We look forward to seeing what 2018
has in store for indie authors and the bookstores and libraries that support them.
Not exact matches
«AMC
has in store a lot of essential surprises
for the novel writer including
indie authors like me.
Many of the authors
would consider traditional publishing
in the future
for the reason that they want their books
in physical book
stores, a market that is still difficult
for indie authors to penetrate.
I am tickled that they are selling
in the USA but I
would have rather seen them take it to sell at independent book
stores then advertise to go to your
indie bookstore
for one and help the little
stores compete or sell at Best Buy but Walmart is better than nothing
It won't be enough
for either an
indie or a chain bookstore to
have your book
in their
store; it
has to sell.
For indie books, The Ex Games by the Coopers is currently # 15
in the Kindle
store and
has only 115 reviews, with an average of 4.2 stars.
I
've published three novels now, and pored over every review
in every periodical and blog, compulsively checked my Amazon reviews and rankings, scrutinized my royalty statements, and done endless marketing and PR
for my books, including once driving 1400 miles
in seven days to visit 28
indie book
stores.
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This expansion will open new opportunities
for indie authors to get their books on the shelves of those 640 big brick and mortar
stores — but only
for those whose eBook title
has sold 1,000 copies
in the last year.
This expansion will open new opportunities
for indie authors to get their books on the shelves of those 640 big brick and mortar
stores — but only
for those whose eBook title
has sold 1,000 copies
in the last... [Read More]
The only service of its kind
for indie books, IndieReader
In -
Store helps your book make its way to places that only the big 5
have had access to.
Now granted, I
've been working at an
indie bookstore
for twenty years so I do
have an advantage
in getting my books on local
store shelves but it's not hard
for everyone else to do it too.
In recent years, Sony
has struggled to find games to put on the service, as the majority of its most successful
indie titles were release exclusively
for PlayStation consoles on the PlayStation
Store.
If you're interested
in seeing more of the
indie - goodness PAX
had in store for its patrons, a simple Google search should turn up a wealth of additional content.
Since then, they
have fostered rapid growth of this new market environment with a variety of tactics such as aggressive sales, monetized
in - game accessory markets (Team Fortress 2 hats) and achievements (trading cards), and crowdsourced the entire game licensing process, busting the doors wide open
for indie developers, with further plans to crowdsource the entire
store organization later; furthermore, they are opening a new market
for Steam Machines, gaming - centric (but still quite capable) devices that run Valve \'s own Operating System and use Valve \'s own gaming controller.
Add
in the fact that the app
store has a dedicated section
for indie games.
It seems that's not the only birthday surprise that the
indie dev
has in store for us today.
I
've had my eye on this system
for a while; when trading
in a stack of old strategy guides at the local
indie store, I got a heap of credit and decided to put it towards one of these bad boys.
Liverpool, 14th May, 2015: Award - winning
indie developer Playrise Digital today confirmed that Table Top Racing
for PlayStation Vita
would be permanently lowering it's price point to $ 2.99 on the PSN
store in North America from today, with UK and EU following suit on 20th May, dropping the price to # 1.99 and $ 2.99 respectively!
Liverpool, 1st June, 2015: Award - winning
indie developer Playrise Digital today confirmed that Table Top Racing
for PlayStation Vita
would be permanently lowering it's price point to # 1.99 / $ 2.99 / $ 2.99 on the PSN
store in UK, North America and Europe from today!
Each of the finalists
have already won a paid trip to the contest
in London, a Google Pixel 2 phone, and a dedicated slot
in the
Indie Games Contest collection on the Play
Store for a month.
I decided to speak with Rodriguez recently to see if Japanese games
have been giving him the same bad taste, what he thought about the current
indie scene, and what's
in store for Nicalis
in 2012.
And it's even less surprising when you factor
in the huge
indie support that the publisher
has been pushing
for, first killing off concept approval, and then opening a specific
indie games section on the PlayStation
Store.