Sentences with phrase «traditional means of book»

If you have no access to traditional means of book distribution, then you're unlikely to get your books into high - street shops so will be looking at selling online or through direct sales (selling at events for example).

Not exact matches

We ripped up the traditional book into single pages, magnified these a hundred times, printed them in color and stuck them up as posters in the streets... Our lack of printing equipment and the necessity for speed meant that, though the best work was hand - printed, the most rewarding was standardized, lapidary and adapted to the simplest mechanical form of reproduction.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

This recipe book is a «traditional recipe» book which means that most if not all of the recipes contained use cooking of some sort.

While I love the allure of traditional work wear, I mean seriously a classic button up with a pencil skirt will still have amazing sex appeal in my book.

«You can't tell a book by its cover» with its Russian variant «Vstrechaut po odezhke provozhaut po umu» (first you judge «how nice», then you judge «how wise»») has also a different meaning of first part of this proverb with the emphasis on «Good clothes open all doors...» The addiction to adornments, fur and eye catching details in traditional Russian clothes has preserved till today.

For many of us, there is a very traditional meaning that is activated: a word problem in the text book, or simply a calculation to be made.

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

Quality control: a traditional publisher will set standards for the quality of your book, which means that your book will only get published if they think it's good.

Instead of a traditional publishing house paying you to publish your book, vanity publishing meant you were paying to have your book printed.

A traditional publisher who says, «We've published this book and it's worth reading,» means something to a lot of readers.

Traditional publishing points of interest: pros and cons regarding traditional publishing versus self - publishing or hybrid publishing, the process of querying, resources for formatting a query letter, difference between agents and publishing houses, why to pursue an agent or not depending on personal book goals, what book advances are (dispersing of them, royalties being paid out afterwards, etc.), what it means to «earn out» your advance or not, common publishing house marketing budgets, common requirements for social media presenceTraditional publishing points of interest: pros and cons regarding traditional publishing versus self - publishing or hybrid publishing, the process of querying, resources for formatting a query letter, difference between agents and publishing houses, why to pursue an agent or not depending on personal book goals, what book advances are (dispersing of them, royalties being paid out afterwards, etc.), what it means to «earn out» your advance or not, common publishing house marketing budgets, common requirements for social media presencetraditional publishing versus self - publishing or hybrid publishing, the process of querying, resources for formatting a query letter, difference between agents and publishing houses, why to pursue an agent or not depending on personal book goals, what book advances are (dispersing of them, royalties being paid out afterwards, etc.), what it means to «earn out» your advance or not, common publishing house marketing budgets, common requirements for social media presence, and more.

Small Publishers continue to have about the same market share, but Amazon Published, meaning books that are published under one of Amazon's traditional imprints like 47North or Skyscape, have steadily gained marketshare.

It means stepping into the identity of the pro writer you want to be and treating your book with the same care and professionalism that you'd get with a traditional publisher.

Self publish professionally — meaning be an author - publisher and produce the book with every bit of quality as a traditional publisher

Being able to independently publish has changed book publishing for many talented writers — overstepping the traditional process of finding an agent and publisher means that for IngramSpark authors, getting to your book's birthday can be expedited greatly.

While certainly not a traditional digital book by any means, it is, however, another example of the creative control an author can exert of her work thanks to non-traditional forms of publishing platforms.

One of the more interesting presentations today promises to be Lobo's presentation on what books are going to look like once ebooks are a thing of the past, as well as a full afternoon session on self - publishing and what it means for the industry; Bowker's data release this week that demonstrates that self - publishing is not only growing but traditional publishing's recent related growth will hopefully provide some background insight into that presentation.

That means that part of the traditional publisher's slush pile will move online to published books.

The stigma of self - publishing has faded but many authors still diligently query agents and publishers, hoping to get their books published by traditional means.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

«Amazon is a Trojan Horse, offering low prices today — while Wall Street is willing to float a company that doesn't make a profit — at the cost of destroying the [traditional] publishing ecosystem that is indispensable to authors... Amazon actually prevents competition by locking its customers in through devices like Prime and DRM, which means Amazon customers can't read books sold by Apple or Google Play on their Kindles.»

