Screwpulp works by
letting authors or publishers submit their books to the site, then those books are available for free until they have twenty - five reviews.
The first tool, InstaFreebie, is now in public beta and
lets authors or publishers generate digital copies of their titles under complete control in order to send them out to reviewers, readers, street teams, and more.
As of yet, however, there are not a large number of third - party applications that
let authors or publishers work with XPS files directly.
Not exact matches
Let's not forget that some of our greatest
authors and writers and poets in the past were self - published before they were accepted by a
publisher or agent.
Whether you're an
author, a
publisher or an avid reader who just likes to learn more about the world of books,
let this be at an occasional stop on your regular online adventures.
And on a much smaller scale,
Authors After Dark (one of the best conventions ever) manages to just
let us sell our own books regardless of whether we're with a
publisher or not (
or have returnable books
or not).
If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent
or publisher is not going to
let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed
authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).
I believe too many
authors — especially newer
authors or frustrated
authors who have never been published by a licensed [read: commercial / trade]
publisher — are easily swayed into thinking that ASP press will
let them succeed where they have only met with rejection before.
Our Virtual Book Tours are so popular, we help
authors from other
publishers facilitate virtual book tours, too, although those
authors aren't mentioned on our blog
or in our app (
let's leave that up to THEIR
publishers, shall we?)
According to an article by Laura Hazard Owen for paidContent, «Ganxy already
lets authors and
publishers create ebook «showcases» that can be tweeted and embedded on sites like Facebook,
or can stand alone as websites.
Dubbed KDP Select, the fund aims to
let indie
authors and
publishers «make money in a whole new way»... [When] a KDP
author or publisher chooses to make any of their books exclusive to the Kindle Store for at least 90 days, those books are eligible to be included in the Kindle Owners» Lending Library and can earn a share of the KDP Select fund.
Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional
publishers,
or offering self - publishing services such as editing
or design for a fee and
letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.
However, before getting to that,
let's look at the major outlets for e-books that allow an
author or small
publisher to directly submit their work for sale.
NO traditional
publisher, large, medium
or small, ever requires
or even desires their
Author buy their own books back,
let alone 5000 of them.
If you are a
publisher or self - publishing
author interested in eBook conversion services please
let us know.
If Amazon
lets publishers or unathorised people to sell copies of your book then Amazon is also guilty of infringing on
Authors copyrights according to the US copyright act of 1974.
We see so many submissions from
publishers /
authors who do not have a plan to
let consumers
or their target audience know the books exists.
I agree on the permission thing — I really couldn't believe how many trad pub
authors said things like «my agent won't
let me do that,»
or «my
publisher wants me to write something different.»
ACX enables rights holders —
authors or publishers, though the site has become increasingly geared toward self - published
authors — post their rights on the platform and
let producers and narrators bid on them.
Third, I've not found anything that shows if the report took into account the number of e-books that were published either directly by the
author or by small presses — and
let's face it, e-books from those sources tend to not only be less expensive than those from the major
publishers but much less expensive.
Just as a traditionally published
author can (in theory)
let the
publisher take their typo - ridden Word document off their hands and never lift a finger to promote it, leaving all that to the
publisher (who may promote it,
or they may just throw it up on Kindle, too).
Or just because self - published
authors are * cough * smart enough to not
let their backlist catalogs languish, as so many traditional
publishers do?
Amazon searches provides a lot of interesting information if you're an Amazon customer, but if you're an
author or publisher, KDSPY will
let you know a lot more than Amazon will tell you.
TitleZ
lets you analyze sales for an individual title, a specific
author or publisher,
or even an entire segment.
On Tuesday, it unveiled Advance, a new free platform that
lets publishers and
authors turn static files
or PDFs into an interactive book «in minutes.»