«As
hybrid publishing emerges as a legitimate business model, it's essential that hybrids be held to the highest standard, and that we qualify and understand the difference between hybrid publishing models, service providers, and vanity presses.
Not exact matches
Just as the industry has embraced
hybrid authors and
hybrid publishers, companies like Paper Lantern Lit and its resulting
publishing arm The Studio, co-founded by Lexa Hillyer and bestselling author Lauren Oliver, have
emerged to work with these authors in a one - on - one capacity.
The
Hybrid Publisher Criteria has a different objective: to provide people with information about an
emerging business model so they can make informed decisions when deciding which company to use to
publish their work.
There was some understandable rejoicing in the UK's self -
publishing camp this week, as word was put about that the Bristol CrimeFest next May will include a «self -
publishing /
hybrid crime fiction author» on one of its panel discussions, «
Emerging Indie Voices: Crime Fiction From the Edge.»
Looking at the graph below, you'll notice that there was a much higher prevalence of
Hybrid Authors among 100kers than
Emerging Authors (28 % vs 17 % respectively), which means a lot of the 100kers have signed a
publishing contract for at least one of their books.
I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers, some of them
hybrid authors who both self
publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally
published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the
emerging value web I discus here).
A new breed of
publishing company has
emerged, sometimes called
hybrid, assisted, partnership or some other term implying teamwork.