Sentences with phrase «bigger than traditional publishers»

And because I believe the pie is one hell of a lot bigger than traditional publishers or agents think it is, I will support and encourage you or anyone else who wants to give it a go and not sneer at them because they weren't traditionally published.

Not exact matches

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the past.

That is quite a few less than a traditional publisher, BUT (and this is a big one) there are some MAJOR benefits Amazon works in compared to a traditional publisher.

While reprint publishers have been the biggest contributors by introducing hundreds of thousands of recycled works to the market, traditional publishers have also contributed as many, if not more, books than indie authors.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

But as an author who was badly treated by a big traditional publisher (HarperCollins), I, so far think there's no one out there who treats authors more fairly than Amazon does.

I want to sell more of my novels via my own publishing than I would if a traditional, big time publisher were putting the books out there.

It is also remarkable that while the share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.

And the authors of those books actually earned more than those whose books were released by big - ship traditional publishers.

Nor, do I suspect, they know a self - publisher from a traditional publisher (other than the big names).

With traditional publishers sticking more than ever to higher prices for their recent debuts, it seems that with few exceptions nearly all of the Big Five's ebook sales are going to their longer tenured authors.

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).