Once you're published, especially when you have multiple books out, have built some fanbase, etc (
whether trad - pub or indie), you have more options.
Professional reviews for all published books —
whether trad or indie — are, directly or indirectly, paid for.
These days, I have the feeling that the people that will endlessly pursue the elusive perfection of craft will simply be the people who want to do this, the same as always regardless of the path they take,
whether trad pub or self pub or something in between.
In other words, the above graph should not be ostensibly read as
whether trad pub or other markets are more profitable to the author, or
whether trad pub is an altogether losing deal, but as which economic model — trad pub or otherwise — makes the most business sense.
Whether trad publishers are currently likely to be interested in series that were previously self published
Not exact matches
We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and
whether indie or
trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).
Are poets not authors, because books of poetry typically have low sales,
whether self - published or
trad - published?
Decide
whether you want to go indie or
trad with it.
Absolutely: authors must promote themselves on social media,
whether they are
trad pubbed or self - pubbed.
Whether we batter them down by sheer numbers, or the
trads figure out that we're here to stay and offer us more than the crumbs they give their captive audience now really makes no difference to me.
There will always be some who throw caution and reason aside despite the readily available realistic cautions,
whether it be for
trad or indie / self pub.
If we put out crap, they'll tear us to fucking pieces in twelve seconds flat,
whether we're indie or
trad - published.
So
whether an author decides to sell their work to a
trad publisher or not — it is clear that indies are here to stay.
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.»
Every author, depending on popularity, needs a different number of titles to make and maintain a living doing this,
whether they are
trad pubbed or indie.
Whether that's good or bad depends on whether you're Amazon, a trad pubbed author who doesn't participate, or an indie who is hoping that folks conditioned to read free content will decide they're worth payi
Whether that's good or bad depends on
whether you're Amazon, a trad pubbed author who doesn't participate, or an indie who is hoping that folks conditioned to read free content will decide they're worth payi
whether you're Amazon, a
trad pubbed author who doesn't participate, or an indie who is hoping that folks conditioned to read free content will decide they're worth paying for.
Writing,
whether you go
trad or indie or both, requires output.
I doubt He has a view on
whether one self - publishes or attempts to go the
trad route.
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!
Whether you're indie or
trad - pub, with that strategy, you may not sell a lot of books; or you may sell a truckload.
In an effort to help make this decision easier, I've listed some important considerations when contemplating
whether you should go indie or try the
trad route.
Every author,
whether indie or
trad, knows the horror of seeing your book in print for the first time and spotting a typo.
Like I've always said, people (
whether self - publishers, indie published or
trad published) who have taken advantage of the KSP are a bunch of chumps.
It's not clear
whether Amazon pays
trad publishers out of the KDP Select Fund, but I can't imagine that could possibly be the case as they're not even enrolled for KDP Select, so I'm excluding
trad firms from the following figures, and assuming that the Kindle Unlimited / KOLL payouts are applicable only to indies.
The laws would include changes to the existing «self - assessment» regime used by landowners to decide
whether to clear land, Ms
Trad confirmed.