Sentences with phrase «like trad»

He also tried to market an ebook like a trad - pubbed book (# 7).

It's like the trad - pub midlist, only the indie midlist author (typically) makes more money.

It feels like a kind of control to me, rather like Trad Publishing — they hold the contracts, the keys to the kingdom, the list of people who are naughty and who are nice.

Eventually someone is going to come up with a way to help readers support indie authors by culling the wheat from the chaff — without turning that service into a gatekeeper, like the trad publishers have unfortunately become.

To me, it seems like Trad.

Not exact matches

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At the TRaD * Works Forum (* telecommuting, remote, and distributed) this year, we heard from companies like Microsoft, ADP, Dell, Xerox, and Cisco about how remote and flexible work has positively impacted their businesses.

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

Again, and I know I sound like a broken record, check what the trads in your genre are doing.

You put out samples, you sell your work yourself, people like it, talk about it — the movers & shakers in the trad publishing industry aren't just sitting on their thumbs when they aren't reading; they're scanning the «net and seeing what people are saying about writers like you.

This blog is mainly for newer writers, not bestselling trad pubbed authors like you.

I like how you present well - thought arguments on the trad vs indie debate.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

I rarely comment on posts like this — I know very little about the trad - pubbed world:).

Also — Buying a loaf of bread from the supermarket is like buying a trad pub book from B&N.

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

They can write in older genres that trad publishing has tired of, like Gothic Romance or Family Saga, and make them new again.

(Because as I've often liked to relate, both my love of Great Big Sea and my love of Quebec trad can be traced right back to the very same concert, the first time I saw both GBS and La Bottine Souriante, way back in 2000 at Chateau Ste. Michelle.

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

As for the other 99 %, I agree trad publishing should be trying something different, because they're absolutely failing to make those assets pay off like they could.

And that the readers who are burned by a bad self published book (despite resources like reviews & Goodreads)-- and suddenly seek out only trad pubbed books — are so few as to be negligible.

Additionally, I'd like to take the opportunity, if I may, to mention my own blog, and especially my recent 3 - part series on Trad v Indie, of which the first post is at http://dariospeaks.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/the-great-self-publishing-debate-round-one/.

Sounds like a majestic event — on the trad front, the indie front, maybe even for Amazon.

The trad model doesn't look like a viable option in 2 - 5 years time for exactly the reasons you cite.

Your trad - pubbed book may only make $ 1000 - $ 3000, but it can be a «loss leader» like those indies» perma - frees.

Why aren't any of the trad - pub houses going in for a royalty - cut of the sales deal like we get online?

So many blogs these days really run trad - pub into the ground and I like and admire your balanced approach.

People like Mike Shatzkin who defend trad pub often use it.

The bottom line is, authors who have never been offered a trad contract and mid-list authors who have been dumped by their publishers (like me) don't have to fade away because no one will put our work out there.

I look at indie publishing as a way to show the trad publishing industry just what an author has and what they can do for themselves, kind of like a «try before you buy» with little risk to them and, actually, little risk — even financially — to the authors.

Nothing like telling trad pubbed authors just how much bank they're losing due to their contracts.

Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited, which enables customers to pay $ 10 a month and borrow as many books as they like — with the caveat that only some titles are in the program, which pays $ 1.33 for a borrow instead of the royalty an author would normally see (except for Amazon imprints and trad pubs, which see their full royalty on a borrow); a windfall for those writing 10K short stories or serials, but not so great for those with novels, hence limited participation.

I also believe that they offer different terms to trad pub on Select, like not having to be exclusive, so if you believe that the playing field isn't already slanted, look no further than that.

If self - pubbing is going to become the AAA farm team for trad pubbing, then, like in baseball, only the stars, who fit the team's needs at that moment, are going to get called up.

The likes of which we will never see again, because circumstances will never be the same — the combination of emerging technology, purchasing habits of early adopters of that technology, novelty of cheap content, fascination with the concept of not having to wait to be traditionally published... and Amazon's tough, adversarial stance with the trad pub giants all conspired to create that wondrous era.

But fact is, Amazon is the only game in town for most right now, and until that starts to change, a modification of the algorithms favoring trad pub like that just made is ominous, and will carry immediate business consequences for most.

I am finding that a lot of my favorite trad published author's books are just quickly pumped out and have no feeling to them like they used to.

I've read three trad - pubbed women's fiction books in as many weeks that are much like Brevity and Illusion, so I believe my next novel will fit firmly in that category too.

And, like it or not, as indies, we operate in a world where our readers understand, on the whole, that we don't have the overhead trad published titles have.

If the work had merit they would coordinate setting the author up with all those necessary functions normally expected from trad pub like cover development, final copy edit, marketing and promotion, adding the polish to take a book indie with better chance of success.

I find those with some trad experience are generally more interesting, as opposed to some noob self - pubbers that post stuff like, «So what's you favorite character in my new book?

Hachette, like 99.9 % of Trad publishers, wants Obscene, rather than horrifying profits.

I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.

Why is the author made to feel like a non-entity with trad publishers when without authors writing books, they wouldn't exist?

As a formerly trad published writer turned indie publisher, I would like to do some short stories to serve as prefaces to upcoming books, introduce the characters, etc..

I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.

It sounds like she is one of those «trad pub or no pub» at all types.

It's like people don't look at trad published books before putting theirs together.

My point was that Amazon just tipped its hand, and the strategy looks like beat trad pub into submission, and once it is pliant, then continue with business as usual.