Sentences with phrase «author than traditional publishers»

Philosophically, I believe people should be free to choose their own paths, but to me, the indie path seems to offer so much more to the author than traditional publishers do.

Not exact matches

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

In an interesting aside, even traditional publishers are looking for the multi-book author, as it's becoming more lucrative to build an author's brand with readers than to sell a stand alone title.

More than half of authors who already were self - published, as well as hybrid authors, were hoping to publish with traditional publishers, at 53.5 percent and 57.8 percent, respectively.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

When an author goes the traditional publishing route the publisher presumes to be the authority and knows better than the writer and assumes creative control of the writers intellectual property.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the past.

Even with traditional publishers, it's more and more common to see an author marketing his own works rather than being able to rely on their publisher to do the job.

Traditional publishers make more in selling author services than selling books.

Those publishers also cast aside warnings that compare the current state of the publishing industry to the state of Kodak during the rise of digital photography, as well as those that compare how much better new authors can do for themselves than with a «traditional publisher».

These publishers are meeting the demand romance fans have for new and more readily available content, while also meeting the needs of romance authors who wish to connect with their fans at a much faster rate than they could under traditional print publishing models.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

The best hybrid publishers are those that conduct some level of gatekeeping or curation (i.e., not everyone who knocks on the door is accepted as an author), offer some value that authors would have a hard time securing on their own (such as brick - and - mortar distribution), and pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.

Traditional publishers have way more competition from indie authors than they used to!

To summarize: The best hybrid publishers conduct some level of gatekeeping, offer value that the author would have a hard time securing on her own, and should also pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

I was just listening to a Joanna Penn podcast with Jane Friedman in which they said contracts traditional publishers are offering first - time authors are worse than ever.

The store doesn't get much out of that, but the publisher and author HAVE already been protected with the traditional arrangement (rather than the «Agent» route).

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

Royalty rates given to Amazon Publishing authors differ, but they tend to be far closer to the 70 % royalty given to those who self - publish on Amazon than those offered by traditional publishers.

These authors — some once rejected by traditional publishers — have published more than 400,000 eBooks.

While reprint publishers have been the biggest contributors by introducing hundreds of thousands of recycled works to the market, traditional publishers have also contributed as many, if not more, books than indie authors.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

None of the major publishers that I know of sell Amazon as a «deep discount» account where authors would get a much lower royalty rate than a traditional sale.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

Translators are arguably the ones who, (apart from the author, of course) work so thoroughly on a book that we are more likely than most to get a deep understanding, yet I have never come across any traditional publisher who wanted to hear my opinion.

In short, the only clients that agents (who, contrary to popular belief, do not, by - in - large work for authors, but are little more than slush filters that publishers generously allow authors the luxury of paying for) can look forward to having, and being eager for publishers to exploit in the traditional way... are losers.

The narrative here, however, will again be how you can make more money as an author - publisher than you can through traditional publishing — it certainly feels that way, doesn't it?

But I think it's interesting to be able to see how the traditional publishers think they can make a book — in many cases one that's already sold hundreds of thousands of copies — better than what the author envisioned.»

* July 13, 2011: An early interview with me conducted at the 1stIndieAuthors website covered: why I wrote the book, and what inspired it; what prompted me to become a writer; how I came up with the book's title; why I waited until age 62 to write my first novel; why I chose to be an «indie» author rather than seek a traditional publisher; and the prospects for future Dylan Hunter novels.

In fact, moreso than with content, things are what traditional publishers monetized -LRB-»... the publishing world is not genuinely concerned with ideas and authors, it's -LSB-...]

According to the report, indie authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more ebooks daily than all traditional publishers put together.

While many authors feel they don't get enough publicity and marketing support from their publishers, the real fact is that simply being published by [a traditional] house means the author is taken more seriously by stores, by some readers, and by the media than if they are self - published.

But as an author who was badly treated by a big traditional publisher (HarperCollins), I, so far think there's no one out there who treats authors more fairly than Amazon does.

Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.

The panel concluded that while boxes around industries are dissolving as everything can be viewed through one device, publishers need to think clearly rather than just tinker with their own model.The traditional linear model of author - to - publisher - to - retailer - to - consumer no longer holds true.

Independent authors — without agents, publishing deals, or marketing dollars — face radically different pricing concerns than traditional publishers and publishing startups like Byliner and The Domino Project.

The benefit of working with a traditional publisher, rather than with an author who's self - published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.

A low - priority queue of manuscripts and book proposals that were sent to a traditional publisher directly by the author, rather than through a literary agent.

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

This will be interesting to watch because it comes out of a traditional publisher, includes well - regarded digital innovator Sarah Lloyd, plans to poach other publishers» authors, and looks set to play by the new digital rules rather than those of its corporate parent.

Print, ebooks, traditional publishers (large and small) and self - published authors will all coexist, as part of a future that is more messy and fragmented than the industry we know today.

«For the last three years in a rising ebook market,» AuthorEarnings noted in its February 2017 industry report, «traditional publishers have been rapidly losing market share to self - published authors and Amazon imprints faster than the overall market has been growing.»

For some authors, the appeal of self - publishing is that they can put their books on the market much faster than through traditional publishers.

Self - publishers can make this reader connection — and oftentimes do it even better than traditional publishers can do on an author's behalf.

We've done a few serial publishing experiments at O'Reilly (e.g., Every Book Is a Startup and Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and we've confirmed that this approach can help authors and publishers connect with readers more than they might through a traditional book.