Sentences with phrase «rather work with a publisher»

That said, I'd much rather work with a publisher who shared my vision, even if the sales didn't end up being as strong.

All things said, like most writers I'd rather work with a publisher — but not as an indentured servant.

Not exact matches

It could be referred, coming from a man who works in the financial side of the publisher, that monetization tools such as microtransactions could be delivered after the launch rather than be re-balanced at a later stage as it happened with Star Wars Battlefront II.

Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

I'd rather have a publisher and someone who is working with me and helping me promote than to do every single thing alone.

The IDPF standard will eventually allow publishers, converters, distributors and retailers to work with one file format, rather than five or six.

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.

The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

Not only is Paperight working to put print editions in reader's hands rather than the more affordable, more accessible digital versions, it's also contracting with photocopying shops to print books on their copy machines, something that raises eyebrows among publishers.

Rather than describing a situation in which publishers withheld great books from consumers (which is what it sounds like on the surface of his argument), Byng feels that publishers should cut their titles — and therefore the number of authors they work with — and instead focus all of their efforts and attention on a few titles that they deem worthy.

Some of the recipes are short enough that I can transcribe it by typing it in again to the computer, but I feel offended that I can not deal with this in an efficient manner rather than a work around, working around the paranoia of publishers.

Yet, as Dvorak also notes, the Kindle seems particularly friendly to shorter works, including novellas and short stories, rather than the ever - longer books publishers have been pushing for the past decade or two in an attempt to equate value with tonnage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I gave up a larger advance to be able to work with a publisher that would better bring those to the table (rather than go with the big 6 offer on the table).

Mr. Brunner said Amazon should be less concerned with creating something new just for the sake of it and «rather than just take a book and drop it on the Kindle, they could work with publishers to create content for their device.»

Apple is happy to work with publishers rather than dictate terms, because it sees it as a two - sided market - Apple makes its revenue from hardware, and content is merely a something that makes the hardware more attractive.

Essig replied by saying that the midway publishing option is already taking place — where indie developers are much more ambitious and are keen on working with big publishers rather than self - publish.

Furthermore, with many fans rallying behind his upcoming project Death Stranding, Kojima may even find more success as an indie developer rather than working for a different publisher.

Rather than work through large law firms, bar associations (particularly the ABA), law schools and large legal publishers, all which where innovation has gone to die — or at best moved far too slow, these folks are moving with sound ideas — and moving now.

We might begin by working with publishers to arrive at a fair and competitive market pricing for publishing an article (including platform costs and investments in future improvements), rather than replicating monopoly pricing determined by discipline grant levels.

Focusing on these selected pearls of professional information, learning and compliance and working with, rather than for legal and professional publishers, one might imagine where they are going and indeed converging.

Music publishing house Wixen has filed suit against music app Spotify for $ 1.6 billion, on the grounds that the streaming service went only to the record labels who worked with the publishers in order to license music, rather than putting in the extra time, effort, and money to work individually with each of the publishers -LSB-...]