Sentences with phrase «what publishers»

Lawyer David Vandagriff, who runs The Passive Voice and who comments using the handle Passive Guy, said it was «interesting how little many of these big - selling trad pub authors understand about the book business», claiming that this came from «listening to what their publishers and agents tell them».

As Teleread noted, this is part of Scalzi's point that what publishers are doing is an anti-Amazon strategy.

I can't tell you the last time I paid what the publishers have printed on the inside flap for a hard cover.

This is just the first time when the dollar amount has shown it and, let's face it, the almighty dollar is what publishers look at.

better than the paltry 6 or 8 % of retail that they were offering but it's not necessarily equal to what Publishers pay via the Agency Model.

What publishers need to realize is that authors like Eisler and Ferriss — and even some without that kind of pre-existing fame — don't have to put up with the glacier - like pace and other downsides of the mainstream publishing business any more.

Which means hearing experts hold up NYT bestselling Big 5 authors as the perfect example of what publishers do well while claiming that any self - publishing success story is an outlier and a fluke.

Like you I am not on a side so much as acknowledging the publishing paradigm shift happening under traditional publishing's feet, trying to figure out where it's going and what the publishers of the future will.

Hidden in this point of yours is the truth of what the publishers are trying to do — forestall the adoption of ebooks — thus protecting their relevancy which is entirely dependent on print distribution.

A bit more understanding of what publishers actually do will go a long way toward dispelling the myths of self publishing.

There's also a feature from Anna Faherty on what publishers can learn from the success of Angry Birds, a writing workshop from Sarah Salway, careers advice from Suzanne Collier, and Kirsty McLachlan on what you need to know about agency agreements.

This week was devoted, though, to the first Business Writers Conference, where I led two sessions, «What Publishers Want» and «The Why to Buy» on creating a business model for your book before you write it.

Joe Wikert outlined on DBW what publishers can learn from the podcast model, by offering easy subscriptions (which could arguably be similar to subscribing to blogs or newsletters), delivering content on a regular schedule, and delivering related content to your audience.

And you'll be asked to rewrite that work, not based on any artistic vision, but based on what's currently selling, what publishers are currently looking for.

What publishers are doing now is acquiring most of their new talent and delegating them to their digital - only lines.

As to Scott Nicolson's comment re: getting 70 % by dealing direct, in addition to the points you made about what publishers do to help create, market and sell books, he should also check the fine print — 70 % of what?

Lauren Walter reacts here, and Seth Godin explains what the publishers are missing here.

«And they understand what publishers» needs are.»

As for Iku, he does not seem to understand what publishers are or the nature of the business relationship between Amazon and self - pub authors.

«It was initially hard to determine what publishers needed the most,» Nataf tells Publishing Perspectives.

What the publishers and amazon are looking for is the sweet spot of what consumers will pay.

Amazon pays writers nearly six times what publishers pay us.

I wish that the above authors realized what the publishers are doing to them.

I've had a difficult time figuring out just what publishers do and how much they invest in marketing the books of authors that aren't in that elite 1 % or 2 %.

What publishers wanted was price flexibility and more vendors for e-books, rather than Amazon controlling the market and prices, and since e-books are a tech product, to use the agency pricing system used throughout the tech industry — including by Amazon with other suppliers.

We saw this with ebooks; an ebook can be created today at a fraction of what publishers used to pay for the service 5 - 10 years ago.

While its approach is open, it will still be limited to what publishers use the AllAccess platform.

It does sound like a decent compromise to me, because I've argued here and elsewhere that Amazon should drop its efforts to control or dictate pricing and discounting on books if that's not what the publishers» want.

What publishers provided was access to important capital goods (printers, Adobe Indesign and other expensive tools) and the skills to use those goods (typesetters, Indesign designers, cover designers).

I think that in the end what the publishers need to fear is not that Amazon will set the prices for their new releases, but that they'll take them over entirely.

What publishers do is related to content provided for them by a contract workforce, namely authors.

Traditional publishing isn't about making sure the most deserving books make it to the bookstores, it's about what the publishers feel they can successfully market.

But the list of what publishers do for you grew in further posts from other folks on the list and my disbelief continued to grow with it.

I sent two books to publishers, and the editor told me that the beta readers had really liked them, but it wasn't quite what the publishers really wanted at the moment.

This is what Publishers and published authors are trying to do — Kill off eReaders and eBooks.

I have no doubts this is exactly what the publishers think.

It's only going to be about what writers can do to ride the wave and what publishers can do to stay afloat.

We were very thoughtful entering the market in the first place, to try to understand what publishers thought, what creators thought, how they viewed it, what they were scared of, what they were worried about, how did the retailers fit into it — all of that stuff.

After all, that's what the publishers do: hire people to do the work, but before I decide what to do myself and what to hire out, I'm going to look at what all that work actually is.

Networking with industry professionals helps you find out what publishers might buy your work and how to approach them.

This is what publishers are buying and, when all is said and done, will be losing money on.

What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness by James Bridle on Publishing Perspectives

Discussion of «What publishers need to do to continue to add value» soon got bogged down in the usual arguments about how they should spend all the money they're apparently saving through not manufacturing print.

The remaining 55 % of the cover price is equal to what the publishers were taking for their work — the editing, the proof reading, the cover, the marketing and publicity etc. and of course NY premises, and interest on those advance payments and a few other things besides a profit, which is what they could take as an oligopsony.

Whether one thinks it is a good thing or a bad thing that the deepest - pocketed retailer can spend $ 20 a copy on a big book to promote a price perception depends on your point of view but this clearly demonstrates what the publishers, the retailers, and the consumers face when a high - profile, high - demand book is sold without the price discipline of agency terms.

Spending $ 10 for a book you can't place on a shelf seems steep, but that's what publishers are charging.

You have to wonder what Publishers are thinking.

Now, while this is true on some levels — indies aren't restricted to writing to what publishers want to fill their catalogs, for example — it also skews away from the topic as put forth in the headline to the post.

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.

Add into that the fact that what people want to read isn't necessarily what the publishers are putting out there and, well, you have the beginnings of the perfect storm for the publishing industry.