There has never been a better time to release your children's books to the marketplace without
the need of a trade publisher.
Not exact matches
Hardcover sales in adult
trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total
of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point
of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the
need to revamp the strategy by which
publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.
American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher said in a statement «I did want to make one thing clear: ABA member bookstores can rest assured that your
trade association will continue to remind
publishers and other vendors about their obligations under antitrust laws, especially regarding their
need to ensure that inventory purchased under one set
of terms is not commingled and transferred to another class
of business.
The Publishing Talk Guide to Twitter tells you all you
need to know to get started with Twitter and make the most
of the medium — whether you're a
publisher, author, aspiring author or other book
trade professional.
As one
of the brains behind Digital Book World (a conference I'll sadly not be attending this year) he has managed to start the in - depth conversations that US
Trade Publishers NEED to have if they are to survive the shifting playing field
of digital publishing.
What's more, the paper goes into areas it probably doesn't
need to tackle — using the unverified estimates
of «Data Guy» at Author Earnings — to talk about the importance
of a strong brand and consumer connection, things that
trade publishers understand well.
Whether you're a self - publishing author or general
trade publisher maintaining a backlist
of thousands, Bowker offers critical resources to satisfy your
needs, including ISBNs, barcodes, and business intelligence.
With this monopoly or near - monopoly they can dictate terms to
publishers or dictate what gets published: Amazon is great at selling certain kinds
of books but not others (
trade paperbacks, lit fiction that
needs «discovery»; mid list from writers who lack a social media or publicity «platform»), and the more Amazon dominates the market, the less viable it becomes to publish books in those categories.