Sentences with phrase «takes over the publisher»

When a writer puts up a book on Kindle, the writer takes over the publisher duties, which is why the writer can make more money.

The title is a free - to - play online shooter, initially published by Nexon America, with Splash Damage taking over both publisher and development duties in February of this year.

Not exact matches

Publishers, meanwhile, argue that they have no choice but to use these annoying features, because Google and Facebook have taken over so much of the digital - advertising market.

Medium's sales pitch is that it will take over all of the messy hosting and content - management duties that publishers typically must spend a lot of time and money on.

On average, it can take anywhere from several months to just over a year to settle an estate, according to Nolo, an online legal resource and publisher of do - it - yourself legal guides.

Although NBCUniversal is taking over the ad sales, it won't get access to data about Apple users or individual publishers» audience.

Kolondra told Fortune that Opera, which is being taken over by a Chinese consortium, has no intention of getting publishers and ad networks to pay for having their ads bypass its blocking system, in the fashion of the controversial AdBlock Plus.

The companies most concerned, however, are ones like Kargo, which plugs into multiple publishers» websites and usually serves eye - popping ads, some of which do take over the screen.

Creditors are taking over another overstretched directories publisher.

The former publisher of Packaging News and Electronics Weekly has taken over the newly created role, which will involve researching and finding new territories for the company's existing event brands; identifying opportunities for the launch of new brands within the packaging sector; and developing the content strategy for the group's packaging portfolio.

Gernot Geldner, chairman of the jury, said that it had taken the panel, including our own publisher Neil McRitchie, over three hours to decide on the winners.

The deal, which was reportedly worth $ 200 million to $ 250 million over seven years, locked out all other third - party publishers from producing baseball titles — including Electronic Arts, maker of the beloved MVP Baseball series that constituted Take - Two's stiffest competition.

Friends all wanted copies, a local publisher printed it, took it to a book fair, and the rest is publishing history: after BOY and GIRL versions first appeared in the late - 70's, Once Upon a Potty titles became best - sellers in the U.S., Holland, Israel & Japan; the hardcover books and animated VHS videos have sold over 4,000,000 copies since 1990 in the United States alone!

Cindy has worked for What's Up for Kids for over 19 years and is thrilled to take over as owner / publisher.

Running this operation «has pretty much taken over my life,» Beall notes, adding that his university has stuck by his side to defend him from a stream of lawsuits from publishers.

«I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into taking the bite, I taste only shame,» writes Jena Morrow in her memoir, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale (Moody Publishers, 2010).

«The demand is there» from book buyers, he says, and notes that a private publisher has recently taken over the rights to at least one book by Richard Feynman.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

The main players at the paper are its publisher Kay Graham (a very strong Meryl Streep, as a character finding her place in a world that doesn't seem to have one for her), who took over the job after her husband's suicide (The ownership of the paper belonged to Kay's family, but her father passed on responsibilities to her husband), and its executive editor Ben Bradlee (an iffy Tom Hanks), a shark in the newspaper world who's equally revered and feared.

This brings us to Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), widow of Philip L. Graham; she took over the position of publisher in 1963 after he committed suicide, and counted McNamara and other Washington political elites among her friends.

The Post tells the story of the late Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), the longtime publisher of the Washington Post, who took over its operations after her husband committed suicide in the 1960s.

At the center of The Post are a series of disputes that took place over the advisability of making public the explosive government secrets, including between Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and her financial and legal consultants, and between Graham, on the one hand, and managing editor Ben Bradlee and his reporting staff, on the other.

Publisher «re-evaluating» how add - on content is provided to customers in wake of uproar over Street Fighter X Tekken, but new policy won't take effect until after Dragon's Dogma.

Countdown 101: From Writer to Self Publisher by Heather Covington 1st Books Library Paperback, $ 22.95 404 pages ISBN: 978 -1-4140-2218-2 Book Review by Kam Williams «After starting a business proposal that took over 10 years, as long as it took to finally self publish my first book, I knew that I needed to be brave, and tear it to pieces to start all over.

While Death Road to Canada is about killing zombies and technically doesn't even take place in Canada, a game with Canada in the title, where a vehicle drives in, often running over zombies as it enters or leaves, is s one of those associations that's best avoided by a publisher with an otherwise non-controversial game.

While it took over two weeks to even hear back from the commercial publisher, I was informed a day later by CK12 that the modifications to their life sciences textbooks had already been made.

Publishers, corporates have a choice to take up different sections, like building configurations over scriptable objects of the profile that suits best to their content meeting business needs.

And when you take into consideration that net can change (i.e., what if Amazon takes over the world and decides it will only pay publishers 40 % of list?)

If the rest of the publishers would treat their authors half as well as Amazon does, I'd be perfectly content for them to take over the world.

Sadly, this program has been taken over by fake publishers and... [Read more...]

The Delhi Book Fair is a nine day event starting Sept 1st 2012, with over 250 Indian publishers taking part in the event.

It took over a decade for the British publishers and others concerned to approve of the digital archive.

But a meeting between the ALA and some of those publishers was called for by ALA executive director Keith Fiels, and that meeting took place over the course of several days beginning January 31.

The monopolist publishers get what they deserve when the took over all the passion publishers and made authors into slaves.

This growth indicates a forward movement in the format, giving even more credence to the disputes currently taking place between retailers and publishers regarding sales agreements, and between publishers and their authors over royalties.

A study was taken a few years ago with IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association) to follow the progress of 500 authors of a similar genre over the course of five years.

Or is it you publishers are just too cheap to invest some of that money you've scammed from authors over the years to build some infrastructure to sell direct to customers because you know that without a middleman such as Amazon and Apple, you will no longer be able to shield exactly how much you've scammed from authors by claiming the middleman took a big chunk of it?

In 2010, Wylie took on the publishers over e-book royalties.

Since then, she's published her earnings on her blog (she made over $ 250,000 in 2015) and taken on an agent and a publisher for a print - only deal (she kept her ebook rights).

HarperCollins is one of the publishers who initially tried to take some power over online sales of e-books, even launching its own online store to sell books — including the widely beloved Narnia series by C.S. Lewis — directly to readers in 2013.

Having observed how record labels were blindsided by music downloading over the last decade, most book publishers are taking this risk seriously.

... 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).

Most writers don't want to take the time, or will give the work over to traditional publishers to do.

In this new world, my gut sense (meaning a wild guess) is that writers will be taking control over more and more aspects of sales, rights, and publishing of their work as they learn how to do it themselves, even when working with traditional publishers.

But while everyone else here is taking author's creative content and using it to make an income, we indie authors are supporting ourselves by not giving our rights or work away to publishers, doing everything ourselves, taking control over our own marketing platforms, and urging other authors to do the same.

It and a handful of other large publishers have taken over pricing of their own e-books.

Considering that the company was hemorrhaging money when Daunt took it over, forfeiting this revenue stream seemed crazy, and it also offended many publishers.

Add this new content to the catalog of works from over 900 publishers in many different languages, and it begins to explain why this round of subscription reading may finally take hold.

In order for publishers to release more ebooks, however, they have to be able to take a calculated risk, something they can not do — despite the vastly lesser cost of producing an ebook over a print edition — unless they believe that readers will come through and buy ebooks.

Jon Goldwater took over as chief executive and publisher of Archie Comics five years ago, from his father that founded the company in 1939.