Sentences with phrase «for trad books»

Finally, one of the biggest advantages for trad books on Amazon is now available to self - publishers: pre-ordering.

This implies that the ratio of good to bad indie books is the same ratio for trad books.

Not exact matches

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

I tend to keep with the above list, especially for science fiction and fantasy, because that is how print books in those genres (from trad publishers) open their books.

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.

I'm hoping to get the best of both worlds, so to speak - get some of my books out there for «immediate consumption» (so to speak), and establish credibility in the writing community through trad.

Somehow only for trad pubbed books and not the same series for my self - pubbed titles?

If I were writing lit fic or a picture book — or, as you mentioned, middle - grade — I might consider a trad publisher for their distribution (and for the fact that they do buy lit fic).

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

A trad - pubbed author gets an advance, and often this is the only money they ever get for the book.

At this point, I consider myself exclusively indie, but I do still get royalty statements for my two trad - pubbed nonfiction books.

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

She only has one indie book out, while all the rest are trad... and when she didn't get a book out for two years (three since the last one in that series), she still had fairly good sales, as many of her fans were happy to read anything she'd put out.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

KU and cheap big - name Trad pubbed books have stopped sales dead for most of us.

Building a solid author brand is the key to getting discovered and selling books for a self - published author (and even trad - published books).

And you're also correct that trad - pubbed authors earn only a fraction of the net revenue for each book sold.

Alex — I think trad publishers still see 80K words as the sweet spot (more for fantasy) because that seems the «right size» for a paper book.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

After the initial promotional push is over for trad pubbed books, advertising dollars go to the publishing house's next new books.

My first two trad - pubbed books have been remaindered, but I still can't get the rights back for another couple years.

I drove down to NO just for the book signing, and I can tell you the trad authors were just as crowded at their tables.

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

I know I've had no luck getting audio rights for my trad pubbed books.

I'm trading the indie ebook market (which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub ebook market

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

Sometime in the late 1990s, when I began ghostwriting, and writing business books for trad publishers, I launched my first blog.

This goes for trad pubbed books as well.

I write cozy historical mysteries, and had an agent for my first book who was enthusiastic about getting a trad publisher for it.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

But we can use our trad published books to push sales for our indie books or vice versa.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

That's not bad for an indie book as I can't afford such luxuries open to the trad «big five» such as Kirkus and NetGalley.

One advantage NY Trads have appears to be in the editing process (and of course print distribution), however with POD services the print distribution for a book can be as broad as ebook distribution.

I am sure there are some people they are paying these prices, but as people find out there are so many books for so much less, trad pub will find it harder and harder to justify their pricing.

Joe's initiative is great, but if we could inform our readers that the money they spend on taxes going to libraries is practically only devoted to trad pub books and ebooks, and that this doesn't reflect EXACTLY, for instance the indie market share of the first retailer in the world, maybe things would advance a little bit in the right direction.

This column caused me to go check on my first trad published book — one that I got a very good advance for 11 years ago and pretty much figure I'll never see another penny from.

If I were to be offered a trad pub contract, I'd be forced to seriously consider it just for the chance to get a readership large enough to help me live modestly while writing the next book.

I think that writers who are interested in being a hybrid for * non * financial reasons (validation, because Mom dreamed of seeing our book on a shelf at B&N), will obviously find plenty of good reasons to choose trad publishing.

It will be both interesting and instructive to see what happens next — and yes, with so many trad - published books to your hard - working credit, you will remain a hybrid author for as long as it can matter.

I review all of my trad pub royalty statements when they come in, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for beyond checking that the various royalty rates are as they should be and running the math (cost of book x royalty rate x no.

Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited, which enables customers to pay $ 10 a month and borrow as many books as they like — with the caveat that only some titles are in the program, which pays $ 1.33 for a borrow instead of the royalty an author would normally see (except for Amazon imprints and trad pubs, which see their full royalty on a borrow); a windfall for those writing 10K short stories or serials, but not so great for those with novels, hence limited participation.

P.S.: I spent $ 60 at Barnes and Noble «real» book store last night for trad pub books.

In the case of Vanquish Writer's Block (and my other self - pub books), I knew that in many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectively.

Many of my fav authors are traditionally published — but the trad publishers have priced the books out of my purse so now I look for those indie gems to satisfy my reading habits.

I'm getting great reviews, and so many people are begging for book two in the series, but have I the guts to say my book is therefore equal to trad pub and price accordingly?

Trad - Pub Authors: Launch Big or Die In 2012, Rachelle Gardner noted the typical advance for a first - time traditionally published author is $ 5,000 - $ 15,000 per book, and most of those first - time authors do not sell through their advance, so that is all the money they will ever get from that book.

If the trad - pub path fails for this book, indie publish.

They've really learned, and the service they're providing now is just wonderful, painless for an author, and as they pay monthly by direct deposit, and have absolutely transparent accounting so you can see your book sales on a moment - by - moment, authors are better off than ever going Trad.

Many of these books will be marginal or won't have withstood the test of time, but supply will increase even more as trad pubs try to duke it out for dwindling reader dollars.