PubSmart 2014 may be creating something we've needed to see much more of: a conference in which not only business - conscious authors but
also smaller publishing companies can start doing the logical networking they've needed: with each other.
Not exact matches
I had a
small, but growing readership, in large part due to the traffic I already had through my website, and
also due to my work at a Christian non-profit organization and
publishing company.
Keep in mind
also that many
small and medium - size
publishing companies rely on KDP, Nook Press, and the like as well.
Moerer
also boasted that Apple charges the same split, taking a 30 percent cut of all sales, whether a book is
published by a major
company, or if it is self -
published by a
smaller author.
I'm Ashton Cartwright, and as well as running PaidAuthor.com, I've
also run a
small publishing company at AshtonPublishingGroup.com for the past several years.
But she
also refuses to name the * kinds * of publishers who are interested in this - are they big NY
companies,
small pressses,
Publish America, or what?
«There is no question self -
publishing is increasing and
small - scale
publishing is increasing, because the cost of
publishing a book has gone down and the need for having a large organization of your own has
also disappeared,» says industry analyst Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the New York - based Idea Logical
Company.
They
also hurt the
publishing companies themselves, the big six are fairly immune to this problem but the
smaller and mid-range
companies are particularly vulnerable.
That being said, I would
also be thrilled to
publish under a
smaller company (the
company I have in mind is very new and would just be one
small baby step up from self -
publishing).
Also if your work is targeted to a specific or a
small market or niche, then you would be better off submitting your works personally to
publishing companies that distribute these types of work.
As for Disney Interactive Studios, the Walt Disney
Company also has plans to cease games
publishing as a whole, although they may likely retain this division, albeit on a much
smaller scale, most likely simply for distribution purposes as planned for games like Kingdom Hearts 3.