Sentences with phrase «legacy publishing»

They are, in fact, responding to the demands of the reading public, something too many in legacy publishing have failed to do.

Doesn't this, in so many ways, represent what we are seeing from legacy publishing now?

Our industry is in the middle of a vast technological and cultural shift that's not going to be slowed down by legacy publishing's efforts to turn back the clock.

They've turned a blind eye to the creative ways of reporting royalties because legacy publishing was the only game in town.

But the business model for legacy publishing can not support the same system as a single author with no overhead selling his / her books for 1.99.

It's even tough to get understandable data on legacy publishing.

He does make one comment that, to me, shows one of the issues with legacy publishing right now.

And, before you ask, I'm talking about legacy published e-book titles.

Most legacy publishing contracts that I've seen allow the publishers to apply it if they want as well as to make minor edits, etc., without consulting the author.

If we're doing our job, the self - published novel should be at least as good as anything legacy published.

If you have made the choice to tell legacy publishing to take a flying leap.

For most of that time, I felt like legacy publishing was the only way to go.

People might pick a title out of curiosity or on recommendation, whether legacy published or self published, but they won't follow the author or recommend them if disappointed.

It's rare that legacy publishing boosters are willing to discuss all these categories.

Those writers are the only legacy published ones who * are * still doing OK in ebooks.

You don't actually expect legacy publishing to act intelligently, do you?

This is just another step down the path to self - destruction legacy publishing has been on for so long.

So to condemn every level of publishing except legacy publishing is wrong.

We're not the only ones that think this year will see the beautiful ivory spine of legacy publishing.

Despite the availability of new technology, a new report from Information Media finds that publishers may be locked into legacy publishing software systems for financial reasons.

The self - publishing movement, by definition, disintermediates many publishing professionals, including agents who aren't savvy enough to keep up, and editors at legacy publishing houses.

Amazon was not about to face off with NYC where legacy publishing had over a century of dominance.

Possibly, but I'll still take Amazon's financial survivability over legacy publishing's right now.

The most useful way to look at the choice between legacy publishing and self - publishing, therefore, is as a choice between two kinds of lottery, each with different odds, different kinds of payouts, and different overall advantages and disadvantages.

To hear people refering to today's print houses as legacy publishing... yup, there goes that eye twitch again.

This description of traditional publishing (or what some now call legacy publishing) is still a viable path for authors today, but now there are three other distinct paths an author can pursue to get published: DIY, General Contractor, and Publishing Package.

Is legacy publishing broken?

The non-fiction author lamenting what would happen to her career and the careers of all non-fiction authors if legacy publishing should fail is one.

The SP paradigm allows him to experiment with unit revenue to maximize his total revenue, something that is impossible under Legacy Publishing.

Do you go legacy publishing or small press?

(As with most everything I have to say about legacy publishing, there are exceptions.

The only question is if publishing is going to cross the finish line and learn from what happened or if there will be an avalanche that will sweep away any lessons that might have been learned and leave legacy publishing even more engrained in practices that are outdated and outmoded.

Won't that be fun to watch, especially the mental gymnastics those authors who still say legacy publishing is our friend will have to go through to justify that sort of action?

It occurs in legacy published titles because they have cut back on their employees so much that they now rely on the authors and agents to do much of the editing and proofreading that editors used to do.

If that was what legacy publishing wanted to accomplish — bravo!

Whenever I hear Special Snowflakes and other legacy publishing mouthpieces moaning about «culture» and «literature» and «bookshops» when what they really mean is «Get off my lawn!»