«Too often, IBPA has noticed
a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.
«Too often, IBPA has noticed
a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves,» said IBPA CEO Angela Bole.
With advancements in technology and opportunity and a lessening of
the bias against self - publishing, every author now has a chance to succeed in the publishing space doing it on their own.
In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author Melissa Conway addresses
the bias against self - published authors and books.
Seems to me that you have some kind of personal
bias against self - publishing with your post.
Too often, IBPA has noticed
a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.
Many judges appear
biased against self - represented (pro se) litigants and this judge had worked for the city.
Not exact matches
Simple, for once the media was extremely
biased for Clinton, wrote her up as much as they could in the hope that people, that where
against her would simply give up and so make it a
self fulfilling prophecy.
Lets be honest - these comments and howls of
self serving anguish just show that there is a
bias against women candidates.
Unlike those who are prejudiced
against traditionally published or the
self - published, I don't have that
bias.
And as a matter of FYI, I ran this article past someone who was a reporter for both newspaper and TV, to see if it was accidentally
biased for or
against self - publishers or trad publishers, which it was never meant to be and as I suspected, this person said that it wasn't and that anyone who read it objectively without any prior personal agenda would see this.
I have found there is now less
bias in the retail world
against self - published books.
He shares his own experience with the gym in this regard as well as a look back on how, just a little over ten years ago, he was
biased and prejudiced
against self - publishing.
Also keep in mind I'm a strong advocate of
self - publishing, which gives authors more control, flexibility and earning power, so I may seem unreasonably
biased against traditional publishing.
I wonder if the reason so many
self - published writers are female is because the big publishing houses subconsciously maintain a
bias against female authors?
As many of us know there continues to be a
bias by many in the media, book retailers, and readers
against self - published books.
While the article initially comes off as fairly unbiased, the
bias against indie publishing comes clear later on when it has a section listing the «bad reasons» for choosing
self - publishing but there is no corresponding section on why it might be good to
self - publish.
And there's a stigma I think, a
bias against literary authors who
self - publish because they're posting stuff up on Amazon or hiring printers or print - on - demand or whatever just so they can satisfy some kind of need for vanity.
Because while there are lot of sites out there geared to writers in general, in my experience as an indie author I found that they're tended to be quite a bit of
bias and stigma
against the
self published authors at some of the those other writer sites which were really mostly populated by people interested in pursuing a traditional publication path.
But that's the great thing: if you have a decent cover, you will quickly discover that all this «
self - publishing
bias» or «prejudice
against indie books» disappears.
Also, I still feel that a
bias against indie or
self published authors is what the example in the first paragraph highlights - regardless of how silly it is for any author,
self or traditionally published, to battle over exclusion from some list.
Also, the book warns
against common pathologies that overcome analysts, notably — Confirmation
bias, overconfidence,
Self - Attribution -
bias, Optimism, Recency, Momentum, Heuristics, Familiarity, Snakebite (won't go back to one that hurt you), Falling in love, anxiety, over-reaction, loss - aversion, etc..
«I'd add that «the best we have» is an arbitrary list selected by a
self - selected set of judges who are by and large ideologically
biased against human industrial and population growth»
Re climate science and IPCC, I'll suggest that any internal
biases that run counter to
self - correction are small in comparison to the immense scale of the anti-science efforts arrayed
against the discipline.
Bias against self - represented litigants is real, but it can be used to one's advantage like any other
bias.
This is decided entirely by the judge's own
self review and if the
biases continue is evidence
against the decision on appeal at worst (if he still sits but the case is not as
biased as you feared, it could have been a non-issue or the judge realized that he was getting close to the line and reeled himself back to the center).
The
self - represented appellant husband argued that the motion judge was
biased, erred in finding no material change in circumstances, and erred in not making an adverse inference
against the wife for non-disclosure.