The numbers are fairly comparable
between trad elite and indie elite and are unlikely for any other to reach on either side.
What I want to say is this is matter
between trad authors, trad publishers, and Amazon, there's no reason for customers and self publish authors to meddle or dictate how much big trad publishers SHOULD sell their own ebooks.
Porter, verily thou art a Solomon in these near - Biblical rainings (and sometimes reignings) of fire and brimstone
between the trad - pub and other - pub parties.
We get that there is an unspoken allegiance
between trad publishers and the people who cover their books (talk about collusion!)
Linda A. said: «My big gripe is the fighting and snootiness
between trad and self - publishers.»
My big gripe is the fighting and snootiness
between trad and self - publishers.
So that cost - sharing does put Scout in a gray area
between trad and vanity.
Without big publishers entering the game (only around 3 % of the titles on KU are not self - published), KU is only opening the gap wider
between trad and self publishing.
The lines are blurring
between trad and self - published books.
are not self - published), KU is only opening the gap wider
between trad and self publishing.
Given the big difference
between trad's payment percentages and indy's, there should be enough money there to fund the service house AND tempt the orphaned mid-lister into trying.
If you want to turn it into a profession, it may be for you — but the difference
between trad and indie is the difference between applying to a job and starting a business.
Again this seems to reflect the difference
between Trad Publishing and Indie Publishing.
I could not help but see the comparisons
between Trad Publishing, represented by the Preston Petition, and Indie Publishing, represented by the Indie Petition.
A collective seemed the ideal «third way»
between trad publishing and going indie.
Not exact matches
When a
trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere
between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.
There is clearly no contest any more
between the amount you can earn as an indie versus as a
trad pubbed author.
The difference in income
between successful traditionally published authors and successful self - published authors is getting narrower each day, with many self - published authors now making much, much more than their
trad pub counterparts.
These days, I have the feeling that the people that will endlessly pursue the elusive perfection of craft will simply be the people who want to do this, the same as always regardless of the path they take, whether
trad pub or self pub or something in
between.
To riff on what B.E. said: I do think the public is rapidly becoming unaware of the old «wall»
between indie, and
trad.
Too late, they figured out the profitability numbers
between self - pub and
trad - pub!
One thing
trad - publishing and self - publishing have in common: Either way, great is great, trash is trash, and the vast bulk of fiction lies
between.
Those are some impressive numbers, and Hugh and his partner have done a great job of normalizing
between indie and
trad by looking at the top 7000 best sellers.
My feeling is that the connectivity
between authors and readers is improving (just by my «recommended for you» list)-- which means that those without much connection... which is not a small number (both indy and probably moreso,
trad pub) will be «disposable» — but those who make connection with readers — not publishers — will not be.
May need to differentiate
between large
trad publishers and indie / self published authors.
Because the excluded publishers are basically all of the big five plus the biggest academic publisher —
between them responsible for 80 % of the entire
trad publishing market.
Something that seems frequently absent from these discussions is the unit revenue differences
between SP and
trad - pub.
That being said, digital distribution is even
between indie and
trad - pub — that's pretty much what's driven the entire indie revolution.
In my case, the split is
between indie and
trad - pub titles.
I flit
between indie publishing and
trad publishing.
Hi Laurie, your status review of how traditional publishers are lagging is depressing, but difficult to reconcile with the mega blockbuster hits recently produced by two of them (The Woman in the Window and The Wife
Between Us) It seems when they feel they have a clear winner on their hands, the
trad publishers will pull out all the stops.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (b. 1959,
Trad, Thailand) explores the connections
between the legacy of Western art and various Eastern cultures.