Sentences with phrase «more than traditional publishers»

35 percent is still a lot more than traditional publishers offer anyone these days.

The technological advance that is most useful for self - publishers, more than traditional publishers, are online systems that enable the self - publishers to directly upload word processed documents, which are converted into an epublishable form.

If you ask me, this is nothing more than the traditional publisher's attempt at cashing in on the rise of the indie writer.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Sortable takes a 15 - % cut of gross revenue, but Reid says publishers end up netting 30 % more than they do through the traditional system because it's simpler and there are fewer moving parts to feed.

Because writers have the tools and the readership, they're relying less on traditional publishers — and they can make much more money than they ever could have through traditional publishers.

Many people who read e-books will not pay more than $ 9.99 for an e-book and that means they don't buy an e-book from a traditional publisher when the e-book and hard cover are first released.

To be honest, I've earned more in the last year selling my books directly than I would have received as an advance from a traditional publisher.

You can make upwards of 70 percent more per book than you would through a traditional or independent publisher.

Traditional publishers E-book sales are down but indie sales are up by more than that decline.

They also didn't want to fool around with printed copies and have far more marketing ability than I do or a traditional print publisher has.

Traditional publishers were more than willing to publish «If I Did It» by O.J. Simpson until the public outcry became too overwhelming.

In an interesting aside, even traditional publishers are looking for the multi-book author, as it's becoming more lucrative to build an author's brand with readers than to sell a stand alone title.

This simple fact scares traditional publishers more than anything, which is why this myth has grown and grown and they keep using it as a reason a writer should sign their shitty contracts.

More than half of authors who already were self - published, as well as hybrid authors, were hoping to publish with traditional publishers, at 53.5 percent and 57.8 percent, respectively.

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

To what I have heard, they are more preferable than contacting a traditional publisher directly.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

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.

-- Because after a short time, I can make more money with a backlist novel indie publishing it than any traditional publisher ever could.

And although I more than earned out my advance from the traditional publisher (as well as selling numerous foreign rights), would I characterize my experience with the traditional publisher as good overall?

Productivity — do you write more books per year than a traditional publisher can handle?

But, back to the traditional route, last summer I attended the World Fantasy Convention, and publishers on more than one panel expressed the desire for more genre - crossing material to come across their desks, citing techno - thrillers as an example.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the pMore and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the pmore, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the pmore than they have in the past.

But don't blog any more than a paragraph or two if your book is unpublished and you hope to get a traditional publisher some day.

Made me more than ever want to self - publish rather than keep waiting for traditional publishers to decide.

It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.

The rules which most writers within the traditional publishing scene have to agree to when signing that contract, in effect means they are nothing more than poorly paid slaves, dependent on the whim of their publisher.

Many people make more money self - publishing than they would if they went with a traditional publisher.

Even with traditional publishers, it's more and more common to see an author marketing his own works rather than being able to rely on their publisher to do the job.

I agree that the model they have with services like Overdrive is somewhat problematic, more of a lease than ownership, and I agree that traditional publishers have been unreasonable here, but e-book lending is an extremely high growth, high use area for my library system.

None of the work is more complicated than tracking submissions, rejections, synopses, agents, publishers, and sales over the months and years that writers on the traditional path have to do.

Traditional publishers make more in selling author services than selling books.

These publishers are meeting the demand romance fans have for new and more readily available content, while also meeting the needs of romance authors who wish to connect with their fans at a much faster rate than they could under traditional print publishing models.

As a writer, I'd love to get my work into the hands of as many readers as I can, and for all of these reasons, a traditional publisher can help me reach many more readers than I could on my own.

Not only that, but the self - publishing world arguably demands more of writers than any traditional publisher, requiring them to become their own editors, marketers and agents, among other things.

I have created more than 2000 book covers for large, traditional publishing organizations, small presses and indie publishers.

Although the jury is still out on my self - published books, «How to be the Luckiest Man Alive» and «I Was Blind But Now I See» I can tell you these two have already sold more than my five books with traditional publishers, combined.

I've done it after 19 books with traditional publishers, but I still make more money from those than from my indies.

To the extent that traditional publishers appear to be resisting or trying to slow down the transition to eBooks in the name of keeping Amazon from getting too powerful, Kindle lovers can get more than irritated.

But the lines in the industry are blurring more now than ever and it makes sense for traditional publishers to more overtly and aggressively compete in the digital distribution arena.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

Traditional publishers have way more competition from indie authors than they used to!

Traditional publishers are required to adapt to the market as well, but your advantage as an indie publisher is that you're more versatile than they'll ever be.

As a writer, Terry has published more than 60 books with traditional publishers such as Zondervan, St. Martins Press, Tyndale and others.

He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children's books to biographies to co-authored books.

I've had some absolute car crashes in traditional publishing, including instances where I'm certain I could have sold more copies of the book myself than via a traditional publisher.

Having published more than a dozen books — nonfiction and fiction — with both traditional and often prestigious publishers as well as on my own, I have a very good sense of the demands of book promotion and was delighted to have the chance to work with Smith Publicity who did a fine job with my Sino - American Tales series of historical novels