Among the 4,000
hybrid authors surveyed by Writers Digest, creative control is the most rational factor that ties them to the title.
The hybrid authors surveyed reported themselves to be more motivated by money than the others and less impressed with publishers» ability to add any value by making a book «more like what the market wants.»
Not exact matches
In a Digital Book World 2014 full report, titled What Advantages Do Traditional Publishers Offer
Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publ
Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a
survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and
hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publ
authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publishing?
That's why I was far more interested in the results of Beverley Kendall's
survey of self - published /
hybrid authors.
Several
surveys have shown that
hybrid authors have the highest earnings, compared to traditional - only and self - published - only
authors.
I enjoyed the DBW
survey results which shed light on the experiences of the self - published, traditional and
hybrid authors.
In a
survey compiled by the 2013 Digital Book World and Writer's Digest, research showed that
authors who identified as «
hybrid» made more money, published more books, and achieved greater «success.»
Authors of any variety — including traditionally published, self - or digitally - only published, hybrid, and aspiring authors — are invited to take part in this
Authors of any variety — including traditionally published, self - or digitally - only published,
hybrid, and aspiring
authors — are invited to take part in this
authors — are invited to take part in this
survey.
What
Authors Want: A Comprehensive Survey of Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self - Publishing Era is reported to have been conducted with a survey pool of nearly 5,000 authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.
Authors Want: A Comprehensive
Survey of Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self - Publishing Era is reported to have been conducted with a survey pool of nearly 5,000 authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.&
Survey of
Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self - Publishing Era is reported to have been conducted with a survey pool of nearly 5,000 authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.
Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self - Publishing Era is reported to have been conducted with a
survey pool of nearly 5,000 authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.&
survey pool of nearly 5,000
authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.
authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «
hybrids.»
The
survey results show that
hybrid [
authors are] achieving greater success with their self - publishing efforts than...
authors who only self - publish, but they don't tell us why.
Another self - publishing frontrunner, Hugh Howey, who breaks his silence after a
survey done by Digital Book World shows how self - publishers earn comparing how 1.8 % of them only made $ 100,000 with 8.8 % of traditionally published
authors and 13.2 % of
hybrid authors.
Past
surveys were fine if the goal was to look at what happens to highest - performing 1 % of books along one path with the lowest - performing 99 % of books along the other (remember that the top - selling indie
authors are taken out and labeled «
hybrids»).
A quick clarification: When Coughlin writes «Creating a
Hybrid Home» in her headline, she's not referring so much to the «hybrid» author who, like Howey and Hoover, both self - publishes and traditionally publishes — something discussed at length in Ether for Authors in regards to a Writer's Digest and Digital Book World s
Hybrid Home» in her headline, she's not referring so much to the «
hybrid» author who, like Howey and Hoover, both self - publishes and traditionally publishes — something discussed at length in Ether for Authors in regards to a Writer's Digest and Digital Book World s
hybrid»
author who, like Howey and Hoover, both self - publishes and traditionally publishes — something discussed at length in Ether for
Authors in regards to a Writer's Digest and Digital Book World
survey.
The
survey also revealed that
authors seem to be leaning more to
hybrid publishing.
-LSB-...] traditionally - published
authors, and
hybrid -
authors, and about digital
author - publisher Hugh Howey's response to that
survey (along with a link to a rundown of this discussion by Porter Anderson).
This makes sense financially: a
survey by Digital Book World found that
hybrid authors earn the most money, with a median income between $ 7,500 and $ 9,999 a year, followed by traditionally published
authors ($ 3,000 — $ 4,999), and indie
authors ($ 500 — $ 999).
More than 65 % of those who filled out the
survey described themselves as aspiring
authors, with 18 % self - published, 8 % traditionally - published and 6 % saying they were pursuing
hybrid careers.
Writers Digest community leader Phil Sexton will reveal exclusive results from an all new deep - dive
survey into the wants, needs and plans of
hybrid authors — those who have both published with a traditional publisher and self - published books.
We will also analyze the results of a recent Digital Book World and Writer's Digest
survey of
hybrid authors.
As a matter of background, Sexton will also discuss the results from an earlier
survey of all
authors that show just how advanced
hybrid authors are.
Marie Force, the New York Times - bestselling
hybrid author of more than 30 indie - published titles, conducted the
survey through Survey Monkey with questions developed by Marie with input from many other indie au
survey through
Survey Monkey with questions developed by Marie with input from many other indie au
Survey Monkey with questions developed by Marie with input from many other indie
authors.
One other factoid from the Stanford
survey was that
hybrid authors saw the highest incomes.
Having generated massive feedback in several blogs, it seems the raw data is unavoidably compared with the one provided by Dana Beth Weinberg, who came up with the report a few months ago based on the Digital Book World and Writer's Digest
survey with 9,210 aspiring, self - published, traditionally published, and
hybrid authors.