Sentences with phrase «by indie»

Books that are perceived to be by indie authors don't sell as well as those perceived to be by traditionally published authors.

For other books by Indie Book Collective, view Indie Book Collective's Smashwords author profile page.

Once again, it's worth a look at the composition of the Kindle Store bestseller lists: 18 of the top 50 bestselling titles in the Kindle Store are by indie authors, compared with zero just nine months ago when publishers were launching their ill - fated agency model price - fixing scheme.

Mark Coker of Smashwords at BAIPA: Indie Revolution in Full Swing as the e-book distributor continues its fantastic growth fueled by indie authors

Then I started sampling from the large library of available books, many of them by indie authors.

But besieging forces captained by indie champions like Konrath have the Castle surrounded.

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

Thus far, these traditional media have not shown much inclination to review books by indie authors.

Back in 2012, there were many headlines about the tremendous growth in self - publishing output as demonstrated by the increase in ISBNs used by indie authors.

In response she established ALLi, a nonprofit organisation, founded and run by indie authors for indie authors.

The Goodreads Giveaway has long been used by indie authors and small publishers to build reviews for their books by giving away free copies of their paperback editions.

Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Redemption became the first novel by an indie author to find shelf space at Walmart, and Andy Weir's The Martian, originally self - published, was released as a major motion picture starring Matt Damon.

If you happen to be in Austin, TX, drop by Indie Publishing Austin sometime.

Ebooks by indie authors make up more than 26 % of all ebooks sold on Amazon.co.uk.

In case you weren't aware, Barnes & Noble retail stores are quite happy to stock and sell POD books by indie authors.

One of Amster's favorite books from the past year was Neurotically Yours by indie author Bonnie Trachtenberg.

These sales numbers are not so surprising if we take into account that Amazon lets the publishers set the prices; the customers are drawn to the lower prices provided by indie publishers.

Mari Ramirez, a local CPA, stopped by Indie Publishing Austin to give a group of writers a primer on accounting and tax advice.

I refuse to be intimidated by the Indie crowd into going faster.

So it's fair to say in creating these comics I was heavily inspired by indie and casual videogames and was aiming as much at gamers as I was comic readers.

They are replaceable by Indie Books.

StoryBundle is a way for people who love to read to discover quality indie books written by indie authors.

Created by an indie author, for indie authors, this software will suck in all the sales reports from all your vendors and allow you to track all your sales trends, for every book on every channel.

In the last three years, I've learned more about the questions faced by indie authors.

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But, it is absolutely correct the things learned by Indie publshing; it is an immense learning curve and not meant for everyone to be writer, illustrator, and the one to format the manuscript ready for print.

Would we be shunned by the indie community?

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We've been approached by an indie publishing company, under a big name publishing company, and I am definitely torn by the pros and cons of self - publishing vs traditional publishing.

-LSB-...] Take Pride in Your Ebook Formatting by indie horror author Guido Henkel (this link goes to Part I in what is a very thorough nine - part post)-LSB-...]

Now fast forward to today and a world of publishing made even more competitive by the indie mid-lister consistently selling his or her books for a modest $ 4.99, $ 3.99, $ 2.99 or less — and without benefit of a fat legacy publishing advance.

The Hundred - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, published by indie Hesperus Press, sold 145k copies in 2012, and currently sits behind Life of Pi in the Kindle bestseller lists.

Does it matter to a reader that the book he or she has chosen is by an indie author or a «legitimate» author?

Given that you often see the majority of F&SF best - seller slots on Amazon taken up by indie books, and that the SFWA is dead - set against allowing the writers of indie trash in their clubhouse (because they're «inclusive» that way)... how can «awards» that exclude most of the books that actual readers enjoy count for anything?

The readers do not care whether a work was edited to within an inch of its life and marketed harder than a presidential candidate in October of an election year or whether it was put out on a wing and a prayer by an indie.

The book has been described as «Suicide Squad on acid,» and is a comic beloved by both indie comics fans and superhero die - hards.

Even without the turmoil induced by indie publishing, pod, and various other developments, the main of which is Amazon, the way you «get in» to a house would be changed out of recognition.

24 of the 30 «cheaper» ebook bestsellers are priced at just 99 cents, and they are pretty much all by indie authors who will earn millions of dollars this year and turn the membership of the Kindle Million Club upside down.

The consecutive book strategy is talked about mostly by indie genre fiction authors.

In fact, 90 % of the podcasts who welcome indie authors, are hosted by indie authors or authors signed at small publishing presses.

It's not in a genre I read, but I'll add to that list of good books by Indie Authors — KEPT — a novella by Zoe Winters.

I wonder if we poled books by indie authors if we would find the same disparity?

This answer is not greatly appreciated by indie writers.

One of the benefits of free offerings by indie publishers, for example, is being able to control and analyze the results, which pirates wouldn't let you do.

Sacrifice - Best of 2013 by Indie Reader Live for God.Live for your mother.

The idea was proposed by indie author Marie Force, and it's still at the very earliest stages, but what I've heard so far is very promising indeed — particularly that it will be exclusively focused on high - level advocacy and interfacing with retailers on issues which concern indies.

After purchasing a few nice ebooks by indie authors, I found one for $.99 that sounded interesting.

39 % of the 195,000 ebooks comprising Amazon's bestsellers as of January 2014 were by indie or single - author publishers.

I am the opposite of your client, one of the lonely self - pubbed whose books got picked up and published by an indie publisher.

I was able to make rough estimates of the number of units sold by indie authors from the very top earners all the way down to the very bottom earners.