Most authors and publishers currently make ePub2 files, and all of the retailers except Amazon accept them.
Most authors and publishers want their files to be protected from illegal copying and piracy, but the standard approach of applying Digital Rights Management (DRM) to eBook files comes with its own set of difficulties, especially if you are planning to sell your own eBooks.
So, for
most authors and publishers, the rate increases will probably not end up increasing the costs of a book promotion campaign — for the time being.
Wide - Eyed And Bookish In the United Kingdom, Zoe Sugg — known as Zoella to her huge fan base — has pulled off the kind of book - sales numbers that
most authors and publishers will never see.
Yet, strangely,
most authors and publishers who contact me still open their conversations with, «My goal is to have my book reviewed in the New York Times or another newspaper of that caliber.
But as
most authors and publishers will attest, it isn't the easiest route to achieving praise from the likes of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today.
But if you're like
most authors and publishers, whatever other goals you may have, selling books is near the top of the list.
Listed below are some common questions about UP's methods, and the answers that apply to
most authors and publishers:
Cindy was really asking me whether or not I believe using a news clipping service was a good investment for
most authors and publishers who were involved in the world of independent book publishing.
And I am sharing it in spite of the fact that I would rather, personally, see
most author and publishers price Kindle books generally at $ 2.99 and up.
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Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German
publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the
most lucrative ever for
authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings,
and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering
and agriculture.
As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area
publisher, I brought in Jay
and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword,
and even wrote my own back cover (something
most authors never get to do when working with a major
publisher).
Since then, he has spent
most of his time editing for
publishers, non-profits,
authors and aspiring writers while raising his two children.
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«The ghost is a metaphor,» the aspiring -
author heroine says after a
publisher dismisses her
most recent work as a horror story (before telling her she should add a love story
and complimenting her handwriting).
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Judith also
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most recent ones are a Common Core Math Workbook for grade - 2
and a Grade - 8 PARCC NJ Math Review book for Barron's new assessment series.
Getting a big following on social media is one of the easiest ways to impress agents
and publishers,
and it's a lot simpler than
most authors realize.
This would include both
Author House
and IUniverse, who currently use the same Lightning Source / Ingram program as
most of the other POD / Subsidy / Vanity
publishers.
These are the same
publishers who continue to use an advance
and royalty system that screws
most of their
authors big time.
Most authors know that you can pitch your completed book to literary agents
and publishers, but you can also pitch your book idea.
An
author platform is the
most powerful key to success in today's saturated market,
and increasingly,
publishers are demanding that new
authors come to them with an existing audience of interested followers.
Most publishers request
authors to do this using the
Author Questionnaire, a tool that assists in assembling the resources that a writer will use for marketing
and publicity.
The awards that Bologna Children's Book Fair gives to
publishers,
authors and illustrators are some of the
most coveted international prizes in the publishing world — for excellence in graphic style, innovative format, artistic strength, balance,
and with voice
and narrative for young people to engage in.
For example, new literary agents spend
most of their time looking for new
authors and pitching their work to
publishers, hoping to make enough money to pay their bills so they can continue being agents.
The
author's royalty is not a particularly high percentage of the sale because the
publisher is putting up all the money
and taking
most of the risks so they rightfully expect to make the lion's share of the profits.
To save money, the
publishers may cut back on lucrative advances
and book tours for some
authors,
and there may even be some layoffs, but the
most direct response will probably be to save money by simply printing fewer physical books.
$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more
most traditional
publishers are charging for ebooks, but as an Indie
author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting
and willing to pay.
Yes, blog tours represent a book promotion opportunity that
most authors,
publishers,
and book publicists have known about for awhile.
But for
most of the indie
authors and small
publishers I work with, money is at a greater premium than time.
A
publisher's PR campaign is usually a short, narrow, focused one — if that, whereas
most authors need a longer, expansive campaign to develop
and build a following that will last beyond this book.
The truth has always been that
most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed
authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents
and publishers think they want to read.
What I want to focus on is another illusory belief among some
authors —
and most of these are self
publishers — that eBooks is the exclusive way to forge ahead in publishing.
Publishers still exist for many reasons, the
most important being the editorial relationship that develops between the editor
and the
author.
A prominent literary agent recently told me that unless an
author receives a hefty advance of $ 100,000 or more
most publishers will do virtually no promotion, leaving it to
authors to create
and exploit their own platforms via social media
and networking connections, workshops
and webcasts.
You see, a book needs to come to life with its
author knowing what audience is expected to read it, or else
most publishers (
and literary agents) won't be interested in it.
Most authors understand that getting a top literary agent
and publisher isn't possible unless you have a good book.
However, Nielsen discovered that this age group
and gender demographic are reading far more non-fiction than
most book buyers would believe, which speaks to a strong need for more content from
publishers and indie
authors.
Digital textbooks are still not as widespread as
most educators
and students would have hoped,
and publishers are still searching for the right middle ground when it comes to funding a well - researched title
authored by experts in their fields,
and producing a volume at a price that schools
and students can afford.
But one organization in the UK, the Society of
Authors, has stated in an interview with its head Nicola Solomon that the validity of the traditional publishers is questionable and goes so far as to state the traditional publishing as a whole is no longer the most viable option for a
Authors, has stated in an interview with its head Nicola Solomon that the validity of the traditional
publishers is questionable
and goes so far as to state the traditional publishing as a whole is no longer the
most viable option for
authorsauthors.
if self - published
authors aren't «real»
authors, then why the hell are major
publishers only willing to publish newbies who have already seen success through self - publishing???
Most major
publishers won't even give you the time of day unless you have a following
and are willing to do marketing yourself.
But
most publishers want to continue living in the «old world» — they essentially want the same deal as before, even though they are doing less
and the
author must do more.
This would be far more understandable a concern if
most consumers knew how much an
author's work is stripped away in the editorial process by major
publishers,
and then understood that self - published
authors often chose to pursue indie authorship because random gatekeepers had deemed their book wasn't fit or worthy enough for mass market publication.
Hank Quense provides the aspiring self -
publisher with a down - to - earth
and workable set of road maps for what is a more complicated process than
most authors realize.
What
publishers do in support of
authors has declined to a minor fraction of just 10 years ago; in fact,
most have turned into quasi printing houses that include cover design
and minor editing only.
Book Buddy offers a full range of
publisher services including the
most affordable professional audiobook production in the U.S. Book Buddy produced over 1,000 market - ready audiobooks in 2016 for a variety of
authors and publishers.
Independent
authors and Amazon - imprint
authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional
publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that
most industry observers,
and those in the Big Five
publishers, find it hard to swallow.
Many independent
publishers and most self - published
authors struggle to get books into retail outlets because they can't get them into distributors
and wholesalers.