Sentences with phrase «indie breakout books»

Instead of relying on your own internal system to exclusively push sales, Smashwords does the smart thing and makes agreements with Apple to have its Indie Breakout Books segment in many international markets.

Not exact matches

The course contains video discussions with CJ and I on reasons for indie publishing, pros and cons, the mistakes people make, how you get paid as well as an exploration of our sales figures for 2011 — CJ's breakout novel and my own, more modest figures which you will find fascinating.We discuss what happens after your book is live and how to optimize your sales page.

«Publishing pros and producers realize indie books are at a disadvantage to mainstream books in terms of publicity and media coverage, and remember: the whole point of the Vault is to help publishers find promising books before those books become breakout hits.

Apple has been known to do indie - centric deals, and has also invited self - published authors to join their Breakout Books promotion.

Given the very slow publishing schedules in mainstream publishing and the fact that there is a limit to how many books a publisher wants from any given midlist author in a year, the money odds for «most» of us who are not famous or breakout bestsellers... is in the indie side of things, because we can publish on a faster timetable, while still keeping the quality up.

Sure, there are some breakout successes, but most indie fiction authors making decent money right now have 5 or more books.