Sentences with phrase «bad indie books»

Here's the thing, there are some bad indie books out there.

Yes, there are plenty of bad indie books, but the good stuff is easily found by readers.

But the bad indie books were mostly free or a dollar.

I've read really good and really bad indie books.

Are there bad indie books out there?

Your article could have helped people avoid the bad indie books, yet you decided instead to write an article perpetuating the myth that all indie books are vanity tripe and inferior in quality to trad pubbed books, which is patently untrue.

I think when you're talking about the wannabes and bad indie books you're talking about people without SKILLS, not necessarily people without talent.

This implies that the ratio of good to bad indie books is the same ratio for trad books.

You are right in that there are a lot of bad indie books out there, but I also think there are a lot of bad trad books out there... some of which are indie publishers that got picked up by trad publishers because readers loved the books.

For every bad indie book I've seen, I've seen a bad traditionally published book.

Unfortunately, some people — most notably, some discussion forums — like to stress the features of the worst indie books.

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Readers are much more forgiving of indie authors who have badly formatted books.

Now that established authors are moving over to the indie book market, self - publishing is gradually separating itself from the bad stigma of vanity presses and carving its own unique identity.

Worse, perhaps, is that there are now hundreds of thousands of free books available online — from most of the classics to all the free offerings by indie authors and even the teasers from corporate publishing houses.

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Additionally, because traditionally published books tend to sell for a higher price, they tend to draw an older audience whereas indie and small press books draw younger audiences (and since teens and those in their early twenties are the biggest group of readers right now, this isn't a bad thing).

Are there a lot of really horrible, badly - written books being sold by indie authors?

Eric, It's not that the ratio of good to bad in indie books is the same as the ratio of good to bad in trad books, it's just that the good indie books rise to the top.

I still do read self - published books and find some of them good, and I give honest criticisms of both self, indie and self - pub books, some good and some bad regardless of the category they fall in.

Budget constraints are a reality for indie publishers as well, but rather than releasing a bad book, the indie publisher may shelve the book project until sufficient money is raised.

While a lot of reviewers write to help themselves remember what they read or to tell other readers about the book (good or bad), the book reviews that help indie authors are the ones posted where readers will ultimately make their purchasing decision — or where the readers go for trusted opinions.

I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

There are a lot of mistaken assumptions about how book covers are supposed to look, and that has led to thousands of badly designed indie published books.

If a book wouldn't sell to traditional publishing because of a bad opening, bad quality, a bad plot, then in indie publishing that same book won't sell much.

Of course paying for consumer reviews is bad practice, but we at Self - Publishing Review offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for example.

Now that the cost of printing the book has been erased, the lion's share of the cost goes to the authors, but even that may leave a bad taste in some indie authors» mouths.

Kelly is even claiming that GoodReads is sexist because the site does not do enough to protect women from indie authors shilling their books or authors who have a problem with a bad review.

I've had a bad experience when accepting an indie book and it's made me a little bit wary.

I've met some really nice indie authors and I am open to review indie books, but indeed there are also some who just approach bloggers the wrong way and I really don't like when authors approach me on social media if I don't know them, it leaves me with a bad taste and I likely won't review their book.

Recently, I was burned by a particularly bad indie science fiction book.

And when somehow that fresh idea, fresh book does get through an editor and gets published, (In this new world, more than likely indie published first), it will spawn (like a bad horror movie) thousands of «easy sell» books.

It makes me very frustrated when I try to be supportive of indie authors, and I feel bad for the ones who know how important it is to clean up a book before setting it loose in the world.

It's not that I do not want to help indie authors (hell, I have a great friendship with many indie authors whose books I've reviewed), but I have had some bad experiences because of negative reviews, so now I'm much more careful when approached by one.

But rather than segregating self published books, what I would rather see is an education of the public to differentiate between the terms vanity publishing (which I think most folks agree is generally bad and awful and will never lose its stigma), self - publishing (which often connotes work that has not been properly vetted by people who know how to judge a good product) and indie publishing, which is a term that those of us who use it are hoping will come to mean quality — work that has been vetted by independent editors and formatted by people who give a damn about putting out a professional product that rivals anything put out by New York.

She's also the author of The World's Top Ten Worst Men for Women Guide and a children's book, Friendship, which was a 2015 National Indie Award of Excellence finalist.

That's not bad for an indie book as I can't afford such luxuries open to the trad «big five» such as Kirkus and NetGalley.

The notion that all indie books are bad is no more true than that all professionally - published books are good.

Nielsen's data sometimes gets a bad rep in the indie author community because they only report on book sales that have an ISBN number and many self - publishers can not be bothered to buy one.

Sure some indie books are bad, so are small press books and big5pub books.

If all indie and Kindle books are so bad then why is it a billion dollar industry?

But in the article itself you simply assume that «bad eBooks» and «books by indie authors» are synonymous, and that is pure bigotry.

you are a no body who is trying to weasel his way into the book world by saying «traditional good, indie bad.»

what's, how much can the traditional pub, indie company, SP outfit make (SP is shark infested with bad books — first drafts are always crap, and that first drafts land into the published arena is horrific).

In fact, I don't know if many of you have noticed, but at this point in time, the traditionally published books are much worse in format and proofing than what indie publishers are doing.

I've had days where a single bad review comes in on one of my books and then bam, I look and see a fellow Indie author announcing they just hit the NYT Bestseller list, and suddenly my whole writing day is wrecked.

In my personal opinion, as someone who has been in and around the indie and small press publishing industry for 14 + years, trademarking a specific word or combo of words in order to prevent them from being used in a book title and / or series is both in bad form and shows a deep misunderstanding of the concepts of copyright infringement and writing to market as well as a lack of understanding of the book publishing world in general.

But the problem arises when a book doesn't sell as well as «expected» and the indie publisher starts making bad decisions about the book.

In fact, I don't know if many of you have noticed, but at this point in time the traditionally published electronic books are much worse in format than what indie publishers are doing.

-- And then at the same time, on some other blog or comment, some traditionally published writer starts going on about how all indie books are bad and I want to raise my hand and say, «Uh, I've put up over 250 indie books and not all of them are bad.»

-- Some indie writer on some blog or comment starts going on about how all traditional books these days are bad and I want to raise my hand and say, «Uh, excuse me, over one hundred traditionally published novels here, and not all of them are bad.»