Except the
books from big publishers often look like crap in digital and utterly mundane in print — no better than a well made self - published book.
But with well over 120 titles already announced for the system, it's clear there's content
coming from big publishers and indie devs alike.
You might get anything from low four figures for a niche publication with a small publisher, or up to six figures
from a big publisher who thinks your book has major commercial potential.
Whether you like indies that you can wrap up in an afternoon, or
games from big publishers that can keep you busy for dozens of hours, 2014 had something memorable to offer.
Just about everything Double Fine produces is from a fresh IP, which has created some challenges in securing
funding from big publishers.
And what it may give you is an incredible discovery that great books don't always
come from big publishers and big names.
It's a bit slow this month, with smaller than usual
offerings from big publishers Dark Horse and Viz Media, but there are still some gems to be found.
The narrative that indie writers are taking significant market
share from big publishers looks exaggerated (at least in the UK), but there are growing digital only publishers not represented in the PA data (not least Amazon Publishing) that would help broaden our understanding.
Apple has updated the iBooks app, now called iBooks 2, and with that comes a whole new category on the iBookstore for textbooks with material
from the big publishers like McGraw - Hill and Pearson, as well as other authors who want to sell their textbooks and learning tools there.
It's a bit slow this month, with smaller than usual offerings
from big publishers Dark Horse and Viz Media, but there are -LSB-...]
Unlike the majority of similar services, Scribd is famous for having content
available from big publishers including Random House or Simon & Schuster.
By the way, the notion that e-book sales are declining is utter nonsense, and based merely on
numbers from the biggest publishers, who due to their pricing policies are receiving a steadily decreasing portion of book sales.
E3 is right around the corner with the annual event happening from June 13th to June 15th in Los Angeles but things always start a little bit earlier with press conferences
from the biggest publishers in gaming.
Jamie LaRue, director of DCL, said, «We're eager to connect our readers to fresh streams of digital content... Smashword's average price per title [about $ 4] allows us to do that more readily than we could from the big publishers [now charging as much as $ 84 per ebook].
The most successful Indie writers experience one day the thrill of a
call from a big publisher (or a movie producer) and suddenly the Indie writer is no more.
But for a big account like Amazon where they're ordering enormous
quantities from big publishers... the shipment would probably go from the publisher's warehouse the same or next and arrive very quickly.
In the Writers» and Artists» Yearbook 2017, Philip Jones argues that as
growth from the big publishers slows, «the market itself continues to grow — mostly via small publisher ebook sales or those derived through self - publishers.»
You can see that only one of these books was designed with small, online thumbnails in mind, and it's not the
one from the big publishers.