Sentences with phrase «for midlist authors»

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

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.

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

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.

For midlist authors, libraries are a critical lifeline.

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

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?

``... 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.

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).

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

In the 1980s, when the midlist collapsed and the number of mass - market distributors in America fell from 400 + to three, and the trade retail channels for mass - market books were dominated by Barnes and Noble and Borders, authors discovered that their careers could be suddenly and totally ended, merely because the mass - market distributor stopped carrying them, or one of the retailers stopped selling them.