Trad vs Indie is too black and white.
The fact that it was
trad vs self, and the fact that the GRAND ballroom went to trad speaks.
This seems to get lost in ths and other discussions around
the trad vs self publishing debate.
I like how you present well - thought arguments on
the trad vs indie debate.
Not exact matches
In terms of
trad pub
vs indie — most
trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.
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.
I think when the first AE report came out, July 2014, showing the sales shares of indie
vs trad pub genre books, was the moment I realized that the Tra Pubs were in deep, deep, pre-processed grass and oats.
That said, does anyone have an estimate for indie
vs trad publishing shares in brick and mortar bookstores?
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.
If there hadn't been intention to segregate via self
vs trad publishing, the segregation could have legitimately and fairly done via any number of means that didn't send the message «those indie guys
vs those
trad folks»:
Those charts need to be re-wickered and research needs to be done that includes time to market, numbers of books to market by time per author, cost of production (indie
vs trad), author * time * spent on promotions, author * funds * spent on promotion and inclusion of all books that make up the top 50 or 75K of books in Amazon (not BS lists because some are hard to get on, others not so much).
Heather, the thing you are overlooking in
trad pubbed
VS self pubbed are the indies like me who hire a professional team and follow the good parts about the NY model.