Sentences with phrase «screwing over their authors»

Not to mention, you will be giving your money to a company that is known for screwing over their authors.

Not exact matches

How do you think your author is going to feel when they discover that you've screwed them over?

Apparently, you can add being screwed out of equal pay for authoring a frigging book to the list: researchers at Queens College have discovered that books written by female authors are, on average, sold for just over 50 % less than those written by a dude.

As for authors, Harlequin wants to make money and they will screw you over to get every last penny from you.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

The only reason they didn't go through with it was they got caught price fixing and trying to screw authors and readers over.

In the end, major publishers are screwing readers over high e-book pricing and the ball is in the indie authors court to be able to demonstrate that they can prove to the big trade houses that they know more about effective e-book pricing than they do.

The problem seems to be that, whilst Publishers should have an incentive to maximise their revenues from Amazon, and thus maximise royalties to authors, they appear to be screwing both themselves, and their authors, over by settings prices at levels that ensure that they both get less money out of Amazon than they might otherwise do.

I've been very active and vocal in informing authors about how self - pubbing has advantages over legacy publishing, and how legacy publishing tends to screw the majority of authors.

I don't think this is going to screw over indie authors.

Then they wrote contracts that essentially would screw most authors over and wonder why the author didn't give the money back.

Until that changes, I don't see any future where Amazon will just outright screw authors over.

Were it to happen, you can imagine how many indie authors this would screw over.

Ferdinand, I started having a look at the relevant papers, and noticed a couple of things: Soden was a co-author of the 2002 Wielicki paper you cite, in 2002 Soden was lead author of yet another paper in Science, this one focused on the effects of the Pinatubo eruption, Wielicki and Wong (also an author of the 2002 Wielicki paper) were in turn co-authors of a 2003 IEEE paper debunking the iris effect, and... how in the world can so many scientists, many of them frequent collaborators, screw up something this fundamental over such a long period of time and have most of it get through peer review in the same prestigious publication?

At first I thought the author had been screwed over by her husband and was going to reveal all the pain and suffering it had caused.