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).
Not exact matches
Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an
independent route intentionally chosen
by more and more
authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms,
such as the movie version of The Martian.
they were caught
by surprise with the huge success of you
independent authors selling works at
such a cheap price... and i'd say they'll adjust soon.
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.
You can also go cruise on Google for other «best of 2015» fiction lists,
such as those from or
by Small Presses,
Independent Publishers, more Indie / Self - Pubbed
authors, Debuts, Flash Fiction, and on and on.
As an indie
author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't get my books into
such stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «printed in» on the last verso page of my books proves they were printed
by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an
independent imprint with its own ISBNs.
There are a few criteria the system has developed in order to have quality ebooks in their system,
such as any book that has been recognized for excellence in any Midwest Book Awards category, any book written or published
by a member of the Midwest
Independent Publishers Association, any independently or self - published book written
by a Minnesota
author, and any independently or self - published book about Minnesota.
Ben Adams Ben Adams engages with fellow
authors on forums such as that run by the Alliance of Independent Authors
authors on forums
such as that run
by the Alliance of
Independent AuthorsAuthors (ALLi)
INDIES recognize works
by individual
authors and
independent publishing houses, including academic presses
such as Stanford University.
in other words to
author a piece of writing and distribute it, print it, wrap it and sell it as you yourself see fit, even
by mutual agreement with an outsourced company that offers specific dedicated services
such as printing, binding, distribution, packagaing, marketing or any
such service, not
by the decisions of any other entity but
by your own choice as you yourself see most convenient... and if in exchange for services rendered you split the revenue consider it as credit with interest paid on sales... so yes if you are an
independent author you are allowed to leave the publishing and distribution to people that get paid to publish and distribute and marketing to marketers and sales to salesmen... but you must above all
author independently.
For this path I would recommend researching how others have done it
by visiting various indie - publishing websites
such as the
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the Alliance for
Independent Authors (ALLi) or Where Writers Win.
The UK's Reedsy Reads the Receipts «Rather than the estimates and extrapolations that we get so frequently in
such efforts around the
independent author camp, Nataf's staff says that they have used actual, anonymized quotes that were transmitted
by editors and designers to inquiring
authors on their system, in order to put together some pricing averages.»
Successful
independent authors and publishers
such as Nathan Lowell and Scott Sigler were picked up
by trade publishers after building their audience of fans,
by giving away a serialized podcast of their books.
Countering this decline has been an increase in ebook sales
by independent publishers (those not linked to the Big Four) and self - published
authors, most of which is through Amazon, with small proportions through self - publishing services
such as Smashwords.