Sentences with phrase «rather than the traditional publisher»

In this new role as a partner rather than a traditional publisher, however, I became more engaged with the lives of the businesses and organisations I've worked with, and over the course of the last year came a quiet revelation: to stretch the astronomical metaphor to its limits, the book is not a lone star but the centre of a solar system.

Others will be sufficiently seduced by the prospect of earning «100 % of net» rather than the traditional publisher offer of «15 % of net.»

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.

Had this seemingly groundbreaking movement begun with traditional publishers ten years ago, right when the digital book revolution was just barely beginning to stir, traditional publishers could have OWNED this industry rather than simply reacting to it.

Find an Agent — Most traditional publishers would rather deal with a community of trusted agents who know the publishing industry than wade through mountains of submissions, themselves.

Almost all publishers only accept submissions through agents, so they are essential gatekeepers for anyone trying to sell a book in the traditional market rather than self - publishing.

Made me more than ever want to self - publish rather than keep waiting for traditional publishers to decide.

Even with traditional publishers, it's more and more common to see an author marketing his own works rather than being able to rely on their publisher to do the job.

As long as traditional publishers believe their role is to receive and filter rather than proactively hunt down talent, they'll become increasingly irrelevant.

Rather than opening with the interesting news of what this highly respected pair have found in their most recent quarter of evaluation, they lead with a sarcastic recitation of ways they assert that the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the traditional industry have incorrectly characterized the ebook market in the past 18 months or so.

The rest of this article is really three discussions: Why self - publish rather than use a traditional publisher, why entrepreneurs and others who seek to stand out for career or creatuve purposes should self - publish, and finally, HOW does one go about self - publishing.

That may seem like a nightmare for traditional publishers, but just as innovations like the VCR and the compact disc seemed to spell doom for the movie and music industries and later turned out to be massive profit - generating mechanisms, publishers could find that e-books — even at much lower prices — are a boon rather than a disaster.

Despite the advances, traditional publishing will probably always exist and, rather than changing, some people still look down upon any book that is not published by a traditional publisher.

All kidding aside, I chose to E-publish rather than continue the short story publication rounds or wait on traditional publishers to deem me worthy for several reasons.

The lawsuit alleges Apple and the book publishers employed an «agency model» in which publishers set their own e-book prices, rather than the traditional wholesale model in which publishers set a retail price and retailers set their own sales price.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

The store doesn't get much out of that, but the publisher and author HAVE already been protected with the traditional arrangement (rather than the «Agent» route).

In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.

Rather than attempt to shop the book around to traditional publishers, he instead decided to post chapters of the novel on a blog page.

That's how you know you're working with a firm that is more likely to treat your book as a unique product in the marketplace — as a traditional publisher would — rather than as another widget on the assembly line.

* July 13, 2011: An early interview with me conducted at the 1stIndieAuthors website covered: why I wrote the book, and what inspired it; what prompted me to become a writer; how I came up with the book's title; why I waited until age 62 to write my first novel; why I chose to be an «indie» author rather than seek a traditional publisher; and the prospects for future Dylan Hunter novels.

Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.

The panel concluded that while boxes around industries are dissolving as everything can be viewed through one device, publishers need to think clearly rather than just tinker with their own model.The traditional linear model of author - to - publisher - to - retailer - to - consumer no longer holds true.

The benefit of working with a traditional publisher, rather than with an author who's self - published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.

A low - priority queue of manuscripts and book proposals that were sent to a traditional publisher directly by the author, rather than through a literary agent.

This will be interesting to watch because it comes out of a traditional publisher, includes well - regarded digital innovator Sarah Lloyd, plans to poach other publishers» authors, and looks set to play by the new digital rules rather than those of its corporate parent.

Discounting eBooks by traditional publishers is a slippery slope but it seems that they will inevitably be forced down that path sooner rather than later.

Honestly, so do I. I'd love to see traditional publishers continue — with good author contracts and with an acknowledgement that they work in partnership with authors rather than believing that writers are necessary idiots.

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.

Rather than trying to hold back the tide with agency pricing and draconian DRM policies, traditional publishers need to figure out how to survive and thrive in a publishing world which is changing just as dramatically and even more rapidly.

So, you're saying that you might actually make more self - publishing a book rather than going with a traditional (paper) publisher like Tuttle?

And while it used to be an «all or nothing» deal with traditional (aka legacy) publishers, today's editors are willing to compromise with indie authors, often splitting up digital, print, and subsidiary rights rather than simply acquiring them all.

I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers, some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).

But if you are going to publish your book with a traditional publisher rather than self - publishing, your publisher would probably object to the actual content of your book being online.

Other authors are, however, dispatching more direct challenges to the traditional publishing industry model by signing deals directly with e-book retailers, rather than through their publishers.

At last a focus on quality of storytelling and artistic intention using the best tools and platforms available rather than an obsession with new gadgets and the woes of traditional publishers.

Traditional authors treat publishers as their customers, because that's who pays them for manuscripts, rather than focusing on the reader, who wants to pay for the book.

The subscription service has several of the major traditional publishers signed up but they only make their backlists available rather than new releases.

He then finally caps it off with talk of Bioware's next game Anthem, which is looking very like Destiny rather than a Bioware RPG, and how it's a sign of the end for single - player games at the publisher: «It's not a traditional - looking BioWare game, right?