The phrase "a big publisher" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a large publishing company or organization that produces books, magazines, or other media.
Example: "After submitting my manuscript, I was thrilled to receive an offer from a big publisher."
Alternatives: "a major publisher" or "a large publishing house."
The winner gets a signed copy of one of the books that will surely be published when a big publisher sees this.
It's best, by far, to be a major book from a big publisher; and out-and-out self-publishing remains, at best, a lottery-like crap shoot; but successful, professional crowdfunding a la Mytro seems an increasingly viable and desirable option, compared to most small presses or afterthought titles from major publishers.
It often happens that an author who has produced a best seller (or a near best seller) for a small publishing house immediately jumps to a big publisher for the next book.
'We don't have official censorship on books in Egypt, but the publishers were afraid and at one moment I thought it wouldn't be published, so I took it to a big publisher in Lebanon,' he explains.
Authors can publish books that would not be commercially viable for a big publisher and receive 50% of the profits.
"The idea was to have enough capital to self-publish it or sell it on good terms" to a big publisher, says Lewis.
"I saw what happened to me and to my friends," said Marnie Mueller, a New York writer who has published three books with Curbstone, though the success of her first book meant she could have gone to a bigger publisher.
Barton, who vowed almost from the moment that Thomas Nelson pulled the book that a bigger publisher had already picked it up, is now claiming that that bigger publisher is Simon & Schuster.
Perhaps a larger fear for writers is Kate Losse's: that a book with a similar idea is written by a bigger author with a bigger publisher and it's that book which gets all the praise or that the other guy's book is better and yours is just forgotten.
Becky Chambers's charming space opera The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton), originally self‑published, got a big-publisher release this year.
If not, keep looking for options of how to get published: Seek a traditional big publisher.
