Sentences with phrase «when authors and publishers»

Once a book has been enrolled in the affiliate program for more than 30 days, when authors and publishers make certain adjustments to their participation, such opting out of the program, or reducing their juicing rate, these changes don't become effective until the first day of the next month.

If so, thatâ $ ™ s when authors and publishers will need to start worrying, since theyâ $ ™ ll be trading dollars for pennies.

The ruling concerned the long running Google Books Settlement, a class action orginally started in 2005 when authors and publishers in the US sued Google for copyright infringment of works scanned as part of its large - scale scanning of books held in major library collections.

What is the dream situation for a Store — When Authors and Publishers are desperate so they give the Store a big cut, and if possible, placement money too.

The most successful author branding tends to happen when authors and publishers don't even mention sales and promotions, instead focusing on subjects related to the author or publisher's genre, other content or books, including TV shows, games, and interactive or transmedia stories (adjacent customers are great converters from this).

I know that when authors and publishers send out «review copies» of their books, they are hoping for positive reviews.

Not exact matches

All those years ago, when everything was still possible, book publishers might have sold authors instead of books, and magazines and newspapers might have done the same with journalists and commentators.

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

The author and its publisher disclaim responsibility for updating information and disclaim responsibility for third - party content, products, and services including when accessed through hyperlinks and / or advertisements on this site.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

When he was the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, they went gangbusters on building websites for every book and author, only to find that nobody ever visited all these thousands of pages.

I think it was Jack Canfield (author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it's not what people say about you but what you say to yourself when they say things about you.

By agreeing to these more stringent guidelines, the authors write, publishers and journals would have the chance to legitimize and advertise the relative quality of their peer review process in an age when predatory journals, which falsely claim to use peer review, continue to proliferate.

When it comes to positive affirmations, author and publisher (and all - around amazing woman), Louise Hay is tough to beat.

In 2012, when it came time to publish a paperback version of the Patrick Melrose novels, the semi-autobiographical pentalogy by the English author Edward St. Aubyn, his American publishers had no trouble rounding up rapturous praise from a passel of distinguished readers: Zadie Smith, Bret Easton Ellis, Ann Patchett, Edmund White, Sam Lipsyte, and Alice Sebold.

Yesterday, I had a long meeting with the publisher's marketing folks, and when I explained to them the concept for the cover — a mosaic of images of either each author's profile photo, or a montage of photos that remind them of the learning story they shared, or perhaps a combo of the two — I think we may have found our title:

An author who finds an agent and a publisher quickly and when her book debuts it hits # 1 on the NY Times Bestseller List and then gets turned into a movie and she becomes an overnight success story.

Why would an author use a publisher, when they can work directly with IBooks, Kobo, or Amazon, and keep a larger share of the proceeds?

Now, with some understanding how things operate, it's easier talk to publishers, editors and successful authors in a time when the industry is changing so much.

When first - time author Maria Harrison decided to try and get her romance novel published, one of the first publishers that popped up in a Google search looked perfect.

We are happy to help authors and publishers of books like these find suitable outlets, even when their books are not produced by UP.

When pitching a new author, one of the first questions I'm always asked by my publisher and our sales force is, «How's the author's platform?»

Self - publishing, when done right by informed authors can produce excellent results and lucrative opportunities — and if you're not a traditional publisher, success can arguably be defined in terms of artistic satisfaction.

If accepted by the publisher, the author was assigned a publicist who dictated how, when, and to whom the book was marketed with little or no input from the author.

Digital textbooks are still not as widespread as most educators and students would have hoped, and publishers are still searching for the right middle ground when it comes to funding a well - researched title authored by experts in their fields, and producing a volume at a price that schools and students can afford.

This change means that the very publishers who sell their own works — whether they are the authors themselves, fully operating publishers, or authors with their own imprint for business purposes — can now be undersold and therefore not be the actual seller when a consumer (oblivious to the rule change) clicks «add to cart.»

Author used to mean something, when major publishers were selective and normally vetted out the terrible and bad writers.

The monopolist publishers get what they deserve when the took over all the passion publishers and made authors into slaves.

When the transaction is complete the author is automatically designated as the owner of the ISBN or the «publisher of record,» meaning that person has the ability to access, update, and maintain her metadata through Bowker's website myidentifers.com.

Mass market goes for like $ 6.99 and the author makes like 6 - 8 % So when suddenly (in the last 5 years) people are taking a third of sales hit because people think they are entitled to your work for free... you have the situation we have where publishers are cutting books they buy.

Yet when your entry pool is 5,500 entries from scores of amazing authors and publishers, whittling that number down to 300 is darn near impossible.

These authors works pale when held against the prolific and eager self publisher.

Authors know that when they work with a publisher, they're partnering with a company that has years, decades or even centuries of experience choosing, editing, designing, marketing and selling books.

By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 This was a real case that came up this past week and is very typical of some of the problems an author faces when he puts on the Publisher hat.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

When I was an acquiring editor at a small publisher that did not take reprints time and again I'd get an author saying, «But my self - published book never sold, won't you take it?»

British authors Louise Voss and Mark Edwards gave up on their dream of writing a bestseller years ago when their two finished thrillers failed to attract the attention of publishers.

Problem is, their publishers are still humping the book, and it blows when the authors give up, because then we're fighting an uphill battle.

When the new Kindle shipped with a feature that let it read texts aloud in a synthesised voice it only took a few angry huffs and puffs from the US Author's Guild before the facility was made optional, to be turned off at the behest of the publisher.

Traditional publishers are looking for a guaranteed return when they publish a book, which is why the market is flooded with existing well - known authors and celebrities.

But there's one other skill or ability you have to look for as an author when trying to find top literary agencies to get you a top publisher and book deal.

What you say applies perfectly to someone with your profile — a successful author with an established fan base — and I'm not surprised Amazon took you on board as an author when they struck out in their new role as publisher.

Yes, you're missing the fact that even when someone has a terrific platform and does tremendous personal marketing, traditional publishers can often grow that audience beyond what the author can do on their own.

You said «When I see a self - published author repeatedly spamming people online and desperately shoving self - promotional material into people's hands at conventions, all to promote a book with a cover that looks like it was done in MS Paint, a part of me wants to cling to that as proof that I'm better off with my publisher.»

Textbook publishers will always have overhead costs (they must still compensate authors, editors, typesetters / designers, proofreaders, indexers, etc.), but the costs associated with physically printing, binding, warehousing, and shipping the book are eliminated when going digital.

Gone are the days when bestselling authors just wrote the books and turned over all the other tasks to their publisher.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

When an author goes the traditional publishing route the publisher presumes to be the authority and knows better than the writer and assumes creative control of the writers intellectual property.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

When publishers talk about authors who have great platforms, they are generally referring to authors who have great websites and / or blogs (meaning interactive, functional, and with a clear and easy - to - find sign - up form); authors with a high number of followers across various social media platforms; authors with previous publications (of either books or articles); and authors who already have a fair amount of media exposure under their belts — through a list of public speaking engagements, YouTube videos showcasing their talents, radio links, TV footage, and / or a media packet.