Sentences with phrase «trad publishing made»

Trad publishing made its only entry in third place with Penguin's Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, getting a sales boost from the release of the film of the book.

Not exact matches

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

It doesn't matter that I've made as much on several of my books as I would with a trad publishing contract.

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

The only people who really make a noise about trad - vs self - publishing are those with a vested interest, and those opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wTrad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wtrad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

This is how I sold my first several books and how many of my trad - pubbed friends broke in to publishing and I have long believed it's the best way to make contacts.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

They can write in older genres that trad publishing has tired of, like Gothic Romance or Family Saga, and make them new again.

And the Ilona Andrews self pub book has done well, but likely has not made as much as advances on Ilona Andrews trad published books.

Especially those of us who have been with trad publishing for a while, where the decisions about this stuff were made by other people.

As for the other 99 %, I agree trad publishing should be trying something different, because they're absolutely failing to make those assets pay off like they could.

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

I find it interesting that people make this into an either / or thing, I'm doing both, indie publishing shorter works that there's no point offering a trad publisher, while my novel is in the hands of my agent.

The difference in income between successful traditionally published authors and successful self - published authors is getting narrower each day, with many self - published authors now making much, much more than their trad pub counterparts.

Since we're making outlandish, provocative (and unsubstantiated) claims, I'll concur with the response that trad published authors are lazy because they don't want to put in the time and effort to produce or market their books.

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

This realization also served to make me feel alienated from other trad - published writers.

That's the other advantage of indie publishing: you don't have to follow the guidelines (the ever - shifting guidelines, might I add) of the trads, whether it is a demand for massive doorstopper fantasy novels, or having to inject vampires / zombies / whatever the flavor of the month into your story, or even making sure the characters are «diverse enough.»

How nice it would be if there were a e-publishing service house whose mission & market was to FIND mid-listers who had proven their writing (by managing to get at least a couple of things published and bought before a trad dropped them) and make it easy for them to make the transition to indy.

How many trad published authors actually make a living from their books?

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

Individually some won't make it, collectively I think we will — just as was always the case even with trad publishing.

Anyway — thanks again for writing such a good article, it's certainly food for thought; and has made me even more glad that I decided to stick with the self - publishing instead of chasing the trad pub dream, ha ha!

If the trads buy up the avenues indies use to get to market, leaving the door open, but making it exorbitantly expensive to publish, they will have effectively killed off the indie movement.

Since the basic premise of the assumption about trad published works is wrong, well, that makes it all the more difficult to swallow those sorts of reviews.

My point is that self - published writers aren't posing any threat to traditionally published writers, but trad - pub tend to make self - pub feel very bad when their paths cross.

Pricing self - published books under $ 5 gives them an advantage over trad - pub books on price, which helps make up for the disadvantage of being a relatively unknown author.

Yesterday, I saw all my trad friends posting photos of themselves at ALA and I had a moment, I was like, I wan na poster, I wan na booth, I wan na be there signing books with millions of ready made fans — all milestones I wanted to achieve, before I self published that now (in this moment) feel millions of miles of impossibility away... and then I was like, why do I care?

The right way to look at it is that whether or not you have a trad publishing deal, doing self publishing will make you more money than if you gave it a miss — plus, you and a bunch of readers will have a lot of fun!

Interestingly, once you have a huge platform, you may not NEED a trad published deal (you might make about the same money anyway, but you'd be selling a lot more books and getting more visibility with a traditional publisher, which is what I want).

You're right — although we strive to make our manuscripts as clean as possible, it's common for the occasional error to slip through (even in trad published books).

Even long - time trad - pubbed authors who think they know the ropes can make fatal errors because self - publishing has a different set of rules.

Of course, the trad published authors of the Big 5 get less than $ 44,22 a day on average (because the Big 5 take a huge part), but for me, it is proof that Kindle Unlimited makes it harder for an author to make a living.

Joanne Phillips made the observation in her post that indie authors trying to do the work of a whole publishing house's publicity department is never going to work, and we had to realise that indie publishing is completely different from trad.

A well established company in the publishing industry who does professional reviews for free (they might make money otherwise) for trad - pubbed work but ask for over $ 400 to review Indies.

Some authors initially self - publish successfully and are then offered an Amazon deal and it speaks volumes that many writers, such as previously trad - published Robert Dugoni, are happy to forsake the extra 20 % they could make self - publishing direct and sign up with Amazon.

So far I have made more money from trad, but I firmly believe in the freedom of indie publishing (my latest book, Joe Coffin, will be indie published as I can not see how it would fit with a regular publisher) and I also believe that in the long run I will make more money down the indie route.

Romance superstar Marie Force has made the NYT bestseller list 6 times with indie titles, and Brenna Aubrey, who turned down a six figure deal with trad publishing last year has had phenomenal success this year.

It found that Kindle ebook sales in 2014 by the AAP's 1,200 reporting publishers made up less than 45 % of all Kindle books bought in the US and trad - published ebooks as a whole only made up 55 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US in 2014.

If you think you might like to trad publish, a small press might be a good choice, but if you're fairly sure you want to self - publish, make sure you don't sign any contracts on a series.