Sentences with phrase «in trad books»

Eric, It's not that the ratio of good to bad in indie books is the same as the ratio of good to bad in trad books, it's just that the good indie books rise to the top.

In the trad book world, hardcover books are given freely to reviewers, but in Amazon's world, where a free video game or computer may be given to a reviewer rather than a mere book, it can seem like a bribe.

Not exact matches

We are in a flood of authors and books, and it doesn't matter if you are a Trad - Author or Indie Author we all float the same and we're on our own.

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

I tend to keep with the above list, especially for science fiction and fantasy, because that is how print books in those genres (from trad publishers) open their books.

You are right in that there are a lot of bad indie books out there, but I also think there are a lot of bad trad books out there... some of which are indie publishers that got picked up by trad publishers because readers loved the books.

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

I'm hoping to get the best of both worlds, so to speak - get some of my books out there for «immediate consumption» (so to speak), and establish credibility in the writing community through trad.

Books 2 and 3 in that «City of God» series are selling well and earning much better than they did in their first editions as trad - pubbed novels.

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

This is how I sold my first several books and how many of my trad - pubbed friends broke in to publishing and I have long believed it's the best way to make contacts.

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

She only has one indie book out, while all the rest are trad... and when she didn't get a book out for two years (three since the last one in that series), she still had fairly good sales, as many of her fans were happy to read anything she'd put out.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

I have people writing to me on Facebook and in email and talking to me in person about how much they love my books, and here I am envying the awards and the accolades, certain that a trad pub deal was the only way I could get them.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

Second, what I was saying that if Good Writer writes Good Book and sends it to either market — trad or self pub — in a proper, professional manner, they seem to have roughly equal success rates.

When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

Or perhaps someone whose books have been trad - pubbed in some countries but not in others.

I'm an indy - author since trying the trad - publishing route in 2005 - 06 with my first two books (historical novels, which several agents looked at, and said regretfully that they were very good... but just not marketable.)

I'm trading the indie ebook market (which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub ebook market

Sometime in the late 1990s, when I began ghostwriting, and writing business books for trad publishers, I launched my first blog.

Because I view all of that as found money, and because it highlights that even if you're not madly pursuing a trad deal, good agents still have a valuable role they can play in the mix, even with indie published books.

I think when the first AE report came out, July 2014, showing the sales shares of indie vs trad pub genre books, was the moment I realized that the Tra Pubs were in deep, deep, pre-processed grass and oats.

Yes, your initial trad - pub books will probably bring in less money than your later self - pubbed books, but that's not necessarily a bad trade - off.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

One advantage NY Trads have appears to be in the editing process (and of course print distribution), however with POD services the print distribution for a book can be as broad as ebook distribution.

Many go indie in the hopes that their book will be discovered by traditional publishers, only to find that after doing all the work it makes no sense to go trad.

Yes, there is a great deal of dreck in self - published books, but have you taken a really good look at trad pubbed books lately?

Then in November of 2012, Hugh Howey negotiated a deal whereby he kept the digital rights, and in February of last year Colleen Hoover negotiated a deal to sell just the print rights to one book, without signing one of the indentured servitude contracts the trads are so fond of.

Your article could have helped people avoid the bad indie books, yet you decided instead to write an article perpetuating the myth that all indie books are vanity tripe and inferior in quality to trad pubbed books, which is patently untrue.

It dramatically helps trad authors to buy their books in the first week, and I want my favorite authors to keep publishing.

Since we're making outlandish, provocative (and unsubstantiated) claims, I'll concur with the response that trad published authors are lazy because they don't want to put in the time and effort to produce or market their books.

But you may be an indie - only reviewer, so you wouldn't be interested in a trad - pub book in any case.

Joe's initiative is great, but if we could inform our readers that the money they spend on taxes going to libraries is practically only devoted to trad pub books and ebooks, and that this doesn't reflect EXACTLY, for instance the indie market share of the first retailer in the world, maybe things would advance a little bit in the right direction.

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

The impression I get is that plenty of good books have alway stalled in the trad - pub slush piles and querying processes, too.

So not only were my self - published books not included in my bio, the original trad - published book in the series (from Midnight Ink) wasn't, either.

I think that writers who are interested in being a hybrid for * non * financial reasons (validation, because Mom dreamed of seeing our book on a shelf at B&N), will obviously find plenty of good reasons to choose trad publishing.

I review all of my trad pub royalty statements when they come in, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for beyond checking that the various royalty rates are as they should be and running the math (cost of book x royalty rate x no.

Not long ago I was talking to a traditionally published author who saw what I was doing — stories, novellas, novelettes, non-fiction, backlist (all in addition to my trad books)

Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited, which enables customers to pay $ 10 a month and borrow as many books as they like — with the caveat that only some titles are in the program, which pays $ 1.33 for a borrow instead of the royalty an author would normally see (except for Amazon imprints and trad pubs, which see their full royalty on a borrow); a windfall for those writing 10K short stories or serials, but not so great for those with novels, hence limited participation.

Add in the price factor (Print On Demand books tend to be more expensive than trad - pub print runs), and it's tough to get those paper books into kids hands.

In the case of Vanquish Writer's Block (and my other self - pub books), I knew that in many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectivelIn the case of Vanquish Writer's Block (and my other self - pub books), I knew that in many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectivelin many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectively.