Publishers in the know (and I shake
my head at those traditional publishers who have not embraced eBook production and sensible pricing) publish in every way they can.
Not exact matches
Judging by what their
head honcho Len Riggio said last week in a speech, it seems likely such a thing would be allowed, since he encouraged
traditional publishers to serialize releases, such as selling chapters
at a time.
With the Internet and today's technology,
traditional publishers are being turned on their
heads, self and independent
publishers have morphed into new critters — ranging from «Wow — look
at these books, they are amazing» to «Wow — these like they were done with Elmer's Glue
at the kitchen table.»
This is also
head - shaking to me in this new internet world, but
traditional publishers and editors and agents are great
at their own self - promotion.
Though social media and reviews certainly help, the sheer number of releases makes my
head spin and I still fall back on buying e-books from
traditional publishers as I know the system of quality control (though imperfect) is
at least in place.
A group
at one
traditional publisher went to the
head of the company to complain, and he denied there was a problem — even though multiple long - published authors pointed out that their only «edits» now were a handful of word choice changes.
[Big sister site Gamasutra's editor
at large Chris Morris catches up with Timegate Studios (Section 8)
head Adel Chaveleh as the veteran console game development house growss «tired» of the
traditional publisher relationship and strikes out on its own.]