Sentences with phrase «then sold it to the publishers»

Going the traditional route means writing the book, finding an agent, then selling to a publisher.

Instead, she was writing it for a «book packager» (whatever that is) who then sold it to the publishers.

Not exact matches

«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.

(if Facebook sells the ads, then publishers reportedly get to keep 70 % of the proceeds.)

Publishers and console makers can also try to cut out pesky used - game retailers such as GameStop by going completely digital, but then those pesky retailers are likely to turn around and stop selling consoles.

A publisher pays the author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars, and then invests an enormous amount of resources in producing and marketing the book without any guarantee that it will sell.

Then I sat down with Ed, who's the publisher here at Mauldin Economics, and we started talking about what price we were going to sell this for.

I think it was Jack Canfield (author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.

After meeting its funding goal on Kickstarter, the game was cancelled and then sold to The Binding of Isaac and Cave Story + publisher Nicalis.

And then 3rd party publishers have the nerve to bitch and moan about their games not selling on Wii U. Fuck you Bandai Namco

Step Four: If the publisher makes an offer, by then you will have some sales history on the book to see how it is selling.

Since then they've sold books to a wide variety of publishers including Ace Books, Berkley Prime Crime, Marlowe & Company and Central Recovery Press.

Since then they've sold books to a wide variety of publishers including Ace Books, Berkley Prime Crime, Marlowe &...

Originally bookshops had to buy their stock at a price set by the publisher, and then they sold the books at a price they wished to sell them.

By foolishly insisting on DRM, and then selling to Amazon on a wholesale basis, the publishers handed Amazon a monopoly on their customers — and thereby empowered a predatory monopsony.

The novel will then be sold almost instantly to a big publisher for a huge amount of money, become a major bestseller, and become a major motion picture.

But it was published, and the book sold well and won an award, and then my publisher came to me and asked me to write another book with the same characters and four more after that.

Since then my book, The Pocket Wife, sold at auction to William Morrow - Harper Collins in a two - book deal (posted on Publishers Weekly under Deals for the week and on Publishers Marketplace!!)

During his short but successful publishing career, Mark Malatesta also spent several years as Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

The publisher then, they sold on the paper book back rights to what were called paperback houses, they were a separate.

If you want to sell to a traditional NY publisher, then you probably do need an agent just to get your book read.

Find an agent to represent you and then have that agent sell your manuscript to a publisher.

And you can not then take those books and sell them yourself because that wonderful Big 5 publisher won't let you because it owns the rights to those books virtually forever.

In addition to the five years he spent as a literary agent, Mark Malatesta also spent several years as the Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

Before POD, a publisher had to predict what the demand for a particular book would be over time, then print, warehouse, and ship the number of copies they predicted could be sold.

How, then, do you explain that the small epress I worked for is capable of keeping track of the percentages paid to authors authors and editors (typically 35 % for the author and 10 % for the editor) for several hundred books sold through multiple retail outlets (all with different net payouts to the publisher) over a period of four years?

And of course, if a small market publisher sells global digital rights to a book they publish, then the digital editions of locally published books will sell through the larger market

You had to find an agent, and that agent had to be sold by you to represent you, and then that agent had to resell your book to a publisher.

And if your agent does not want to be involved with initiatives that won't make a lot of money up front, then you should do it yourself and not be limited by what large NY publishers think will sell well.

The only thing the publishing industry can do to harm Amazon is not to sell their titles there, and even then, unless they are colluding illegally to withdraw their products from Amazon all at the same time, that action is more likely to harm the publisher than Amazon.

I'm also the former Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts, the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings and then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion dollars.

Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their ebooks, and Amazon will pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money on Amazon right now.

Wholesaler - A wholesaler can be a company, group or an individual who will buy large quantities of books from a publisher for a discounted rate and then sell them to a retailer at a midlevel rate.

If authors decide they'd rather pay a lot of money (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to get their book printed — to say nothing of how the authors would then have to market, warehouse, distribute and sell the book — instead of work to write a story that publishers would actually pay the authors for, that's up to the authors.

If you are fortunate enough to be acquired by a traditional publisher then it typically takes another year to develop a marketing plan, announce your book, and sell it.

Then you learn that even if an agent picks you up it's not uncommon for your work to take up to a year to sell to a publisher, if it ever does, and then another year to see it on shelves... all often for a payout that won't come close to replacing your day Then you learn that even if an agent picks you up it's not uncommon for your work to take up to a year to sell to a publisher, if it ever does, and then another year to see it on shelves... all often for a payout that won't come close to replacing your day then another year to see it on shelves... all often for a payout that won't come close to replacing your day job.

Google is even willing take less then 30 % of each subscription sold, in order to give more then the industry average back directly to the publishers.

The Buy it Now button was pioneered by Penguin, who petitioned Overdrive, 3M and Baker and Taylor to develop e-commence solutions to allow libraries to sell digital books and then the library, publisher and distributor would each earn a commission.

Ironically, it seems that traditional publishers are monitoring ebooks to see what sells, and then publishing everything they can get in that genre.

First publishers hate Amazon, then they want legal action to require them to sell books?

They began selling rapidly, and an indie publisher then agreed to publish those two novels plus the third book in the trilogy, RETURN OF THE GOLDEN AGE.

Then, he or she would take the project to publishers with the intent to sell it and get an advance against future royalties.

Agents are essential in selling an author's book idea to certain publishers and then the agent helps negotiate the publishing contract.

Bryant noted that book promotion was key in China and though books typically sold at a price equivalency of $ 5 to $ 8 per title, he encouraged publishers to price their books at their traditional home market rate and then offer discounts.

Eight years after I finished Lady — long past the time when I'd abandoned any hope of a sale — she sold it to Frederick Warne, then an independent children's publisher (it's now an imprint of Penguin).

If publishers want to impose such enhanced restrictions then they are free to do so (whether by technical means or simply a more restrictive license) but they have to understand that this makes the end product less valuable to the customers, it lowers it's utility, and the only way that might work is if it's sold at a lower price.

Traditional publishers print hundreds of thousands of copies in order to get the price per unit extremely low, which then allows them to sell the book for a lower price.

When most writers talk about publishing a book, they are usually thinking about traditional publishing — getting an agent, and then having your book sold to a publisher for an advance.

Apple determined to give the Publisher Defendants what they wanted while shielding itself from retail price competition and realizing margins far in excess of what e-book retailers then averaged on each newly released or bestselling e-book sold.

Before POD, a publisher had to predict sales, print, and then warehouse the number of copies they thought could be sold with the result that they often got it wrong.