Sentences with phrase «many trad pub»

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

More profit for trad pubs, better odds of some readers finding mine a bargain.

No trad pub in sight.

I agree completely with Jackie Barbosa above in that the real takeaway from this snippet of data is the unconscionably huge portion of earnings that the trad pubs get from each ebook they sell.

I guess this shows how often I'm looking at trad pubbed books over there!

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

So my love for them is deeper, but I've never thought trad pubs were anything but large dominant players in a business where my goals ran toward setting up a nice cottage industry in the cracks they missed.

Additionally, they're all competing with each other, and with hundreds of thousands of new trad pub offerings per year, as well as millions of backlist titles.

She got so much buzz about her decision to turn down a trad pub contract to go indie, that everyone wanted to read or at least look at the book.

with trad pub in a nutshell.

The top news of the week touched upon waning ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.

Trad pub used to know better.

Trad pubs earn a larger portion of their revenue off paperbacks because they've got the book stores locked down and are losing marketshare to indy ebooks.

What trad pub paid you to write their propaganda?

I make my living from writing, actually, with a mix of indie and trad pub stuff, but there are people who are far more skilled than me who don't, and people who stink who make a lot more.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

There's also a lot of trad pubbed crap out there.

I'd say, if I were curious / interested in trad pub and I was a self - pubbed author, I might consider offering up a purely commercial one - off, standalone.

LK — A lot of agents and publishers are making trad pubbed authors do this stuff.

Ward said she was particularly displeased with the trad pubs» marketing plan.

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

I can't fathom giving up all that control and royalty for a trad pub deal.

Somehow only for trad pubbed books and not the same series for my self - pubbed titles?

They're improving for indies and they're improving for trad pub authors.

Successful self - published authors tend to promote themselves more effectively than the average trad pub author.

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

Elizabeth, I have learnt much from your post about «trad pub» and «self - pub,» especially since I'm working on my own fiction.

KU and cheap big - name Trad pubbed books have stopped sales dead for most of us.

When you think about it, it makes sense: back when trad pub limited us to one book a year per author, there were still plenty of people who became fans of Terry Prachett, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Briggs and David Weber.

They were fired by trad pub.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

Some of the biggest indie authors first got their start in trad pub, while others never sent out a single query letter before hitting it big.

I have people writing to me on Facebook and in email and talking to me in person about how much they love my books, and here I am envying the awards and the accolades, certain that a trad pub deal was the only way I could get them.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

I'd also love to explore foreign markets with the trad pubbed books.

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

When authors stop signing contracts and then announce they are making as much, if not more, by selling direct to their customers (via Amazon / iTunes / etc), will those remaining trad pub authors still toe the line and defend their masters at all costs?

Here's my answer to the inevitable discussion of how Trad Pub is «the one true path» and if you aren't Trad Pub'd, you aren't a real writer:

Trad pub authors also used to make it very clear that they didn't consider ebooks «real books».

I've got a friend who is seeking trad pub for novels and putting novellas on the kindle.

Indies and trad pubs alike will shell out hundreds to thousands of dollars to pull in 2,000 - 3,000 sales or 20,000 - 30,000 free downloads in a single day.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

My trad pubbed ones aren't and likely won't be (they don't relinquish the rights, but they never use them, as you're saying).

I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

With trad pubbing, you give up much of this control.

Yes, there are poor work in the trad pub world, particularly due to «rush publishing» and also when certain poorly skilled entrepreneurs create micro-publishing companies.

Unless you were able to leverage Hugh Howey - levels of ebook sales (in which case I'm guessing Amazon would try to snap you up), I doubt a trad pub would want print rights only.

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

You know, when the term Stockholm Syndrome started to get applied to trad pubbed authors I thought it was a bit much.