Sentences with phrase «for trad pub»

There are too many benefits to self - publishing for trad pub authors to ignore forever.

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.

Nice to see such optimism for trad pub.

What that will accomplish over time is that the lists will feature mostly higher priced books, setting a self - fulfilling prophecy for the trad pub titles (and of course, Amazon's own label) and hurting sales for lower priced titles.

With indie stars often getting plucked for trad pub eventually anyway — because indie is now the farm system where trad pub looks most closely, for all the hot new horses.

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

Not every writer is a skilled businessman and for them trad pub is best.

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

They're improving for indies and they're improving for trad pub authors.

I can't fathom giving up all that control and royalty for a trad pub deal.

More profit for trad pubs, better odds of some readers finding mine a bargain.

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.

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

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

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

This goes for trad pubbed books as well.

She wrote for trad pubs for years and I got the sense from her that not being in the block buster category (though doing quite well by most standards!)

If self - pubbing is going to become the AAA farm team for trad pubbing, then, like in baseball, only the stars, who fit the team's needs at that moment, are going to get called up.

For trad pubs, I'm generally not interested in their products (regardless of price) except when they're reprinting boks by favorite authors.

I'm not even sure how many perks are left for trad pubbed authors.

It's as if they're waiting for trad pubs to catch up... or not.

I've heard first - hand reports of B&N manipulating its rankings for erotica titles as well, but only for indie authors and not for trad pubbed titles:

Not exact matches

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

So my love for them is deeper, but I've never thought trad pubs were anything but large dominant players in a business where my goals ran toward setting up a nice cottage industry in the cracks they missed.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

This blog is mainly for newer writers, not bestselling trad pubbed authors like you.

For example, if you are dead - set on going trad - pub, the chances of you making enough money in the beginning is fairly remote.

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.

They have their own trad - pub imprints now, and no need for indies to fill up Kindles.

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

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

That sounds terrible, but in fact, your marketing situation is even worse as a trad - pubbed author, for two reasons:

I've got a friend who is seeking trad pub for novels and putting novellas on the kindle.

It has more trad - pub nomenclature and you need to know your stuff before venturing into LS, so not at all something for first time publishing.

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

The trad pub asks for a LOT of rights.

Take a trad pubbed author for whom I have enormous respect: James Lee Burke.

It's a watershed moment for indies, because there has long been this sentiment that the reason authors are indies is because they can't cut the quality at the trad pub level, and so have to release their material themselves.

Tip # 1: Forget the query letters, hunts for agents / publishers and all that trad pub jazz.

For most trad pub authors, you are on your own to do most of the same promotion you'd do as an indie.

For every Brandon, there are thousands of trad pub authors that came and went.

For now, it's self - pub authors vs. «some trad» authors.

My work doesn't qualify for any awards; mystery conventions are all about the trad pubbed authors (whose work I love), but shut out the indies.

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

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.

Why aren't any of the trad - pub houses going in for a royalty - cut of the sales deal like we get online?

I could seek trad - pub for years — and years — without success.

Editors being let go by trad pubbing houses are making better livings working free lance for self - pubbers — and God knows the trad pubs» offerings need them back.