In response to yet
more niche publishers and start - ups competing for attention on «their» turf we'll see a surge in entrepreneurial behaviour and collaborations from the major publishers.
Not exact matches
Amit Rathore founder and CEO of Quintype thinks that
more smaller
publishers will spring up catering to
niche audiences.
Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are
niche and at times
more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional
publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.
But some
more modest efforts of a company like Osprey, which caters to military history buffs and offers subscriptions, online forums and the like, demonstrates how a deeply traditional
niche publisher can develop their community online while enhancing the value of their print customer base.
If your book falls into a specialized sub-genre dominated by a few other writers, you might have a hard time convincing a
publisher that the world needs one
more writer in that
niche.
In our own testing, we have found that getting reviewers from people in your
niche is much
more effective than reaching out to other
publishers in forums and facebook groups.
Publishers are beginning to realize that evaluating the potential saleability of self - published books requires a
more careful analysis, which includes bulk orders from
niche organizations and groups, books that are value added give - aways, built into the participants fees or sold at trainings, specialty shops that don't report to Nielsen BookScan and other types of sales.
The road to publication can be long and difficult (perhaps even
more so for specifically Catholic fiction writers, as this is a
niche market and not many
publishers are willing to take a chance on whether Catholic fiction will sell well or not), but if you work hard and do your research, publication is attainable.
Of course, since ebooks and digital reading have finally found their
niche,
publishers were
more likely to support the model with content that people actually wanted to read.
The literary world panicked, concerned that the loss would hurt their sales and make it even
more difficult for smaller
publishers,
niche genres, and new authors.
I self - published the first time because the
niche publisher I was actually aiming the book toward claimed they didn't do «beginner» books (I've read a book or two from them that I would consider «
more beginner» than mine).
Publishers have found that the
more niches they can define, the
more readers they get — but each book may sell fewer copies.
(1) To be clear, I don't rule out the viability of certain
niches, nor the ability of some
publishers to thrive as
more modest sized entities publishing across several different
niches or indeed solely focused on a single
niche, but this piece is about larger
publishers.
«I believe traditional publishing will focus
more on subjects with broad market appeal, sensational subjects, timely events, and / or celebrity - type bios, and I see self - publishing as an excellent option for subjects with
niche markets or those of regional interest, that wouldn't capture the attention of a mainstream
publisher.»
If you find your
niche store takes off, you can always move in this direction later (and you'll find
publishers and distributors will take a lot
more notice and be
more helpful).
Self -
publishers, being
more nimble and less constrained than trade - contracted authors, are finding fruitful
niches and changing what it means to write and read a «book».»
Yet Kickstarter is also something wonderful, a way to get games created for
niche audiences that
publishers would otherwise ignore in favor or
more easily marketed titles.
If the title does become a hit, we're hoping to see
more Western games pop up once
publishers are shown that there is money to be made in this
niche.