Sentences with phrase «money traditional book deals»

Amanda Hocking and John Locke both became bestsellers whilst self - publishing and went on to big - money traditional book deals.

Not exact matches

Bloggers like Lawson also make a lot of money through advertising and yes, they got book deals from traditional publishers, but they were internet celebrities by the time they got them.

It is standard for traditional book publishers to take a percentage of book sales, this is called a royalty and also how publishers make their money back on the book deal they give authors.

Traditional publishers usually have to charge more money because of the advances they pay authors in book deals.

Topics include choosing the right tools for book creation and distribution, running your publishing business, author brand and platform, social media marketing and traditional promotion, hybrid publishing with trusted partners, attracting an agent and a traditional publishing deal, raising money for your book, sales and distribution, metadata, SEO, and book discovery in Amazon and all the online retailers, selling in brick - and - mortar bookstores and libraries, formatting and conversion, EPUB format and MOBI for Kindle and creating a full - color, fixed - layout book for the new tablet readers, printing, mailing lists, websites, and blogs.

In some cases it could be about the money (a deal with former TV star Penny Marshall was reportedly for $ 800,000 according to the New York Times), but in many cases it seems to be mostly about getting past some of the legacy processes that are typical with traditional publishers, and expanding the potential market for a book.

Interestingly, once you have a huge platform, you may not NEED a trad published deal (you might make about the same money anyway, but you'd be selling a lot more books and getting more visibility with a traditional publisher, which is what I want).