Not exact matches
In addition to investing money, among
other measures of support being
considered by the government are the provision of tax incentives to support domestic book
publishers, especially the the abolition of VAT, which is currently at 10 %, as well as a reduction in price of insurance premiums.
Also
consider the usefulness of cell phone book clubs started
by libraries, schools,
publishers and
others.
And while some
consider digital
publishers the «farm team» for the pro leagues, a place where writers can cut their teeth and prove themselves worthy of being widely published
by the majors,
others are skipping the middlemen and defining success on their own terms.
While releasing an Apple app is still
considered the most profitable
by publishers,
other platforms such as the Amazon Kindle or the B&N Nook are emerging as the new hotspot for companies to insert their presence.
I've gone indie with my backlist, and am seriously
considering putting up a few original works as well, for many of the reasons mentioned
by others — timing, doesn't fit a print
publisher's mold.
James — Iuniverse is
considered by Wirters Beware and
other sites of that nature — and
by many self -
publishers to be a vanity press.
It got me thinking more deeply about why
publishers (in this case, Open Road Media, a progressive media company focused on e-books, founded
by The
Other Jane Friedman) would advise authors to forget the website, or what I
consider the No. 1 calling card for a digital - age author.
I have had two novels published
by a small independent
publisher, as well as three poetry books
by a separate independent poetry
publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst
other things, I
consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).