Sentences with phrase «small number of publishers»

The second being a fairly small number of publishers represented — Ape, Arcana, Archie, Bluewater, Boom!

I only imply that what is best for the rather small number of publishers who sell the majority of textbooks [1], is not likely to be good for the consumer.

Not exact matches

But the other parts are going to make sense to a number of smaller publishers, since it takes costs off the table for them and could result in additional revenue (how much remains to be seen).

It has signed up a number of big publishers, including HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin, as well as smaller ones like Workman Publishing and Perseus.

It is the case that large - and middle - sized for - profit publishers and university presses as well as a number of new small presses now publish substantial numbers of books by mainline Protestant writers.

Unfortunately, with a small number of bookstores and libraries to support local book sales, there are challenges for publishers selling within the country.

Their hope is that a small number of people who have read the complete book for the purpose of doing a review, will report any content errors directly to the author, publisher or the website that the advanced reader copy was downloaded from.

This news should serve as a conversation starter for authors and publishers — especially smaller press publishing houses — who have yet to explore the options of international distribution, an important market option considering the lack of available English language content in direct proportion to the numbers of English speakers in many of these countries.

There remains, however, a small number of companies that refer to themselves as a «publisher» but only offer to publish an author for a fee.

What I like about it is, smaller publishers with both a fee - based service and a commercial imprint might not be eligible because the number of vanity - published titles would be too large.

Most publishers, especially small press, have a finite number of books they put out each year.

I met Patricia when I joined the Small Publishers Artists and Writers Network (SPAWN) a number of years ago.

However, self - published authors can still participate in the Preassigned Control Number program (PCN), if they register themselves as a small, U.S. - based publisher with the Library of Congress and if they have bought their own ISBNs via Bowker.

POD publishers, who accept almost anything sent to them, have few staff, and rely on selling small numbers of many titles, mainly due to the efforts of the authors.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

Udig is the product of two separate divisions of Andrews McMeel Universal: Andrews McMeel Publishing, which focuses on print books, and Universal UClick, which syndicates comics to a number of platforms, from computers to mobile devices; UClick was one of the first publishers of comics for cell phones, back when screens were small and phones were dumb (2006).

With the number of fantastic small presses and ebook publishers out there today, getting an internship with a publisher has never been easier.

When the small Christian publisher that bought our first novel recently was unable to publish it due to crises, we realized that we really wanted to self - publish after all because of a number of factors.

My small publisher has the ISBN number now but I have 7 of my own to choose from.

The real news is that over the last five years a series of structural changes in the market — a dramatic increase in the number of people able to read e-books, online retailers able to keep books in stock and in print indefinitely, and major publishers abandoning the mid-list — have made it possible for individuals and small organizations to define publishing success differently.

We'll feature a small number of case studies at the conference, highlighting some of the innovative ways children's publishers are working to break out new titles across age segments.

During the last few years Amazon categorically informed a large number of small and medium sized publishers that Amazon would not negotiate agency selling terms with any other publishers outside of the five initial Apple partners.

One of the initial headaches for publishers of tablet - based books and magazines, especially where the Android platform was concerned, was publishers were having to adapt their content to the various screen sizes, a fact that can only be exacerbated with the smaller Kindle Fire tablet, iPad Mini, and Nook HD, as well as the growing numbers of people who are comfortably reading magazines and newspapers on their smartphones.

There are numbers of indie publishers / writers who are building their own small and medium - sized publishing business, and thus are kicked out of the indie charts and over into that category.

The number of today's bestsellers from small to medium publisher debut authors is also growing year over year, although not at the same explosive rate with which indie debuts are grabbing and holding slots on the charts.

However, she added, a number of independent and smaller publishers are proving «much more flexible on terms,» and «much more eager» to work with libraries.

At this year's event, there were an almost overwhelming number of companies who offer digital publishing services to both authors and publishers, big or small.

With the emergence of a growing number of smaller - sized tablet devices, advertisers and publishers will need to understand whether these devices limit the opportunity for advertising compared to their larger - screen counterparts, or if they are able to build incremental reach and engagement by presenting different use cases.

Last month, ComiXology launched its own subscription service, comiXology Unlimited, that features thousands of comics from publishers like Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics and a number of other small and midtier publishers.

At least one publisher, John Wiley & Sons Inc., recommends ResultSource to a small number of business authors.

Which brings me neatly to the marketing argument: that most professionally published books are woefully under - marketed by publishers, who seem obsessed with throwing millions of dollars at billboard advertising for a small number of superstars, while everyone else is left to organise their own book tour, or plug their titles on their Facebook fan pages.

Emma Barnes is co-founder of publishing software house Onix Central and UK indie publisher Snowbooks, which has won a number of awards including Small Publisher of the Year, Independent Trade Publisher of the Year and the Innovation of the Year for creating XML / XSL wpublisher Snowbooks, which has won a number of awards including Small Publisher of the Year, Independent Trade Publisher of the Year and the Innovation of the Year for creating XML / XSL wPublisher of the Year, Independent Trade Publisher of the Year and the Innovation of the Year for creating XML / XSL wPublisher of the Year and the Innovation of the Year for creating XML / XSL workflows.

Sarah Bolme presents A Marketing Snafu posted at Marketing Christian Books, saying, «A large number of books by small publishers and independently published authors cross my desk each year.

In that case, there are quite a number of small, specialized publishers who have sprung up.

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of... [Read more...]

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of playing the publishing game.

The option to bundle ebooks can be especially helpful for smaller press publishers, digital - first or ebook - only publishers, or indie authors with a number of titles, as it helps with the discoverability while not forcing the rights» holder to focus their resources on separate marketing strategies for each different book.

«We're working with a number of major educational publishers to transform their content for epub and kindle, and other devices,» continued Gross, «and it sure seems that all major publishers, as well as smaller [ones], have projects in the wings for at least moving some content over.

The data was gained through publisher submission and doesn't take into account a number of small and micro-publishers, nor does it take into account self - published authors.

There are already hundreds of authors effectively self - publishing to Kindle, and quite a number of small publishers who are happy to work the ebook market.

In fact, the largest number of editorial horror stories I've heard have come from not from writers at big and medium - sized publishers, but from unpublished or self - published writers who hired less - than - qualified independent editors (there are a lot of them out there), or from small press authors whose inexperienced publishers employed editors without the proper professional skills.

One interesting caveat, here's a quote from Google's ebook info page, «A small number of ebooks may not be enabled for download to your eReader due to limits set by the publisher; those ebooks will display an alert message («No download files included») before you purchase or get the ebook.»

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

Over past decade, this change of the large number of smaller or independent publishers being consumed by larger publishing houses has caused many publishing houses to avoid taking any kinds of risks in terms of financial gains.

However, as Florrie Binford Kichler President of the IBPA, points out, «The reality is that Amazon has levelled the playing field for smaller publishers, enabling them to reach readers online in huge numbers, and publish their content quickly, easily and efficiently.»

If the number of free book offerings this past week is any indication, there are a number of authors and small publishers taking advantage of this program.

Publishers won't allow it (take a look at B&N's store sometime, and note the very small number of books that you can share, even with the crippled Nook sharing scheme).

Pubsoft, as a start - up, is still working with a limited number of companies but has a two tiered pricing system for both larger and smaller publishers.

Certainly, Amazon has issues too, however, the big traditional publishers, Barnes and Noble, and the group of literary agents connected to this model have made a very good living from working with a relatively small number of authors that sell a lot of books.