Sentences with phrase «with big publishers»

The bottom line is that while we embrace the indie author world, what would you do if you had a chance to work with a big publisher.

He had a book deal with a big publisher, but has since decided to self - publish.

But you can't compete with the big publishers by trying to do things the way they do.

You have to have a guaranteed best seller on your hands, along with a contract with a big publisher, in order to secure a big marketing budget.

And let's be honest, even with the big publishers on board, don't expect to ever get free access to the latest best sellers.

Traditionally published authors have no intention of changing: About 90 % of authors who publish their books with big publishers don't see themselves ever publishing their own books.

It's a similar story with some bigger publishers though.

With big publishers increasingly avoiding risks and therefore pumping out more sequels, it's up to the smaller developers to continue moving the art form forward.

As for big authors staying with big publishers, I am confident they are not only laid well, but get a far better deal than any of us will ever see.

That's all we really can do whether we're published with a big publisher or an indie.

You'll be competing with big publishers with powerful sales teams who pay money to have their books featured in window and table displays.

However, they do sometimes help poets with substantial publishing credits from literary journals to publish their poems / short story collections with big publishers.

Always good when the media starts picking up on things like that since so much of it shares parent companies with the bigger publishers.

Most self - published picture books I've seen are poorly written and illustrated and just can not compete with the big publishers at this time.

We have some great posts from successful independent authors — some who have since signed deals with big publishers, and some who have turned their back on book deals.

What we're doing at Semi-Linear with our Citia app is partnering with big publishers like HarperCollins, Hachette, and Penguin and saying, «Let us take a crack at some of your interesting and best - selling science and technology titles, and let us come up with a version that gives a reader the chance to navigate for themselves through a shorter version of the book, and if they're then interested then go on to buy the full version of the book.»

So far, Lexcycle has partnered with big publishers like Random House, Pan Macmillan and Harlequin, as well as self - publishing companies like Smashwords.

Antoniades was realistic in our conversations about the difficulty of working with big publishers as a mid-sized independent studio, and how that led to Hellblade, a game funded, published and owned by Ninja Theory itself.

You're competing with big publishers who can afford to hire publicists and spend big on ads.

This might be in partnership with a bigger publisher given the Triple - A mention.

Get Recognition and Awards — Some people don't realize that if you publish a Kindle book and make great sales, and enter some contests you can also win publishing awards just like people do with the big publishers.

Some like the Chicken Soup series are very solid and have been around a long time with big publishers.

Meanwhile, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands has pushed for OA in its periodic collective bargaining rounds with big publishers over journal subscriptions.

You might be publishing very infrequently with big publishers.

The partnerships with the big publishers means that there are plenty of big name authors here including Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Walter Isaacson and Michael Crichton.

Findaway has deep relationships with the biggest publishers in the world to secure requested titles, including Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Penguin Random House, and Harpercollins.

11) Hachette is first because one negotiation with a big publisher makes a lot of bestselling books more profitable.

Currently, most contracts with bigger publishers use an «out of print» clause for rights reversion.

«Their work with big publishers such as Random House demonstrates the power of data that's invaluable to authors and publishers.»

But now they've also moved into direct competition with the big publishers by opening «Amazon Publishing,» with its own genre imprints, such as Thomas & Mercer for mysteries and thrillers.

Presentation parity with big publishers.

But as self - publishing comes into its own, more authors are picking and choosing which books they want to go indie and which they pursue publication with big publishers.

Adler also promises that more deals with big publishers for e-books and audiobooks are on the way.

Apple colluded with the big publishers to jack up ebook pricing and to fix ebook pricing so publishers set prices and no one can offer discounts back when the iPad was first released.

Quite a few are doing very well for themselves — better than the average mid-lister with a big publisher — but many more aren't.

I was also told that there was little point in getting an agent who wasn't based in New York because if they were not in New York, they simply did not have the access to or connections with the big publishers.

Apple's settlement to avoid antitrust proceedings came after the company was investigated over potential price - fixing with the big publishers, cutting deals that artificially kept the cost of ebooks high through preferential pricing.

Essig replied by saying that the midway publishing option is already taking place — where indie developers are much more ambitious and are keen on working with big publishers rather than self - publish.

It doesn't happen for obvious reasons with the big publishers, but smaller developers rely on word of mouth to build up support - a minor plot device on Netflix's House of Cards doesn't hurt as well.

«If I were cynical, I'd say Twitch allows games with big publishers, but they don't understand smaller developers.»

It's perhaps the most important month of the gaming year, with the big publishers saving their even bigger hitters for this precious date.