The purpose of the post was not to list
the benefits of trad publishing.
Show us how many indies who debuted in the past ten years without
the benefit of a trad pub background or an Amazon imprint deal are earning these figures and the comparison will be meaningful.
Not exact matches
The forum gathered proponents
of flexible work together to exchange insights on the challenging and
benefits of telecommuting, remote, and distributed (or
TRaD) work.
Sutton Fell is also the creator
of The
TRaD * Works Forum, dedicated to helping companies leverage the
benefits of telecommuting, remote and distributed teams.
Sutton Fell, who also founded Remote.co and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative, is the creator
of The
TRaD * Works Forum, which is dedicated to helping companies leverage the
benefits of telecommuting, remote, and distributed teams.
(Besides fewer dollars per sale, a traditional book has a literal shelf life; once your publisher wants to give that shelf space to their next writer, most
of your book's
trad - published
benefits are * dead * unless you get famous enough to re-impress them, and / or you understand how to get your rights back.
Such a system would
benefit the indies and hurt the
Trads, because readers would see that there is a lot
of fine writing in the indie ranks that compares favorably to the work coming from
Trad.
If enough consumers choose deep - discounting over time, always prioritizing price over the intangible
benefits of other retailers and / or ignoring the effect on the local economy, those behaviors could lead to a single deep discounter getting too much
of the market share, leading to monopsony or near - monopson, which has every likelihood
of biting book publishers (indie or
trad) in the rear due to that monopsony's ability to dictate terms.
The
benefits of increased distribution are really the only ones I see from having a
trad» l publisher, since most authors I've worked with who are
trad» l still have to do all their own promo and marketing.