Sentences with phrase «indie authors represented»

With almost 400,000 books self - published in the US last year, Coker posited that indie authors represented 15 % of the ebook market for 2013, and that a «fairly conservative» estimate would give them more than a third (35 %) of the overall trade book market in seven years, and 50 % of ebook sales by the year 2020.

Not exact matches

This will represent an even greater opportunity, I think, for indie authors (though I hate to hear that Borders may close).

This year I received responses from a total of 227 authors, representing 2,594 indie titles of which 1928 were frontlist indie titles and 666 were backlist (trad - pubbed, now indie) titles, assuming no duplicates (see above).

The lists have come under scrutiny recently for under - representing authors of color (see the Book Riot «s «LibraryReads So White, or Why Librarians Need to Do Better»), for featuring established authors over less - known (see Becky Spratford's RA for All post), and large publishing houses over indie presses.

How a Traditional Publisher Could Harm a Writer's Career: Mark Coker of Smashwords writes, «Does Pearson think that Author Solutions represents the future of indie publishing?

Fuse Literary represents authors of all stripes, including New York Times Bestsellers like Julie Kagawa and Dr. Stephen Gullo, hybrid successes like Michael J. Sullivan and Nina Amir, and debut stars like Indie Next Pick Amy Zhang.

Even if opportunities at the moment will be limited to those best selling of the indie authors, it represents a further development that will surely offer amazing opportunities for writers to connect with readers.

These reader - pleasing lists will represent many of the world's bestselling indie authors across multiple genres and categories.

Collateral is a broad term for any physical marketing pieces you use to represent your indie author brand, so flyers, business cards, posters for events, anything else you use to sell books.

Literary agents who represent indie authors sometimes undertake this administration (especially if they're earning 15 percent of sales), but it's rare to find any kind of publishing service that proactively will make suggestions.

«When I meet an indie author and there's the potential to represent that writer, I would rather hear, «I self - published my book and sold five thousand copies,» because that means the author knows how to market himself,» says Luedeke when asked about the crossover potential for authors who have already published their works on their own.

«It's a great honor to represent Indie authors on such a large stage,» said Miller to GoodEReader just prior to tonight's event.

The first thing that we need to measure is the percentage of the book market sales of eBooks over the percentage of the overall traded books represented by our indie authors.

To give you an idea of the difference between Indie Authors and self - publishers, allow me to list out two examples on Amazon that clearly represent both sides.

Indie authors and pro-reader authors (author represented by the new breed of Publishers like Open Road and Rosetta Books and Amazon Encore) will own 75 % or more of the charts.

For indie authors, QR codes represent an ideal way to market ebooks to an already digital - friendly audience.

So, while we indie authors respect the writing achievements of these authors, when they go outside their field of expertise and begin talking business, pretending to represent all authors, we have every right to make a stand against the nonsense being spouted.

According to Barnes & Noble's press release, the former self - publishing platform attracted 20 % more indie authors every quarter, increased titles released by indie authors 24 % in the store, and appealed to more than 30 % of Nook customers who buy self - published content every month that represented 25 % of Nook Book sales.

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.

This represented the first time that the organization steeped in traditional publishing had recognized any vendor much less one that serves indie authors and publishers.

Below, John Green, accepting the Indie Prize given by the American Booksellers Association to writers who best represent commitment to independent book stores, calls «bullshit» to the concept that authors like him, who speak directly to their readers via social media, don't «need the value - sucking middlemen of bookstores and publishers and in the future... no one will stand between author and reader except possibly an e-commerce site that takes just a tiny little percentage of each transaction.»

On March 2, B&T signed a distribution agreement with Smashwords that will bring an additional 100,000 independently published ebooks, representing 37,000 indie authors and small presses, into the Axis 360 offerings.

Sometimes the cover design process focuses too much on what looks good and feels right — this is especially true for indie authors who want to represent their story with accuracy.

If you represent an author who decides to go indie — do you continue to work with him / her — what can you do for them?

As «Indie Books» on Twitter says (linking to their cover war on Masquerade Crew, a site whose design represents the standard of indie authIndie Books» on Twitter says (linking to their cover war on Masquerade Crew, a site whose design represents the standard of indie authindie authors):

As I've written many times here at the Smashwords blog, Kindle Unlimited represents Amazon's end run around agency pricing (under agency pricing, publishers and indie authors set their own retail prices, and retailers don't discount).

Libraries also represent an untapped marketing opportunity for indie authors.