Sentences with phrase «than publishers offer»

People are publishing books on their own because they choose to — because they see opportunities in the market and want a bigger share of the pie than publishers offer; because they want full control of their book; for some, because they just want a relic of their work to share with friends and family.

Not exact matches

The Koch brothers are said to have tentatively agreed to support the publisher Meredith's offer with an equity injection of more than $ 500 million.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

On April 12, Gannett, publisher of USA Today and more than 100 other newspapers, made an offer to buy Tribune Publishing for $ 12.25 per share, an all - cash deal valued at $ 815 million, including the assumption of $ 390 million in debt.

The publisher of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other papers said Monday the plan, commonly known as a «poison pill,» would kick in if a group buys more than 20 percent of Tribune Publishing's shares or begins a tender offer to seek a 20 percent stake from existing shareholders.

Orthodoxy was first published in London by John Lane Press in 1908, and it has never gone out of print» with more than two dozen publishers now offering editions of the book.

And educational resources can be obtained from dozens of major publishers that may offer materials far slicker and less expensive than denominational lines.

Publishers may end up generating income by offering those services, he says, rather than relying on publishing alone to pay the bills.

Space Wars: Interstellar Empires to Offer Billions of Customizable Crew Builds, 100 + Ships October 31, 2016, at 5:56 a.m. Space Wars: Interstellar Empires, a turn - based tactical strategy MMO from publisher ToHeroes and developer Desert Owl Games, will include more than 100 different ships and thousands of possible build combinations for crews when it reaches Early Access

I have not read Michael Finkel's book of the same name, but the publisher description has more focus than this film while offering a probing look at the relationship between these two men.

And, smaller publishers, including those who offer free content, such as Core Knowledge, may finally have a chance to enter classrooms based on the strength of their content, rather than their distribution and sales teams.

By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher Jaguars have featured prominently in a few James Bond films, but the models on offer to the public have been so pricey that few of us could do more than... Read more

Publishers have responded with varying levels of speed, and several distributors have also come to the forefront, including Graphic.ly, a community - based digital comics platform that offers more than 1,000 comics for download to a desktop or mobile device.

With its emphasis on ease of use in a reasonably powerful editing environment, it's likely to be a good option for publishers who want more control than a fully - automated service offers, but with a less «techie» approach than first - generation desktop conversion and editing tools like Calibre, Sigil or Amazon's KindleGen.

They offer a 52 % revenue share for publishers, and are usually trying to sell ebooks cheaper than any other channel.

The names of five publishers whom he's currently not working for but who might offer better rates than he's currently earning.

Internet keyword advertising is offered for non-fiction titles at no cost to the publisher other than the percentage charged for actual sales.

Less than 30 days later I had three major publishers making offers: Penguin, Harper Collins, and Random House.

In response to literary agents who said no major publisher would ever offer a single royalty rate that brought authors more money than the current standard, Rasenberger said that the goal is to get a conversation going.

The KDP Select program gives self - publishers 5 days every three months to promote their eBook for $ 0 as long as they don't offer their eBook for sale anyplace other than Amazon during that period.

From the initial six hundred - plus titles that the publisher originally offered, Macmillan has now made more than 12,000 ebooks available to school libraries for student lending.

The sites were said to offer more than ten million titles for download, more than 80 % of which infringed copyright according to the Publishers Association.

Combined with 3M Cloud Library's existing relationships with more than 40 major publishers, these new partnerships help 3M Library Systems offer a broad variety of content from both new and established authors.

EBL offers around 300,000 ebooks from more than 500 publishers.

With more than 1 million titles, including all the latest books from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader bookstore offers the same books as any other online retailer and with comparable pricing.

Lowering the barrier for that to take place might do more harm to the bottom line of publishers than not offering anything but physical tomes.

To begin with, it will be ebooks in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, and English that will be on offer, sourced from more than 50 regional publishers spread all across the country.

And that's why indie writers are making more money in the field than major publishers, because not only are they offering more books that hit more specific tastes, but Internet - savvy writers also charge far less.

With more than 90 % of the same core titles offered by major print publishers, the company's eTextbooks can be purchased for up to 60 % less than the cost of new print textbooks.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The main purpose of our new report, «Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to thoPublishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to thopublishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.

That royalty rate is definitely better than most traditional publishers offer.

Like Bunkers statement when a publisher offered to sign him, «I already made more than thay last week», lol.

They actually offered more money upfront than I was expecting — it was a very nice deal (in publisher's marketplace terminology).

Maybe our digital - first publisher offers a great contract (which is more unusual than it should be, unfortunately).

EBSCO offers more than one million high - quality e-book titles and 100,000 audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses from around the world.

RWA needs some way of determining which publishers offer authors the best possible chance of making a decent - paying career of writing, because it doesn't want to allocate space to FlyByNight Press simply because they published 1,000 titles last year (with none earning more than a few hundred dollars).

Those publishers never offered anyone a guarantee of making a living any more than self - publishing offers that guarantee now.

As the Department of Justice faces off with the major publishers and Apple, I want to offer up a simple statement that likely contradicts what most readers believe: Making e-books is harder than it looks.

Several publishers have also taken steps to give booksellers avenues to get books into their stores faster than ever; Penguin Random House's rapid replenishment program offers booksellers two - day guaranteed delivery during the busy holiday season.

And yet, not quite one year to the day it was announced, Godin is shutting The Domino Project down, offering the awkward explanation that «it was a project, not a lifelong commitment to being a publisher of books,» instead of, perhaps, admitting that publishing is harder than it looks if you want to swim at the deep end of the trade pool in the middle of a dramatic transition, as he obliquely acknowledges in many of his noteworthy takeaways, especially this one:

In the present system, authors can sell physical and ebook rights to various territories, garnering better money for their work than what might be offered by most publishers for world - wide rights.

Rather than accurately self - identifying as a company whose entire structure and revenue is based on making its money from writers, rather than from readers, vanity presses invariably engage in false advertising, claiming to be publishers, or «innovative» publishers, or to offer a «new type of professional opportunity» to writers, yada yada yada.

I think Amazon should start a distribution system that would allow library branches all over the world to tap into the Kindle e-book ecosystem and offer better deals than the major publishers.

This trend will continue as independent editors start offering affordable editing services through the internet and first line authors start doing the math and realizing that they can make more money by self - publishing their books for $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they ever did by going with one of the «big six» publishers.

According to a press release on the program, «OverDrive offers libraries and schools the industry's largest and most complete eBook catalog, including Kindle eBooks from more than 800 publishers.

GoodeReaderreached out to two different companies who, while possibly lesser known compared to the household names in the business, have a lot more to offer their clients than many publishers know about.

These clauses require publishers to inform Amazon about more favourable or alternative terms offered to Amazon's competitors and / or offer Amazon similarterms and conditions than to its competitors, or through other means ensure that Amazon is offered terms at least as good as those for its competitors.

While the publishers involved in the case settled out of court but maintain that there was no wrongdoing — citing that the settlement terms were ultimately less expensive than the legal fees to fight the lawsuit — Apple was not offered that opportunity yet has remained smugly confident that it will come out on top.

BitLit currently has around eighty - five publishers on board to offer this service to readers, with more than 10,000 titles already available for bundling.