Sentences with phrase «with publishing house titles»

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A 20 - year veteran of the media industry with a resume listing a plethora of titles including president of Macmillan Publishing, chairman and CEO of Columbia House Company, and CEO of Freedom Communications, Flanders possessed the skill set and experience to hit the ground running — a consensus the Playboy search committee came to after a painstaking selection process that lasted six months and vetted more than 180 candidates.
Besides what is published here, there are four manuscript versions of varying lengths and with slightly different titles among the Hartshorne papers (now housed at the Center for Process Studies).
Even with those two facets, most titles don't ever make it to the silver - screen — even if published by Random House or any of the others.
The company also announced recent tie - ups with many of the leading publishing houses in the country, which has allowed it to add more than 1,000 more ebooks to its growing catalogue that comprises of over 2 million titles.
Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.
A top literary agency announced a deal with Amazon to publish electronic version of some of its authors» older titles without going through traditional publishing houses.
Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»
Publishing house Edgy Reads was created by New York Times bestselling suspense and thriller author CJ Lyons to share independently published titles with readers in print and digital formats.
It'll playback DRM'd books you can purchase through the Connect Bookstore (more on that later), with titles provided by all the major publishing houses.
The title sponsor, along with its self - publishing imprint CreateSpace and publishing house Penguin Group USA have narrowed down the field of novel entries from 5,000 to just six, with the grand prize winners in both the general fiction and the young adult fiction being announced on June 13.
With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.
In October I became the first author at my publishing house to sell a thousand units in a single month with a single title.
Even if the book had been sitting in storage on the off chance that the Republicans did not take the White House at this year's elections — and some commenters did seem suspicious of the speed to publication, wondering if there was a similar ebook at the ready entitled Why Obama Lost — the time to market for this title is incredible when compared with traditional print publishing.
Though I apologize for making it so difficult for «good» writers to do even better, I don't for the multi-national media conglomerates that constitute the «big five» publishing houses and their stock holders, nor do I for the self - publishing companies and the «massive problems» (mentioned in another of your blogs) they're having with the influx of self - published titles to their online bookstores — a problem, I might add, of their own making.
You can choose from great titles from hundreds of award - winning and diverse publishing houses at launch, not to mention the telethousands of international publishers Google works with around the world.»
Some of these so - called independent publishers, not to be confused with the current concept of indie publisher or indie author in terms of self - publishing, are long - standing publishing houses with major bestselling titles whose authors are household names.
After noteworthy success with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint, PubIt!
But what really happens is that your book — along with thousands of other titles from big - name publishing houses — will be listed in databases from which bookstores order their books.
We can change course on a dime compared with larger publishing houses that have hundreds or thousands of titles.
With my interest in the novel rekindled (no pun intended), I penned a dark tale of lust, obsession and betrayal titled, The Butterfly Collector, and sent it round UK agents and publishing houses, collecting over 75 rejection slips in the process.
A: After having more than 20 books published through traditional, commercial publishing houses, I decided to take the self - publishing route with my newest project, a picture book titled The Sound in the Basement, about a young boy who tries to overcome his fear of going into the basement alone.
I think the claims floating around the internet that self - published titles at WestBow Press, Harlequin Horizons, or any self publishing imprint with ties to a large, traditional publishing house, won't review and accept self published author into their houses, is ridiculous.
Random House, which publishes 13 of the books in physical format, was outraged at the development and promptly issued a statement announcing that it would not enter any new English - language business agreements with the Wylie Agency — home to 700 authors and estates — until the situation was resolved... A joint statement issued [two days ago] by the publisher and the Wylie Agency said the two parties had «resolved [their] differences», and that the 13 «disputed» Random House titles... were being removed from Odyssey Editions and taken off sale.
Most of the e-books that sell in significant numbers are priced between 99c — $ 4.99 (with the exception of major titles released by publishing houses).
Timas Publishing Group, which consists 7 different publishing houses, is the leader of the Turkish Publishing Market with more than 2500 titles total and 300 titles per year including children, history, politics, pschology, islam, philosopy Publishing Group, which consists 7 different publishing houses, is the leader of the Turkish Publishing Market with more than 2500 titles total and 300 titles per year including children, history, politics, pschology, islam, philosopy publishing houses, is the leader of the Turkish Publishing Market with more than 2500 titles total and 300 titles per year including children, history, politics, pschology, islam, philosopy Publishing Market with more than 2500 titles total and 300 titles per year including children, history, politics, pschology, islam, philosopy and so on.
Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.
The ebook store includes titles from the big five publishing houses — Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster — along with a number of titles from Scholastic, Harlequin, Norton and Chronicle.
