Sentences with phrase «as an indie publisher of»

As an indie publisher of children's books, I am frustrated with the messy ebook landscape, too.

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XSEED seems to have developed an interesting in publishing indie titles as they are to be the publisher behind both physical and digital versions of Shantae: Half Genie Hero, and the digital version of Exile's End.

Fans can also expect continued support from major publishers such as EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Capcom, SEGA, Take 2 and Bethesda, plus a growing catalog of quality content from indie developers.

This might start off as a slow week, but we have Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze hitting this week, and May is chock - full of titles both on the indie side and from AAA publishers.

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

The secret to success as an indie publisher is to identify the type of book a target reader wants and then give them that type of book.

Traditional publishers aren't scouring the Top 100 lists as the new slush piles as much, movie moguls aren't optioning as many indie books as The New Hotness, word has gotten out that you actually have to bring a ladder to reach the boughs of the money tree.

Shelf Media Group is the publisher of Shelf Unbound indie book review and Podster, a magazine for podcast listeners, as well as host of the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» Competiindie book review and Podster, a magazine for podcast listeners, as well as host of the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» CompetiIndie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» Competition.

As indie authors continue to knock down the stigma of their products being «lesser than» without the stamp of approval from a Big Five publisher or smaller press, this next hurdle is readying to be toppled by self - publishers, thanks once again to Amazon.

We know lots of paid review sources that are fully legit, such as Kirkus, City Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly for indie authors.

And as indie publishing ate into the sales numbers of the traditional publishers and their authors, and discoverability became an issue for traditional publishers just as it always was for indie authors, traditional publishers had to adjust even more.

Despite a rocky relationship with the digital publishing revolution as recently as five years ago, a number of traditional publishers have not only made room on the shelves for indie authors, they're building their own self - publishing avenues.

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.

Amazon revealed that as many as 25 out of 100 of its best - selling titles in 2012 were from indie publishers.

This should serve as a measure of the growing clout that the indie publishers and authors have come to wield.

In mid-year 2014, indie - published authors as a cohort began taking home the lion's share (40 %) of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers combined slipped into second place at 35 %.»

More precisely, what is defined as Indie Publisher is actually the definition of an Indie Author and every Author who does not see his writing as a hobby.

But as an indie publisher, with no real track record yet, (and a world that is expanding into electronic publishing faster than most people can keep up with) how is it possible to make any real projections of sales?

Indie publishers often see themselves as victims who are locked out of well - deserved opportunities by a cadre of hypocritical profiteers, but the truth is not so cut and dry.

The publishers you all think of as huge now were small press or solo shops, indie presses, back 50 or 100 years ago.

If, as an author, your intent is to create a book that will help you build towards a franchise of books from which you could one day make a living, or to create a book that takes your career to new heights or is a marketing tool for your business, then think about becoming an indie publisher and not an indie author.

As Judith Briles said in a 2014 article on the topic of self - publishing versus indie publishers (http://authoru.org/dont-confuse-independent-publishing-with-self-publishing.html):

Many of them are hybrid — they work with traditional publishers on their current books, and they republish any books that have gone out of print as indie books.

I bring to the table over 10 years of experience working both in - house and freelancing for a major North American publisher, as well as indie authors.

I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.

One of the keys is that you, as the publisher of your own indie publisher, must decide if paper books are worth it, if having your books in store catalogs and on bookstore shelves are worth it.

The term Indie Publisher (and publisher as generally accepted term) is whoever publishing the work of others, not his own (or necessarily not only his oPublisher (and publisher as generally accepted term) is whoever publishing the work of others, not his own (or necessarily not only his opublisher as generally accepted term) is whoever publishing the work of others, not his own (or necessarily not only his own work).

2017 was a year that ongoing, maxi - series, and limited floppies seemed to blend more and more and for me as a reader I found myself shifting away from one publisher to another and as a whole continuing to enjoy graphic novels and indie comics a hell of a lot more than I have in the past.

As soon as indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more bookAs soon as indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more bookas indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more books.

As the story of successful indie publishers spreads, folks are eager to jump on the self publishing bandwagon.

Covers tend to get better after a few dozen covers as long as the indie publisher is paying a lot of attention to learning cover design and font layout and blurb use.

I went to David Gatewood as my editor because I want my books and stories to look and read as well as anything else out there, and to be of the same high quality as books put out by major publishers and indie millionaires.

As an indie publisher, knowing the nuances of the world's largest marketplace will increase your ability to get your book in front of thousands of potential customers.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

So keep your mind open and the two forms of business apart in thinking and you, as an indie publisher, will make better decisions.

As electronic books started to gain percentage of total books sold, a very small, but very vocal group of writers sprang up that I call indie publishers.

You can also go cruise on Google for other «best of 2015» fiction lists, such as those from or by Small Presses, Independent Publishers, more Indie / Self - Pubbed authors, Debuts, Flash Fiction, and on and on.

A former indie publisher (she was the founder / president of GreyCore Press), she makes her living as a freelance writer, editor and book consultant while she continues to work on her own writing projects.

Indie presses, which is defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates, do everything trad publishers do, but on a smaller scale.

A lot of indie author / publishers swear by Draft2Digital because it can serve as a one - stop - shop for book distribution (almost).

As Beyond Redemption was bringing in amazing reviews (starred and boxed review from Publishers Weekly, rave reviews from BookList, the Library Journal, and a host of indie book reviewers) I decided to gamble and write the sequel.

As to what «types» of publishers, they're from both major and small publishers, both mainstream and indie.

As long as indie authors and publishers are being fairly compensated and making a comparable percentage of what they would in the typical e-book market, I think subscription services will be a succesAs long as indie authors and publishers are being fairly compensated and making a comparable percentage of what they would in the typical e-book market, I think subscription services will be a succesas indie authors and publishers are being fairly compensated and making a comparable percentage of what they would in the typical e-book market, I think subscription services will be a success.

If you mean «Indie» as being «Independent», that is, not connected to the large conglomerates of traditional publishers, then yes, we are «Indie» as well as «Traditional» (the trick here is not to use the two terms as contrasts, because they are apples and oranges).

And speaking of time, I have shouted here a great deal about how indie publishers need to ignore the «book as event» or «book as produce» models, but yet few do, thus all the stupidity about self - promotion.

Still, patience is crucial because as an indie publisher I can't afford the book launch splash; instead, I must rely on a slow growth of a title as word - of - mouth grows.

Note: If you're an indie author, you'll want to use IngramSpark as it provides services to self - publishers, while Lightning Source is the division of Ingram that handles POD for trade publishers, retailers and libraries.

You also seemed to view «traditional publishing» as being the larger publishers which isn't true (correct me if I interpret you incorrectly)-- Indie, as you define it, is a subset of traditional publishing.