Sentences with phrase «when big publishers»

Since the reveal of the PlayStation 4 back in February when both big publishers and smaller indie games got to share the stage, Sony has been winning over indies left, right and centre.

If I were to guess, I'd say that at some point, when big publishers start filing for bankruptcy, Barnes and Noble is gone, and nobody can afford to get into the book retailing business, we might find the DoJ moving in a different direction than they have now and regretting they stepped into this whole mess in the first place.

«You have to appreciate the openness of the Story Bundle model when big publishers are constantly disabling features and charging exorbitant sums for ebooks.»

Because when the big publishers colluded with Apple to raise prices under the Agency model, $ 12.99 and $ 14.99 were the price points for ebooks.

The time has come when the big publishers start to sign up indie authors.

When big publishers (like Jonathan Galassi) start talking about how they need to «maintain the value of time - honored roles,» I think it's safe to say the writing is on the wall.

But when the big publishers are forced to raise royalty rates and start treating authors like a valued part of the process instead of a necessary evil they have to put up with in order to do business, we all win.

I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when big publishers give marketing help to more than a handful of authors.

Despite the large number of entities out there that exist only to make money from self - published writers and do so with impunity, it is a different thing when a big publisher goes this route.

When a big publisher aimed to introduce a legendary series of books in eBook format to fans, Thai readers thrillingly anticipated in the eBook launch of a classical literature, Phet Phra Uma, written by a well - respected author, Panomtien, despite the limited presence of eBook catalog in the bookstores.

Not exact matches

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

Not to mention, when you first start out, you'll be relegated to posting on low - authority sources, scraping by with minimal yield until you build up enough of a reputation to start posting on bigger, more prominent publishers.

A big step towards that goal came in March, when the International Publishers Association endorsed EPUB 3 — sweeping international standards for publishing multimedia - rich, interactive digital content on all devices.

He stands ready to help organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers used successfully in 2003 when another big commercial publisher, Elsevier, bought Cell Press and tried to raise its journal prices.

When a major publisher expressed interest in re-releasing Deep Nutrition, that was very exciting because it gave me an opportunity to put all the science around nutrition that's come out since the original was published into the context of that larger story, to grow the story into an even bigger and better narrative.

Gamers are conditioned to be a cynical bunch, especially when it comes to big publishers and console makers peeling off digital copies of older games, but this year held strong value for PlayStation Plus subscribers, particularly those looking for new experiences.

With the world industry working to assess what it means when an American president tries to intimidate a Big Five publisher and talks of compromising US protections of freedom of speech, there's a lot of energy around the subject of literary censorship.

Yet neither strategy — getting bigger or becoming leaner — by itself answers when scale is a publisher's friend and when it is an enemy.

Hachette is pretty darned big, too, but like all the major publishers, it just loves playing the victim card when it doesn't get its way.»

Big name authors are going the indie route to get back the control they lost when they first signed with a publisher.

When it comes to the big six publishers, most of them don't allow their ebooks to be borrowed from the public library or, if they do, charge exorbitant amounts.

When it comes down to pilot projects with the big six publishers, there is a ton of work that goes behind the scenes to make it happen.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

I stopped reading books from the big publishers when they started price fixing.

Fall is when the publishers roll out the big names, hoping that the new Ian McEwan, Tom Wolfe or Zadie Smith will be embraced by gift - givers during the holiday season.

For the big publishers, I now either borrow from the library or buy when they're on sale cheap.

The biggest issue facing publishers is how to make the price of an e-book dynamic, so when the paperback comes out, the price of the e-book price comes down.

At a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their... [Read more...]

In an age when so many of the «big stories» in publishing are about amazing self - pub successes, people are asking more and more, «Why would I want a traditional publisher?»

In his book The Everything Store, author Brad Stone recounts that the big book publishers were blindsided when Amazon announced at the Kindle launch event that e-books would be priced at just $ 9.99.

So when you curse the fortunes of those hide - bound majors, understand you're aslo denouncing the small publishers who together compose the big ones.

I do talk to the CEO's of the biggest publishers but I can assure you that when we happen to see each other at charity functions or industry functions the people who run publishing companies don't sit around taking about how long their company takes to revert rights to authors.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

I have less and less patience with people who claim that Amazon has or is striving for some kind of evil monopoly that will subjugate authors and readers when all the evidence to date is that they will treat authors better than any publisher and provide readers with cheaper books, a bigger selection, and a better customer experience than any other retailer.

I haven't been following your blogs for that long so I don't know what you're referring to when you say you've been lied to by big publishers.

If this were a love fest, then publishers would not have all reduced royalty rates on ebooks in lock step fashion when ebooks went big.

Or when those big advances do happen, almost always the publisher loses money (which is why they've stopped doing it).

When you are your own mini publisher, you only have yourself to blame if it doesn't go right - but you don't have that with a big publisher.»

First, it continues the impression that all e-books are indie works, when the big name publishers are in fact all over e-books and you've made arguments against how they handle e-books.

That changed somewhat on Thursday, when for the first time a big publisher made a step toward increasing digital royalty rates.

Maybe you could blog about the changes to our eco-system since the high point in 2011 when self - published authors could suddenly find deals with big publishers like Amanda Hocking... If only I'd read this article in the UK Guardian in 2012, I might never have self - published at all, here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/24/self-published-author-earnings

Expense is the biggest drawback for self publishers when it comes to publishing a hardcover edition for their books.

When Coates spoke to GoodeReader in February about this lending model, those titles were reported to be coming from all of the Big Six publishers, something that public libraries have not been able to achieve for ebook lending.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

When a library purchases the title for inclusion in its catalog, it is treated as a sale, just as when that same library purchases a title from a Big Five publisWhen a library purchases the title for inclusion in its catalog, it is treated as a sale, just as when that same library purchases a title from a Big Five publiswhen that same library purchases a title from a Big Five publisher.

And since when can any of the Big Five publishers look at $ 239 million dollars as barely profitable?

At a time when libraries are already struggling to survive within the confines of dwindling budgets and patron apathy, the Big Six publishers haven't been very supportive of library lending, at least in their actions if not their sentiments.