Sentences with phrase «indie author account»

They then deducted that amount of money for the refunds from the original indie author account (not the big publisher account).

Not exact matches

Luckily, that level of reader disrespect accounts for a minority of the many hard - working indie authors out there now.

Considering traditionally published books account for the vast majority of sales, it means that indie authors are rarely, if at all ever considering purchasing their own ISBN's.

The real benefit is the sheer number of indie and alternative stores that could account for an author's overall sales.

I understand how some indie authors feel about putting all their eggs into one basket when publishing ebooks and paperback books in one account.

(iTunes Connect is the web site for managing your account as an indie author.)

Accounting tracking... If you only have a few items indie published, this turns out to not be much of a problem because, as you pointed out, the author will get the money first (I hope... Under Joe Konrath's estributor model, he gives all the money first to an agent and hopes to get his share.)

«Anyone who is in a position to purchase some or all of the rights to a given indie book, or who is in a position to make an offer of representation to authors, may sign up for a publishing pro / producer account.

I have no idea whether the separate rooms at the Book Fair was an intentional slight to Indie authors, an attempt at keeping their accounting fluid, plain old poor planning / stupidity or the pressure applied by Traditional publishers to keep their stars away from the riffraff, nor do I care.

I've heard of people (not indie authors) having their accounts frozen, so it does happen, but given the number of accounts and transactions PayPal handles, snafus are inevitable.

There are so many ways to raise money these days from starting a Kickstarter campaign to even setting up a Patreon account, so why are these organizations charging indie authors for these awards?

Mostly through a lack of awareness of other opportunities and difficulties authors faced in trying to create accounts on other sites, many indie ebooks simply languish alone on KDP.

This data comes primarily from 1,200 publishing companies and does not account for titles written by indie authors that do not have an ISBN number.

They do not take into account indie author sales from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes and Noble Nook Press or Kobo Writing Life.

This data comes primarily from 1,200 publishing companies and does not account for titles written by indie authors that do not... [Read more...]

As the founder of self - publishing platform Smashwords predicted that «indie ebooks will account for 50 % of ebook sales by 2020», and as debate rages over whether self - published writers should be allowed to call themselves professional authors, Berkoff announced that he would be joining the self - publishing «revolution».

A publisher that is willing to take account of a writer's self - publishing credentials, and to acknowledge the writer as the creative director of the book and — crucially — reflect this mutual collaboration in royalties and terms (not just lip service) can be a good partner for a successful indie author.

Because most sales happen through Amazon, and many indie authors are looking to save time and administrate e-book sales from one central location, e-book distributors have become a popular means for reaching the secondary markets — or basically the non-Amazon accounts.

Also, if you're a traditionally published or indie author, you can make more money promoting your own book so why not share those links on your blog, and social media accounts?

As we, authors, are also readers, I am trying to read as much as possible the work of indie authors, and recently I started posting the reviews on my blog too and shout out on all my social media accounts.

Though self - publishing has a great indie, renegade spirit to it, and accounts for a thriving and valuable part of the market, being a major house's author gives a writer an instant credibility that those who self - publish have to work harder to achieve.

I think the main aim here is to get more indie authors into print who are currently unaware of, or unwilling to set up a new account with, CreateSpace.

The Daily $ Revenue to Authors from B&N's eBook Bestsellers chart reveals how indie - published titles account for 39 % and represent the majority group that outperforms the other groups: Small / medium publisher, uncategorized single - author publisher, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

I have known indie authors who self - publish to get their own accounts with Baker & Taylor, but they have had to warehouse their own books even though B&T was the sales channel.

Mark: That's a huge limiting factor for indie authors because one person has to step up and say, «All right, I'll take responsibility for filling out the forms and creating the account that I have to now send you guys reports and then you have to trust me.

If Amazon is using creative account to SCAM THE IRS and hide profits, do you think you can trust Amazon with your digital files as an Indie Author in actually telling you how many copies they sold?

Smashwords, the largest distributor of indie work, got faster and cleared out a bunch of bugs in 2012, but still have a horrid accounting system that will eventually drive all but the erotica authors away.

Indie ebooks (including single author sales) account for around 40 % of the total US ebook sales

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

I love our nice expense account lunches, and I love you, but above all, I really, really want you to edit my book...» It wouldn't hurt for indie authors to demand the same.

This post doesn't go into the how, why, when, where and how of ISBNs but discusses something every indie author and micro publisher needs to know: how to «assign» an ISBN using your account in www.Bowker.com.

Kobo has also had great success supporting indie authors, whose books now account for a sizable percentage of their store's sales.

At the click of a button, indie authors — as well as the smallest boutique publishers and micropresses — can now sell their books through the same online retail storefronts that today account for roughly 50 % of total US print sales.

Because servicing the many individual accounts of independent authors costs more than handling the bulk buys of major corporate publishers, indie authors are asked to pay what they (understandably) feel is an unfairly large chunk of change — some $ 27 at the best 10 - pack price — for the same ISBN that Penguin Random House or Simon & Schuster can get for $ 1.

(As opposed to the 53 % of indie authors who account for only 39 % of daily revenue to authors.)

This newbie indie author was pooped because she'd released a book, created Twitter and Facebook accounts and started posting to them, and she had a blog.