Why would only
a small fraction of published authors be wildly successful if Publishers were so good?
Not exact matches
While only a
small fraction of its content is
published on Hudson Valley One, subscribers get the whole thing - including famously lively letters section.
A computational theory
published Feb. 24 in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates that any two systems can be made to look alike, even if just for the
smallest fraction of a second.
Typically, these journals
publish only a
small fraction of the papers they receive and for the most part they rely on professional editors rather than active scholars to make key editorial decisions.
If the available stats are to be believed I make more than only a
small fraction of traditionally
published authors.
Why does this matter so much?Says Coker: «Self -
published authors today only account for a
small fraction of book sales in the industry.
And cutting pictures into
smaller fractions for an ebook series saves time, has the potential
of looking quite nice but it's better to know just how many books will be
published beforehand.
(These 535 are only a
fraction of all mysteries
published last year, given independent presses,
small presses, and self -
published works, too.)
It is an enormously successful dot.com, but its success is at the same time destroying the traditional equilibrium in book
publishing, making the business untenable for all but a
small fraction of successful players.
And that, in turn, has sold copies
of other books by those authors because they are often indie or
small / micro press
published authors and I can buy their books at a
fraction of the price
of the legacy
published books.
And the
fraction of all Big Five traditionally -
published authors who will ever see their book in a supermarket, Costco, or airport bookstore is infinitesimally
small.
But that compares ALL self -
published authors and only a
small fraction of people who go the traditional route.
With thousands
of new books
published in Canada (Q&Q reviews titles by Canadian authors / illustrators / editors almost exclusively) each year, it's impossible for Q&Q to review more than a
small fraction.
And while it shows that the number
of translations
published by
small and large presses is growing (albeit slowly), the total is still a
fraction of the whole book market.
We imagine that the digital audience is huge, but it's still only a
small fraction of consumers
of published art.
We can estimate the potential magnitude
of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias
of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat
smaller than that
of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss
of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant
fraction of all
published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].