Sentences with phrase «books as an indie publisher»

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Good and organized indie - publishers have their books ready at the same time as the Kindle version.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

Publishing an ebook that started as a print book is cost effective for both indie publishers and traditional publishers.

The secret to success as an indie publisher is to identify the type of book a target reader wants and then give them that type of book.

This won't work for other stores but then those won't sell as many books for the average indie publisher.

Joan is a former indie publisher who makes her living now as a freelance writer, editor and book consultant while she continues to work on her own writing projects.

As an indie publisher of children's books, I am frustrated with the messy ebook landscape, too.

Traditional publishers aren't scouring the Top 100 lists as the new slush piles as much, movie moguls aren't optioning as many indie books as The New Hotness, word has gotten out that you actually have to bring a ladder to reach the boughs of the money tree.

Shelf Media Group is the publisher of Shelf Unbound indie book review and Podster, a magazine for podcast listeners, as well as host of the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» Competiindie book review and Podster, a magazine for podcast listeners, as well as host of the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» Competitbook review and Podster, a magazine for podcast listeners, as well as host of the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» CompetiIndie Book Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» CompetitBook Competition and the Podster «Best Undiscovered Podcast» Competition.

We know lots of paid review sources that are fully legit, such as Kirkus, City Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly for indie authors.

As an indie publisher, you can use your own publication deadlines to help drive yourself to finishing and releasing books.

An indie publisher, on the other hand, is someone who treats the book publishing project as a serious business and not just a hobby.

Truth: Any indie publisher can get paper books into the exact same channels as any traditional publisher.

Reblogged this on Dale Furse and commented: As indie authors, we need to market our books, but we don't have the big budgets Traditional publishers do.

Practical guide to helping you promote your book As someone who is an indie author and publisher, this book is ideal for me.

If, as an author, your intent is to create a book that will help you build towards a franchise of books from which you could one day make a living, or to create a book that takes your career to new heights or is a marketing tool for your business, then think about becoming an indie publisher and not an indie author.

Dale: «Indie authors create books just as exciting and polished as the big publishers produce, but we don't have the overhead, so we can fill in the gaps.»

But you, as an indie publisher, can absolutely get your books sitting right beside any book from any traditional publisher in a bookstore if you want.

Budget constraints are a reality for indie publishers as well, but rather than releasing a bad book, the indie publisher may shelve the book project until sufficient money is raised.

Many of them are hybrid — they work with traditional publishers on their current books, and they republish any books that have gone out of print as indie books.

One of the keys is that you, as the publisher of your own indie publisher, must decide if paper books are worth it, if having your books in store catalogs and on bookstore shelves are worth it.

Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has helped indie authors, as well as the «Big 5» book publishers, reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.

It means an author who chooses to publish some books with traditional publishers and some books as an indie author.

As soon as indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more bookAs soon as indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more bookas indie writers get their collective heads out of the imaginary castle they are defending and start realizing that ALL DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS that a traditional publisher uses for paper books is open to them now, without problem, the indie writer can make a ton more money and sell far, far more books.

I have traditionally published clients as well as indie and they will attest — their publisher does little to nothing to promote their work, and fully expects them to bring in sales in order to keep them on for the next book.

I went to David Gatewood as my editor because I want my books and stories to look and read as well as anything else out there, and to be of the same high quality as books put out by major publishers and indie millionaires.

She pointed me to a rant, posted anonymously by someone at a book review site, screaming at DIY authors like me using the term «Indie,» as in Indie author or Indie publisher.

As an indie publisher, knowing the nuances of the world's largest marketplace will increase your ability to get your book in front of thousands of potential customers.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

IngramSpark, an Ingram Lightning Source LLC service, was launched in 2013 for indie publishers and authors as a way to bring their books to a global audience.

As electronic books started to gain percentage of total books sold, a very small, but very vocal group of writers sprang up that I call indie publishers.

A former indie publisher (she was the founder / president of GreyCore Press), she makes her living as a freelance writer, editor and book consultant while she continues to work on her own writing projects.

A lot of indie author / publishers swear by Draft2Digital because it can serve as a one - stop - shop for book distribution (almost).

As Beyond Redemption was bringing in amazing reviews (starred and boxed review from Publishers Weekly, rave reviews from BookList, the Library Journal, and a host of indie book reviewers) I decided to gamble and write the sequel.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

And speaking of time, I have shouted here a great deal about how indie publishers need to ignore the «book as event» or «book as produce» models, but yet few do, thus all the stupidity about self - promotion.

Still, patience is crucial because as an indie publisher I can't afford the book launch splash; instead, I must rely on a slow growth of a title as word - of - mouth grows.

But your books appear to bookstores as «Publisher = YourPublisherName» and no one can tell that you're an indie publisher (there are thousands of publisher iPublisher = YourPublisherName» and no one can tell that you're an indie publisher (there are thousands of publisher ipublisher (there are thousands of publisher ipublisher imprints).

While progress has certainly been made — namely in the fact that more and more readers don't care how the book came about so long as it's a great read — there are still a few holdouts where indie authors don't garner the same respect or privileges that publishers and their authors can find.

More than 400 publishers and 6,000 creators from major publishers such as Image Comics and Chronicle Books, to indie creators from around the globe, use Graphicly's platform to deliver and promote compelling stories and activate consumers with community and content.

While it's owned by Penguin Group, a traditional publisher and one of the «Big Five,» Book Country is truly an independent entity that helps authors looking for traditional paths to publish their work, as well as indie authors.

Robin Cutler [00:05:19] It's an investment in your book as an indie author and a publisher of your own work.

As an indie publisher, your book editor works directly for you and can advise you on how to suit your market and also nurture you according to your individual strengths and interests.

As a group, indie authors sell more books in the bestselling genres on Amazon than the Big 5 publishers combined.

It's hard work, but having done it both ways I can attest the satisfactions that come from seeing a work through to publication as an indie author / publisher are perhaps even sweeter than those that come from a «book deal.»

Established, recognized literary awards in independent publishing include, but are not limited to, the Ben Franklin Book Awards (Independent Publishing Association); the Colorado Book Awards (Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book); the EVVY Award (Colorado Independent Publishers Association / CIPA); Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year / Indie Fab Awards; Global Ebooks Award; Historical Novels Society Awards; International Book Awards (USA Book News); IPPY Awards (Independent Publisher Book Awards); Midwest Book Awards (MIPA): National Book Awards; Next Generation «Indie» Book Awards; Indie Excellence Award (National); Pen Center USA Literary Awards; WILLA Literary Awards; Writer's Digest Self - Published Book Awards; USA Book Awards / Book News Awards; and genre specific awards such as the RITA (Romance Writers of America and the HUGO (World Science Fiction Society / Worldcon).

As an indie author, I didn't have to wait for an agent or publisher to «approve of» my book or to give me permission to become published.

Even if you get just one piece of inspiration from seeking out more information, that's a piece you didn't have before and weren't applying to your book's potential success, so as an indie publisher, one of our best pieces of advice is to never stop learning and looking for opportunity.

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Once again, Kozlowski's argument is to infantilize the reader and whine that they need to be «protected» from the scourge of indie authors, as if the average reader can't tell a poorly written, sloppy book from the crisp and beautiful books produced by trad publishers.