms and Yeast: The Implications of Technological Progress for Canada's Economic Growth,» author Peter Howitt finds that rather than focusing on supporting specific industries, governments should encourage and harness economic growth through a process of «creative destruction.»

Recognizing that money was essentially a social and legal institution, a creation of the state, the author urged the government to finance the railroads by printing its own money rather than borrowing from private banks and investors.

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

Despite the equity, some people — including Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad — consider homes a liability, since they absorb rather than generate money.

In «The Case of the Vanishing Quebec Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care,» author Claude E. Forget, former Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services, calls for primary care reforms that focus on providing more care in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitals.

(«Narcissism is a psychocultural affliction rather than a physical disease,» as the authors put it.)

[101] Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate [101] and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

I was also surprised that the author used the word «Bible» rather than «Torah».

There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

In fairness to the author, the word used to describe the imagined spouse is «faithless» not «unfaithful», with the connotation of non-Christian or non-practising rather than adulterous.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

But for now, lest it appear to some readers that we are in dialogue with a phantom scientific ideal rather than with one that is seriously held, let us recall the famous statement of F.H.C. Crick, the celebrated Nobel - prize winning molecular biologist and author of the book, Of Molecules and Men: