Sentences with phrase «books than traditional publishers»

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

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

Just like I have the potential of making more money this way, an E-Publisher needs to sell fewer books than a traditional publisher to recoup its expenses and start making a profit.

Not exact matches

Self and Independent publishing can get your book to the market three times faster than the traditional publisher.

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

Had this seemingly groundbreaking movement begun with traditional publishers ten years ago, right when the digital book revolution was just barely beginning to stir, traditional publishers could have OWNED this industry rather than simply reacting to it.

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

To be honest, I've earned more in the last year selling my books directly than I would have received as an advance from a traditional publisher.

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

You can make upwards of 70 percent more per book than you would through a traditional or independent publisher.

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?

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are niche and at times more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.

Almost all publishers only accept submissions through agents, so they are essential gatekeepers for anyone trying to sell a book in the traditional market rather than self - publishing.

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

Productivity — do you write more books per year than a traditional publisher can handle?

But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much lower than that of printed books; from both traditional and self publishers.

Trautmann: I'm not sure it's «especially» suited to «Frost,» honestly, other than our «book» is not something that traditional comics publishers would pick up.

But don't blog any more than a paragraph or two if your book is unpublished and you hope to get a traditional publisher some day.

Since the financial returns from self - publishing per book are so many times greater than the royalties paid by traditional publishers, I could easily cut the marketing firm in on the returns.

Traditional publishers make more in selling author services than selling books.

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.

I have created more than 2000 book covers for large, traditional publishing organizations, small presses and indie publishers.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

Although the jury is still out on my self - published books, «How to be the Luckiest Man Alive» and «I Was Blind But Now I See» I can tell you these two have already sold more than my five books with traditional publishers, combined.

I've done it after 19 books with traditional publishers, but I still make more money from those than from my indies.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

Self - publishers can race their books to market much faster than traditional publishers can, particularly if they're producing ebook and print - on - demand books only.

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).

As a writer, Terry has published more than 60 books with traditional publishers such as Zondervan, St. Martins Press, Tyndale and others.

Despite the advances, traditional publishing will probably always exist and, rather than changing, some people still look down upon any book that is not published by a traditional publisher.

The lawsuit alleges Apple and the book publishers employed an «agency model» in which publishers set their own e-book prices, rather than the traditional wholesale model in which publishers set a retail price and retailers set their own sales price.

He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children's books to biographies to co-authored books.

I've had some absolute car crashes in traditional publishing, including instances where I'm certain I could have sold more copies of the book myself than via a traditional publisher.

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

In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.

They would abandon the slow, turgid, and overpriced books from traditional publishers to the point where trad publishers would be worse off than ever before.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

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.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

Translators are arguably the ones who, (apart from the author, of course) work so thoroughly on a book that we are more likely than most to get a deep understanding, yet I have never come across any traditional publisher who wanted to hear my opinion.

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.

Rather than attempt to shop the book around to traditional publishers, he instead decided to post chapters of the novel on a blog page.

Reason # 3... I can get my books out to far, far, far more places and into more stores and more countries around the world as an indie publisher than I ever could through a traditional publisher.

That's how you know you're working with a firm that is more likely to treat your book as a unique product in the marketplace — as a traditional publisher would — rather than as another widget on the assembly line.

As an independent publisher you will receive a higher royalty for your book than you would if you signed a traditional publishing deal.

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.»

Third, because of advances in printing, they can bring books to market more quickly than traditional publishers.