After hearing my request they went on to tell me that Audible primarily worked
with major trade publishers like Random House, Simon and Schuster and other biggies.
Small or medium publishers often accept unsolicited proposals for general nonfiction books — as do some of the imprints
of major trade publishers.
In a nutshell, the program is currently limited to a few thousand titles that originate either from Amazon itself or from smaller publishers that still sell e-books to Amazon under a wholesale model, as opposed to the «agent» model used by
most major trade publishers, which forbids such activity.
Conversely, you can sell your book to a small press for an extremely modest advance and find yourself with a runaway best - seller or a National Book Award winner — with
major trade publishers in a bidding war for your next book.
Kelly Peterson is Director of Client Services at INscribe Digital, and brings 20 years of marketing and merchandising experience to her current role,
helping major trade publishers, university presses, and independent publishers, agents and authors maximize their eBook sales and marketing efforts at the major retailers.
Overall it's better to diversify one's publishing portfolio with
a major trade publisher, offering various publishing formats, online and physical retailers, etc..
On the other hand,
major trade publishers, like Penguin Books India and HarperCollins India, are yet to offer their India titles as e-books, even when their counterparts in the UK and the US are preparing for their print and e-books almost simultaneously.
My biggest is 180 MB; smallest is 40k, from a sample of around 3,000 from
a major trade publisher.
The print / bind / warehouse / distribute portion for paper volumes is about * 10 % * of the cost of the average book from
a major trade publisher.
I'm currently writing an ePub conversion spec for
another major trade publisher (they currently require simply that their conversion partners work to the IDPF specs and the output is too variable with that wide a specification).
«I believe that
major trade publishers will definitely keep insisting on DRM for libraries, and that the situation can only get worse — more restrictive — for libraries vis - à - vis the Big 6,» Rosenblatt said.
I totally agree that we should never have to work around bugs in the reader but the editorial staff at
the major trade publisher I worked for at that time were absolutely opposed to any ebook being released that didn't show all authors on the author line.
Page told conference delegates that «all
the major trade publishers have agreed to work with aggregators to make it possible for libraries to offer e-book lending» with the addition of certain «controls».
Last week, Barry turned down a $ 500,000 book deal with
a major trade publisher for his next two books and declared his intention to self - publish, while Amanda accepted a $ 2,000,000 offer from a traditional publisher to publish four new novels.
The data was gathered from
the major trade publishers, and those smaller presses with books in The Bookseller's Top 50 of 2012, including Hesperus Press.