This conference is about what it takes to make
money as an independent author — there are innumerable ways to climb the mountain.
Not exact matches
I often see
authors make this mistake of wanting to wait and see if they will need to hire a publicist, or spend their own time and
money marketing, but
as an
independent book publicist, I assure you, you need to market.
I am earning more
money than I have ever earned in my life
as an
independent author.
Our Pickawoowoo Publishing Group book cover and format professionals spent years honing their craft,
as any good specialists does, yet we understand the issues
independent authors face be it time,
money, control and the like.
This trend will continue
as independent editors start offering affordable editing services through the internet and first line
authors start doing the math and realizing that they can make more
money by self - publishing their books for $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they ever did by going with one of the «big six» publishers.
In the new digital realm,
independent authors and companies are making good
money via content distribution systems, such
as iTunes and the Apple App Store.
However,
as a whole —
Independent Authors are going to make platforms like Amazon and Publishers like Smashwords a lot of
money.
I suspect if this becomes any kind of success it will quickly become the main or sole source of income for a lot of
independent authors (
as most of them make all their
money from Kindle sales anyway — a lot don't offer physical books or have books available on other platforms at all) and so the zero - sum effect will be far more important.
As an
author, I'm not worried about the Amazon - Hachette dispute, but I am most certainly concerned about Amazon's lack of tact in dealing with
independent publishers who make them a substantial sum of
money.