Sentences with phrase «term changes in the publishing industry»

He himself has observed up - close the shifting dynamics of society — as with his work on Pendulum — and has seen firsthand the rapid and long - term changes in the publishing industry and how content reaches today's varied audiences.

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Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»

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.»

Unlike the critics who argue that e-reading still isn't powerful enough to change the publishing industry as a whole, for now the reading public is proving that digital reading is a recognized power player in terms of overall sales.

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) funded two pieces of research on electric shock collars which were published last summer and show that electric shock collars can cause long term negative behavioural and physiological changes in dogs, even when used by professional trainers following an industry set standard of training.