Sentences with phrase «more trad published»

Yes, on balance, there are probably more trad published books that are better than indie books but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

Among the 13 (out of 125 total) of them reporting incomes of $ 30,000 or more, 7 listed 2 or more trad published titles... so I'm thinking maybe they didn't understand the question as I did.

Not exact matches

Just has a different perspective on the publishing industry from many indies, and is more used to people having the goal of a trad deal.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

I came out of this episode even more determined to avoid agents and trad publishing.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wTrad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wtrad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

Successful self - published authors tend to promote themselves more effectively than the average trad pub author.

As I've continued on my self - publishing path, though, I've felt more frustration with what happens with my trad - pubbed books.

There are a few bad apples among the trad published, but far more in the self - published ranks (and stop reading that I mean ALL self - publishers, or I'm going to start recommending that you get glasses).

There are plenty of trad published books that are more boring than watching paint dry or more vapid than a sparkly vampire.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

It has more trad - pub nomenclature and you need to know your stuff before venturing into LS, so not at all something for first time publishing.

The difference in income between successful traditionally published authors and successful self - published authors is getting narrower each day, with many self - published authors now making much, much more than their trad pub counterparts.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

More and more authors are becoming hybrids these days, both indie and trad - publisMore and more authors are becoming hybrids these days, both indie and trad - publismore authors are becoming hybrids these days, both indie and trad - published.

Most trad published e-books are priced so high (often as high if not more than the printed book) that they are pricing themselves out of the competition.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

Asserting that self - publishers take away seven times more than trad published authors may appeal to his audience, but ignores the fact that Amazon pays just 35 % much of the time.

Trad is in trouble, hybrid will work for some authors, self - publishing will work for even more authors.

I figure a few more books down the road I will start looking at trad publishing.

Not that writers are * paying * trad publishers to be published, but in the sense that our time is worth money and (possibly) more income (certainly higher royalty rates) if we self - pub instead of choosing trad pub.

It contrasts with the trad publishing / big bookstore business model, where a book is a short - lived «event», sometimes lasting no more than three months.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

You can now add more books (what you have to do anyway under a trad contract), because self - publishing is a volume business.

The implied worry for traditional publishers: how long will it be before trad - publishing authors do figure out that self - publishing seems to substantially enhance an author's career — creating more skepticism and criticism of the publishers?

The worse trad published books are, the less likely it is anybody will be all that bothered by the typos and bad grammar in mine, the more likely they will just take them as a matter of course, something you'll now find in everything.

I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

Anyway — thanks again for writing such a good article, it's certainly food for thought; and has made me even more glad that I decided to stick with the self - publishing instead of chasing the trad pub dream, ha ha!

Second, with self - publishing, authors tend to price their e-books lower than the trad - publishers and those low prices tend to earn much more money.

But, when I see one policy change after another, all of which are implemented with ruthless inefficiency and all of which seem to impact indie authors more than trad - published authors, my spidey - senses start to tingle.

Bookended with more info on writing in general and tips for planning for trad or self publishing, I think it could be a marvelous resource.

A good debut author who might have earned $ 3k to $ 5k from a trad publisher now earns that much or more by self - publishing.

If all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consider.

Since the basic premise of the assumption about trad published works is wrong, well, that makes it all the more difficult to swallow those sorts of reviews.

The Daily Mail, in this instance, is acting as nothing more than a cheerleader for traditional publishing, pushing the trad's agenda and assuming its readers aren't smart enough to figure that out.

When the trad camp saw the sales numbers, they hopped in, too, so once in a while (and I predict with growing frequency in the future), indie published writers will define more new genres, so keep writing!

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

So, yes, the indie authors become increasingly competitive, and the trad published ebooks will suffer a lot more.

The right way to look at it is that whether or not you have a trad publishing deal, doing self publishing will make you more money than if you gave it a miss — plus, you and a bunch of readers will have a lot of fun!

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).

Trad publishing takes on many forms, and the farther one gets from the big pubbers the more difficult to see the return to the author, no?

I'm saying, «I see far more writers paying the bills with their indie publishing than in trad - publishing.»

Once you're published, especially when you have multiple books out, have built some fanbase, etc (whether trad - pub or indie), you have more options.

The only reason trad published authors don't is that most trad publishers do NOT push the e-book and they price it so high that people see more «value» in the printed version, especially the hardcover.