Sentences with phrase «than the publisher expected»

He added that the game's reveal trailer amassed more views than the publisher expected, stating «anticipation is enormous.»

Not exact matches

The number of Newspaper and Magazine publishers that are also expected to take the app development route are also expected to double up in the next few years as having an app for their publications is relatively cheaper than the production and overhead costs of maintaining a newspaper or magazine publication.

The action horror reunion tour sold well at launch but lost momentum more quickly than expected, the publisher said in its most recent financial statement.

While it's true that the standard of quality for Nintendo games is much higher than what most gamers expect to get from run of the mill publishers like Activision, Ubisoft, and EA, there is more here at play that just delaying a game.

I had expected that this trip would just be German publishers pitching books to us, but this trip was so much more valuable than that in that everywhere we went there was a real dialogue among the participants that will benefit the Germans and the Americans equally.»

Plus, ASI was apparently on the block for a while with no buyer, so I find Penguin's CEO John Makinson's claim odd, as reported by Publisher's Lunch, that he expects there will be a «new and growing category of professional authors who are going to gravitate towards the ASI solution rather than the free model.»

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

Major publishers are starting to see lower than expected quarterly results because of the novelty of the e-book has severely waned.

(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.

I expect to pay a couple of pounds or so less than the paperback version for books from publishers, and # 0 - # 2.00 for self - published books depending on how hard the author's worked to get a following.

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

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.

She's got some damned good stuff in there, including about the Traditional Publishers showing higher than expect profits because of lower costs.

It is more challenging than ever to successfully pitch a nonfiction book; publishers expect authors to come to the table with a platform — an existing audience — as well as a marketing plan for the book.

The story, which was based on sales figures from the Association of American Publishers, implied that much of the hype around e-books had evaporated — with sales falling by 10 % in the first half of this year — while good old printed books were doing better than everyone expected.

I expected e-books would grow fast, but they have grown faster than almost anyone predicted, and it has been a boon to self - publishers.

Rather than be forthcoming about the real issues facing both authors and publishers, the public hears second - hand information but is expected to form judgments and act on it.

But expect that if e-books come to be treated as main sources of publisher revenue rather than as loss leaders, or as sub-rights-books subsidized by the print versions: Expect e-book prices toexpect that if e-books come to be treated as main sources of publisher revenue rather than as loss leaders, or as sub-rights-books subsidized by the print versions: Expect e-book prices toExpect e-book prices to rise.

Still, if you have a solid media platform and truly expect to sell more copies of your book than the maximum stated in your contract, you may be able to negotiate with your publisher to add a higher «bucket» (for example «25,000 + copies»), with a more favorable royalty percentage, to the royalty schedule.

And the compensation rate for just having folks follow a link from your website or blog seems to compare fairly well to the percentages Traditional Publishers pay for paper books... https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/compensation.html Shows a lot higher percentages than I was expecting you to get.

I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers, some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).

I would expect e-book prices on the publishers sites to be higher than on Amazon because of the initial infrastructure costs of setting up the operation.

So I question whether the advance for a book that a publisher might publish is going to be better than that same book, self - published, over a period of time (if the author is doing some things, like writing more books and marketing, which, BTW, the publisher is going to expect the author to do most of, while keeping the lion's share of the proceeds).

The publisher may go in a totally different direction than you expect or want.

VIENNA (Reuters)- Bertelsmann's Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, expects electronic books to contribute more than 10 percent of its U.S. revenue next year, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Luckily for publishers and authors, the industry has never suffered from a Napster - like disruption such as what happened to the music industry more than a decade ago, whereby the majority of consumers would expect creative content for free.

Print books did better than expected, but still declined slightly, from about $ 5,338 M to about $ 5,289 M. Buoyed by the growth in e-books, overall publisher revenues increased 6.2 %, from about $ 6,431 M to $ 6,829 M.

Publishers have also had a harder time than expected negotiating rights, despite an earlier umbrella agreement reached last year with the Association of Spanish Literary Agencies (ADAL).

I'm glad QB is going regular price as its a better deal than I was expecting and preorders are stil better off than people waiting second hand or ridiculous sales you can find on PC if you wait (so good for publisher too).

On top of this, the publisher achieved better - than - expected results compared to the latest forecast.

We would expect publishers to support such a move, given that the cost of porting an Xbox 360 game to the new Wii Plus HD format would likely be lower than the cost of building a ground up Wii game (we estimate under $ 5 million).

The console gaming segment performed better than expected in 2016 thanks to console manufacturers, publishers, and consumers embracing of a variety of digital business models.

TTWO, +1.69 % edged 0.7 % higher after the videogame publisher missed its revenue forecast and provided a weaker - than - expected guidance.

Cities: Skylines has already managed to deliver better than expected sales for Paradox Interactive and its success will probably mean that the long - term support delivered by Colossal Order will solve some of the current problems and will expand the mechanics in interesting ways via DLC, using the traditional model employed by the publisher for other titles like Europa Universalis IV or Crusader Kings II.

Activision Blizzard (ATVI) shares gapped up Friday on better - than - expected first - quarter earnings thanks to a boost from newly acquired mobile game publisher King Digital Entertainment.

Though publisher Nobilis has yet to explain the substantial divide between the pricing of the PC and PlayStation 3 editions — a difference the development studio was apparently unaware of — Frozenbyte has already been defending the higher - than - expected PC price.

Stoic, an independent game development company, and Versus Evil, one of the leading independent video game publishers announced that the launch of Banner Saga 2 on consoles would happen much earlier than expected thanks to a collaborative effort between the developers and first party partners Sony and Microsoft.

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Backward compatibility is a lot easier to implement on Xbox One than it was on Xbox 360, so expect more games to come quickly as more publishers sign on.

DeMarte said he expects Wixen to settle its case for far less than the damages it is seeking and that it is unlikely any of the publisher lawsuits go to trial.

The console gaming segment performed better than expected in 2016 thanks to console manufacturers, publishers, and consumers embracing of a variety of digital business models.