Self - publish now or attract
a hybrid publishing deal.
Not exact matches
I think the next few years will show a great
deal of shifts toward a more
hybrid form of
publishing, with significant changes in many ways that will benefit both them and their authors.
CJ combines both traditional
publishing deals with indie
publishing to create a successful
hybrid career.
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.
I love the fact that there are so many options today: traditional
deals with big publishers,
deals with small presses, pure indie
publishing, and
hybrid options.
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.
Being
hybrid means grabbing hold of those options that are available to me and using them to my advantage — whether it's going traditional, having print only
deals, getting foreign rights, audio rights... doesn't matter — it's seeing beyond the box called «Indie
Publishing» and realizing there are no lines for me to cross — as long as I don't see them.
These
hybrid deals will be short term with small stakes and indies will generally accept them to boost their self -
published works.
The
hybrid author is someone who has book
deals with traditional presses, but also self -
publishes, or
publishes in some other nontraditional way.
Several of them landed
publishing deals with publishers and one of them became a
hybrid author who self -
published and traditionally
published their book at the same time.
Topics include choosing the right tools for book creation and distribution, running your
publishing business, author brand and platform, social media marketing and traditional promotion,
hybrid publishing with trusted partners, attracting an agent and a traditional
publishing deal, raising money for your book, sales and distribution, metadata, SEO, and book discovery in Amazon and all the online retailers, selling in brick - and - mortar bookstores and libraries, formatting and conversion, EPUB format and MOBI for Kindle and creating a full - color, fixed - layout book for the new tablet readers, printing, mailing lists, websites, and blogs.
Kindle chart - topper Rachel Abbott, one of the UK's bestselling self -
published authors, has signed a two - book
deal with Headline to become a «
hybrid author»,
published by... Read more
Kindle chart - topper Rachel Abbott, one of the UK's bestselling self -
published authors, has signed a two - book
deal with Headline to become a «
hybrid author»,
published by Wildfire and Kindle Direct
Publishing in tandem.
Justine Bylo [00:04:40] One of the things that I've been hearing a lot is that my authors who are what we call,
hybrid authors, so they have both traditional
publishing deals and then also self -
publish.
Hybrid publishing offers a good
deal of flexibility to authors, which is something that is becoming more appealing as marketing strategies become more personalized.
Some offer traditional
publishing deals, some
hybrid models, some self -
publish models, and some a combination of those.