Sentences with phrase «by trad authors»

A few taunts thrown down by trad authors / agents / editors sends the goths storming the walls into a fury.

Not exact matches

The top news of the week touched upon waning ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

It seems that by now all authors (both indies and trads) should see that this divide is good for no one.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

When authors stop signing contracts and then announce they are making as much, if not more, by selling direct to their customers (via Amazon / iTunes / etc), will those remaining trad pub authors still toe the line and defend their masters at all costs?

Eventually someone is going to come up with a way to help readers support indie authors by culling the wheat from the chaff — without turning that service into a gatekeeper, like the trad publishers have unfortunately become.

I'll answer by repeating Shawn's point, that a surprising proportion of readers wouldn't know a trad - pub from a self - pub author.

Once again, Kozlowski's argument is to infantilize the reader and whine that they need to be «protected» from the scourge of indie authors, as if the average reader can't tell a poorly written, sloppy book from the crisp and beautiful books produced by trad publishers.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie publAuthor Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie publauthor in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie publauthor's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

The bottom line is, authors who have never been offered a trad contract and mid-list authors who have been dumped by their publishers (like me) don't have to fade away because no one will put our work out there.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

The reviews that take the place of those earned by trad pubbed authors from the trades?

Since then, indie authors have stormed the bestseller lists, been courted by trad publishers and (after all that), finally gained a modicum of respect.

Out of my ginormous TBR list, I've read only two trad - pubbed books this year: one, a book by Darcie Chan, who had been an indie author; and two, David Levithan's marvelous YA novel, Two Boys Kissing, which I picked up at BEA and couldn't stop reading.

And by the way, Patterson and plenty of other less - than - stellar trad pub authors sell millions while good books go unnoticed, so it's not just indie publishing that's that way.

They've really learned, and the service they're providing now is just wonderful, painless for an author, and as they pay monthly by direct deposit, and have absolutely transparent accounting so you can see your book sales on a moment - by - moment, authors are better off than ever going Trad.

We applaud and support those authors who have striven to ensure that the quality of their work matches or surpasses that put out by trad publishers.

One last thing that I should be clear on: Some authors are not entrepreneurs and will do better by trad - publishing.

A novice author who might have not sold at all to a trad publisher now earns a few bucks or a few hundred by self - publishing.

In particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launch.

A good debut author who might have earned $ 3k to $ 5k from a trad publisher now earns that much or more by self - publishing.

My feeling is that the connectivity between authors and readers is improving (just by my «recommended for you» list)-- which means that those without much connection... which is not a small number (both indy and probably moreso, trad pub) will be «disposable» — but those who make connection with readers — not publishers — will not be.

For trad pubs, I'm generally not interested in their products (regardless of price) except when they're reprinting boks by favorite authors.

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

In other words, they are still not viewed as equal to trad pubbed authors (this, despite that fact that Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has just released a memoir by the 25 year singer, Ke $ ha).

Since many authors were rocking it in what was another genre fairly underserved by trad publishing, I decided to bump a fantasy series I was planning to the side and devote most of 2016 to jumping genres and writing the space series.

Both Hugh and Data Guy are performing an invaluable service for all us authors, both Indie and trad - published, by helping pierce somewhat the mystery surrounding the state of publishing today.

In Trad, new authors are paid by the successful proceeds of the heavy hitters that have come before.

Those charts need to be re-wickered and research needs to be done that includes time to market, numbers of books to market by time per author, cost of production (indie vs trad), author * time * spent on promotions, author * funds * spent on promotion and inclusion of all books that make up the top 50 or 75K of books in Amazon (not BS lists because some are hard to get on, others not so much).

This was written by a former trad publisher / author and current indie / hybrid author.

Amazon Publishing has done this by offering authors a fair deal on ebook royalties, with reported rates of 50 % compared with the maximum 25 % on offer at trad firms.