Sentences with phrase «while big publishing»

BOMB Magazine organizes this yearly affair, which has only grown in size while Big Publishing has been on the wane — great freaking news for small presses.

While the big publishing houses circled the wagons refusing to face reality, freelancers and financing outlets like kickstarter made them obsolete.

While a big publishing house may not be interested in your book (Techniques for Creating Miniature Vampire Cheese Sculptures) because of its limited market, you can self - publish and use the Internet to promote your book to your built - in readership in your niche worldwide.

Not exact matches

The big Canadian retailers don't publish monthly sales figures, but it's understood from companies operating in both countries that while the Canadian market has fared better than the U.S., it has still seen declines.

While we've known for awhile that Freedom Communications would get to this point of a fresh bankruptcy filing, it is Tribune Publishing's spring purchase of the Union - Tribune that changes the business dynamics of the big market.

While most big guys in the industry have published their results over the past few days, there seems to be a big sell - off.

Motorists who break the law by using a mobile phone while driving are the biggest menace on the UK's roads, according to opinion research published today by the ABI.

In 1999, while Steinhardt and Turok were convening in Cambridge and Carroll was meditating on the meaning of the multiverse, rebel physicist Julian Barbour published The End of Time — a manifesto suggesting that attempts to address what came before the Big Bang were based on a fundamental mistake.

He has also published papers claiming that big people, violent men, and engineers and mathematicians have more sons, while nurses and schoolteachers have more daughters.

While many people suspected she was bisexual, her bisexuality wasn't formally confirmed until the Oregonian, the state's biggest newspaper, published an article revealing her sexual orientation.

While publishing one of this year's biggest and most lauded titles, the Tokyo - based fitness company has also been on the receiving end of scathing criticism and been the subject of alarming rumors.

While I was living in Bahrain, in 2008, I decided to follow my colleagues» advice, and I submitted a proposal and sample teacher resource book to a big name educational publishing company.

While most authors secretly want to be published by one of the big, well - known publishing houses, there are now so many wonderful benefits to self - publishing that you just can't ignore them.

Many of you have been writing for a long while, been traditionally published through big and / or boutique houses, or self - published.

Things have changed quite a bit since then and, while inspiring stories of success still abound, the hard, ugly truth is that there are now more independent authors, and more books getting published on a daily basis than ever before, which further reduces the odds of any one book making it big.

While most authors (like me) secretly want to be published by one of the big, well - known publishing houses, there are so many reasons why it's a good idea to self - publish — nine to be exact (but that's only because I was restricted by the cats.)

While those genres certainly haven't dropped, greater acceptance of self - publishing as a whole has led to new genres stepping and moving up the sales charts in bigger numbers.

In mid-year 2014, indie - published authors as a cohort began taking home the lion's share (40 %) of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers combined slipped into second place at 35 %.»

While Amazon may be the biggest name in ebook self - publishing, they're not the only players.

Some are soldiering on in Christian publishing while harboring some big misgivings — hardly believing that others aren't putting up more red flags.

While in the past the big publishing houses were often rather sniffy about self - published writers, these days, attitudes have changed.

While traditional marketing and publicity methods can be applied to self - published titles, the playbook usually has to shift, for two big reasons.

While you and your company may feel you treat your authors fairly, we've heard too many stories about bad deals and poor treatment from big publishing.

For those who are looking to publish with a big (traditional) publishing house, either while you're self - publishing or instead of self - publishing (it doesn't matter these days), Jacqueline has posted some information about the very important cover and query letters.

But... but in ebooks, big publishing makes 52 %, while authors make 17,5 %.

After giving the letters a couple reads, Authors United and ABAs» pleas to the DOJ seem to speak mainly on behalf of Big Five traditional publishing, while overlooking the opportunities small presses, indie publishing, and self - publishing been afforded by the online vendor.

