Sentences with phrase «as traditional publishing»

I know there are many indie authors out there who are forced to go through the self - publishing route as traditional publishing houses become more and more selective.

As I've said a number of times, individual books in this market, as well as traditional publishing fields, should be treated as their own small business.

True, there are some downsides, just the same as traditional publishing.

This path, just as traditional publishing does, takes a lot of product.

Making your book as professional as a traditional published book is essential, because self - publishers are competing with the traditionally published books for readers.

Will it ever be on the same level as traditional publishing?

And they put work out there of the same quality as traditional publishing.

If your primary goal is to get your print book into retail stores around the country, as traditional publishing attempts, you might as well stop here.

Self - publishing is as viable an option as traditional publishing if you are looking to get your book into the world.

It is increasingly the option of choice for all writers as traditional publishing houses get more and more frozen into only taking on well - known authors and risk - free content.

To be honest, I think the problem with people's perception of self - publishing is that it is still often dismissed as traditional publishing's embarrassing brother.

As traditional publishing tries to mimic self - publishing, many wonder where self pub will end up.

Though indie publishing has basically been around as long as traditional publishing, the ease and accessibility of online publishing platforms today has lowered the barriers to entry more than ever before.

As traditional publishing houses decrease, there are many authors being left without a way to get their works out there.

Just as traditional publishing has changed on account of the rise of online retail and e-books, today's self - publishing market has transformed as well.

Electronic publishing is much the same as traditional publishing.

LightningSource is almost certainly the cheapest print - on - demand company; in fact, many other POD companies (as well as traditional publishing companies) use them to print their books.

As a traditional published author of 15 novels, I didn't have to know or worry too much about promoting, back in the «good old days.»

An e-publisher is a genuine small house, following the same submissions, acquisitions, and editing processes as traditional publishing.

And now as the traditional publishing gateway which acted as a censor (thank heavens for Baen, one of the few exceptions that still bought on merit) has been weakened, it's even harder to shut us up.

Note 1: Over 50 % of the DIY - enthusiasts in this survey are actually either professional designers (as well as indie authors) or well - versed enough in editorial design to produce covers of a same quality standard as traditional publishing.

At the other end is what is commonly thought of as traditional publishing where the author hires an agent who shops the book around in hopes of receiving a sizable advance and acceptable contract from one of the big publishing houses.

Brown Books opened its doors in 1994, and was the first hybrid publisher, a business model now recognized by the Independent Book Publishers Association as a traditional publishing company in all respects except the authors own the rights to their titles and receive a higher - than - industry - standard share of sales proceeds.

Authors carve the creative control over their work, and they've come to realize that self - publishing affords them an almost equal chance for income potential as a traditional publishing deal, as evidenced largely by the fact that 24.8 % of those who responded said they'd published through a traditional publisher who offered a royalty split, but who did not pay them an advance.

As I was driving along the back streets running parallel to the highway, passing a good thousand cars, it suddenly dawned on me that if I looked at that highway as traditional publishing, I was going indie by simply finding my own way on other perfectly good and not - blocked streets.

As traditional publishing lowers prices of ebooks into the $ 5 - 9 range, indies who make their books look just like they belong in the big league will be able to charge these prices too.

Their concerns vary, but their top two reasons not to independently publish are fronting the money and their deep - seated desire to be legitimized by outside forces within the publishing industry otherwise known as traditional publishing houses.

Just over a year ago we helped start WMG Publishing and made the agreement that our backlist would have the attention to start and then eventually we would turn to original stuff as our traditional publishing contracts allowed.

On the pricing issue, I think Bransford is right as far as traditional publishing goes - but this is one of the flaws (or perhaps the only one) with traditional publishing as a business model.

Part of the reason why many self published books don't have as much respect as traditional published works is that they're not very good.

For all that Amazon has a reputation of embracing all things indie and digital publishing, today's announcement regarding the hiring of Julia Cheiffetz, a former senior editor at HarperCollins, to lead as the editorial director for Amazon Publishing made it clear in no uncertain terms that this branch of the Amazon family is all business when stepping out as a traditional publishing model.

As much as traditional publishing gave way to indie publishing with the advent of new platforms such as Kindle and Nook, so too did the video game industry change.

By uniting 7 critically acclaimed works of indie contemporary fiction, their authors hope to demonstrate that author publishing is a valid quality route even in a genre that is still perceived by many as a traditional publishing chasse guardée, according to Jane Davis:

But when you want in on something that has a gauntlet or security gate as thick as traditional publishing, it's a hard toil.

I have a hunch this security belief in indie publishing is as much of a myth as the traditional publishing security.

Much top talent will become free agents and many entry / mid-range talent will transition to other industries as the traditional publishing empires downsize and adapt leaner, more agile, customer - centric and creator - centric business models.

There is no reason why it can't be as good as any traditional published material.

Take a look at CafePress pricing sometime, and keep in mind the artist doesn't get much of that... it's as bad as traditional publishing.

These books are competing on the same playing field as traditional published books, and, these days, often outdoing the latter.

Professional independent authors are using the same editing and proofing processes as traditional publishing.

Science fiction is facing a crisis right now as traditional publishing is starting to see a massive decline in sales.

No slapping books up on Kindle or CreateSpace without the same standards as traditional publishing.

In this case the HNS we aim to prove that Indie novels can be every bit as good as Traditional Published — in some cases, even better — by publishing honest reviews, with constructive criticism if needed.

All online retailers that allow anyone to upload their book for digital distribution should be held to a standard and it's not that hard or difficult to implement if all parties agree, which are mainly the online retailers, because let's face it, just as the traditional publishing houses are the gatekeepers for any author who wants to publish their work through them, the online retailers such as Amazon are the gatekeepers to online publishing.