Final thought: just
as indie publishers help to balance and compete with the corporate influence of the Big Six (Five, Four, Three?)
Not exact matches
As an
indie publisher, you can use your own publication deadlines to
help drive yourself to finishing and releasing books.
Chapter 4 Production and Scheduling The first three posts in this series were designed to be a unit and
help you get set up
as an
indie publisher.
Practical guide to
helping you promote your book
As someone who is an
indie author and
publisher, this book is ideal for me.
If,
as an author, your intent is to create a book that will
help you build towards a franchise of books from which you could one day make a living, or to create a book that takes your career to new heights or is a marketing tool for your business, then think about becoming an
indie publisher and not an
indie author.
Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has
helped indie authors,
as well
as the «Big 5» book
publishers, reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.
Traditional
publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels,
as if an ebook was a specialty item.
While it's owned by Penguin Group, a traditional
publisher and one of the «Big Five,» Book Country is truly an independent entity that
helps authors looking for traditional paths to publish their work,
as well
as indie authors.
Aptara's business model has always targeted medium to large
publishers by giving them the option to leverage their existing titles to e-book formats, but with this year's Expo they are reaching out to the smaller
publishers and even
indie authors who need
help formatting
as well.
Through our ongoing «Open Up To
Indie Authors» Campaign and other guides, campaigns and associations, ALLi is
helping to facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships between authors and the publishing industry and book trade —
publishers, bookstores, libraries, book clubs, festivals, literary events,
as well
as reading agencies all over the world.
Now,
as an independent consultant, Howard
helps indie authors and
publishers find their voice.
The option to bundle ebooks can be especially helpful for smaller press
publishers, digital - first or ebook - only
publishers, or
indie authors with a number of titles,
as it
helps with the discoverability while not forcing the rights» holder to focus their resources on separate marketing strategies for each different book.
As an
indie author this is super important because you don't have a big
publisher's branding
helping you skate by.
Then there are the websites whose sole purpose is dedicated to
helping Indie authors write, edit, publish, and market their books
as well
as network and support other
Indie publishers.
Since 2007, I've been an author - marketer who has
helped indie Authors
as well
as the «Big 5» Book
Publishers reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.
As a long - time editor for independent authors (more than ten years now) and as an indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be don
As a long - time editor for independent authors (more than ten years now) and
as an indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be don
as an
indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously
help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be done.
Any authors (or even
indie publishers or booksellers), for example, who have achieved some small measure of success who may be willing to participate in Read Tuesday could
help to promote the event
as a whole.
As the author of the reputable tool «A Self -
Publisher's Companion», Joel has
helped many authors to understand the huge importance of education in
indie publishing.
I think that it's important that
indie authors
help each other out by recommending services that they have used, and I hope this post
helps indie authors make a decision
as to which service they ultimately use, whether it's BookBaby or another
publisher.
As a PR and marketing professional having
helped launch several successful self and
Indie published books, I knew there were high quality stories out there by talented authors that needed to be told that didn't have a
publisher for various reasons.
In a splendid irony, in my day job
as an editor and publishing consultant, I
help small
publishers and
indie authors get their books out into the world and achieve their dreams, cheering them on,
helping them overcome obstacles, feeling excited for them when the successes come etc etc... and yet my own personal manuscripts suffer a different fate.
Publishers have access to sales data about their books, with services such
as Nielsen BookScan and Above the Treeline (though to be fair that doesn't
help too much with ebooks), but until Author Earnings there has been no centralized place for
indie authors to find data about ebook sales.
DCL pioneered the use of in - house Adobe Content Servers to manage ebooks purchased directly from authors, small
publishers, and
indie distributors such
as Smashwords, and they were eager to
help launch similar projects elsewhere.
Chillingo has already established itself
as a
publisher with a ken eye for
indie star talent, so who knows what studios it may
help nurture into shape worthy of the 2012 Develop 100.
Since 2011, Gambitious Digital Entertainment have been one of the most notable
publishers on the
indie game scene,
helping such titles
as Hard Reset and RunGunJumpGun reach a wider audience.
EM: Armor Games Studios serves
as the
publisher for your project, so given the many platforms and methods by which games are released in 2018 (Humble Bundle, Devolver Digital, Utomik, Gog, Steam, to mention a few), what does that relationship look like, and from where you sit, what
helps indie games navigate these waters without getting lost in the shuffle?