Sentences with phrase «worked with publishers large»

Having worked with publishers large and small, I'm of the same mind that it is not the size of the publisher that matters with marketing but the size of the advance; i.e. the amount that the publisher is willing to invest in the author.

Not exact matches

The program has also partnered with The Working Group, a top web and mobile development shop in Toronto; Media Profile, one of Canada's most successful public relations firms; Global Accelerator Network, an international alliance of organizations that operate accelerator programs, championed by TechStars; and Postmedia Network Inc., the largest publisher of English daily newspapers in Canada.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996 Childbirth is the work of women as they labor and bear down with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.

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They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Why would an author use a publisher, when they can work directly with IBooks, Kobo, or Amazon, and keep a larger share of the proceeds?

If you're lucky enough to be an indie publisher also, publish with the same passion and work for a large output.

We work with the group that services the large Big 5 publishers.

Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger publishers put into their titles.

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

While the flooding has an effect on the bottom line of large traditional publishers, smaller publishers are more affected, as their material often are in direct competition with self - published work.

The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

I was a literary agent by then, so I knew Becky's platform was strong enough that larger publishers would be interested in working with her.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

But at this year's BookExpo America event, the largest book industry event in North America, publishers will be working to engage directly with their target audiences through an incorporated one - day event, BookCon.

That accomplishment affords them the privilege of paying $ 90 per year in membership dues to an organization who is working with publishers to bring down Amazon, the single largest retailer who makes the majority of sales happen for the majority of authors.

I find authors with promise, work with them to improve their manuscripts and try to sell them to a large New York - based publisher, a smaller indie publisher or help them self - publish their work.

A small press publisher takes a larger chance on you because they have small print runs, but that also means they spend much more time with you, and you have a smaller risk of having to mold your work to fit what they think the industry wants (as is sometimes the case with larger publishers).

At the same time, I still chose to secure the help of an agent, and am working with him to find a traditional publisher for my big fat epic fantasy novel, and another large YA fantasy novel.

The larger publishers I work for sometimes go through as many as a dozen different versions of a cover during the rough layout phase, and then continue to work with three or four options.

In January 2016, we released an open letter to U.S. publishers informing them that we'll be seeking individual meetings with publishers large and small to discuss the substance of our articles and how we can work together to make the publishing industry more fair and profitable for authors.

The large publishers need to spend more time adjusting goals and methodologies to work in a more creative way with the current realities that include digital offerings.

CRISTINA SALAT has spent a lifetime enjoying many facets of the media industry, working behind official New York / California desks and freelance with and for large & small book publishers, magazines, film producers, newspapers, new & independent presses, and emerging / established authors nationwide.

has spent a lifetime enjoying many facets of the media industry, working behind official New York / California desks and freelance with and for large & small book publishers, magazines, film producers, newspapers, new & independent presses, and emerging / established authors nationwide.

informing them that we'll be seeking individual meetings with publishers large and small to discuss the substance of our articles and how we can work together to make the publishing industry more fair and profitable for authors.

From our headquarters in Denmark, our customers have benefited from our many years of experience of working with and supporting the system and from our cooperation with users from all types of organisations from independent publishers to some of the largest media concerns in the world.

«We are working with Brazilian publishers and closing sales agreements with retailers, as well as a large chain of bookstores to distribute the eBook readers,» said Humphrey, which was excited about the digital book market in Brazil, «In over 5 years, 50 % of digital books will be in Brazil «bet.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's reading content, is working to bridge the end of one school year with the beginning of another by offering free reading apps and digital learning games aimed at providing an incentive for students to self - teach during their vacations.

It started with a small Canadian publisher, then got picked up by a larger US publisher and I'm very excited with how they look now,» says Fewings of her history with publishing her works.

She continued «As large publishers work these new standards and capabilities into their existing workflows, they can buy time today by working with third - party experts to convert existing titles and add interactive components to published work.

Larger publishers also have dedicated reps that work exclusively with them and this all costs money.

And I think the larger message from publishers is we want to work with libraries.

And in much the same way, many large publishers, distributors, and services have refused to adequately work with consortia.

When large publishers were faced with the advent of ebooks, instead of trying to come up with viable models that worked in libraries, they applied the same structures that they used for paper.

The 50,000 Japanese - language titles come from a wide range of publishers small and large, including Bungeishunju, Gentosha, Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shinchosha, Shogakukan and Shueisha, all of whom have worked with Amazon to make their titles available in the Kindle Store.

When you work with a large publisher, you make only 10 % of list price (and the agent takes 15 % of that.)

I'd already decided I wanted to self - publish the Lady Raven books, so I made the follow - up decision that I would also work on an all - new series that I could use to find an agent and a deal with a larger publisher, or one at least closer to home.

One final benefit that libraries offer is the opportunity to become community publishers, helping community citizens to publish their works and bring their voices out while providing visibility, «working hand in hand with a larger publishing community.»

Aimed at already - published authors, Open Road Distribution will work with independent published authors, literary agencies and independent agents with large catalogs of backlist books, and independent publishers who want to digitize and distribute their content.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, has been working on increasing student reading interest over the summer months with its reading challenges, aimed at encouraging students to meet or exceed goals outlined for them.

One of the four largest Christian Book publishers in the country, Baker Publishing Group admits the word «publishing» is changing rapidly and they worked hard in 2010 to catch up with digital demand.

zuuka holds a market leading position now — working with large international publishers such as Random House, Harper Collins, Thienemann and Carlsen, and selling top - ranked book apps through the iTunes store.

Being a successful self - publisher requires an entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness to work hard to create a high - quality finished product that can compete with books coming from larger established book publishing companies.

Even when I owned the 5th largest publisher in science fiction and fantasy and horror and was working with Bantam Books on a co-publishing deal for books, agents wouldn't hardly deal with me, or thought it below them to even have to call me.

I am a hybrid author and have worked with large and small publishers as well as self - publishing my latest title.

We've worked with authors published by virtually every major indie publisher, and developed innovative, cooperative relationships with some of the largest self - publishers.

We work with small and large traditional publishers, university presses, niche / special interest publishers, and e-book only publishers, and have worked with many on a continual basis for years.

When you combine this with 12 years of experience planning, developing and publishing print and Internet project, you have the background needed to create a tightly - organized, resource - filled, usable guide to author - driven book marketing a book in today's online world... regardless whether you're self - publishing or working with a large publisher.