Polka explained that preprints help researchers «accelerate discovery, find collaborators, gain visibility, and demonstrate productivity (for funding purposes or career advancement)» more effectively
than the traditional publishing work flow.
Not exact matches
He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are
working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation
working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently
working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on
traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have
published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more
than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
In this
work,
published in JAMA in September, the authors sought to learn whether activity trackers helped people to lose more weight
than a more
traditional diet and exercise program.
Chances are, Beatrix Potter would be flattered to know that one day, more
than a century after she
published «The Tale of Peter Rabbit,» her most beloved character would be reinterpreted on screen not as a
traditional cartoon (even though her
work paved the way for the likes of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse) but -LSB-...]
Chances are, Beatrix Potter would be flattered to know that one day, more
than a century after she
published «The Tale of Peter Rabbit,» her most beloved character would be reinterpreted on screen not as a
traditional cartoon (even though her
work paved the way for the likes of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse) but as a photo - real, fully anthropomorphic rabbit, complete with opposable thumbs and a tiny blue jacket.
I have a long way to go, and lots of hard
work in front of me, but in the end I believe the book will be more successful and get into more readers hands
than it would have if I had pursued the
traditional publishing route.
In a career spanning more
than 40 years, Butler has focused on business and professional women's issues while
working to create, aggregate and distribute information via digital and
traditional publishing media.
Finally, an author can make 70 % on their
work, rather
than the
traditional 3 % offered by
publishing houses.
And honestly, there is a ton more to fear when crossing a road
than working in
traditional publishing.
With Greenleaf, authors have access to full in - house services, retain the rights to their
work, and earn higher royalties
than with
traditional publishing.
You can also
work with a book distributor to get store placement if that's important to you, and you can negotiate deals to sell your books in bulk at a much higher profit
than you ever could with
traditional publishing.
Okay, this is sixth in a list of five, but it's true — self -
publishing is more
work than traditional publishing, but it's also much less constrained and carries a great potential of fun.
But to writers who think that their only job is to write a salable book, I'm sure it seems like a lot of unnecessary
work (the fact that they're living in a fantasy world if they think they won't have to do stuff other
than write in
traditional publishing now too is entirely beside the point).
No, I don't think I need an agent (wow I just fired mine about 6 weeks ago for doing nothing, not even submitting my
work) and I don't need
traditional publishing to do what I can do better
than they can.
Having
published more
than a dozen books — nonfiction and fiction — with both
traditional and often prestigious publishers as well as on my own, I have a very good sense of the demands of book promotion and was delighted to have the chance to
work with Smith Publicity who did a fine job with my Sino - American Tales series of historical novels
Some manuscripts do need more grunt
work than others, but I've found that it varies just as much outside of
traditional publishing as it does inside.
Possibly due to the fear spread in the industry by the loss of the Border's chain,
traditional publishing houses have
worked harder
than ever before to make the shift to digital.
Rather
than committing exclusively to self - publication or going through a
traditional publishing house, authors choose the best method for their
work, depending on type of book, sales market, or target audience.
Discounted prices on ISBNs along with the advantage of a
publishing house's seal, while maintaining more control of your
work than you would have with a
traditional publ...
This is based on the misguided preconception that e-books and self -
published works are inherently worth less
than getting print on paper through a
traditional publisher *.
I just
worked harder
than almost everyone and have now
published over a hundred novels with
traditional publishers.
Many will cheer, Morrison admits, including the more
than one million new authors who have outflanked
traditional gatekeepers by «
publishing» their
work in Amazon's online Kindle store.
Indie writers can write and
publish more books in a year (even with all the extra
work)
than almost all
traditional writers can.
The benefit of
working with a
traditional publisher, rather
than with an author who's self -
published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.
And online producer - retailer like Amazon turns over a far better royalty rate of return to authors
than the
traditional publishing houses have done — and is capable of displaying a writer's
work before an almost incomprehensibly large audience of potential readers.
Discounted prices on ISBNs along with the advantage of a
publishing house's seal, while maintaining more control of your
work than you would have with a
traditional publisher.
Ferriss has opined on the state of the
publishing industry before, often defending his choice to
work within the
traditional publishing industry, but he's a savvy thinker, investor and self promoter, so I wasn't surprised to discover that he courted Amazon rather
than vice versa.
Not only is it possible for our entrepreneurial authors to get books to market far, far faster
than traditional publishing does it (although many, alas, are cutting corners in editing, design, and other critical areas), but the going wisdom in terms of online discoverability is that one must have many
works available, basically flooding the market with content.
Amazon, and later B&N and others, opened their doors to small presses and even authors themselves, giving us a way to get our
work into the hands of readers without having to try to beat down the doors of
traditional publishing (where it is now as hard, if not more so, to get an agent
than it is a
publishing contract).
Traditional publishers usually
publish more nonfiction
than fiction
works.
The move promises to raise the already high anxiety level among publishers about the economics of digital
publishing and could offer authors a way to earn more profits from their
works than they do under the
traditional system.
I am considering it for
works other
than my teen novels that have already been
published in the
traditional manner.
Working as in indie author can be a more lucrative and flexible option
than traditional publishing.
Yes, the distribution you get with
traditional publishing helps get your
work in the hands of more people, but I always try to remember I was just as good of a writer before my contracts
than I was after.
Much
traditional publishing contains typos worse
than much indie
work, you'll still get the complaints.
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).
Since the percentage of books actually
published with a
traditional publishing house is less
than 3 %, that makes it difficult for 97 % of authors to get their
work published unless they go the self -
published route.
Well, almost 10 years into this so - called experiment in mediocrity, e-books are still here and more and more indie authors are earning more
than pocket change for their
work — and the blinders are still, at least as far as most of those in
traditional publishing are concerned, firmly in place.
Self
publishing has given me more money
than I ever made
working with a
traditional publisher but their marketing was much more efficient, ie.
PublishAmerica identified itself as «
traditional» to distinguish itself from vanity presses, which — historically — charged authors for the privilege of seeing their
work in print, rather
than paying authors for the privilege of
publishing it.
Rather
than the
traditional approach requiring the author to grant all rights in the
work to the journal, this language has the author granting only what the journal needs to
publish, and keeping all other rights for the creator of the
work.