Sentences with phrase «few traditional authors»

He engages his readers on so many social media platforms that it is hard to imagine he has any time to write his bestselling novels, and yet he has sold nearly 1 million copies of his books and recently achieved a feat few traditional authors have...

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

Not exact matches

Lead author Jason Holloway, a Rice alumnus who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, suggested an array of inexpensive sensors and plastic lenses that cost a few dollars each may someday replace traditional telephoto lenses that cost more than $ 100,000.

Few traditional publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, etc.) take submissions directly from authors.

We know of few authors from the traditional publishing world that are enamored with their book covers.

While I wanted to publish the «traditional way,» the facts still remained; I was an unknown author with a few short story publications in literary journals.

It has been one of the most pernicious problems with the traditional «writer's path» that it was possible for only a select few to make a living doing it, and that includes authors who were or are considered recognizable names.

I would imagine that the pride that glowed around me for the next few days would have been exactly the same for both a self - published and a traditional author in my position.

Join those of us who are tired of being dictated to by a few large traditional publishers, snobbish reviewers, and uninformed columnists, and buy ebooks published by real people for real people — Indie Authors.

I know we have so very few publishing slots open, as a traditional publisher with limited capacity and lots of authors who continue to be part of our Bethany House family.

Bookstores are becoming fewer and fewer, which means traditional author events are getting more competitive.

With traditional publishing houses picking up ever fewer authors, more and more writers choose to take matters into their own hands and publish their books themselves.

One could argue (and so I will), that by moving into «traditional» publishing, Amazon is simply acknowledging that content is and always will be King, and while the self - publishing angle has worked out quite well for them, only a few handfuls of authors are truly making any notable profit on $ 2.99 ebooks.

One notable feature of the author - centric self - publishing movement is the understanding that indie authors and companies are moving the entire industry forward at a rapid pace, while only a few holdouts in the traditional industry are digging their heels in and refusing to follow the crowd.

While traditional publishing continues to close the door on many hopeful authors by admitting only a select few into their fold, self - publishing has been opening the door for motivated authors ready to take their success into their own hands.

A good few indy - authors that I know of have since gotten traditional publishing deals based on their success with indy - published books, but unless I were offered an insanely large advance, I don't think I would go for it.

A self - publishing author can have a book on the market in print and / or digital format in just a few months, whereas with traditional publishers, it can take as long as two years to publish one book.

A few publishers offer unsuspecting authors a «traditional publishing deal» — where the publisher pays publishing costs and industry - standard royalties on sales — paired with a «mandatory marketing and author training contract» that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing agency) thousands of dollars for marketing and «author training» services.

Just a few years ago, first - time authors were hard pressed to find someone who had been in the trenches of traditional publishing.

In that world there could be even fewer traditional bookstores than there are now, and Amazon may look a whole lot more appealing to prominent authors.

But I think part of the motivation for this piece was frustration in the indie author community at the fact that many of the best ones get signed up by traditional houses, who view indie publishing as a farm system, and very few established authors will actually turn down an advance to go indie.

The INSPY Awards are only open to print books from a publishing house (be it a large traditional house, a small press, or a micropress publishing as few as two authors).

The traditional publishing model, as most authors, readers, and booksellers know it, has not changed much in the last few hundred years, in fact.

With more and more self - published authors getting «discovered» by the traditional publishing industry and in many cases having their originally self - published books redistributed by a major publishing house, what becomes of those few original copies that readers came to love from the very beginning?

In internet - savvy circles [Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead of the digital publishing revolution that is seen as blowing up the traditional book world — or «legacy publishing» as its detractors call it — and replacing it with the ebook, where direct contact between author and reader, free of the mediation of agent and publishing house, is but a few clicks away.

There are a few authors working with traditional publishers who actually think in these terms.

Here are a few words from some of my clients, some of whom are published with traditional houses and some of whom are indie authors.

While Penguin is unlikely to pick up almost any of the authors publishing on Book Country and offer them traditional contracts (Authonomy has done so a few times), it is keeping these authors close and engaged with its brand and is turning them into an additional revenue stream.

At Archway Publishing, we've thought a lot about how to combine traditional marketing techniques with new technologies, and we offer a few e-book specific promotional services to help our authors successfully promote their e-books.

My big take away from her story (and Barry Eisler's recent move away from traditional publishing) is one that I haven't seen get much discussion — namely, the opportunity that independent e-publishing offers to authors in the face of the industry's contractions over the past few years.

But since most eBook publishing involves authors whose chances of landing traditional media coverage is necessarily limited (for now, anyway), it's good to know that eBook promotion doesn't mean fewer book publicity opportunities.

It still amazes me how few online merchants and traditional publishers (and even authors) have done the hard work necessary to create this asset.

Claire Frank — The indie author who got snatched up by a traditional publisher just a few short weeks after publishing her first book

With only a few, very rare, exceptions, traditional publishing deals involve a unidirectional flow of money: from the publisher to the author.

This isn't so much a prediction as it is an acknowledgement of what has already happened and that the scales will tip from a few authors self - publishing additional content to add to their traditional output, to the majority of authors.

We've done a few serial publishing experiments at O'Reilly (e.g., Every Book Is a Startup and Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and we've confirmed that this approach can help authors and publishers connect with readers more than they might through a traditional book.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

Authors and publishers who want to engage their book audience need to put themselves out there and go a few steps beyond traditional book marketing to create true value.

I developed lasting relationships with several indie authors during that time, including John Sundman and M.J. Rose, and I saw a few authors successfully cross over to traditional publishing.

Since publishers are still required to edit, print, distribute and market in traditional ways, and since they have fewer staff due to lower margins, it falls upon the author to accomplish many new tasks related to electronic marketing and sales.

You may frown upon traditional publishing houses and their supposed arrogance all you want, but most indie authors would still do well to take a few lessons from these dinosaurs.

A few comments brought up the idea that Amazon would be crazy to destroy traditional publishers, beggar professional authors, and thereby gut the whole writing and book - selling industry.

And here, then, is how the Times» editorial board comes to the conclusion — anathema to some entrepreneurial authors — that what's needed is more, not fewer, traditional - publishing outlets for authors:

She's an expert in digital media and the future of authorship, and seems to be one of the few people with a traditional publishing background focused on helping self - publishing authors.

VERY FEW indie authors and even FEWER traditional publishers I've ever seen do this.

A few of the authors have reversed the way book deals are negotiated by forming partnerships with traditional publishers to exercise idle rights to their self - published books.

In traditional publishing, an author typically earns a few percent of the publisher's net profits from the book.

To secure reviews for an indie book, authors had just a few options last year: paid review services (offered by outlets such as Kirkus, IndieReader, BlueInk Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional media.

Authors are choosing to bypass the traditional method that had been so coveted by the majority of authors just a few yeaAuthors are choosing to bypass the traditional method that had been so coveted by the majority of authors just a few yeaauthors just a few years ago.

With traditional publishers sticking more than ever to higher prices for their recent debuts, it seems that with few exceptions nearly all of the Big Five's ebook sales are going to their longer tenured authors.