I published a memoir with
a hybrid publisher using their designer with my home photo.
Not exact matches
«
Hybrid publishing» is not a term all
publishers or authors in this space
use; other terms that describe this type of publishing include «author - assisted publishing,» «independent publishing,» «partnership publishing,» «copublishing,» and «entrepreneurial publishing.»
I am one of those — a
hybrid author who has
used traditional
publishers and self publishing — and the reasons others cite line up with my own,
The term «
hybrid author» refers to someone who both self - publishes and traditionally publishes, not an author who
uses a
hybrid publisher.)
These can be the most frustrating «
hybrids» of all, since they might be identifying themselves primarily as a traditional
publisher and be listed in market guides such as Writer's Market, but could
use that as a bait - and - switch: Oh, sorry, your work doesn't meet our editorial needs for our traditional publishing operation, but would you like to pay for our
hybrid publishing [or self - publishing] service?
The primary purpose of the above self - publishing comparison of traditional publishing,
hybrid publishing, and subsidy
publishers is to highlight important criteria authors and businesses should
use when evaluating their publishing options.
Hybrids are those that have both self - published and
used traditional
publishers.
Hybrid publishing is not a term all
publishers or authors in this space
use, but it's the term I prefer because it's a catchall.
The
Hybrid Publisher Criteria has a different objective: to provide people with information about an emerging business model so they can make informed decisions when deciding which company to
use to publish their work.
Most people have seen right away how the
Hybrid Publisher Criteria can be
used by prospective authors as a tool to weed out these bad actors.
I expect as this process of digital change continues
publishers and authors (some of them self
publishers, some of them
hybrid authors who both self publish and
use traditional
publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).