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published by independent authors and publishers.
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titles by independent authors looking for full - service publishing and distribution of their titles.
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Some of the books I read are paperbacks by conventional publishers, but I also read
e-books by independent authors, (including books by my fellow authors on this blog, which I enjoyed very much).
Any English language book published within the last three years, currently available for
sale by an independent author or small press is eligible for entry.
The company also noted that its # 1 and # 4 best - selling eBooks released this year were published
by independent authors through its Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
We recommend Reedsy as the top way to find the best contractors to work on your book, all rated and reviewed
by independent authors like you.
In the same year, the first
paper by independent authors — who had downloaded the consortium's fMRI data for their own analyses, but weren't involved in collecting it — was also published3.
Throughout the past couple of decades he has worked for various publications such as medical magazines and Readers» Digest until he realised sometime around 2000 that the traditional publishing and media industry was in long term decline and the future of publishing was digital and would be
driven by independent authors and publishers.
And yet, these same challenges are
faced by the independent author on a daily basis, often operating with only a shoestring budget and a lot of elbow grease.
In addition to these great eBook services, we have partnered with other providers to offer great deals on services commonly
needed by independent authors, including subject index creation, proofreading, interior layout and typesetting, cover design, marketing, and website development.
Somehow, due to the issues with Amazon local store
raised by an independent author, it seems Amazon has a work cut out for the KDP team to win back the impression they have vowed to facilitate self - publishers to succeed with little help from major publishers.
BB eBooks is a Bangkok - based company that was founded in 2013 to provide fast, reliable, and professional formatting and design services for books
created by independent authors and small presses.
And now big publishers are being crowded out of the bestseller
lists by independent authors, and are being forced to lower their own big - name titles to $ 5 just to compete with indie authors at $ 1 and $ 3.
German, French and Spanish titles are coming into the US market this way, and titles
by independent authors such as J A Konrath, Barry Eisler and H M Ward are being chosen for acquisition and translation to other markets by AmazonCrossing (which is not taking submissions at this time).
Included in this post are new Kindle book
releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I'm certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below.
Going back to our awards mission statement and guidelines, here's why we do it: «To recognize the deserving but often unsung titles
published by independent authors and publishers, and bring them to the attention of booksellers, buyers, librarians, and book lovers around the world.»
My informal results and feedback from the blog's readers tell me they enjoy the mix, and the clickthrough rates and purchases of Kindle books for
sale by independent authors have been doing better than my expectations.
Meanwhile, I have seen estimates that anywhere from 10 % - 30 % of the SF stories being read today are
by independent authors like myself.
The mission of the BookLife Prize is to discover, cultivate, support, and celebrate great works of unpublished or self - published
writing by independent authors.
The rise in ebook production does not even include the uploading of a large number of
titles by independent authors to platforms such as Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing; only books that have an ISBN number — as opposed to the ASIN number associated with Amazon's platform, for example — were factored into this comparison.
Bibliotastic offers free ebooks which are published
by independent authors.
Writers whose works couldn't be any more different, but whose recent forays into publishing signify a drastic sea change in the way books are acquired and published, both
by independent authors and traditional publishers.
Unlike initiatives that woke consumers up to the great titles being published
by independent authors, this campaign is aimed at the local booksellers in hopes that they will finally see the benefits to taking risks on self - published books.
These aren't usually published
by independent authors and publishers, as they are sold via supermarkets and corner stores and used by trade publishers to release long running, top selling books at reduced prices of your typical trade paperback.
And the intention of Library Journal's SELF - e is to open that traditionally active site for patrons» discoverability to books written
by independent authors.
Six months out of the gate, BookBaby is digitally distributing about 2000 books
by independent authors.
Amazon and Smashwords will continue to offer direct publishing
by independent authors and their work can be priced at will.
At least my book was read
by independent authors and publishers on the other side of the world.