Sentences with phrase «major indie publisher»

-- A rise of major indie publisher distributors... When indie publishers ban together for paper books, they can easily get their books into any major box store.

We've worked with authors published by virtually every major indie publisher, and developed innovative, cooperative relationships with some of the largest self - publishers.

Not exact matches

The lines between independent studios, «indie» developers and games that are being pushed heavily by major third party publishers are increasingly more blurred, and that's no more true than in this list.

Fans can also expect continued support from major publishers such as EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Capcom, SEGA, Take 2 and Bethesda, plus a growing catalog of quality content from indie developers.

For some time, a few brave indie developers were all that stood between survival horror and the grave, but this year saw major publishers once again embrace the genre.

So I like «traditional» as a term for major publishers since this new world has given writers choices between being an indie publisher or selling to a traditional publisher.

Major publishers have not committed themselves to the platform yet, so its mainly populated by second rate companies and indie authors.

I agree that dropping Westerns was one of the major mistakes of traditional publishers, but really great for Indie publishing.

«But I also believe that the major publishers are seeing more competition from indie e-books and self - published e-books.

From what I understand the vast majority of the ebooks that are discounted are from indie authors and not major publishers.

This would be far more understandable a concern if most consumers knew how much an author's work is stripped away in the editorial process by major publishers, and then understood that self - published authors often chose to pursue indie authorship because random gatekeepers had deemed their book wasn't fit or worthy enough for mass market publication.

And that's why indie writers are making more money in the field than major publishers, because not only are they offering more books that hit more specific tastes, but Internet - savvy writers also charge far less.

I bring to the table over 10 years of experience working both in - house and freelancing for a major North American publisher, as well as indie authors.

I went to David Gatewood as my editor because I want my books and stories to look and read as well as anything else out there, and to be of the same high quality as books put out by major publishers and indie millionaires.

And our tiny voices seem dwarfed when major media outlets (with the approval or backing of publishers) trumpet their one - sided screeds against Indie and self - pubbers.

I'm still not sure if my first full novel will be published as an indie novel or with a major publisher (my first release on Amazon is a novella).

That means they have their own purchasing agents and those agents are going to stock major publishers over the local indie author.

If I WAS one of the people who took you to task about the farm team concept, I'm sure it must have been in reference to indie authors, not digital imprints for major publishers.

As to what «types» of publishers, they're from both major and small publishers, both mainstream and indie.

Thus this growing movement of indie writers doing it all themselves, including selling to traditional publishers will split professional fiction writers into two major camps.

Major publishers and indie authors both vie for your consumer dollars based on the strength of the verified product reviews people leave after purchasing a book.

Barnes and Noble and Amazon have successfully courted major and indie comic book publishers to offer a wide array of content on their platforms.

More than 400 publishers and 6,000 creators from major publishers such as Image Comics and Chronicle Books, to indie creators from around the globe, use Graphicly's platform to deliver and promote compelling stories and activate consumers with community and content.

AG is not known for a reputation of supporting self - published authors, and some commenters see this as a move to provide a cheaper, faster solution for bigger authors and major publishers who want to get swift take - down notices against indie authors who still don't have the means to defend themselves.

There are over 600,000 e-books that are submitted every year by indie authors and 100,000 titles released by major publishers and small presses.

Both of my indie - published novels have sold 10,000 copies each, but I have no desire to approach a major traditional publisher.

A major conundrum for most indie authors is how to cost effectively market books without a publisher's marketing budget behind them.

So just by doing the standard, an indie publisher basically gets to 21 major outlets for electronic books.

I would venture to say that those self - published authors who are doing exceptionally well and are able to reach those outlets are probably able to do so because they built their name and reputation with a major or indie publisher first.

In the end, major publishers are screwing readers over high e-book pricing and the ball is in the indie authors court to be able to demonstrate that they can prove to the big trade houses that they know more about effective e-book pricing than they do.

In terms of what they review, Robin said the emphasis was on the mainstream audiobooks from major publishers but «we also review Indie pubs and take submissions from all publishers.

Points are a great way to get free audiobooks and ebooks from major publishers, not just indie books.

There are millions of indie authors that dream of getting signed by a major book publisher.

There have been a ton of new Android apps released in the past week issued from major and indie publishers.

The main problem with this genre is that they are primarily distributed by major publishers and indie authors have not properly taken advantage of this lucrative segment.

And lower prices from major publishers has helped indie titles blend in, which can be a great thing.

I think its very important for all major bookstores to have an indie section because small publishers and indie authors are abusing the system.

I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie authors I know, after they hit the bestseller lists on Amazon).

Since self - published writers don't have the overhead of a major publisher, indie authors can take advantage of price flexibility to attract customers with a lower price — while still reaping the benefits of larger profits.

Now that you know you are going to be an indie published author, and you know you're going to start with only ebooks and then see what happens, your choices about book marketing are more limited than if you were going to have both print and ebooks available or if a major or even minor publisher were backing your books.

Those are the five major areas that indie writers and indie publishers shoot themselves in the foot and thus kill their own sales.

Amanda Hocking continues to be the poster child of «indie author makes good» and has landed major book deals from a major publisher due to the success of her ebooks.

Some of these so - called independent publishers, not to be confused with the current concept of indie publisher or indie author in terms of self - publishing, are long - standing publishing houses with major bestselling titles whose authors are household names.

New comics from Marvel, DC, Image, and other major comic publishers are all available in retina - level resolution, and back issues and indie comics should follow suit very shortly.

Because of major publishers controlling ebook pricing of many of their titles (to protect retailers» print book sales, presumably), indie authors seem to be gaining market share.

Yes, if Amazon suddenly discounts all books from major publishers, it'll cut sharply into the price difference between indie and big publisher books, and that could hurt.

Few indie publishers land those major spots or reviews.

But for the sake of the math, let me just say that there are twenty major outlets for book sales right now that any indie publisher can get to with almost no work and almost no money.

But the cost of hardcovers has accelerated the blockbuster phenomenon at major publishers, with small houses picking up some of the trade paper authors, and the rest migrating to the indie route.

The proposal was to get together a «starter» list of, say, 800-1000 quality commercial New Zealand titles, to create them in a simple and inexpensive way through bulk - buying of ebook production services (particularly for indie publishers, the major publishers already have a lot of ebook inventory), and to market them as a package to early market makers such as e-reader device manufacturers, ebook retailers, libraries, and others.