Self - publishing (or indie publishing) is a big deal this days,
as more and more authors use it exclusively or to supplement their traditional publishing catalog.
We're seeing
more and more author like yourself who after understanding the business of publishing do the math and decide they can do better on their own AND make more doing so.
I imagine that's because I had a different mix of authors responding this time around AND
because more and more authors are jumping into the self - publishing fray.
More and more authors of both publishing processes are finally adopting a more realistic, genuine definition though, and that is the ability to work as a full - time writer.
This posting may explain
why more and more authors, especially those with marketing abilities, are going the self - publishing route.
The move into the digital era
means more and more authors are self publishing their books as ebooks and making a respectable living out of it.
So now we have
more and more authors across the world making profiles and building fan pages on social networking sites, interacting with fans and promoting their own work.
-LSB-...] more and more authors are becoming small businesses unto themselves.
As podcasts continue to become more popular,
more and more authors like you will use this communications tool to reach their target audience.
The stigma surrounding self - publishing is slowly fading away as
more and more authors chose to be in control of their own work and take the reins with self - publishing.
As
more and more authors found out about, and voiced concerns over, Amazon's «bullying» tactics, Amazon tried offering to pay the authors 100 % of its sales of their books while the price war continued.
One of the major issues in the traditional publishing industry that is
driving more and more authors to pursue independent and digital self - publishing is the dreaded slush pile, the much - abhorred gateway to a traditional publishing contract that all begins with getting an agent to even look at an author's manuscript.
Although we see reports of
more and more authors making large sales via these ebook outlets, and there are more and more free ebooks to be had — there are also suggestions that most of those authors won't last longer than 2 years, and then be replaced by another author who won't last 2 years.
As
more and more authors seek to be independently published, and traditionally published authors feel the pressure to spend on marketing even in the face of shrinking advances, savvy marketers and publishers alike are seeking ways that authors can raise the funds to cover the initial costs of editing, cover design, and marketing (i.e. author websites, training, PR campaigns).
Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen
by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.
I'm
hearing more and more authors talking about how their legacy publishers are refusing to release rights e-books rights back to them even though these same publishers are reporting digital sales on the titles in question that are well below the «in print» figures necessary to maintain the rights.
That's a fantastic lever for making forget the public about the fantastic record profits some of them, like the Simon & Schuster link you so bravely mentioned, make by
squeezing more and more author's margins.
The 2.99 -3.99 «sweet point» is popular not so much because readers buy more at that price than because
more and more authors list at that price in order to get the 70 % «royalty» from Amazon.
I need to be honest, I am not that good at illustrating as I am at designing stuff with photoshop; — RRB - At that time Kindle Direct Publishing was becoming a thing and
more and more authors wanted to publish their books by themselves.
As
more and more authors flood the self - publishing market, authors who can produce more and faster than I can, I confess I feel the edges of panic.
With more and more ebooks in the marketplace and
more and more authors competing for promotion «resources» (i.e. Bookbub ads), it's harder and harder to get noticed as a new author.
With
more and more authors hitting the bookshelves and less money becoming available for publicity purposes, authors of every genre and publishing style need to use all of the tools at their disposal for book promotion.
One of the major surprises, though, was that many publishers are still not tapping into the wealth of their back list titles; this could be one of the
reason more and more authors are attempting to regain control of the rights to their older — and often out of print — works in an effort to revitalize interest in the author and in the works by self - publishing them to electronic platforms.