Sentences with phrase «by mainstream publishers»

But there's too much crime fiction being well published by mainstream publishers for there to be time (for me) to look at self - published work.

Study descriptions for books by mainstream publishers in your genre.

Independent software developers face the same pricing pressures and economic hurdles that independent authors face, and the same obstacles in trying to get products placed on store shelves or accepted by mainstream publishers.

With a touch of faith, I'm thinking the book would not be welcomed by mainstream publishers.

There are very few books priced at $ 1.99 unless that is a sale price, ordinarily by mainstream publishers.

Have plenty of non-fiction books published by mainstream publishers.

The news about the acquisition of the popular casual games developer PopCap by the mainstream publisher EA Games made PopCap's admirers feel anxious...

The news about the acquisition of the popular casual games developer PopCap by the mainstream publisher EA Games made PopCap's admirers feel anxious about the company's future.

Yes, these were really the bad old days when self publishing was associated with authors who were deemed unworthy by mainstream publishers.

Like many other authors who are discarded or ignored by mainstream publishers for one reason or another, I had found a voice in the writing community and had discovered the confidence to self - publish, which up until that point, would have found it difficult to do so.

We strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBT authors.

This ill - fated connection results in the inflated pricing of ebooks attributed to the expense of first producing the pbook by mainstream publishers.

In reality, self - publishing offers anyone with a manuscript and a credit card the opportunity to publish, and the success rate is less than one percent... Self - published books have yet to offer the quality and originality sometimes lacking in books produced by mainstream publishers.

AmazonCrossing, which preceded Kirshbaum by a year, resulted from a different strategy: identify niches that are being underserved by mainstream publishers.

Historical fiction writer Janet MacLeod Trotter, turned to self publishing after being let go by her mainstream publisher.

Like other self - publishers, Christian self - publishing companies offer print - on - demand services, a nonexclusive contract, a 100 % royalty rate, e-books and many other services provided by mainstream publishers.

Even though the bestseller list is dominated by books backed by mainstream publishers, indie - authors can use the list to gauge the zeitgeist and monitor what readers are willing to pay for quality ebooks.

This represents remarkable admission by a mainstream publisher that Independent Authors have something to offer.

By selling nearly every new release issued by a mainstream publisher at breakeven or a loss, Amazon made the Kindle a compelling money - saving gadget for avid readers.

Although there are well over 100,000 books published annually in the UK by mainstream publishers, there are many reasons why such a publisher may not be able to take up your work.

Obviously, independently published books are trash and only novels published by the mainstream publishers are worthy of being read.

Self - publishing has become the tsunami, the 9.6 earthquake, the paradigm shift of the literary world, overwhelming book publishing with more titles published by authors than by mainstream publishers in the year 2010.

Congrats on your publishing ventures - I've been published by mainstream publishers and I've self - published e-books.

I can't guarantee that after working with me at this level your novel will be accepted by an agent or by a mainstream publisher or small press — if, indeed, that is your preferred route to publication — but I can guarantee that it will be a better novel.

With «The Lion's Gate,» the book that we were talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a sales force and all that.

It would be a fallacy to suggest that all books published by mainstream publishers are works of merit, and someone with Sam Tanenhaus's privileged industry access would never suggest otherwise.

Plenty of unknowns get their books published by mainstream publishers every day.

I think it's true that you can generally expect a higher - level of competence in works that are published by mainstream publishers, but not because the authors themselves are more competent.

For years I have fought against self - publishing on the basis that if I was good enough I would be picked up by a mainstream publisher.

Although I'd published two novels with Simon and Schuster, and am represented by one of London's top agents, my memoir had been turned down by mainstream publishers.

Rita Rosenkranz, among the first literary agents to work with indie authors, says that in the past «because of the stigma of self - publishing very good stuff was locked out by mainstream publishers.»

Publishers and Agents Want You More self - published books than ever are being picked up by mainstream publishers.

Most beginner authors have almost no chance at ever being published by a mainstream publisher.

Up until now I've been published by mainstream publishers.

What's there (by mainstream publishers) is way over-priced for kids» books, so an indie selling at $ 2.99 or even $ 0.99 (perhaps for shorter works) could do well in the future.

The future may be a world where authors prove themselves in the self - published world before they are snapped up by mainstream publishers.