Sentences with phrase «than publishers trying»

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Together with micropayments service Flattr, it is also trying to develop a way for publishers to collect money directly from readers, rather than relying on the ad business to stay afloat.

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

Much of the conversation revolved around trying to make content stand out in a landscape in which publishers are competing with much more than just other publishers.

But for a small publisher, finding the right stock photo can matter more than trying too hard to be unique.

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

The data publishers care about, and that can really help inform publishers» strategies, isn't labeled «book publishing data» but is far more useful and actionable than much of what we try to decipher meaning from that is.

Hi JJ, yes of course, it's always easier to sell rights to books that are already selling well — but sometimes it's possible that you've written something that fits precisely into a foreign publisher's requirement and it's easier for them to buy the translation rights from you than try to commission a writer in their own country.

While I «like» to learn knew things and be very hands on most of the time, my golden nuggets of time that I carve ot of my day are better served trying to write good fiction rather than trying to learn how to «be» my own publisher.

Almost all publishers only accept submissions through agents, so they are essential gatekeepers for anyone trying to sell a book in the traditional market rather than self - publishing.

I think that's more than can be said of corporate publishers who tried to save their failing business model through collusion rather than innovation.

Unlikely, unless there are more small shops out there than I thought (and I include self - publishers who create a facade of a publishing house to try to win over more sales).

Moving content into standardized neutral formats such as XML will help educational publishers to react faster to changing needs overall rather than trying to grapple with single projects each time and repeating the same process.

Its hard to feel sorry for publishers when they are trying to gouge customers for money for a less than product.

I think publishers have been trying hard to convince them otherwise, by regularly pricing ebooks as much as or in some cases more than paper editions — so yeah, maybe these extended sales might «undervalue» titles to the extent that they remind people that they've been slowly brainwashed over time to expect to pay the same or more for «products» that are cheaper to produce.

Oyster charges $ 9.95 a month for access to more than 100,000 books from big and small publishers, but it now offers users one free month with the hope of getting more people to try the app experience.

Even so, these same publishers who are so adamant about limiting our access to these e-books — and if you don't believe me, buy an e-book using Adobe Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us as much or more for the digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy of the book.

I haven't given up trying to find an agent to represent my novel to a big name publisher (I have queries and partials out) but when I allow myself to read agent statistics, I tend to question whether I ought to face those facts with my head rather than my heart.

To the extent that traditional publishers appear to be resisting or trying to slow down the transition to eBooks in the name of keeping Amazon from getting too powerful, Kindle lovers can get more than irritated.

If the publishing rights to your book recently reverted back to you, you might be considering the indie publishing route for your title rather than trying to find a new publisher, or simply allowing your book to be out - of - print.

«He wanted to bring a community of readers, authors and publishers — everyone involved — get them together and get them aligned, so they were functioning as an ecosystem rather than everyone trying to eat each other,» said Niffenegger.

The advice was that publishers use reader feedback to drive the direction of their work, rather than producing content and trying to adapt readers to it.

Being a successful self - publisher is exponentially more trying than querying agents.

«The lesson for publishers is to be more author - centric, rather than trying to sell expensive and unnecessary services,» she said.

There are already more thrillers being cranked out by traditional presses than most people have time to read, and if those titles were all the same price as their self - published brethren, there would be much less incentive to try out the offerings from self - publishers.

But reading it as a PDF, either on my computer or on the iPad is still a less full - featured, less visually satisfying experience than most of the publishers» iPad apps — I'm thinking VIZ, DMP, and Yen Press, especially, who have the best - working apps I've tried.

(I tried writing a manuscript for a publisher than wanted three different kinds of sidebars and a glossary all in the main text stream.

I looked in to self - publishing, and the process made me appreciate the challenges my publisher went through to try to communicate that I write humor, although some of my books are deal with more serious issues than others.

I decided that time is passing and I can not wait for all the long - winded palaver that goes with trying to send it to agents and publishers only for them to (more than likely) reject it.

One of my publisher tells me they are making more money from e-books than traditional print copies so it is something worth trying and I will soon.

Legacy publishers are more than glad to squeeze their suppliers — authors and artists — so I have no problem at all seeing Amazon — and others — try to squeeze them in return.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

Amazon certainly seems to be trying to corner the publishing market by creating their own publishing firms and then offering higher advances than the Big 6/5 can, drawing authors away from the big publishers, and then everything with all the Kindle stuff and trying to corner that market, but then what?

Even though Platt thinks he's a better marketer than most publishers, including Amazon, he told me in November 2013, «I'm going to try again with traditional [publishing] in February.»

An increasing number of vanity publishers are trying to dodge the vanity label by shifting their charges to some aspect of publication other than printing and binding.

But you would be better served trying to work with larger publishers than indies.

Rather than trying to hold back the tide with agency pricing and draconian DRM policies, traditional publishers need to figure out how to survive and thrive in a publishing world which is changing just as dramatically and even more rapidly.

Agents are trying to skim the best of self - publishers off the Amazon / Pubit / Kobo pile, but the question is, what deal can they get a successful indie that is better than what they're doing?

Authors are in the state they are in because the publishers got too comfortable relying on Amazon to fill in for the collapsed wholesale market of the 1990's, because the large North American market was dominated by booksellers who were mismanaged in the oughts, and because self - published authors used Amazon because it was easy rather than trying to branch out their business.

«True, this is a slower moving strategy than trying to force publishers to accept Amazon's pricing model.

I find it interesting that the publishers, rather than offering a «suggested pricing» for ebooks are apparently trying to control that rather than the retailer.

E.g by promoting both the publishers name and the editors name in ebook titles (and refuse to sell to stores where these are not equally as browsable attributes as author and title - unlike movies currently I only rarely know the editor / publisher of my favourite books) and redirect remaining marketing spend to fund fan / reader groups to gain «seed knowledge» to push recommendations as to who will like their new authors (ie feeding «if you liked the books of Charles Stross, why not try Richard Winslade's new opus» into amazon's recommendation engine, but with an eye to maximise the authors / editor / publishing houselong term brand appreciation rather than short term sales through erroneous linking only to top 10 authors).

Stephen King and James Patterson are not bad at business or math, and they aren't at all happy that Amazon is trying to muck with their business (which includes many more sellers than just Amazon,) in order to gain more control over the marketplace and get more co-opt money from publishers.

Aspiring authors see this happening with increasing frequency and they're beginning to realise that a well received self published book can be a faster and easier way to get a publishers attention than that traditional path of spending months or years querying to get an agent, and then more months or years trying to sell something through the agent.

Because you don't own an ebook; in their short - sighted eagerness to close loopholes the publishers tried to make ebooks more like software, where you merely buy a limited license to use the product, rather than actual ownership of an object.)

In fairness, perhaps that's more the demands of the traditional publishers trying to protect their brand than anything else.

However, yeah, that's definitely a case where if a publisher wanted to do something like that, they'd be much better off trying to make a deal with an existing video game company than build their own.

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

Indeed, Ingram could try to compete with ReaderLink for the mass merchant accounts, but they'd have to support the substantial systems and staff investments on a distribution margin, which is a much more challenging proposition than it would be for PRH with the publisher's margin.

it would be amazing to see a POD / self publisher actually develop a business model focused on quality enhancement - provide a service to customers by being upfront about their services rather than trying to scam.