Sentences with phrase «when major publishing houses»

-LSB-...] years ago, when the major publishing houses got together with Apple and conspired to fix e-book prices, they did so not because Apple was sexy and Steve Jobs was a benevolent god and the iPad was just -LSB-...]

Two years ago, when the major publishing houses got together with Apple and conspired to fix e-book prices, they did so not because Apple was sexy and Steve Jobs was a benevolent god and the iPad was about to launch, but because Amazon was the devil.

«What made the Broadside Press significant was that it gave African American poets and writers the opportunity to have their works published during a time when major publishing houses did not take these works seriously.

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«One of my most valuable failures came at an early age, when I failed to convince a major publishing house to buy out Student magazine,» Branson recalled.

And, to answer the question above about selling hundreds of thousands of books without a major publishing house — check out a post I wrote in August of last year when I hit the 100,000 milestone in crime book sales.

And even though I didn't care about it at the time, when I pick out any of those books now, it's not surprise that they were all from the major publishing houses.

Her books were published to great acclaim by a major trade publishing house until a couple of years ago when they decided, for reasons best known to themselves, not to continue.

I really never thought it would get published, let alone acquired by this major publishing house, and I was literally speechless when I got an email confirming their interest in acquiring Strays for the Aladdin Books imprint.

That's when calls started rolling in from major publishing houses.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

A major publishing house was also on the verge of buying the book when their marketing department informed the senior editor that the market was «Afghaned out.»

There are people who think that being published by the major houses conveys some legitimacy, that anything published by them must be «good» while anything they don't publish must be «bad», when in fact we all know that what it actually means is, as you say, that they think that it will sell if they publish it.

Hopefully, we are headed toward a time when a book is judged by its merits and not the stamp put on it by the publishing house, and the vanity of being in the stable of a major publisher will lose its allure.

Making a general, sweeping statement like that of Grodin creates the illusion that all eBooks are too expensive, when in fact it truly relates only to a portion of the market that is getting smaller by the day — that of major publishing houses.

I decided to self - publish when I wrote my epic fantasy, and understood that it meant that my books would not likely ever get picked up by a major publishing house.

I really, really wish that major publishing houses would take a page from other forms of media — films, music, etc. — and start including free digital copies when purchasing a physical book.