In a November report, it claimed the big five account for 31 % of all ebooks sold on Amazon.co.uk, while self - published authors have reached 26 %.

While critics mocked Amazon for its «too big to fail» approach to bookselling, Amazon Publishing has flourished, luring some well - known authors to its five distinctly genre - specific imprints, while still leaving the door open for the occasional debut author with a high - quality While critics mocked Amazon for its «too big to fail» approach to bookselling, Amazon Publishing has flourished, luring some well - known authors to its five distinctly genre - specific imprints, while still leaving the door open for the occasional debut author with a high - quality while still leaving the door open for the occasional debut author with a high - quality work.

While Big Five print titles, for example, may sell more than the average indie author's work, a self - published author has to sell far fewer copies than a traditionally published author to earn the same amount of income.

But while the Big Five aren't closing up shop entirely any time soon — despite recent mergers and rumors of future mergers — and self - published authors continue to earn... [Read more...]

While some self - publishing authors want an agent and a big publishing deal, many do not.

While I'm a big believer that periods of unconnectedness from electronic devices are one of the most important sanity - maintainers these days, I think we're also moving past the days when it was enough to write a great book, publish it, and call it a day.

While it's owned by Penguin Group, a traditional publisher and one of the «Big Five,» Book Country is truly an independent entity that helps authors looking for traditional paths to publish their work, as well as indie authors.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

and some other try desperately to hold onto their outdated modes of operation, just adding improvements along the way in a piecemeal fashion, while the big players (the technology folks) change the publishing paradigm, provide authors with tools that will likely use XML (authoring, content management and delivery).

While my stand alone cover design prices may seem high, my formatting + cover publishing packages are going to be very average, compared to the mainstream big services like Createspace, Lulu, or Author House, or small presses.

While this might not be as big a deal for giants like Ingram and Amazon, who do their own private data gathering, for small and medium - sized publishers, as well as self - published authors, this data is of immense value.

I have other writer friends (for instance, Michael J. Sullivan and Hugh Howey) who have achieved super-success first by self - publishing, but who then shrewdly parlayed their fame into select, carefully tailored deals with big publishing houses, which allowed them to expand their fan base to include bookstore customers, while still retaining most of their other rights.

As a traditionally published writer (who doesn't do it for the prestige, but the money, by the way... it's not my ego, but my bank balance that's involved in the choice) I see the big advantage of traditional publishing as $ $ and the time it saves me — leaving me time to write while someone else does some of the donkey work.

This is big news for self - publishing authors, so while we announce this new benefit (and incentive to create a Kindle edition) we will also emphasize our improvements in formatting Kindle editions that actually look — you know — good.

While making a living strictly from self published book sales may be tough, making regular sales of your business» product or service because you've written a book can be a much bigger score.

But while the Big Five aren't closing up shop entirely any time soon — despite recent mergers and rumors of future mergers — and self - published authors continue to earn accolades and income, one entity in the publishing industry has been largely overlooked: literary agents.

While you wait for the big day, check out the movie tie - ins being published for children and adult readers alike.

One of our novels was traditionally published for a while, not with a big name publisher.

While in some cases I would rather buy (non fiction), at 14.99 I look to the library first now... after that self published and independent options that don't come from the big 5 publishers.

I'm approaching four years of writing full time, and while I've had some successes — won two contests, had a request for a full manuscript, indie published two short stories, written a lot — I haven't had a «big» win.

While these success stories are noteworthy, we should look at them for what they are — outliers in the self - publishing world just as Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer are outliers in the big - six publishing industry.

While waiting on that big publisher to decide on my submission, I jumped into self - publishing with a cross-genre series I knew most publishers wouldn't be interested in.

Before committing to big distribution, try these quick and easy ways to publish while you finesse your book with great editing and design.

Amazon.com has taken some big steps in the publishing world in 2011 and, while a lot of the news admittedly swirls around equal parts industry news and speculation, there is no doubt that the retail book giant has huge plans.