For most of that time, I felt
like legacy publishing was the only way to go.
Not exact matches
Some articles make it sound
like legacy publishers want to slap warning stickers on indie
published books, point at the authors and shout «UNCLEAN!
According to Stark, the convenience and speed - to - market enabled by the tools Lulu provides for self -
publishing make it possible for a small, savvy publisher
like Shelf to «plant its flag in an industry niche that the small publisher has the flexibility and agility to exploit in a way that «
legacy» publishers can't.»
If you ask me, that seems
like propaganda generated by the
legacy publishing companies and the universities trying to sell MFA programs in creative writing.
But these ABCs that
legacy publishers have will rise to the top of the
publishing industry
like a good foam on your New Year's Eve beer.
In the time since that post went live, we've seen an author on Amazon taking the fight to reviewers because they didn't
like his book, another author going on a rant because of another writer's politics and espousing the fact that you aren't a «professional writer» if you self -
publish on Amazon and then the latest from HarperCollins, once again proving that
legacy publishers look at their customers as thieves.
Statements
like Nick's tells me he's only looking at digital books and sales as they apply to
legacy publishers and not the whole industry of digital
publishing, which started about 15 years ago.
While many
legacy publishers may not
like to think about how large the self -
publishing movement is (Smashwords alone, has announced that writers have self -
published more than 250,000 books on its platform), it appears that making money off self -
publishing authors is just fine by the traditional houses.
But is there a limit to the fat
legacy lottery purses, even for such superstars of the
publishing world
like Stephen King, James Patterson et al?
The blogger stated that agents and editors aren't looking at submissions to see who to keep out of the
legacy publishing club but to find projects they
liked and felt they could sell.
Perhaps from all of Author Solutions» other already overpriced brands and partnerships — names
like Author House, iUniverse, Xlibris, Trafford, Palibrio,
Publish in the USA, Abbott Press, Balboa, WestBow, Inspiring Voices,
Legacy Keepers, FuseFrame, Pitchfest, Author Learning Center, WordClay, BookTango and AuthorHive?
Shatzkin's writings in particular always illustrate — even for folks who don't
like his work as a consultant to the major traditional publishers — that the effects of gatekeeping in the
legacy structure of
publishing were just that, effects of a structure.
Legacy publishers have become sort of
like a cult — cutting writers off from the self -
publishing world, telling stories about how horrible it is «out there,» and claiming they control the only route to legitimate success.
Eisler defines self -
publishing: «it means you keep the rights to your book and
publish it yourself using distributor / retailers
like Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, and Sony, typically retaining 70 % of the cover price instead of the 17.5 % offered by
legacy publishers (for digital editions).
In a video podcast with author - coach Joanna Penn (Penn advises and teaches other authors), Sharp talks about a genre - agnostic quality to self -
publishing that means a lot to writers who,
like her, have been told in
legacy publishing that variety is not the spice of success.
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