Sentences with phrase «taken over the book»

... four women in the 1960s who start reading provocative fiction and form a secret club that changes their livesn — and in the present, they recruit four young women to take over the book club, as the provocative material unearths their buried desires and wreaks havoc on their otherwise ideal lives (via Publishers Marketplace Deals).

In February 2014 Sony announced that they were exiting the eBook space and Kobo would take over their book business.

And most significantly, if you can achieve a threshold of sales, say from 5 - 10K copies on your own, a traditional publisher may offer you a deal to take over the book for their list.

Together we learned to integrate campaigns effortlessly, and by the time she took over a book, we knew it was going to be in great hands.

The sub-plot about Sarah coping with her sexuality takes over the book.

The fact that you don't like promotion creates an obstacle to successful authorship — unless you decide to pay someone to take over your book marketing.

How self - publishing Indie Authors took over the book world and how you can do it too...

Self - publishing authors have taken over the book world.

How self - publishing Indie Authors took over the book world and how you can do it too... and a chance to ask co-author David Wake about the book.

We call this traditional publishing — where a huge and expensive crew of professionals takes over your book, crams it into their preconceived mold, and produces a book designed to appeal to the largest possible group of people.

But we're scooting along to the Tamworth Lit Fest to talk about how self - publishing indie authors took over the book world and how you can do it too.

I'm more cautious now and can usually avoid accidentally swiping to the «Amazon will now take over this book» screen.

Here's the thing, I happen to be a big fan of Amazon on both a personal and a professional level (as are the other founders of Booktrope) and I think Amazon's decisions in business are just that, business — versus some wild conspiracy to take over the book planet as we know it.

Howerver, the bench of the High Court also observed that for bookings made for the train journeys beyond December 2011, IRCTC will take over those bookings from Cox & Kings and will ensure that the train would complete the season, albeit under the supervision of IRCTC to ensure that the third party interest is also not going to suffer.

New job is partnering with and in 3 - 5 years taking over the book of business for a very profitable financial advisor family member.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

China's ruling Communist Party recently announced it would take direct control of major broadcasters and assume regulatory power over everything from film and TV to books and news.

Recently when a customer was dropping Lord of the Rings references, the employee on the other end, who had never read the books, tapped a new representative to take over and continue the Tolkien - themed banter.

«There's a lot that goes into making a book,» she says, «and we're going to take over everything for you.»

Suddenly, a book about pigs taking over a farm begins to serve as a cautionary tale on how political dogma can be turned into malleable propaganda.

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But even more troubling for Taibbi was the impression he took from the book that Comey is not above «pulling a J. Edgar Hoover» and holding damaging facts over a president to gain leverage.

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

While these mini Mensa types skimmed their psychology books and hit Georgetown's popular hangout the Tombs promptly at 4 p.m., I memorized, was tutored and had every conceivable study buddy willing to take even a little pity on me and none of it happened over a beer.

He's witnessed a canceled hotel booking because it was «taken over for a government meeting.»

He'd left a stable perch at Expedia, the travel - booking service, to take over a company that had become synonymous with scandal and rule - breaking excess.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

The latest Disney foodie craze taking over Instagram is definitely one for the books, giving a nod to the glorious rose gold Minnie Mouse ears the theme parks can't keep in stock: Say hello to rose gold Minnie Mouse ears cupcakes — eeee!

Over the past years while launching and scaling my apparel business I have read countless books and taken a number of courses and Kelsey's approach is on it's own level.»

• The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self - Help Scammer of All Time (PaleoFuture) • How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer (Dealbook) • The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil (New York Review of Books) • Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spying.

«If you take this over the course of a 30 - year career and compound it,» one researcher told Malcolm Gladwell for his book Blink, «we're talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.»

See Packer, supra note 239 («In the mid-aughts, Bezos, having watched Apple take over the music - selling business with iTunes and the iPod, became determined not to let the same thing happen with books.

I half - think that this explains why Carney has been all over the map at the BoE; perhaps Poloz is taking another leaf from his book.

As arguably the greatest Investing Mind of the last century, I've taken a leaf out of Charlie's book and picked up biographies on some of his heroes over the last year including Lee Kuan Yew, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

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Once the ten - minute pleasantries are done with (wives, kids, colleagues, flight, book recommendations), he'll be telling me about the shower gel in the hotel, or that brand of jacket taking over Italy, his mate's pet insurance or what he learned about eBay's competitors in Africa.

The portal will take the cardholder to Orbitz, where flights can be booked with over 150 airlines.

@Noah, That book is ridiculous... He claims the universe is likely younger than 13.7 b.y. and backs it up by claiming that 100 + measurements taken over the past 300 years supports the claim that light does not travel at a constant rate... As if people 300 years ago could measure with the kind of accuracy we can today

And with over 38,000 different denominations of xtianity out there (all taking something different from the same book mind you) who has it right?

Written between 50 and 300 years after the death of Christ, over 300 books at one time, vetted down by the Emperor Constantine to a mere 78 at one point, a few more take out later, modified many times to suit it's political purpose.

Before superheroes basically took over Hollywood, Christopher Reeve's Superman franchise proved that comic books could translate to the big screen.

Back during the (George W.) Bush Administration, I spent (or rather wasted) some time reading books and articles written by journalists who were suspicious (I hesitate to say paranoid) about those suspicious and paranoid fringe religious kooks (theonomists and theocrats) who threatened to take over....

Beyond that simple fact, recognition of the totalitarian syndrome of the communist system did not take place during the wartime period when the book was being written; such recognition came about after the Second World War was long over.

Think about how silly that claim really is, all the native Americans decide to become Hindu and then take over a large part of India, what would we look like supporting them even if they produce a book that says their God Vishnu give them that land?

Maudoodi entered the lists against the Muslim wing of the Indian National Congress by writing a book on Muslims and the Present Political Struggle, in which he argued so forcefully against the stand taken by the Muslim Congress that the Muslim Leaguers hoped he would come over to support the Pakistan movement.

I already feel a little far away from the things that once took over my whole life, I remember it as if it were a life I lived once upon a time but I've lost touch with that person — remember when I was pregnant with our third and I had two little babies under four and I wrote that first book?

McKnight's summary takes just over four full pages in his book (pp. 149 - 152).

Apparently you take what a book says over scientific facts.

A child delights in seeing animals, meeting new people, reading familiar books over and over, and a million other little pleasures that we adults take for granted.

For historical evidence of the Bible, just look up in your history books about the Assyrians and Babylonians taking over Israel several hundred years BCE, or that the Romans were in power during the time of Jesus, that they did use crucifixion as a form of execution.