All I seem to get is
running into other authors who are promoting their books.
Not exact matches
Attempts by municipalities to do it themselves were
running into legal problems... and the only good news the
author was seeing was coming from Google Fiber, which had pushed ahead as a means of pushing its
other products and «disrupting» what Surowiecki described as a stagnant market otherwise.
Other top editors, including the venerable Harvey Ginsberg, would squire her books through the process of publication, but while she touches on advances and print
runs and marketing plans, Godwin, sadly, doesn't really provide much insight
into what she calls the «dance partnership» between
author and editor.
I get constant feedback when I
run into people about how «well» and «successful» my book is doing, and in turn, they comment to
others about it in this way, which has helped me build a readership and
author brand.»
In
other words, what is the likelihood that an
author going with traditional publishing is likely to
run into it?
Just the
other day I listened to an
author talk about scams he
ran into when he first self - published.
If you're a new
author — and a self - published
author at that, you are very likely
running into the questions of how much to charge for your book, how much money you will get (a impolite way to say royalties) and how much to discount the book to buyers from your distributor - discounts in
other words to book stores.
So even though folks buy more books, decreasing the price on ebooks won't necessarily translate
into more sales or more profits for the
authors; instead, the money that would have gone
into buying the book may be used for
other forms of entertainment, such as eating or having
running water.
I
ran into a wonderful book called, The Beautiful Tree, in which the
author discusses his observations about the abundance of private schools that meet the needs of the world's poor because governments are not up to the task due to corruption, lack of accountability, poor incentives, and
other factors.