So calling in a book publicist just before the book's publication date means that you're trading the possibility of traditional book reviews for the possibility of early book sales.

If your book makes it through the traditional publication process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author there ever was), you'll still be seeing less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

Mark went on to mention «If an author can earn the same or greater income selling lower cost books, yet reach significantly more readers, then, drum roll please, it means the authors who are selling higher priced books through traditional publishers are at an extreme disadvantage to indie authors in terms of long term platform building.

That means that the costs of the creation of the book is on them, like a traditional house, and all authors have to submit their work via a screening process, also like a traditional house.

Imprint means the line of books or if you have separated your books into imprints just like a traditional publisher sometimes does.

Indie writers think they are competing against 1) other writers, 2) other books, 3) traditional publishers, and 4) the noise (meaning the crowding of so many books.)

In the course of the last six months I have heard newer writers say they are competing against 1) other writers, 2) other books, 3) traditional publishers, and 4) the noise, meaning the crowding of so many books.

For those of us who fought the old system, who fought traditional publishing for decades to get our books to readers, that simple ten - copy sale meant everything.

For a long time, traditional publishers have been the gatekeepers, controlling who gets published, and the means of book production and distribution.

Publishing for the last sixty - plus years has worked on the produce model, meaning that traditional publishers treat every book as if it is a piece of fruit that will spoil if not sold quickly.

As we watch the book transition into its fraught future, will the eventual scarcity of traditional volumes mean we can no longer recognize an image of that rectangular thing as a symbol of «learning, poise, wisdom and moral fortitude?»

But since most eBook publishing involves authors whose chances of landing traditional media coverage is necessarily limited (for now, anyway), it's good to know that eBook promotion doesn't mean fewer book publicity opportunities.

While not a traditional customer sale, getting your book into the hands of many readers means your book is talked about more, and a recommendation from a friend has the most influence on readership among mystery readers.

Long an author herself, and one who left traditional publishing to mine the widening fields of self - publishing, Ross is just out with a new book: Creating Money, Creating Meaning: Getting Into Financial Flow.

In this contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry - standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's book.

Which means keeping enough of a variety of books (including traditional published books) to keep people subscribing.

Traditional publishers will trying other means of rights grabs — possibly with more «House Names» both as work - for - hire and fitting superficially similar books into them, if they are sold entirely to the publisher and the publisher registers the copyright in the company name.

Traditional means for generating buzz about their books work great for extroverts or authors without children at home, but what about authors who are too shy to stand up in public to discuss the topics of their books or don't want to leave their children at home while they travel the globe promoting their books?

But I think it's also, when you look at traditional publishing, I think some of the same stuff's happening in self - publishing, where there's that top 1 %, and they're getting all the promotion, they're getting all the marketing dollars, and with kind of good reason; I mean, they're selling a lot of books.

You're looking at nine to fifteen months from start to finish when you self publish in most cases so that's one the bigger point though is I have a number of friends who have had traditional publishing deals who bought their book back and why and why they bought their book back is because the publisher owns the content in that book and what does that mean?

Which means if you have the average number of typos in a traditional book, you'll get reviews talking about how you need editing.

With 18 books published via traditional NY publishers, she learned to her dismay, that two disappeared — owing her thousands of dollars; that books were orphaned three different times with editors who were fired or quit in the middle of production and no one was there to support her dream — meaning the book was dead; that a publisher actually sold rights to a book after all rights had reverted to her — never giving her a dime.

Since there will be a big push from traditional publishers to lower their pricing, that will mean a lot more supplies of affordable books.

In the book business, it means that traditional publishers can no longer live in deny - and - delay mode; meanwhile, digital publishers get invited to better parties and people in other media businesses like TV and magazines look over and wonder if they could cut a slice of this new pie just for them.

However, to just get your book in front of readers means competing with traditional publishers — and in this competitive arena, we generally adhere to the notion that every bit helps.

2) The fact that traditional publishers want to give authors «a handful» of books to sign does not mean that that is what the purpose of the event was or that people who were promised space for books and swag were not cheated or treated unfairly when some got it and some didn't.

So even having a traditional publisher with print books on bookstore shelves doesn't mean you're being exposed to the greatest mass of print - book purchasers.