Sentences with phrase «indie published books»

And indie published books are licensed in many other countries through Kindle and Kobo and iBooks.

That yielded equally accurate absolute numbers for the other, non-AAP-measured ebook categories: non-participating Small / Medium Publishers, Indie Published books, and those from Amazon Pub Imprints.

I say that not just because that's what I do for a living, but because I've seen some really awful covers on indie published books.

This applies to traditional, small press, and indie published books alike, but especially to debut authors.

And many indie published books found their way into the ABA Indie Bound book program this last fall, mostly without the indie publisher even knowing it was happening.

The October Author Earnings report shows a surprising decline in the market share of indie published books.

That being said, there are also plenty of libraries that do work with their local authors community and do add indie published books.

They snuff out the indie published books.

As a PR and marketing professional having helped launch several successful self and Indie published books, I knew there were high quality stories out there by talented authors that needed to be told that didn't have a publisher for various reasons.

The critics of indie published books continue to throw out the premise that there are just too many badly written books being written and self - published.

And to be honest, during this sampling, I've found just as many indie published books that interested me as traditionally published books.

We have been told, stridently and often, that indie published books must be crap because there are no gatekeepers.

Which brings us back to whether or not we the readers need gatekeepers to protect our poor lil» ol selves from those mean nasty indie published books.

There are plenty of Indie published books edited by former editors from Big 5 publishers as well as by other highly trained freelance professional editors, with the resulting works enhancing the author's reputation and possibly the sales of their next book.

Something important to note is the link between «ebooks» and «indie published books.»

I've known more than a few readers (not writers) who have told me they are «done with indie published books» (* not * ebooks) after purchasing one too many stinkers.

I see many indie published books that have an interesting cover or title and no description.

Every time someone publishes something that is less than the same quality of a traditionally publishing book, there will be a chorus of nay - sayers lining up to point fingers and declare that all indie published books are horrible, awful pieces of dreck.

I'll admit that I still don't review many indie published books, unless I know the authors and trust that they've done their due diligence.

I have a couple of tiny deals, but most of my income is from indie published books.

I know how picky readers can be, but I never realized it would affect me until I was analyzing the sales of my indie published books.

If you continue looking at the rest of the titles in the Top 100, you find that the vast majority of them are either small press or indie published books.

Yes, it took 10 novels and a lot of hard work to get there, and I know that in the coming years, I should be able to double or triple my income as more folks realize Indie published books aren't crap.

So what do you say to those writers when there are indie published books that have Out Sold the majority of traditionally published book in the last year.

Sure, you can find those issues with indie published books but, when you are touting yourselves as the purveyors of quality, you should be able to stand behind that claim.

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 love my job and hope to see my author's succeed, so I'm not complaining about them, just a challenging situation — and a situation perhaps that is critical to the success and failure of indie published books that nobody else is talking about.

This also gives you a way to promote indie published books that may not have as much marketing support.

I fins I'm reading more Indie published books these days.

Yet, too often I see indie published books that have not - so - great packages.

I hope you'll check out our show as well as some of her previous episodes which cover topics like email list building, attending conferences, social media and of course, all things related to the successful marketing of indie published books.

But the longer that direct submission system forces the really unwashed new writers to agents who are failing, the more editors and publishers will look into the indie published books for possible purchases.

We were among the first publicity firms in the United States to represent both traditionally published and self / indie published books.

This graph shows how indie published books have been steadily gaining market share at the expense of Big Five Publishing (traditionally published) books.

But it is working for him with his skills and he has up about 40 indie published books so far.

There are WAY too many indie published books by people who have none, those who want to «be a writer» more than they want «to write».

There are a lot of mistaken assumptions about how book covers are supposed to look, and that has led to thousands of badly designed indie published books.

There is immense growth potential for children's indie published books; this includes digital and print books.

Some articles make it sound like legacy publishers want to slap warning stickers on indie published books, point at the authors and shout «UNCLEAN!

I have sold foreign rights to my indie published books.

I read traditional and indie published books.

Looking at my library, there are less than a handful of indie published books I paid more than $ 4.99 for.

And beware that many book bloggers still will not review indie published books.

First, indie publish your book and then keep writing.

If the «look inside the book» feature is not enabled, I may pass over an indie published book.

The truth is, one of the unconscious signs of an «indie published book» is the size and treatment of the author's name.

It's been four years since I started along the exciting path of indie publishing my books.

Leave your book rough, leave your voice alone, mail the book to an editor or indie publish the book and do another.

You can spend zero dollars to indie publish your book, or you could spend a zillion dollars to indie publish your book.

A while ago, I switched my indie publishing books to S.K. Quinn precisely so the also - boughts for those books wouldn't be The Legacy Human or some such.