Sentences with phrase «bad 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.

Not exact matches

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

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.

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

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.

And that the readers who are burned by a bad self published book (despite resources like reviews & Goodreads)-- and suddenly seek out only trad pubbed books — are so few as to be negligible.

Yes, your initial trad - pub books will probably bring in less money than your later self - pubbed books, but that's not necessarily a bad trade - off.

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.

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.

They would abandon the slow, turgid, and overpriced books from traditional publishers to the point where trad publishers would be worse off than ever before.

And on the quality issue, it's just a TINY bit unfair to go on and on about how bad most self published books are when just as many authors on the trad train suck just as much.

The worse trad published books are, the less likely it is anybody will be all that bothered by the typos and bad grammar in mine, the more likely they will just take them as a matter of course, something you'll now find in everything.

Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?

Someone who has the attention of the reader and a trad publisher of the usual bad kind is only making ten or five percent royalties or less than five percent royalties on «discounted books», and then is paying twenty percent of that to his agent.