Sentences with phrase «sold by the major publishers»

Most of the titles available are all being sold by major publishers and do not include the normal public domain books that normally populate sales like this.

Not exact matches

The news is backed up by recent deals with major publishers for first novels, like Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven, an immigrant tale of two women, two cultures, family secrets and the fight to find a new life in America, sold to NAL this year by veteran agent Jill Marsal.

Despite efforts from different major publishers to sell books directly through their own websites, even in the face of pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.

As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the price range of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.

Amazon sells a copious amounts of magazines by major publishers and you can pinch and zoom to read the text if its too small, but little else.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and for others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

Both author and musician have a similar goal: being picked up by a major publisher / label, or selling enough books / music (and merchandise) to make a living.

And of course authors and publishers can sell books online through major retailers such as Amazon, both by uploading ebooks and by using print - on - demand or vendor programs to sell to consumers.

Our books are published by the major publishing companies, are available everywhere, sell tens of millions of copies worldwide and regularly appear on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists... but the actual craft of tie - in writing goes largely unrecognized and is greatly misunderstood.

And isn't it really the publishers who will be affected by a major retailer's inability to sell ebooks at comparable prices, effectively hurting the authors as well?

I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie authors I know, after they hit the bestseller lists on Amazon).

When you visit the bookstore there is a number of bestselling titles by French authors and major publishers list of all of their books to be sold.

By displaying the available ebooks in the various publisher catalogs to patrons, as well as linking the libraries websites to several major online book selling retailers, libraries stand to benefit from the affiliates» program while patrons have the option to purchase ebooks that their libraries may not offer.

Whereas a bestselling book tour set up by a major publisher will handle the sales of titles at each stop along the tour, a self - published author typically has to arrange the signing, set up the space at the venue, sell the books, and then sign.

Apparently, the DoJ feels that Penguin and Apple worked together to muscle - out Amazon by getting the major publishers to refuse to let it sell ebooks that way.

To introduce you as a new author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf space.

In a nutshell, the program is currently limited to a few thousand titles that originate either from Amazon itself or from smaller publishers that still sell e-books to Amazon under a wholesale model, as opposed to the «agent» model used by most major trade publishers, which forbids such activity.

[146] The e-books sold by most major publishers and electronic retailers, which are Amazon.com, Google, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Inc. and Apple Inc., are DRM - protected and tied to the publisher's e-reader software or hardware.

Major publishers messed up royally by not throwing their weight behind Amazon in order to sell as many books to as many readers as possible.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by Apple to overturn a stinging ruling that it led a broad conspiracy with several major publishers to fix the price of e-books sold through its online bookstore.

You can now power your online eBook store with Adobe Content Server — the exact same DRM system used by industry giants, and the only DRM trusted by major publishers — for cost - effective, easy selling.

As the first major comics publisher to offer significant content, IDW's initial iBooks entree features nearly twenty complete graphic novels, including award - winning books and works by best selling prose authors.

And since all the major print publishers (excluding Star Wars and Buffy comic book publisher Dark Horse) already have partnerships with ComiXology, the next logical step for increasing content is by selling those self - published comics.

He starts by pointing out that our inability to adequately track ebook sales (especially self - published ones) is part of the reason that print might seem to be gaining: «Even if the major trade publishers are selling fewer ebooks,» he writes, «it doesn't follow that the overall digital book market must be shrinking.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

Nevertheless, it's worth noting that this is how self - publishing is sold by a major house (Smashwords claims «45,000 authors and publishers around the world).

They were all published in the UK and the USA by major publishers and all went to reprints with translation rights sold in Spain and many other countries.

AuthorEarnings, which is run by best - selling indie author Hugh Howey, says it may be that major publishers are finding it difficult to compete with indie authors on diversity, price, quality, and frequency of publication.

After I finally gave up, I received an offer out of the blue to work on a proposal that was being put together by a book packager to sell to a major publisher.

Then, Sundberg derided developers who sell out to major publishers too quickly, before they've given their properties time to mature: «American developers tend to sell their companies way too early, and then they whine about not getting enough money when their projects become successful after a couple of years of being owned by a big publisher and not really being in control.»

No major games publisher can ever truly die - just be gutted, sold off, and puppeteered by a new owner.