Sentences with phrase «better than 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.

Amazon royalty rates are better than the traditional publishers, at least when it comes to e-books.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, I realized that I could do an equal or better job publishing my book than any traditional publisher.

I have professionally produced books for digital and print platforms that look as good or better than many I see from traditional publishers.

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.

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

And although I more than earned out my advance from the traditional publisher (as well as selling numerous foreign rights), would I characterize my experience with the traditional publisher as good overall?

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.

That royalty rate is definitely better than most traditional publishers offer.

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».

«Traditional publishers will lower their prices on e-books to $ 9.99, because they'll realize that earning 70 % of $ 9.99 is better than earning 35 % of $ 14.99.

I agree that some self published books are miles better than some published books that come from traditional publishers.

And for everyone who says you have a better chance of getting reviewed with a traditional house book than with an indie book, it did not turn out to be the case with this book brought out by a powerhouse publisher.

At Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much better royalty rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail price).

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 are required to adapt to the market as well, but your advantage as an indie publisher is that you're more versatile than they'll ever be.

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.

She's got some damned good stuff in there, including about the Traditional Publishers showing higher than expect profits because of lower costs.

Having published more than a dozen books — nonfiction and fiction — with both traditional and often prestigious publishers as well as on my own, I have a very good sense of the demands of book promotion and was delighted to have the chance to work with Smith Publicity who did a fine job with my Sino - American Tales series of historical novels

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.»

He said that at that price, the competing product from traditional publishers had to be 9x better than his product.

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.»

Some self - publishing companies turn out better looking books than traditional publishers.

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.

And the compensation rate for just having folks follow a link from your website or blog seems to compare fairly well to the percentages Traditional Publishers pay for paper books... https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/compensation.html Shows a lot higher percentages than I was expecting you to get.

Honestly, so do I. I'd love to see traditional publishers continue — with good author contracts and with an acknowledgement that they work in partnership with authors rather than believing that writers are necessary idiots.

During an economic downturn, books tailored to such narrow audiences may fare better than titles from traditional publishers that depend on a more general appeal.

Even though Platt thinks he's a better marketer than most publishers, including Amazon, he told me in November 2013, «I'm going to try again with traditional [publishing] in February.»

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

In my experience, it's a far better option than going with a traditional publisher as their contracts are becoming more and more onerous and you still have to wait nine months for your royalties as they account every six months and then there's another three months before you actually receive anything (not that what you get is usually worth the wait!).

I agree that indie authors are better at getting into nontraditional venues than traditional publishers.

You can't go lower than 99 cents, and if you price it lower than $ 2.99 — 65 % of the sale price goes to Amazon — which is still a lot better than you got from your traditional publisher.

Most mid-list authors with traditional publisher aren't better - known than indie authors.)

I did my homework before I made the active decision to self - publish, because an audience of a few hundred is better than no audience at all, and in those few hundred may be the one person who can get me into a more traditional publisher.

Aspiring authors see this happening with increasing frequency and they're beginning to realise that a well received self published book can be a faster and easier way to get a publishers attention than that traditional path of spending months or years querying to get an agent, and then more months or years trying to sell something through the agent.

That's probably worth the 30 % tax, and, by the way, is a much better cut than what writers get through traditional publishers.

I wanted to do a better job than the traditional publishers would would have done, in every way.

I've been reading a lot of indie authors lately, and I'm finding self - pubbed gems every bit as good — or better — than the best sellers from traditional publishers.

His books are gorgeous, the equivalent or better than most anything coming from a traditional publisher.

A lot of people are self - publishing because they feel they can do a better job of reaching their audience than traditional publishers can.

Traditional book publishers do a much better job than Amazon does making titles available across a wide variety of platforms — not just online but also in stores and in libraries.

(Perhaps more importantly: a publisher on the private Reading2.0 mailing list has said, to effect: there is no traditional publisher in the world right now that can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better than what she's currently getting, right now on the Kindle store, all on her own.)

Today, if you format your book to the Style Guide, your Smashwords ebook can look as good or better than the ebook files produced by some traditional publishers, and it usually looks much better than files produced by other automated conversion options.

At last a focus on quality of storytelling and artistic intention using the best tools and platforms available rather than an obsession with new gadgets and the woes of traditional publishers.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

Going the traditional route makes sense for writers who can earn more by writing another book than they can by spending that writing time being a publisher; it also makes sense for writers who just aren't any good at that stuff.

Generally speaking, brand magazines are often far better than those produced by traditional print magazine publishers who too often decide that the cheap and easy way to get their print magazines into the app stores is better than actually providing readers of digital editions with an enjoyable digital magazine product.

Howey makes a good case that the «average» author earns more from a self published book than she would through one of the Big Five publishers, and, what's more, that this holds true for all sorts of outliers (the richest indie authors outperform the richest Big Five authors; less - prolific indies do better than less - prolific traditionals, etc).

Publishers weren't willing to pay him what he wanted, so he went the self - publishing route, at which any reasonably well - known midlister may very well be able to do better than in traditional publishing.

Cities: Skylines has already managed to deliver better than expected sales for Paradox Interactive and its success will probably mean that the long - term support delivered by Colossal Order will solve some of the current problems and will expand the mechanics in interesting ways via DLC, using the traditional model employed by the publisher for other titles like Europa Universalis IV or Crusader Kings II.