Sentences with phrase «for midlist»

There are large differences; but on the whole, the digital publishing changes have been very good for writers — although they've been very bad for midlist writers who've stuck to traditional - publishing - only.

It succeeded in transferring 69 % of the titles and went on to adopt the use of the enki platform for midlist titles from about 200 publishers and several thousand self - published titles from Smashwords.

So maybe the question is, how much — if anything — will publishers do for the midlist authors?

They are changing the landscape in a fundamental way, and it's not necessarily going to be great for the novelist, especially for midlist novelists.

I'm fortunate to email with a number of well known midlist authors, in the UK and the USA... they tell me that the situation for midlist authors is the most dire it's ever been.

It is now harder than ever for midlist authors to make a living from writing alone.

Sadly, this is no longer the case for midlist and below, at least according to a great many sources.

We discovered that the «honeymoon period» of a new book is longer for midlist titles.

Less so for the midlist writers.

And it doesn't happen at all for midlist authors who are dropped by their former nurturers for lack of numbers.

What I would like to see is the sales for midlist titles in different categories for Traditional Publishing.

But if I wrote a nifty little midlist romance right now, I'd be happy at the advance for a midlist romance right now.

Not so sure there was much of a chance for midlist even five, ten, fifteen or twenty years ago.

Maybe that common knowledge is true for midlist writers, but who is going to kick a cash cow to the curb?

But it's getting more and more possible for midlist authors to find an audience of appreciative readers and make a living or at least pay some bills as self - published authors and it's because of the rise of eBooks and online distributors like Amazon.

For everyone else, for midlist authors, legacy publishing sounds pretty crappy beyond the ability to say you are published by So - And - So and repped by So - And - So.

On the other hand, especially for midlist authors, it does severely hurt their numbers; really great way to help the authors you love, the ones whose books you want to buy, no?

The used book choice was particularly devastating for midlist authors of genre.

There's not a lot of negotiating leverage for the midlist author.

Marketing is an issue for midlist and self - pub, and we don't even have a level playing field yet.

For midlist authors, libraries are a critical lifeline.

Not exact matches

Obviously mailing hundreds of envelopes full of $ 2 coupons is not the most efficient way for a new or midlist author to make it to the top of the bestseller list — but what about creating downloadable documents and sending out an e-newsletter containing links to items like these?

The second post of discussion was getting S&S support for Kindle Unlimited and contributing their backlist and midlist titles to help legitimize the new platform.

You sign a modern traditional contract as a beginning writer or low - level midlist writer, you must trust the publisher, a large corporation, to watch out for your interests for the life of your copyright.

``... for those countless midlist authors stuck with unconscionable contracts because they had no choice, and the multitude of authors kept out of the industry by gatekeepers such as yourself, it didn't work.

Compared to any publisher but Baen, it's an absurdly good contract for first - time - unknown, or midlist.

What's worse is that we have to take into account that bestselling books sell about 500-1000 times more than midlist titles, which means the potential revenue for the average book will be a few cents.

Under this strategy, Amazon decides that it will demand no more discount than offered to any other vendor, for any purpose *; it will do everything in its power to meet author and indendent publisher demands; and it will send a bouquet and basket of puppies to midlist authors who place their out - of - print books on Kindle, in addition to the royalties due (and a holiday bonus).

Jillian, it is a seat - squirming time for many midlist writers and their agents.

Until now, comics from major distributors and publishers have been made available for iPads and iPhones, but they tended to be more midlist back issues, not current new releases.

«The WIN Catalog will take hundreds of thousands of early, midlist, and backlist eBook titles that are virtually invisible to library customers and present them for discovery.

I'd like to see you compare midlist legacy and self - pubbed authors to see whether the relationship holds between earnings and sales for them as well as bestsellers.

Midlist authors have been struggling to survive for decades now.

If your book wound up on the midlist (which by definition most did) then low volume and a small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for authors to write full time as their sole source of income.

I am the happiest of midlist authors today for having made the leap from traditional to the new frontier in publising, that which rewards the reader and the writer more so than the gatekeepers of old.

But, I think for most new / midlist writers the key will be to build their readership, one reader at a time, one book (or novella or short story) at a time.

The future midlist, which the Big 6 are cutting for cost reasons (10 % of their books make 90 % of their profit), will come out of self - pubbed ebook authors.

For others, particularly midlist writers, it isn't true at all.

But even then, and after another ten years and another ten crime novels, I was still marooned on the midlist, with no marketing budget, no publisher - paid - for book tours, no nothing.

When you add in the cost of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory POD has becomes the optimal choice for more midlist titles.

For some genres like SFF, selling into libraries can make up a significant portion of hardcover sales for new and midlist authoFor some genres like SFF, selling into libraries can make up a significant portion of hardcover sales for new and midlist authofor new and midlist authors.

There, hundreds of seasoned, veteran authors — many of them strong players in US genre midlists — will be discussing ways forward in a landscape that at times tend to look healthy only for authors of publishing houses» blockbusters and high - earning outliers of the independent - author corps.

Given the very slow publishing schedules in mainstream publishing and the fact that there is a limit to how many books a publisher wants from any given midlist author in a year, the money odds for «most» of us who are not famous or breakout bestsellers... is in the indie side of things, because we can publish on a faster timetable, while still keeping the quality up.

Combine this with the high priced celebrity advances, the numerous fiction scandals (Kavvya Viswanthan, James Frey again) Scholastic's inability to fill the Harry Potter void (They should have been searching for a new franchise after Harry 2 IMO) and the decline of the midlist and it's easy to understand why the industry is in trouble.

I don't think so, because physical bookstores are not that big a market for most self - pubbed authors in the first place — or even for second - string / midlist authors at major houses (I'm married to one of those, and used to be one).

I would submit that trad publishing could do worse than adopt the Baen Free Library concept for ebooks and to allow bookstores to «remainder» midlist authors for one or two copies to local libraries.

If a fiction model were devised for libraries, it would most likely follow the cartel bundling model: pay X amount of $ a year, get all the ebook versions of the bestsellers from Publishing House Y. Add a few extra 000s to that subscription price and they'll throw in their back catalog of midlist authors.

That is not the case for most writers whose midlist numbers can be depressing.

With coordinated promotions, this could be a huge boon for new, struggling, and midlist authors, the very three segments of the writing population we should be fighting for.

I've added The Midlist to the list too, thank you for the recommendation;).