As regards Authors,
Publishers as middlemen might not be a dispensable â $ œdisintermediatableâ $ entity for most, as they need their experience and expertise to turn their ideas to a polished, finished product, besides matters of financing (via advances) and marketing.
Not exact matches
A mobile affiliate network is a mobile platform that serves
as a
middleman solution between mobile advertisers, such
as mobile app owners or any businesses that sell a product or service via mobile web, and affiliates (or «
publishers») that are engaged at performance - based advertising for the former.
Or is it you
publishers are just too cheap to invest some of that money you've scammed from authors over the years to build some infrastructure to sell direct to customers because you know that without a
middleman such
as Amazon and Apple, you will no longer be able to shield exactly how much you've scammed from authors by claiming the
middleman took a big chunk of it?
With the introduction of desktop publishing, print - on - demand technology, and the Internet
as a direct - to - consumer distribution channel, publishing became a service consumers could purchase, instead of an industry solely dependent on
middlemen (agents) and buyers (traditional
publishers).
With the introduction of desktop publishing, print - on - demand technology, and the internet
as a direct - to - consumer distribution channel, publishing became a service consumers could purchase instead of an industry solely dependent on
middlemen (agents) and buyers (traditional
publishers).
You don't pay a
middleman at inflated prices for what you can set up for yourself
as an author /
publisher.
Self - publishing success One of the greatest problems that
publishers are worried about is self - publishing authors, who have rejected the
middleman in favor of publishing their own work via sites such
as Amazon.
The seller (usually a
publisher, but sometimes a
middleman, such
as Amazon, for example), can control the terms of the license.
As a self -
publisher, you keep all those profits — so that same $ 10 book, once you've paid off the
middlemen who sell to the bookstores and libraries, will generate at least $ 3 to $ 4.50, or even more for books sold back of the room at talks or directly over your website.
Hi Alice, My main reasons for doing it myself are: * You only pay 1
middleman i.e. Amazon — if you go through someone else you pay them
as well
as Amazon / other retailers * Ease of updates and they are also free — some of these ebook
publishers will charge you to update It's really easy to do your own files now, use Scrivener or another package.
Literary agents act
as the
middlemen between you, an unknown writer, and the major
publishers.
Assignmint hopes it can act
as a
middleman between freelance writers and
publishers, helping put payment and billing into the cloud.
As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the
middleman of
publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad»
publisher offers.
Douglas McCabe at Enders Analysis thinks large
publishers will continue to need the
middleman, pointing out that readers don't set out to buy HarperCollins or Penguin books, just
as they don't watch a film because it is made by Pinewood Studios.