For Arva Parks, her nearly 25 -
year publishing venture Centennial Press is a natural extension of her love for Miami.
Not exact matches
«I'm putting the finishing touches on my fourth cookbook, which
publishes next
year, and can't wait to share more details about my other
ventures very soon.»
According to figures that the National
Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and
publishes on their Web site, last
year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last
year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last
year).
Dear reader This
year has already been very eventful for us, with Swiss
Venture Capital Report
published in a magazine format for the first time, the change of structure to a foundation and the filling of the foundation board with high - profile representatives of the start - up ecosystem from all over Switzerland.
Scott Shane makes an important contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship, angel investing and
venture capital in his new book Fool's Gold
published earlier this
year.
GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is
published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last
year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various
venture capitalist firms.
After six
years of attempting to go down the more traditional route for my first fiction book, I decided to
venture out on my own and self -
publish.
For the past two
years, Ben Macklin's company, father - and - son
venture BWM Books, has been helping
published authors give new life to their out - of - print and unpublished works by self -
publishing them in ebook and print - on - demand formats.
When Amazon
Publishing first got its feet wet in the industry in May of this year with the announcement that it was stocking the executive staff of its new publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new venture would n
Publishing first got its feet wet in the industry in May of this
year with the announcement that it was stocking the executive staff of its new
publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new venture would n
publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new
venture would never work.
What actually may make this
venture far more profitable than enhanced ebooks from a few
years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital
publishing industry of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless of retail outlet.
Scholastic, Inc., the children's
publishing mainstay who earlier this
year announced its upcoming
venture into ebook sales for its widely popular school book clubs, will be releasing installments of a new 39 Clues book over the Christmas holidays in digital format.
«This
year we are continuing that tradition by creating a place at BEA for the growing book
publishing startup community to gain access to traditional publishers and top
venture capital and investment professionals.»
Amazon intends on
publishing both printed books under its new
publishing venture and will have bookstores carrying them by the end of the
year.
I was just going over my real profits since the beginning of the
year in terms of my indie press and self -
publishing ventures.
Nancy Stohlman and Kathy Fish have 25
years of combined experience writing,
publishing, and teaching flash fiction, and they are bringing their expertise together in a new
venture — to gather serious writers of flash fiction together in amazing locations in order to generate ideas, friendships, craft lessons, and give you the precious gift of time and inspiration for your writing.
Touch Press is a new digital
publishing venture whose UK and U.S. founders have a distinguished 20 -
year track record of interactive software development.
Those of us who have
published our own ebooks over the past few
years know it can be an exciting and profitable
venture.
As a
publishing veteran (makes me sound very old) of over 25
years, I decided to spread my wings, resign my post heading up Simon & Schuster Australia and set up my own
venture to drive innovation as it wasn't happening quickly enough for me within traditional
publishing environments.
I think last
year saw the start of many promising
ventures specifically for indie authors, but next
year will be even better and make indie
publishing truly the better avenue to take for many first time authors.
Add on top of that the extremely positive reports that Author Earnings released earlier this
year and I'm amazed at how much the indie
publishing venture has grown in such a short amount of time.
«Last
year was the
year of the coach (and we've seen coaching programs explode this
year — including Platform University and MyBookTherapy), I think next
year people will start grouping, or co-op-ing their
publishing ventures to create mini-empires inside Amazon.»
I've been a webcomic artist for the past five
years, and the webcomic model is very closely tied to the self -
publishing model (which I'm also
venturing down).
This
year several new self -
publishing ventures were launched.
To get a sense for how this new
venture might affect educational publishers,
Publishing Perspectives spoke to two specialists with more than 20 years» experience in and around the education, publishing, and technolog
Publishing Perspectives spoke to two specialists with more than 20
years» experience in and around the education,
publishing, and technolog
publishing, and technology sectors.
Author and installation artist Paul Chan, winner of this
year's Hugo Boss Prize, launched his maverick
publishing venture Badlands Unlimited to expore the nature of the book, the disruptive roles of pornography and genre fiction, and the tangled interrelationship of print and digital media.
In the same
year D. Burliuk founded the
publishing venture of the futuristic writer's group Hylaea.
Bravo to Roy McMurtry and his merry band of authors and editors who have created a body of work that is the envy of the legal
publishing world in just over fifty
years, and to the university presses and commercial publishers that have supported this
venture, including most notably... [more]
However, Best Lawyers decided to bring its custom
publishing operation in - house after
years of cooperating in a joint
venture with ALM, the publishers of American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel.
Best Lawyers has
published a helpful timeline and methodology for law firms seeking to participate in this
year's Best Law Firms survey — a joint
venture with US News & World Report.