Sentences with phrase «side of publishing houses»

And there are so many other pressures on editors from the business side of publishing houses — they may love a book, yet not be allowed to buy it because their house can't afford to take a chance.

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He said his decision to haul the media houses together with the petitioner to court, is because the journalists who published the story failed to hear his side of the issue before publishing.

Graeme Hague has been traditionally published by Pan Macmillan, Random House and Simon & Schuster, and has been self - publishing for over ten years bringing experience from both sides of the industry.

She also continued with the «house» metaphor that leads you from publishing, to the active marketing side of things.

Unlike the Penguin / Random House deal where the two sides actually merged together to now publish 1/4 of all books in the world.

Agents also, at times, helped on the promotion side of things, making sure a book didn't get forgotten inside a publishing house.

I would add on the side of traditional publishing that 1) It is easier to get national publicity because producers give more weight to a traditionally published book, particularly from a larger house (though some self - published authors certainly do get national publicity as well — it's just harder, in general and 2) a traditional publisher is generally going to bring a great deal of experience to the table — from improving the cover or title to layout and design.

On the opposite side, my neighbor Yuri, one of the greatest men I know, used a pay - for - print publishing house to create a hardback version of his tenuous survival as a teenager in war - torn Europe during the Second World War.

However, on the flip side, Penguin is having hard time dealing with Amazon who has got into selling some of its hardcover editions at a very low price, thereby dealing a blow to the publishing house.

I've edited on both sides of the desk, and I assure you there are mindlessly destructive editors at big publishing houses - and brilliant freelance editors as well.

E.L. James published the 50 Shades trilogy with a small Australian publisher before the rights were snapped up by Random House on both sides of the Atlantic in April.

Since the company was playing catch - up to some extent with Amazon's Kindle — at least in the e-reader department — it came up with a way of getting the major publishing houses on its side: instead of the wholesale - pricing approach that existed prior to Apple's entry into the market, which gave retailers (including Amazon) the ability to set book prices wherever they wanted, the agency model would allow publishers to set the price.

That certainly squares with the new leaks published by Blass, which show thin bezels on the side of the phone and only enough of a frame on the top and bottom of the phone to house dual front - facing speakers.