Sentences with phrase «rather than publishers»

We need more browsers that treat their users, rather than publishers, as their customers.

Rather than publishers stocking Baker & Taylor's warehouses with more SKUs, VIP aggregates customers» electronic orders and passes them onto our participating publishers, who pack and ship the orders back to Baker & Taylor within 24 hours to meet the demand.

The Kindle Reader software is specifically for readers, rather than publishers.)

But they need to become obsessed with the reader as the customer, rather than the publishers as the customer.

After determining that the contracts were imposed by Amazon rather than the publishers, that spoke to a clearer «abuse of dominance» matter than collusion with the publishers.

Yet, traditionally pubbed authors seem to be mad solely at Amazon, rather than publishers.

Rather than publishers doing the price, larger stores could drive all their competition out of the business, and when you have no where else to go, bring the prices up.

But YouTube, which like Facebook and Twitter would rather be seen as neutral «platforms» rather than publishers, doesn't take the same kind of responsibility for its content that a television broadcaster is required to.

You were able to test the waters on a blog, rather than a publisher having to take a chance on you.

She and I agree that a better term for good self - publication is probably something like self - directed publishing, meaning that the author is the one overseeing and calling the shots rather than a publisher.

BUT there is also one other aspect which self - publishing authors don't take into account: the public, rather than a publisher, becomes the gatekeeper to their success, and the public is much harder to impress by far.

Self - publishers need to pay their editors before they see any return in this investment in their novels; but this also means that the editor is accountable only to the author rather than the publisher, and will always put the author's best interests and needs first.

It would be unfortunate if this was blocked, since many authors don't have direct access to the sales numbers provided by Amazon for Kindle books unless they are self - published and added it themselves rather than their publisher.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

Davis - Goff added: «It will be fascinating to sit at the other side of the table in this process, as a writer rather than a publisher.

An increasing number of trad published authors are reporting little or no promotional help... basically the publisher requires the author already have a proven following before even signing them up... and then hands them a to - do list that basically is things for the author, rather than the publisher, to do.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Together with micropayments service Flattr, it is also trying to develop a way for publishers to collect money directly from readers, rather than relying on the ad business to stay afloat.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

Rather than building costly specialized infrastructure dedicated for the top video sites and charging high prices for this access, ISPs and network providers should focus on how to segment video traffic for fast delivery to publishers of all sizes.

The company said that it will alter its news feed algorithm to prioritize content from users» friends rather than brand or publisher pages.

Rather than charging consumers $ 70 a pop as they do now, publishers would have more flexibility if they were getting a cut of resold games, which they don't now.

Though a few mainstream media companies such as Disney were among them, they also included Netscape, Yahoo!, CKS, America Online, and C / Net — the kind of high - flying Internet companies Wired magazine wrote about rather than the sorts of print publishers Wired Ventures resembled.

The advent of Facebook's Instant Articles, where publishers will now host their content directly on Facebook rather than on their own websites, and Google following suite with its Accelerated Mobile Pages project are both dangerous new developments, he says.

Much as it is possible for someone to get rewarded for performing a work — as opposed to writing it, which involves copyright — publishers would get to command fees for the stuff their writers write, based their own (new) rights rather than the copyright held by the journalist.

That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.

The best native DSP is joining the best discovery, to carry online advertising into a new era without interruptive ads, and a business model that works for the publishers rather than against them...

As a result, a Canadian publisher is considering launching his edition of this work (to which he does not have the rights) in the US rather than at home in Canada.

Data telling publishers the top terms being used to find their web sites will be available for up to one year in Google Webmaster Tools, rather than the current 90 days, Google has said.

If Christian publishers ought to be searching seriously for the next generation of essayists and story crafters rather than putting so much emphasis on Bible - study tomes and self - help books.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

«Christians» rather than rallying to ban their Bible publisher for changing their hallowed book continue to inject Billlions of dollars into a publisher that serves prophet over Prophet.

Organizing lives according to desire rather than convention is exactly why Susan Pease Gadoua and I are writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (which has a publisher, Seal Press, and is set for a fall 2014 publication date — yay!)

The trend toward finding and consuming news through social networks rather than coming directly to their sites leaves many publishers grappling with what it all means for their business.

He noted that unlike broadcast networks, online platforms are not obligated to disclose political advertising expenditures, even as many campaigns pay advertising agencies rather than pay online publishers directly.

Comic writers, artists and publishers will be watching carefully to see the first prosecution under the law for signs of how strictly enforced it will be, rather than trusting Ministry of Justice assurance that it will only apply to paedophilic cartoons and animation.

AAAS presented Kokabee with the 2014 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in absentia «in recognition of his willingness to endure imprisonment rather than apply his scientific expertise for destructive purposes and for his efforts to provide hope and education to fellow prisoners,» said Alan Leshner, then AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei requesting Kokabee's release.

The awards, an internationally recognized measure of excellence in science journalism for a general audience, go to individuals (rather than institutions, publishers, or employers) for coverage of the sciences, engineering, and mathematics

By suing CompuServe, as provider of the computer on which the material is temporarily stored, rather than individual users of the system, the music publishers hope to create a precedent.

That said, a possible compromise has recently appeared on the horizon: only two weeks ago, PubMed Central announced it would allow participating publishers to link back to their own Web sites, rather than insist that they display full - text articles on the NIH server.

Such archives, however, mostly contain the authors» final version of the manuscript rather than the published, version of record available on the publisher's website.

The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the human brain.

Publishers may end up generating income by offering those services, he says, rather than relying on publishing alone to pay the bills.

Likewise, reports or articles referred to in news stories are best obtained from the publisher of the individual report or article, rather than New Scientist, which is simply writing about the report.

These publishers typically finance their operations by publication charges levied on the authors of the articles, reversing the business model from being content sellers to being dissemination service providers, making the authors their clients rather than the readers.

But rather than merely recount the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times and The Washington Post, The Post shifts its focus to slight north of center, to the newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, whose moment of empowerment in supporting her reporters — and discovering her own voice in a male - dominated community — makes for one of the most satisfying, and equally relevant, journeys of the year.

In giving us a proto - feminist heroine in the form of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, striking a 1st Amendment blow against a corrupt presidential administration, «The Post» might have gambled a bit too boldly, reverse - engineering its own relevance rather than allowing it to arise organically from the material.

What I'm saying here is that publishers, more and more, want to give readers bite - sized, innocuous information about film rather than any kind of critical point - of - view.

The publishers assume that audiences want to be flattered rather than having a critic with an independent and critical viewpoint [critique a Julia Roberts movie].

Rather than the far more famous Watergate scandal that rocked America and in which the Washington Post also played a major part, the film focuses on the Pentagon Papers, and the relationship between the paper's editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), and the first ever female publisher of a major newspaper, Kay Graham (Meryl Streep).