Sentences with phrase «from trad published»

I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.

Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

Not exact matches

Just has a different perspective on the publishing industry from many indies, and is more used to people having the goal of a trad deal.

The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents and publishers think they want to read.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

If a person switches from one trad publisher to another, are they «hybrid publishing?»

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

I've been trad published, and the last contract I saw was so much worse than the first from the same publisher — not on money but on everything else — that it's crazy.

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.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

So not only were my self - published books not included in my bio, the original trad - published book in the series (from Midnight Ink) wasn't, either.

This realization also served to make me feel alienated from other trad - published writers.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

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.

While many authors have focused on indie publishing the novels that were originally trad - pub bound, we're just beginning to move into the era where works are being created solely, from conception to completion, for publication as ebooks.

How many trad published authors actually make a living from their books?

The authors in their clutches have been conditioned to believe that all good flows from the font of trad publishing, so there won't be mass revolt from that front.

Perhaps something from the publisher if trad published or using a small press.

A good debut author who might have earned $ 3k to $ 5k from a trad publisher now earns that much or more by self - publishing.

It was one of my previously trad published novels from my back list, so professionally edited by my publisher.

If someone from a big trad publishing house came knocking on my door (metaphorically - speaking) offering a generous contract for one of my books... I would turn it down.

I had heard of too many wannabe published authors who had been waiting for years for either a book deal from a trad publisher, or even an agent to pitch for them.

And of course, there people at all points along the scale from A to B. I'm not sure if TWUC's standards are workable, but at least they're working on it — and they're willing to admit that not all the good authors are going through the trad - publishing gate these days.

This comment struck me (via Nathan Bransford's blog), from a trad - published author, Kate Milford (abbreviated):

«The Silence of the Trads,» as I call it, is the frequently muted regard with which many elements of the publishing establishment generally meet criticism from the digital insurgency.

I lived from book deal to book deal for 20 years with trad publishing.

She has worked with Cambridge University Press, where she managed technical production cycles for books and software from development to publication, and Oberon Books, London, a specialist book publisher where she gained insight into the gatekeeping process in trad publishing.

Trad publishing takes on many forms, and the farther one gets from the big pubbers the more difficult to see the return to the author, no?

But the big trad published books quote from mixed reviews all the time.

Joanne Phillips made the observation in her post that indie authors trying to do the work of a whole publishing house's publicity department is never going to work, and we had to realise that indie publishing is completely different from trad.

I share discounted or free titles from trad and self published authors I love, blog post links and general upbeat stuff, along with the occasional self - promo post.

The shift in the book business has been driven by readers moving away from trad publishers» ebooks toward indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks which now account for almost 60 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US, and 40 % of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks.

Indie and small - publisher titles dominate the bestselling genres, which shows demand from readers is not being fully met by trad publishing.

Trad publishing gets a look - in at number eight with Brad Thor's Act of Way from Simon and Schuster, number nine is filled by Invisible by James Patterson and David Ellis published by Hachette, and Harper Collins comes in at No 10 with The Heist by David Silva.

So far I have made more money from trad, but I firmly believe in the freedom of indie publishing (my latest book, Joe Coffin, will be indie published as I can not see how it would fit with a regular publisher) and I also believe that in the long run I will make more money down the indie route.

Trad publishing made its only entry in third place with Penguin's Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, getting a sales boost from the release of the film of the book.