And by embracing an artisan spirit in your writing career, you might take
your independent publishing efforts (and your writing) to the next level.
Although the self - publishing alternative becomes more valid and tempting every day, many traditionally - minded authors still fail to consider author publishers as their peers, and often disregard
all independent publishing efforts as vanity publishing.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, the Contra Costa Times
published an editorial on the benefits behind the
efforts to convert a local school into an
independent charter.
CRSS
published Leaving No Child Behind after commissioning nationally known researchers to write papers about different aspects of the reform
effort in Houston
Independent School District.
This move comes as part of Osprey
Publishing «s streamlining
efforts; Osprey backed Angry Robot when the company left HarperCollins and became and
independent publisher.
Independent publishing demands an
effort on the author's part to self - promote.
The commercial eBooks are from Digital Pulp
Publishing, presenting a wide and eclectic array bringing
independent access to the broad open market through the
efforts of many publishers; and also great numbers of additional books, perhaps totalling ~ 100,000 by July 4, from eBooks About Everything.
California Bookstore Day, an idea first conceived of by store owner Pete Mulvahill and put in motion with the help of several other dedicated parties, combined the marketing
efforts and attention of members of the state's
independent bookstore association, and managed to garner the support of many names in
publishing.
The competitive edge for authors with
publishing deals today are those who support their publisher's
efforts with their own and aggressive book marketing and publicity through a reputable
independent firm.
In an
effort to expand my bandwidth and elevate client service, Press Box Publicity joined forces with a true book marketing powerhouse; the largest and most successful
independent publishing PR firm in the industry — Smith Publicity.
The freedom and speed that
independent publishing offers can be a genuine benefit to serious authors who care enough about their work to invest real time, money and
effort into promoting it.
(My three guiding principles of
independent publishing are Focus Your Goals and
Efforts, Professionalize Your Product and Presentation, and Maximize Your Reach and Exposure.)
The
independent publicist is often extending the
efforts of the
publishing house.
It's understandable that
independent authors would look to the book industry for a template upon which to base their own self -
publishing efforts.
It's essentially an
effort to streamline the
publishing setup process for small to medium sized
independent publishers, with a new portal to the Lightning Source print on demand distribution channel and CoreSource, Ingram's answer to e-book distribution.
IBPA's advocacy
efforts in this regard, as well as other ongoing initiatives like IBPA's Industry Standards Checklist for a Professionally
Published Book, continue to reinforce the organization's mission to lead and serve the
independent publishing community through advocacy, education, and tools for success.
Others around the debate suggested that loud, critical voices can encourage
independent authors to rush
publish too fast, resulting in the low - quality material that tends to mar too many non-traditional
efforts.
In a video interview with Orna Ross of Alliance of
Independent Authors, The Business of Money, Writing &
Publishing, Friedman said, «having your own website is Step 0 in your book marketing
efforts.»
This will also spur authors to build their own
independent platforms of readers, helping them realize real income directly from their own
publishing efforts.
In order to do this, the group has aligned its
efforts with Readium, an
independent non-profit focused on accelerating the
publishing industry's adoption of the International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) open EPUB 3
publishing industry's adoption of the International Digital
Publishing Forum's (IDPF) open EPUB 3
Publishing Forum's (IDPF) open EPUB 3 standard.
IDW, which
publishes comics from
independent artists as well as branded franchise
efforts like Star Trek and Doctor Who, has been distributing comics via Apple's App Store since late 2009.
IBPA's advocacy
efforts in this regard, as well as other ongoing initiatives, continue to reinforce the organization's mission to lead and serve the
independent publishing community through advocacy, education, and tools for success.
After all, if we are harmed, you will have participated in the further erosion of
independent, small presses, and I can't believe the rumor that SFWA and Writer Beware are cooperating with the Big Five
publishing houses»
efforts to destroy the
independents once and for all.
The reason for this was that Western indies had been getting truckloads of attentions for their
efforts, but I felt that - due to the fact that the teams that I had worked for had had their games
published by major game publishers - we weren't being perceived as
independent, despite being self - sufficient and wholly - owned companies.
Often these
efforts have to be part of a new paper that has to make its own
independent claim to novelty before it can get in the door and that means that most attempted replications don't get
published at all.
For nearly thirty years following the creation of the federal government, the Court's decisions were
published by
independent reporters who relied on private sales as compensation for their
efforts.