Sentences with phrase «what other book publishers»

That's why it's easy to know what other book publishers pay for print - on - demand book printing.

Not exact matches

His October 2016 book, Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know, is available from its publisher Oxford University Press and other retailers now.

I've written a book about what I went through, and gave it to all my family members (still working on preparing it for a publisher so I can get it out to the world) and it was my way of sharing my pain, and like you said, letting others know that they are not alone.

On the other hand, some religious book publishers actively require their authors to produce what I consider bad prose: obvious, sentimental, contrived, cute and preachy.

Our community is a place where authors can share, receive tips and tactics for building their books, and support each other on what we all know is the challenging (yet rewarding) path of the self - publisher.

And since agents and most publishers don't have the slightest idea what will sell and what won't sell, there is no magic formula for success other than having people read your books.

In what is possibly the slowest death in the publishing industry, German publisher and retailer Bertelsmann announced this week that it would be leaving the bookselling business to focus on content, which it produces not only as a book publisher but also in other forms of media.

But back then, way back, before this modern era, bookstore catalogs consisted of what books the bookstore itself had printed, what books they were going to print, and what books they had in stock in their store, and maybe a few other books from a few other bookstore / publishers.

What the «a publisher should pay you, not the other way around» people don't understand is that most of today's authors aren't going to find a publisher that will underwrite their books.

But what we do know is that the list factors in sales from brick and mortar bookstores around the country, and if your book isn't in bookstores, it can't make the list (or other major lists like Wall Street Journal or Publisher's Weekly).

What seemed a relatively smooth process of expansion at that pace was upended when HarperCollins, publisher of Elmore Leonard, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarah Palin, and scores of other notables, disclosed that, going forward, its e-books would expire after the book...

In another new twist, PLC organizers and recognized publishing thought leaders Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader will be joined by analysts and executives from both inside the industry and out to discuss the most political and fraught subjects facing publishing today: the future of Amazon and B&N, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various publishing start - ups, and much more...

I also don't know what other terms are in other publisher's contracts but as I've said now many times, rights would revert if we were out of stock on the book or not meeting the agreed upon threshold of ebook sales.

This is a unique opportunity to illustrate just what the distinctions are in the investment that publishers have made in the marketplace with their sales forces, marketing efforts, relationships with publicity and media contacts, which is where much of that other portion of the proceeds from the sales of books is allocated.

Claims from some opponents of the process say that the agents have no reason to attempt to shop the book to other publishers if the agents themselves are the ones distributing the books; what would be the purpose in shopping an ebook to other platforms?

About its main source of content, what we know right now is that it is going to be the Skiff Store, which will look after the entire spectrum of selling and distributing newspapers, magazines, books, blogs and other content from multiple publishers across a range of devices.

Eligibility is up to the publisher, and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to sort books by what's lendable and what isn't other than trial and error.

It's about what publishers do or don't do in marketing and also has some links within it to other specific Jane Friedman posts of a very helpful sort if you're trying to figure out how to make books sell, whether big press, small press or self published.

Back to the other side, before you start crowing about how you have pressured publishers to pull books from the shelves — yes, I'm talking about Milo's book — think about what is going to happen if the tide turns.

I mean, what's so wrong with everybody putting a book out, in any form by any means — it's their choice, and nobody else, no other writer has the right to look upon others as second rate, just because they haven't managed or do not desire, for whatever reason, to not go with an old fashioned traditional publisher.

Robin Cutler [00:05:34] Depending on what your plans are as an author, as a publisher down the road that might work for some length of time for you, but the other thing to remember about an ISBN is that it lives the life of that book.

The year that John Steinbeck published his Nobel prize - winning book, The Grapes of Wrath, which happens to be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with much fanfare from Penguin, what other books did the publisher reject at that time?

Digital platforms continue to erode and undermine the economic model for print, and large publishing houses are now often part of even larger entities that sell lots of other stuff at much bigger margins, causing publishers to wager big money on what they believe to be the most commercial books, often at the expense of «smaller» more important ones.

DC Comics says: «As one of the largest book publishers in North America, DC Entertainmentâ $ ™ s publishing strategy is to give our consumers the choice to read our stories in whichever format they prefer»... but what IF, I am a customer and I prefer the comic in Nook ebook format or some other non kindle type ebook format..

