The best hybrid publishers are those that conduct some level of gatekeeping or curation (i.e., not everyone who knocks on the door is accepted as an author), offer some value that authors would have a hard time securing on their own (such as brick - and - mortar distribution), and pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.
To summarize:
The best hybrid publishers conduct some level of gatekeeping, offer value that the author would have a hard time securing on her own, and should also pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.
Not exact matches
And if it sounds too fast to make a genuinely readable product,
well,
hybrid publishers would disagree.
Founder Lauren Wise spends a ton of time researching the new methods of publishing, talking with CEOs of
publishers that range from
hybrid to traditional to electronic, and compiles a hand - picked list every year of the
best companies for Midnight Publishing authors to work with.
More than half of authors who already were self - published, as
well as
hybrid authors, were hoping to publish with traditional
publishers, at 53.5 percent and 57.8 percent, respectively.
I'd call myself «
hybrid» these days — I'm working with an excellent independent
publisher (who also genuinely does treat me as a business partner) as
well self publishing.
The
Hybrid Publishing Model: This new partnership model encompasses the
best of both worlds: the curated selection of manuscripts by experienced
publishers, production support, and distribution networks of the traditional model with the higher profit share and freedom that self - publishing provides.
Hybrid publishing offers authors and
publishers the
best of both worlds.
Given that many authors now follow the
hybrid Reeses Approach, it is a
good idea to include a clause in any agreement signed that explicitly states that those books which the author directly e-publishes on their own instead of traditionally publishing through the agent and a
publisher who will produce physical copies are exempt.
If a
hybrid publisher has a requirement that the author must pay for a specific number of books, it's a
good sign the company is merely a dressed - up version of an old - school «vanity» press.
More confusing still, some companies calling themselves «
hybrid»
publishers are really just self - publishing services trying to market themselves as something
better or more partnership - oriented.
At Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a
hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much
better royalty rates than a traditional
publisher would pay (i.e.
better than 10 - 15 % of the retail price).
I am a
hybrid author, meaning I write for traditional
publishers as
well as have my own self - publishing empire (though it's a very small empire at that).
If they typeset your book, the
hybrid publisher should give you all files (application files, a printer - ready PDF of the book, as
well as any XML derived from those sources).
Mark (the writer of this post) who helms Radius Book Group (a
hybrid publisher) is probably a
good person to ask.
A
hybrid author self - publishes as
well as working with a traditional
publisher.
Hybrid publishers need to pay their people
well to be able to offer you top talent.
While new
hybrid publishers are popping up (and traditional
publishers experimenting as
well), authors are left trying to figure out how to proceed through the maze.
Creating a clear list of
hybrid publisher criteria is
good for authors as
well as
publishers, according to Authors Guild Executive Director Mary Rasenberger.
I am a
hybrid author and have worked with large and small
publishers as
well as self - publishing my latest title.
According to Maggie Langrick, CEO and
Publisher at LifeTree Media Ltd. and member of the IBPA Advocacy Committee, «With the term «hybrid publisher» left open to interpretation, there was a risk that well - meaning, but misinformed, business owners might misapply the label, confusing the market and inadvertently undermining the work of reputable hybrid pu
Publisher at LifeTree Media Ltd. and member of the IBPA Advocacy Committee, «With the term «
hybrid publisher» left open to interpretation, there was a risk that well - meaning, but misinformed, business owners might misapply the label, confusing the market and inadvertently undermining the work of reputable hybrid pu
publisher» left open to interpretation, there was a risk that
well - meaning, but misinformed, business owners might misapply the label, confusing the market and inadvertently undermining the work of reputable
hybrid publishers.
Yet, there is still a
good deal of confusion around
hybrid publishers and how to differentiate a reputable
hybrid publisher from a vanity press.
Many
hybrid publishers offer «the
best of both traditional and self - publishing.»
Entangled Publishing is a
good example of this
hybrid type of
publisher.
The deal for self
publishers is just too
good and
publishers response is to make their terms worse and worse (I mean I'm hearing this from so many many authors) um offering worse and worse deals to try and stop authors from being
hybrid is so not going to work for you guys.
There are
hybrid publishers trying to combine the
best of traditional with the new opportunities of digital publishing.
Hybrid publishing is very much about taking the
best of several worlds to create a brand new publishing model that involve an agent and a
publisher working with an author (and illustrator) to take a non-traditional route to get a book published.
And we have relationships with several fabulous
hybrid publishers we can refer you to as
well.
The traditional
publisher takes a financial risk by investing in the
hybrid arm of the parent company, but authors take on some of the financial risk as
well.
Under the
best scenario, your
hybrid publisher will work with you both before and after your book is published to ensure the quality of your — and their — investment.
Many self -
publishers are also traditionally published, and
hybrid authors are the
best paid in the business, so these «either / or» arguments should be long over.
Fortunately, before receiving their contract, I viewed their website in more detail, which stated: «we follow traditional publishing etiquette's, however, we have the option of the «
hybrid» model, where the writer maybe asked to contribute to the publication costs,» before going onto research what other people had said about them, as
well as vanity
publishers in general.