Sentences with phrase «by trad pubbed»

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

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.

They were fired by trad pub.

Editors being let go by trad pubbing houses are making better livings working free lance for self - pubbers — and God knows the trad pubs» offerings need them back.

There I read reviews, compare the wonderfully low price of ebook (or not if it is inflated by trad pub).

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 published.

I've self - pubbed 8 works and made more money than I had been offered by trad pubs in the past.

Once e-books became a reality, there was no way to stop an indie market from developing, because there are too many people who wanted to write who never got accepted by trad pub.

Not exact matches

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

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.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

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?

And that the readers who are burned by a bad self published book (despite resources like reviews & Goodreads)-- and suddenly seek out only trad pubbed books — are so few as to be negligible.

It would certainly harm self - publishers as vendors such as Amazon would likely display the trad - pub chart by default.

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.

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?

Whereas trad publishers have by their very nature had humans read and vet their books through the editting process, the sheer number of self - pubs mean that there had to be some kind of automation or you'd have a logjam.

And, because of guilt - by - association, it's an annoyance for the emerging generation of indie writers who chose not to bother with the agent / trad - pub route, but who are every bit as «pro» as their trad - pub counterparts.

She wrote for trad pubs for years and I got the sense from her that not being in the block buster category (though doing quite well by most standards!)

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.

That one I will market to trad pubs, or what system is around by the time I finish the book in the next year or so.

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.

So I know things will take a dive when I make the move out of Select... but it's okay, I'll be ready because I'm building deep with developing a loyal, engaged reader base and capturing them on my email list,, building broad by reaching into new markets (audiobooks, trad pub deals, film and tv) and high by developing new projects in new genres.

I second the points made by Ramez Naam about the trad pub income streams that aren't reflected here.

Because the idea of having a herd of turtles (lots of titles available, expanding your digital footprint) is being picked up by trad - pub (from indies, who are proving it a way to boost book sales).

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.

We may be measuring trad - pub books by a higher standard, but do they really live up to it?

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).