Sentences with phrase «traditional authors tend»

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On the subject of the fall, the authors of the catechism tend to be more traditional, or less innovative and developmental.

The report, authored by Mitch Price, also evaluates charter school collective bargaining agreements and concludes that while they tend to be more flexible than traditional district contracts, they also contain many of the same trappings.

And incidentally, these publishing routes tend to have a keen interest in the midlist authors, niche genres, and minority voices traditional publishing is struggling to support.

Hybrid authors are more likely to choose self - publishing in their next books and tend to make more money than traditional published authors.

Royalty rates given to Amazon Publishing authors differ, but they tend to be far closer to the 70 % royalty given to those who self - publish on Amazon than those offered by traditional publishers.

With so much discussion in the industry about reasons for authors to choose indie publishing over traditional, many authors and readers alike tend to overlook the fact that the end result of a traditional publishing deal only comes about after a publisher has signed the author's book.

In fact, given that indy authors tend to pay editors and proof readers, and want value for money, whereas editors in traditional houses are involved in a large number of projects, and are well - known to spend the bulk of their time in meetings rather than editing, and proofing is contracted out - often to the same proof - readers as many indies use (and some editors care how good it is, and some don't) the standards may well be higher in indy bestsellers.

Because they have less regard for the traditional way of doing things, and because they tend to be more experimental and bigger risk - takers, many indie novelists have started incorporate keywords into the novel subtitles in the way that memoirists and self - help authors are encouraged to do.

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It's also far more difficult to secure foreign and film / tv rights when you self - pub, and that tends to be the bread and butter of traditional authors.

As an independent publisher who has more than 30 years in this business, both with traditional houses and independents, I have to say that many aspiring authors and self - published authors particularly, tend to tar all publishers with the same brush.

Because while there are lot of sites out there geared to writers in general, in my experience as an indie author I found that they're tended to be quite a bit of bias and stigma against the self published authors at some of the those other writer sites which were really mostly populated by people interested in pursuing a traditional publication path.

Retailers prefer to focus their resources on books that are more likely to perform well — and so traditional publishers tend to focus on bestselling authors.

So I think those authors who do move from the traditional publishing houses to self - publishing will tend to be those who have not had the best of experiences with them, and who genuinely have something to gain by moving across.