Indie publishers in brick and mortar stores?
The biggest event for
indie publishers in 2013 was the silent removal of all labels about POD printed books from the Baker and Taylor and Ingrams catalogs.
This one change last summer will turn out to have a large impact for many
indie publishers in 2014 and beyond.
His latest program, the Author Marketing Club community, is now the biggest community for
indie publishers in the whole world.
Control: The surprising fact about
the indie publishers in Los Angeles is that they have all the rights of the book they publish.
And self publishers and
Indie publishers in particular now have a lot more options available to them in terms of actually pursuing their own projects, and getting their own stuff made and adapted from their original source material into web series, television projects, various different short films, feature films, things like that.
Nathan Shumate discusses some of the reasons for lousy covers from
indie publishers in this article.
But we're already known as a new
indie publisher in the UK and our brand is growing among our target readership.
I've been guilty of including my small
indie publisher in it's own realm because it doesn't require the wait times (nor have the distribution) of the big publishing houses.
I self - published my first novel «Touch» in January 2011 through
an indie publisher in Oregon who lets you «brand» yourself as an imprint under their larger traditional publishing umbrella.
«It took 29 days of calling,» Hudson writes, «until a guy named Brett at
an indie publisher in Toronto called ChiZine didn't think what I was pitching sounded completely crazy.
I wrote it in May of 2005, when I was working for
an indie publisher in the UK, now defunct, but the principles remain the same.
The two editors, Dara Beevas and Amy Quale, both work for
an indie publisher in the Twin Cities.
and a new
Indie Publisher in the States has «taken» four titles.
Not exact matches
Independent
Publisher Magazine Groundbreaking
Indie Book (Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green), Apex Award for Best Book
in the PR Industry (Principled Profit), and Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist (Grassroots Marketing)-- and author of six books that have been translated and republished abroad
As an event coordinator at an
indie bookstore
in the greater Boston area, I can tell you right now that I'll be writing to your
publisher immediately to see if we can get you to come to our store... we'd love to host you!
The
publisher's recently launched
indie gaming initiative, Square Enix Collective, also experienced a sophomore slump after a promising start
in 2016.
The lines between independent studios, «
indie» developers and games that are being pushed heavily by major third party
publishers are increasingly more blurred, and that's no more true than
in this list.
XSEED seems to have developed an interesting
in publishing
indie titles as they are to be the
publisher behind both physical and digital versions of Shantae: Half Genie Hero, and the digital version of Exile's End.
In a new blogpost,
indie developer and
publisher Chucklefish Games gave an update on three highly anticipated Switch games: Stardew Valley, Pocket Rumble and Wargroove.
Dead Peasant is an
indie publisher based
in Beaverton, OR.
In terms of trad pub vs
indie — most trad
publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.
Our team has put authors
in the national spotlight, scheduled cross-country book tours, blossomed
indie careers, branded
publishers and expanded reader fan bases.
Here's how the
indie success story typically goes: little - known new author puts out a book, which skyrockets
in popularity
in sales and eventually attracts a lucrative deal with a mainstream
publisher.
Support
indie authors: StoryBundle is a platform for
indie / small
publisher authors to get exposure for their works, both for the titles featured
in the bundle and for the rest of their catalog.
I read something the other day from Jane Friedman's blog that an
indie bookstore owner was asking self -
publishers to boycott using Amazon, and work harder to keep places like his
in business.
In other words, indie publishers, if you have a pen name, make all the stories and pen names under that name seem similar in covers and look, yet be different enough from book to boo
In other words,
indie publishers, if you have a pen name, make all the stories and pen names under that name seem similar
in covers and look, yet be different enough from book to boo
in covers and look, yet be different enough from book to book.
In the indie world, my short stories published in anthologies are being considered for TV shows, through a joint venture between my publisher and several media people including the Executive Producer for THE LORD OF THE RINGS movie
In the
indie world, my short stories published
in anthologies are being considered for TV shows, through a joint venture between my publisher and several media people including the Executive Producer for THE LORD OF THE RINGS movie
in anthologies are being considered for TV shows, through a joint venture between my
publisher and several media people including the Executive Producer for THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies.
Written for aspiring authors, previously published authors, and independent
publishers, it explains the ever - shifting publishing landscape and helps
indie authors understand that they're up against the status quo, and how to work within the system but also how to subvert the system
in order to succeed.
If you know me, you probably know that I self - published my debut novel,
In Leah's Wake, not out of a burning desire to be an indie author, but in the hope of attracting a «real» publisher for my novel - in - progres
In Leah's Wake, not out of a burning desire to be an
indie author, but
in the hope of attracting a «real» publisher for my novel - in - progres
in the hope of attracting a «real»
publisher for my novel -
in - progres
in - progress.
Going
indie in genres where the
publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an
indie than
in trad publishing!)
And most
indie publishers are not seasoned veterans of publishing, but new writers coming
in.
Most readers are not typographers and are probably oblivious to the subtle differences among typefaces and most first time
Indie publishers might find themselves
in the same boat.
But
in those rejections, there's hope for the
indie writer — if you can develop your own platform and show that you've sold a few thousand copies of your self - published book, it's very likely that you will catch an agent or
publisher's attention.
While I am not a writer or
publisher, nor a financial or economic analyst, I think I can conclude
in reasonable safety that
indie ebook profitability is not sinking below the waves.
Indie writers rail against big
publishers all the time, but
publishers are
in business to make money.
Are
indie books, whether
in e-book or print format, simply the vanity products of wannabe writers who can't find
publishers the old - fashioned way?
Smashwords, although a valuable resource for
indie authors and
publishers to get their ebooks formatted and distributed
in a variety of formats for different eReader platforms, is not yet the destination for the everyday e-book reader / buyer.
Rather than rely on the expertise that a
publisher's team can provide
in each phase of the process, the
indie author builds their own team based on their connections and budget.
Publishing expert and independent
publisher Brooke Warner is fearless
in her critique of an industry that's lost its mandate, and
in so doing has opened the door wide for
indie publishers to thrive.
He was hired by Kobo
in 2011 to make it easier for
indie authors and small
publishers to get their work published to Kobo's global catalog (which is available
in 190 countries).
In fact, forward - thinking
publishers have stopped stigmatizing
indie authors and books.
In some cases,
indie publishers and
indie bookstores have forged connections that have paid off.
Like the revolution which happened
in the book industry, from book stores to ebooks, from big and medium press
publishers to
indie publishing, the film industry is undergoing a similar revolution.
Where does an
indie publisher turn if they want their eBook available
in «all» eBook retailing stores?
«While writing a great book is the first step, getting it
in front of the right people — be they readers or agents or traditional
publishers — is also a critical part of making an
indie book a success,» Edelman explained
in a release on this year's presentation.
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.
«While writing a great book is the first step, getting it
in front of the right people — be they readers or agents or traditional
publishers — is also a critical part of making an
indie book a success.
Are legacy
publishers and professionals so threatened by self - published authors that this level of effort goes into picking apart an argument
in favor of
indie authors?
Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that
indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money
in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger
publishers put into their titles.