Sentences with phrase «less than a traditional publisher»

That is quite a few less than a traditional publisher, BUT (and this is a big one) there are some MAJOR benefits Amazon works in compared to a traditional publisher.

Not exact matches

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

Because writers have the tools and the readership, they're relying less on traditional publishers — and they can make much more money than they ever could have through traditional publishers.

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

Indie publishers spend far less time getting their story into readers hands than a writer working the traditional system.

Let's see how much you need to spend if you can't get a traditional publisher interested (note that last part of the sentence): Editing: I can do it myself, but there are plenty of friendly people who are willing to do this for less than $ 200.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

Less than three months after attending the conference, I signed a contract with a traditional publisher.

There are already more thrillers being cranked out by traditional presses than most people have time to read, and if those titles were all the same price as their self - published brethren, there would be much less incentive to try out the offerings from self - publishers.

This is based on the misguided preconception that e-books and self - published works are inherently worth less than getting print on paper through a traditional publisher *.

If you sell fewer than 1500 copies at a traditional publisher, you're generally considered a commercial disaster by any publisher but a very, very tiny one who paid you an advance less than $ 1000.

Doing your own book indie takes far, far less time than working with a traditional publisher on the same book.

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

The Publishing Siren has beckoned and the writer has decided to pursue the path doing it solo — it doesn't mean he or she is any more or less talented / creative than an author who seeks out a traditional publisher.

Hence, anything less than full purchase price per customer loan was not going to fly for the traditional publishers, who were not exactly bearing much love for Amazon in the first place.

Traditional publishers, take note: I'd have to be crazy to «rent» your e-book at $ 7.99 when I can own a transferable copy for around $ 1.50 less than that.

I looked at it — if I sold less than 1000 books than I would make more going with a traditional publisher (because most publisher do a $ 5000 advance — that rarely is surpassed in the following 5 years of book sales, at 8 % the list price).

I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers, some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).

«The vast majority of self - published books sell less than ten copies a year online and through traditional retail channels, and that probably disappoints a lot of self - publishers.

What's significant in relation to Locke hitting the million - seller Kindle ebook mark is that it showcases that while choosing the Kindle Direct Publishing route removes agents and publishers from the equation, Locke makes less money with his 99 - cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.

But that is a LOT less than many authors, especially those in KDP Select, and a lot less than many traditional publishers.

Howey makes a good case that the «average» author earns more from a self published book than she would through one of the Big Five publishers, and, what's more, that this holds true for all sorts of outliers (the richest indie authors outperform the richest Big Five authors; less - prolific indies do better than less - prolific traditionals, etc).