Sentences with phrase «small handful of publishers»

A small handful of publishers have successfully monopolized the market eliminating price competition and because students are usually required to have the most up - to - date publications, used copies can be difficult to come by and rarely offer much of a price break.

Not exact matches

But as some areas see sales shrink, there may be further consolidation in the increasingly smaller book publishing industry, which is now down to a handful of publicly traded giants with book publishing arms, including News Corp., which owns MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.

The conference will also host a handful of exhibitors offering a breadth of services specifically designed for aspiring authors and small - to midsized - publishers.

So far only a handful of smaller comics publishers, such as Arcana and Seven Seas Manga, have signed on formally, but Elder told LJ that iVerse has «handshake deals» with several larger names which it hopes to finalize and announce in the next few weeks.

«When we started ComiXology it was with a handful of comics from deals done directly with creators and very small publishers,» said co-founder and CEO of the company, David Steinberger.

«It and a handful of other large publishers have taken over pricing of their own e-books,» Boston Review points out, «But smaller houses have not been so lucky.»

Each year, America's remaining comic book shops (and a handful in the UK that can afford the extra shipping charges) lure fans and curious onlookers inside their brick - and - mortar hideaways with a great big batch of free new comics from all the major publishers and a bevy of smaller competitors deserving shelf space and consideration.

I'm also not self - pub, but my publisher is a very small indie press with only a few titles and a handful of authors.

«Publisher profits are holding up and, broadly, so are total book sales if you include ebooks but authors are receiving less per book and less overall due mainly to the fact that they are only paid a small percentage of publishers» net receipts on ebooks and because large advances have gone except for a handful of celebrity authors.»

Granted, you likely won't find any book from a larger traditional publisher selling only 100 copies, but these figures include the numerous smaller presses, where some books indeed may sell only a handful of copies.]