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Her book, The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None, received a 2017 Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal from the Independent Book Publishers Association and the 2016 Foreword
INDIES Book of the Year Silver Medal for Business & Economics.
Not exact matches
Many
book deals encourage authors to release a set number
of books a
year and
indies need to engineer their own ebooks, do their own layouts and generate the
books to ePub and Kindle friendly formats.
As you know, I swore off RT after only two
of them because last
year they just didn't want to bother with trying to accommodate
indies or those with non-returnable
books.
Last
year, Amazon began offering a beta program which allowed
indies the option
of creating print
books through their KDP program instead
of going to Createspace or one
of the other POD options currently available.
My fourth
book is on the verge
of coming out and I have been bogged down regarding the translation
of the first (to German, and Spanish is next on the list) due to these legalities, and since my day job as a psychotherapist plus the writing
of these four
books in four
years takes up almost all my time, YOU are my main contact with the «real» world
of indies.
Most
of the authors making the big money have been doing this for many
years, and most
indies making $ 5000 — $ 10,000 a month have at least 5
books.
But that doesn't make all publishers the enemy, either, I have 30
years in this business as both an Acquisitions, Senior Editor and packager, with BOTH in TRADISH and
INDIES, plus 30 + published
books of my own to boot.
Sales at
indies have grown 8 percent a
year over the past three
years, which exceeds the growth
of book sales in general.
Although public perception
of indies is improving every
year, there's still an idea out there that self - published
books are poorly constructed.
Joanna: The presale thing is fascinating because,
of course, Amazon now gives
indies presales on
books, which we only got last
year.
Bottom line: Although the indie share
of BookBub has been shrinking steadily for 2
years now, BookBub could account for at most a 2 % shift in overall Kindle market share for
indies, even if they stopped accepting indie
books altogether.
The model
of pumping several
books out in a
year might be fine for someone like James Patterson who has a slew
of hot and cold running editors, but for many
indies, it means skipping important steps such as editing and trying to go straight to the payoff.