7) USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith, who has published over 100 novels, on his thoughts
about indie vs. traditional publishing (and why indie is the way to go).
Not exact matches
Right now, she's releasing a new edition of How to Market a Book, so we asked her for her advice on long - term
vs. short - term strategies, selling internationally as well as at home, and whether it's worth worrying
about translations and foreign rights as an
indie.
And I'm avoiding like hell these kinds of traditional
vs. indie wars in which horrible things are said
about writers AND publishers.
With so much of the industry divided on the benefits of e-reading versus the damage it can do to the vital
indie bookstores — and with so many of the players in the industry, including BookPeople, divided on Everyone
vs. Amazon — an evolution of this kind seems not only natural, but laudable; it means bookstores can still be the place to turn to for reading content, selection advice, and the sense of community that comes from people getting together to talk
about a book.
This isn't all
about trad
vs. indie.
While there is much to learn
about the bestsellers in genre fiction and what proportion is
indie vs. legacy, and what their respective slices of the pie amount to be, extrapolating from that day to annual income from sales is a bit dicier.
But the report is primarily
about indie authors
vs. traditionally - published books in the world's largest bookstore.
by Anne R. Allen The blogosphere has been full of debate
about «traditional»
vs. «
indie» publishing since the dawn of the E-Age.
The announcement of KU intersects and influences the previous debate and sets off new discussions
about how and why people do and should be able to read books, treatment of and compensation for authors,
indie vs. traditional publishing, book pricing, price fixing, antitrust and monopolies, capitalism and fairness.
Your hard data
about the number of titles by
Indie authors
vs. BIG5 publishers actually supports my theory.
@ 25 Einhander138, if you really cared
about physical releases, you could (a) organize others with a similar opinion so that indies and publishers hear your concern as the concern of more than a lone individual, or (b) research the costs of a physical release
vs. digital release and present a compelling financial reason for
indie devs and publishers to balloon their costs for retail.