Sentences with phrase «through big publishers»

We have a long track record of delivering high quality games on time and to budget, both published by ourselves and through big publishers like Microsoft, LucasArts, Atari, and Sony.

Even NYT Bestselling authors and those with contracts through the big publishers still have to do a certain amount of self - promotion.

What I truly love about being an indie author is sharing my stories with a freedom that doesn't make my books any less than those who go through big publishers.

The reality is that most e-books are priced below $ 10, unless they are top - selling authors and / or through bigger publishers.

Interestingly, Bookouture goes to great lengths to transform authors into a «global brand» through big publisher experiences and small team creativity.

Not exact matches

Controversially, Adblock Plus tries to make money by charging big publishers and ad networks for letting their acceptable ads through the net.

As we celebrate the 55th annual National Library Week, it is a particularly fortuitous time for the publisher to join its Big Six colleagues by providing access to ebooks through our nation's libraries.

In other words, Next Big Book helps publishers know which of their efforts are paying off both in terms of actual book sales and in reader buzz through social media.

«We've reached a point where authors and small publishers can make much more revenue by self - publishing through places like Lulu.com and are free to experiment in ways big publishers can't.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

If you absolutely can not conceive of life without an agent and a publisher, I would strongly recommend holding on to your rights until Amazon goes through the rounds with the Big 5.

The publishing industry is volatile and there are many people involved in it, or are affected by it, from the «Big Six» publishers, down through the hundreds of smaller traditional publishing houses, the thousands of mini presses, and the hundreds of thousands of self publishers.

The DOJ's suit builds a compelling case that, through a combination of phone calls, e-mails, and secret meetings in the wine cellars of upscale Manhattan restaurants, five of the six big publishers (Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster) arranged agreements with Apple to enter into agency - model publishing, wherein retailers act as retail agents (and take 30 % of every sale).

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.

It would only take one of the big six publishers selling the ebooks through their own website to change the landscape of the industry.

All of the Big Six publishers who had previously allowed their titles to be borrowed through OverDrive's catalog to public libraries pulled their digital editions in 2011 amid concerns about ebook piracy and the interests of the authors.

FarFaria's CEO and co-founder Ajay Godhwani spoke to Good e-Reader about the platform and the partnerships they have with publishers like Orca Books — along with a Big Five publisher who will be named in an announcement this week — as well as offered a guided tour through how young children interact with their texts.

On the other hand, as much as the hypocrisy of Big Five publishers irritates me and the cluelessness of Amazon - haters wearies me, I'm not as invested in exposing every wrinkle of the current war that's being waged primarily by a (legally required) silent Amazon and a very vocal (through its media outlets and authors) Hachette.

There are multiple reasons for self - publishing, the first usually being that the author doesn't want to jump through hoops to find an agent, an editor, and then shop around the big name publishers.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

Stephen: You've never had a book traditionally published through a non-Amazon publishing imprint; you probably understand what the reporting is like for the big publishers, it comes sporadically.

Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish other material «for fun» in different genres, or at different lengths and with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill in the gaps between big books with their traditional house.

In the Writers» and Artists» Yearbook 2017, Philip Jones argues that as growth from the big publishers slows, «the market itself continues to grow — mostly via small publisher ebook sales or those derived through self - publishers.»

Since they are big name authors, if they are going through a publisher, they tend to have enough clout to push back against editor suggestions, so said drivel gets through.

Representatives of Amazon streamed through the offices of New York publishers, urging them to accelerate the pace of digitizing their catalogs ahead of the device's big launch.

But if the royalty statements we're seeing are any indication, the discount clause is being applied almost all the time, at least through the royalty statements I'm seeing from 3 of the Big 5 (and from some smaller publishers).

Based on what I've experienced through Scribd, though, I have no desire to switch to KU unless they get more big publishers on board.

And once your name «fails» one big publisher's sell - through expectations, you can't hope for a contract with another under that name.

And no way to publish it unless you're a big publisher (i.e. not through KDP).

I'm thinking — if you really are going to query publishers for the above benefits, it might help you more if you went through a publisher who gets you good distribution and a decent advance and no funny business in the contract (a Big 5, if you can swing it... and do watch that contract.

After countless hours of legal battle, Macmillan has finally agreed upon a settlement that appeased Judge Denise Cote and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that alleged five of the Big Six publishers conspired with Apple to fix the prices on ebooks sold through online retailers.

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of... [Read more...]

It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print - on - demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of playing the publishing game.

The biggest advantage of traditional publishers is distribution, and with so many people buying books through Amazon and Kindle, that is becoming less important.

Once traditional publishers gone self publisher oriented are making the biggest mistakes by allowing talent to slip through their fingers, and thus by missing out on potentially huge selling authors over a couple of measly dollars.

Whether you're book is launching through a Big 5 publisher, a small press, or you're going indie, the burden of book promotion falls on the author.

Now that authors can distribute their own work through Amazon, they no longer need big publishers to open those doors.

The point is this: whether you choose to query literary agents or to publish through Amazon, et.al., you and the big mainstream publishers share the very same goal: to sell lots of books to lots of strangers.

Publishing a book; whether you self - publish, independently publish or publish through a big traditional publisher, you the author are responsible for the majority, if not all, the promotional efforts.

(This would only apply to a few authors, though; the bulk of comics sold through comiXology are from big publishers like Marvel and DC Comics, and their royalty structure likely won't be affected.)

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

After Wylie announced that he would bypass the Big Six publisher by selling his author's digital work directly to consumers through Amazon.com's Kindle store, new and old media debates raged.

The filing says that big - six publishers, through their contracts with Amazon that allow for Amazon's proprietary DRM on their ebooks, «unreasonably restrain trade and commerce in the market for ebooks» in violation of the Sherman Act,» and claims «consumers have been injured because they have been deprived of choice and also denied the benefits of innovation and competition resulting from the foreclosure of independent brick - and - mortar bookstores.»

They are «real» writers because they've passed through the gauntlet of the elite Big 6 (or however many big publishers there are these dayBig 6 (or however many big publishers there are these daybig publishers there are these days).

Based on Kristine Rusch's information, traditional publishers cooperate in launching new releases that will not overlap with other big name titles through their «informal» discussions.

At that point my options were to a) submit to the other big publisher that would accept submissions without an agent (except the wait for a response was 9 - 12 months); b) submit to agents in the hope one of them liked the manuscript enough to then jump through the hoops for publishers, or c) self - publish.

Indie publishers who go through Smashwords have dropped their prices, but, under agency, big publishing houses upped their prices from $ 3 - 5 / book overnight.

Allow royalties (commonly only 8 %) to be cut by half if the publisher sells through a big distributor.

Through it Partner Program which drives the Preview feature of Google Books search, Google already has access to a big share of the world's publishers.

And if big publishing houses allow these companies to get a foothold — which is already happening — authors won't see the benefit of going through a larger publisher.