Sentences with phrase «traditional authors make»

And 35 cents is what some traditional authors make on the sale of a single mass market paperback.

And as more and more traditional authors make the jump, and as the market matures, that is changing the market itself.

Not exact matches

Today, the company's double - edged safety razors bear the «Merkur» name (whereas its traditional straight razors are made under the «Dovo» brand) and remain a favorite of many, this author included.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

The sorts of books, ideas, authors that make it into a traditional canon do so because they are taken to have been influential expressions of such interests.

They were much more than that: they were authors — authors who had made use of traditional material, but authors nonetheless.

The film, made by Andrew Morgan, follows the American author and former pastor who has been heavily criticised for suggesting Heaven is open to all, challenging the traditional view of Hell and saying that humanity has twisted Jesus» words.

From The Author: «Tofu is simmered in a sweet - spicy garlic sauce to make Szechuan Tofu, a vegan variation on a traditional Chinese dish.

-- Anne Mendelson, author, Milk «Through pointed research and experimentation, Cheryl distills for us a primer on at - home yogurt making, shows how she integrates it into her own day - to - day cooking, and explores and celebrates yogurt's traditional place in global cultures — Eritrean, Indian, and beyond.

Putting a child with special needs in a traditional classroom setting will only make things worse, according to Thomas Armstrong, author of the book «The Myth of the A.D.D. Child».

«Because ultimately one will want to make such optical processors with maybe tens or hundreds of photonic qubits, it becomes unwieldy to do this using traditional optical components,» says Dirk Englund, the Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper.

And most universities fail to make these distinctions clear in «public - facing profiles,» the authors observe, which «exacerbate [s]» postdocs» optimistic tendency to assume that the term «professor» always means a traditional tenure - track position, when it often denotes a job with much less security.

Timothy Morton, lead author of the study and a Princeton associate research scholar of astrophysical sciences, developed Vespa because the vast amount of data Kepler has gathered since its 2009 launch has made the traditional method of confirming planets by direct ground - based follow - up observation untenable, he said.

Some other papers, published in traditional subscription - based journals, are made freely available on an author's website or through an institutional or government archive, often after a 6 - or 12 - month «embargo» imposed by the publisher to protect subscription revenue.

«In order to make all the components you're trying to print useful, you need to have this material property at least the same as those made by traditional metallurgy,» said LLNL materials scientist and lead author Morris Wang.

The pair of German plant biologists who authored the piece argue that nearly extinct varieties of wheat, like einkorn and emmer (aka farro), could create new niche markets for farmers, diversify ecosystems, boost local food security, revive traditional recipes — all while satisfying consumer demand for food that makes you feel like you're traveling back to a simpler time (a Paleolithic time, perhaps?).

The authors of Click: the Magic of Instant Connections, Ori and Rom Brafman have made a devastatingly simple connection between that feeling that you just can't put your finger on and traditional psychology.

It aims to make the latest epidemiological discoveries accessible to an audience beyond the Journal's traditional readership, encourage debate, and help authors maximise the impact of their research.

Maddie, a deaf - mute author whose idyllic suburban home inadvertently makes her a perfect target for senselessly random acts of violence via a no - longer - charming John Gallagher Jr., appears to be a traditional final girl in her very DNA.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the novel Shutter Island (by Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone author Dennis Lehane) is a film that operates on a heightened level that almost makes a traditional narrative analysis redundant.

She is the author of Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6 - 12 Classrooms: A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making (Routledge).

Newbery Medal - winning author Kwame Alexander shows how to shake up the traditional writing workshop to make writing fun again.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long - established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to personalized learning for individual students, the authors detail six crucial elements of schooling — community, instruction, time, technology, facilities, and funding — and how to address them concurrently to improve secondary schools.

To illustrate how charter school policy functions to promote privatization and profiteering, the authors explore differences between charter schools and traditional public schools in relation to three areas: the legal frameworks governing their operation; the funding mechanisms that support them; and the arrangements each makes to finance facilities.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

An anecdotal account of how one award - winning author made the transition from traditional publishing to electronic texts and her own publishing company.

Earlier this year, Author Solutions acquired another one of its competitors, Xlibris; entered partnerships with traditional publishers Thomas Nelson and Harlequin to create self - publishing imprints; and partnered with Sony to make all of their books available as eBooks.

A year ago, author Brenna Aubrey made the decision to turn down a traditional publishing contract for three books in order to go indie.

Today, freed from the yoke of traditional publishing, with a plethora of viable options for bringing books to market, smart authors make decisions that best suit their own needs and agenda.

Amazon's suite of services for independent authors makes it possible for me and many other authors to bypass traditional publishing companies.

One of the banes of the indie author has been making the text of our ebooks look like that of traditional publishers.

I know so many pro self - published authors now who have made six - figures + from their books that I know traditional publishing is NOT the path for me (at least not'til they make it worth my wild)

Forums for authors with traditional publishing aspirations have long been peppered with threads about the query grind, the rejection letters and emails that pile up from agents and publishers, and the desire to quit and give up on the hopes of ever making it as a writer.

Too many authors self - publish first because they lack the discipline and patience to evaluate the market for their work or make a good - faith effort to approach traditional publishers.

So I think for people to make it as an entrepreneur, you actually have to be thinking about these questions of money, which a lot of authors from the years of traditional publishing and this myth of creativity being kind of God - given, that has stopped people thinking this way.

Horizons will make it possible for thousands of authors, whose manuscripts Harlequin or other traditional publisher can not publish, to see their books in print.

$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more most traditional publishers are charging for ebooks, but as an Indie author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting and willing to pay.

A key thing I learned in traditional publishing: the second any author thought they «had it made» their career was over.

Historically, these traditional publishers have been able to dictate to the reading public what books they will make available and independent authors who didn't meet every single one of their criteria didn't make the cut.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

As I'd pointed out in that post, in the world of traditional publishing, if errors make it through the editing process for a book, authors (and their readers) are stuck.

But here's the thing: there's only one author in the world right now who has made two million dollars from self - published e-book sales and another two million dollars on a newly - inked traditional deal.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

It has been one of the most pernicious problems with the traditional «writer's path» that it was possible for only a select few to make a living doing it, and that includes authors who were or are considered recognizable names.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

Traditional publishing houses are sweating, and authors who went through the grueling process of courting them, and waiting (and waiting and waiting) are now feeling the sting, as people who do it themselves are surpassing them by making more money for their efforts.

Despite a rocky relationship with the digital publishing revolution as recently as five years ago, a number of traditional publishers have not only made room on the shelves for indie authors, they're building their own self - publishing avenues.

Especially not when you consider that classic authors such as Twain, Poe, King and Dickens all went through the self publishing route at one point or another and considering that many people, both through traditional publishing methods and non-traditional ones can struggle to «make a living» through their work.

This is why self - published authors decide to not send manuscripts to traditional publishing house, because it's easier to make a living with your craft and write full - time.