I have spent the past three and a half months working as an ebooks assistant for an Oxford based Christian publishing house producing books that aim to illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, and question the Christian faith in non-fiction and fiction offerings, and with over 300 ebook titles already selling on all major retailer / online portals.
Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels being made into a major motion picture.
Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels (Herogiri) being made into a major motion picture.
Self - publishing authors — whether they intend to stay independent or try to convert their book to a commercial house — can also benefit from professional feedback to compete with the 11,000 new titles every year vying for a reader's attention.
As an independently publishing author, you want your book to be positioned along with other titles, published by the bigger houses, and getting your book on the bookstore shelves can do just that.
Unfortunately for libraries, that growth has led many of the largest publishing houses to take a very guarded approach with the field — offering libraries ebook titles at a significant markup, licensing titles only with restrictive terms or embargo periods, or simply refusing to enter into ebook agreements with libraries at all.
I have a few self - published titles and plan more, and I also have books with small presses and New York houses.
Joanna Karaplis: On the digital development side, I'm responsible for developing and growing our ebook publishing program — deciding which titles to convert; supervising the conversion process, which is currently outsourced, with plans to bring it in - house; overseeing ebook proofing, editing, and adapting; preparing metadata; distributing our ebooks to our retail partners; and working on price promotions and other marketing initiatives that are directly related to ebooks.
Your novel needs to be able to compete in a crowded marketplace with titles that have been professionally produced by traditional publishing houses.
This search enhancement is going to be a tremendous boost to indie authors who've put their titles in the subscription catalog through Smashwords» agreement with the company, as it will let Scribd's membership find new titles without having to have the boost of advertising dollars from the major publishing houses.
Since early May Amazon has been locked in a standoff with the French publishing house after Hachette refused to give Amazon pricing control over its ebooks, which would have seen most of their digital titles discounted to less than $ 10 a book.
«Publishing Goes Pop» is one of his key thematic elements at this conference and this reporter was asked to chair a session of that title panelists Lance Fensterman of ReedPOP, the «con» - producing element of Reed Exhibitions; Andreas Gall of Red Bull Media House; Nathan Hull, formerly of Penguin and now with the Danish - based subscription service Mofibo; and Michael Bhaskar, who has founded London's new digital publishing company, Canelo, with Iain Millar and NicPublishing Goes Pop» is one of his key thematic elements at this conference and this reporter was asked to chair a session of that title panelists Lance Fensterman of ReedPOP, the «con» - producing element of Reed Exhibitions; Andreas Gall of Red Bull Media House; Nathan Hull, formerly of Penguin and now with the Danish - based subscription service Mofibo; and Michael Bhaskar, who has founded London's new digital publishing company, Canelo, with Iain Millar and Nicpublishing company, Canelo, with Iain Millar and Nick Barreto.
Not surprisingly, around the same time that e-reader sales were taking off, we were seeing a real increase in Canadian e-book content ---- from small publishers to some large publishing houses ---- and not just in terms of new titles of bestsellers and genre fiction that are very popular with the format.
HP Mallory has sold over 130,000 copies of her self published books and has scored a 6 figure deal with Random House for publication of three forthcoming titles.
This is a resume building internship where candidates will learn how to contact editors of major publishing houses as well as producers to consider our proposals for talent and titles we work with.
With an output believed to have exceeded 2,000 titles annually in recent years, APub, as it's called — the traditional publishing house of Amazon, not the self - publishing KDP platform — has just added its 15th imprint this year, Topple.
With over 15,000 new titles, and close to 800 million print, audio and eBooks sold annually, Penguin Random House's publishing lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world's most widely read authors.
Other major information to be noted is the development of 20 new mobile titles with 15 coming from in - house studios (10 from SEGA Networks and 5 from SEGA) with a further 5 being co - developed / published.
«A recognition of [Bhavsar's] place in the mainstream art world today was the release on Oct. 15 of a book on Bhavsar, written by a noted authority on American art, irving Sandler, and published by Craftsman House of Australia, at a reception at the home of noted art collectors Pat and Ben Heller,... titled «Natvar Bhavsar: Painting and the Reality of Color,» contain [ing] 42 plates of color that reproduce the complexities and nuances of the original, which ordinarily elude reproduction, with notable fidelity.»
In addition to his work in legal publishing, Errick also runs his own small publishing house, Twelve Tables Press, with a number of law - related titles, and owns a bookstore and cafe in Brandon, Vt., Book and Leaf.
Bill Kennedy, who had been associated for many years with the wonderful Coach House Press, started by Stan Bevington, bpNichol and a loose syndicalist collective, told us of Coach House Press's bold initiative to publish all of its titles over a five year period in downloadable PDF form.
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