Word: printing
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Rather than shell out $60,000 to make a celluloid print of the movie so they could show it on theater projectors, Avalos and Weiler partnered with satellite companies to retrofit theaters in five cities to project the movie digitally--from hard drive straight to the big screen. That stunt made Avalos and Weiler, who live on a 200-acre sod farm in rural Pennsylvania, the first to project a movie digitally in movie houses. They became instant icons of the film-geek crowd. They also became pretty rich. Through video rentals and sales--and distribution in 20 countries...
...thousand readers and go back with a new novel to publishers and show them I had a following," she said. But after promoting her virtual book on woman-friendly websites and selling 150 downloadable copies at $9.95 each, she hocked the jewelry she got from her ex-husband to print 3,000 paperback copies. The Amazon reader reviews were so positive that she soon got a contract from Pocket Books, which made her the first online author to get a book deal. Lip Service has now sold more than 40,000 copies. And she has a contract with Pocket Books...
...often, but by no means always, males? (Some of the sharpest attacks on romances have come from academic feminists, who find the "love conquers all" plots distressingly retro.) Romances may account for a sizable share of U.S. publishing profits, but they don't get discussed much in polite print or society. Even dedicated fans report feeling embarrassed buying them...
King is not the first writer to release a book without benefit of paper and print, but he is by far the most famous and commercially powerful. Reader response to this high-profile experiment will be watched eagerly by publishers...
...addition to public service announcements, which have run in the past decades, the government will spend $167 million on paid television, radio and print advertisements, designed to inform mainstream audiences and target communities whose response rates have been historically...