Readers get to be the sole gatekeepers of literature, and not the agents or publishers, or other businesses who take it upon themselves to decide what books you can read based on their potentially biased criteria, and what books you don't get to read.

There is a lot of talk about HTML5, EPUB3 and KF8 as future formats that allow for multimedia based books, what are the potential barriers stopping wider adoption and how could publishers adjust to the new formats and get them in something other than EPUB2?

I got one offer, but it seemed like a half - hearted one where the publisher didn't seem to believe there'd be much of an audience for the book, and where they wanted something other than what I was pitching.

What's even more interesting is that many traditionally published authors are also going indie, all for a variety of reasons — some because they were unhappy with their publishers» marketing efforts, others because their publishers no longer wanted to publish their books.

They cover the most political and fraught subjects: the future of Amazon and other book retailers, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various social reading experiments, and much more...

Rick and Lori Lite started helping other authors become successful at selling books after experiencing what it was like to use a traditional publisher.

In an interview with Digital Book World the founders said «We try to be very thoughtful about what makes sense for both publishers and authors, and have crafted our product and model to align with that,» said the company's CEO Eric Stromberg of himself and the two other co-founders, adding that they're relatively new to the world of publishing.

There are a lot of theories regarding what Publishers can do to reduce the massive and constantly increasing influence of Amazon and other Platforms in Books and Publishing.

And what all four of these books have in common (besides being mystery and thrilled novels) is the fact that their Kindle editions are priced significantly lower than their paperback editions, whereas that's not the case for the authors» earlier books from other publishers.

But what we do know is that the list factors in sales from brick - and - mortar bookstores around the country, and if your book isn't in bookstores, it can't make the list (or other major lists like Wall Street Journal or Publisher's Weekly).

At the Trident Media Group, we perform additional services for our clients such as publishing management, as well as commenting on a book publisher's marketing / publicity plans, or even commenting on cover design, among many other services in going far and above what a literary agency would normally offer a client.

The hybrid authors surveyed reported themselves to be more motivated by money than the others and less impressed with publishers» ability to add any value by making a book «more like what the market wants.»

I love Baen books and it is so much easier dealing with them than the other publishers but a lot of what I read is put out by the Big 6 — I wish the publisher wouldn't treat libraries as if they were some kind of pariah..

This is what I want to see: indie publishers and traditional publishers learning from each other, filling market needs, making the world a better place for books.

«Even as our businesses are subject to economic and political forces beyond our control, book publishers are looking to each other and beyond their own borders for creative solutions and business ideas — whether that's a Brazilian publisher looking for new sales channels after the sudden decline of government book purchases or a British publisher wondering what a post-Brexit marketplace will look like.»

What tools, that you are willing to share with other author / publishers, do you use to market yourself and your book?

Subscribe to children's book publisher newsletters (Publishers Weekly and Scholastic) and find out what other authors are doing.

The other big difference between traditional and indie published picture books is that self - publishers often try to control what the illustrator draws, which is mostly a big mistake if the author wants a truly wonderful and acclaimed book that will sell by recommendation.

In other words, from the moment the publisher offers you a book deal, you can have a pretty good guess as to what kind of advertising budget your book will receive.

There are vanity publishers that will deliver what they promise, but others are dishonest — concealing their fees, advertising services they don't provide, lying about producing print runs (you may have paid for 2,500 books, but only the 100 copies you were given to distribute to friends and reviewers were ever printed), failing to pay royalties owed... the list goes on.

At first, you came to the San Francisco Writers Conference to learn the craft of writing, to hear famous writers describe how they became famous, to learn the secrets of how to create a winning book proposal, to become enlightened by publishers about what they want and, most of all, to pitch literary agents, those elusive creatures who seem always to be heading the other direction.

Although I've had other books published by traditional publishers, I decided this time to venture into the world of self - publishing and did so with little expectations... allowing myself to flow through the experience and what happened would happen!

He was double - dipping in his explanation of what a book costs a publisher and it made me, and a lot of others, wonder if they weren't double charging their authors on expenses as a result.

An ISBN is a must - have for all books made available to the public as it is what publishers, booksellers, internet retailers, libraries, wholesalers, distributors and other such supply chain participants use as an identifier for a particular book when they are listing, ordering, recording sales, taking stock and for other related purposes.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

In 2012 a group of large publishers and other related companies went to court to stop what they said was illegal sharing of book files (mainly PDF files) online by two websites, Library.nu and iFile.it.