Amazon is now throwing its weight around and hurting a raft of
niche publishers with that silly 65 % stocking fee.
Not exact matches
Reid founded the original company, Snapsort, in 2009 as a
niche - oriented web
publisher,
with individual sites focusing on reviews of cameras, phones, cars and the like.
Some
publishers are seeing a «Trump Bump»
with subscriptions and donations rising post-election, and there is evidence of renewed efforts of both large and
niche publishers to build audiences and revenue streams away from the intermediary platform businesses.
We identify
publishers in your
niche, handle the outreach, write pitches, write articles, and handle the submission process — all
with your approval at every step of the way, of course.
The decision on which
niche dating ad channels to launch, and which new
niche dating ad channels to add, has been based on our interactions
with online dating advertisers and online dating
publishers.
The network currently offers over 70
niche dating ad channels, and is working
with a range of
publishers across the US and Europe.
The Cheyenne, Wyoming - based business is looking to work
with publishers in the online dating space either running general or
niche sites
with ad - based or freemium models, or those operating dating information sites or online dating directories that have
niche dating categories.
It's a
niche game, as all Slitherine projects are, but the
publisher does have a deep understanding of what makes for a quality, deep, strategy game, and it has applied the same expertise to the tactics sub-genre
with impressive results.
By now the console will be well established,
with a user base large enough to attract studios large and small, not to mention having a sizeable enough market share for
publishers to take a gamble by releasing
niche titles.
Part of the reason for the delay seems to be that both Slightly Mad Studios and
publisher Bandai Namco have realized that the holiday season is just too jam - packed
with releases to release a
niche title like Project Cars.
But when the focus swung from books for general markets (risky indeed) to tightly targeted or
niche markets, and pre-testing (usually through direct mail testing) allowed the
publisher to define the specific buyer demand, then self - publishing let the
niche publisher create publications
with finely honed titles tailored to pin - point targets.
The importance of increasing independent bookstore sales, coupled
with expanding customer purchases of
niche books from small presses and evolving
publishers, demonstrates the ability of indies and small regional chains to thrive and profit under the giants» shadow.
I simply can not see a
publisher of books (such a
niche in the world of all goods purchased) ever making this work as a replacement for the major reseller channels
with the complete product assortments they offer
with simple shopping systems.
Kobo and iBooks both appear to suffer
with back - catalog and
niche -
publisher availability, and Kobo often has higher pricing on the less popular titles, but availability and pricing of current popular titles is even across the board.
If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or
publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as
with some
niche products).
If the web has changed anything (I DO think it has — and I don't think I'm a digevangelist for the sake of it, but because I perceive a change), it's the ability to reach and distribute to an author's
niche with minimal outlay — if an author truly accepts that lack of bookshops sales are part of their business model (I think they should — specific deals
with Indie stores aside — and for that reason I think self - publishing is wrong for most self -
publishers), then the age - old obstacle of distribution has been removed from the equation.
At the Alliance of Independent Authors, we have many members who work in
niche and experimental areas that are not of interest to mainstream
publishers, who are building a wide readership and deep following directly
with readers.
ScienceThrillers Media is a
niche publisher specializing in fiction and popular nonfiction
with real science, technology, engineering, math, or medicine in the plot.
A corollary to the above for
publishers: unless you can be big in your
niche or subject area, you are going to have a hard time competing
with self - publishing.
Yeah, that has a nice ring to it.If you are interested in earning some accolades, here are a few contest and award opportunities for self - published, independent
publishers (this is great for Lulus
with a «Published By You» ISBN — you're the
publisher), or
niche books.The 2008 News Generation Indie Book Awards:
The power of digital is that a
publisher or author can carve out a very specific
niche — tall Norwegians who like fuzzy bunny slippers, Winnebago owners
with bumper stickers, Windows Surface owners who drive Volvos (ok, I'll admit that last one is a bit of a stretch).
And since traditional publishing is so competitive, and it can be especially hard to place certain «
niche» books
with a traditional
publisher, self - pub is a terrific option.
My friend Jeff Gerke ran a small
niche publisher like this until recently, and I worked
with him to produce the paper editions of the revised second editions of my novels OXYGEN and THE FIFTH MAN.
Ruth Bonetti has been published by a large publishing house (Oxford University Press published Enjoy Playing the Clarinet
with its accompanying piano book) and a smaller Australian
niche publisher (Albatross Books) and a music
publisher.
Leave it to the largest online bookseller - cum -
publisher to come up
with yet another way to reach out to a specific
niche of the reading market.
Amazon is further expanding into the realms of traditional publishing
with a new deal
with niche children's
publisher Marshall Cavendish.
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.
Non-fiction always does better
with self - publishing, especially
niche topics most
publishers won't touch.
We work
with small and large traditional
publishers, university presses,
niche / special interest
publishers, and e-book only
publishers, and have worked
with many on a continual basis for years.
So when placing your book on Amazon (or working
with your
publisher to do so), if you choose a
niche in which there are only a few books, you will not get the # 1 badge when your book hits # 1 in that category.
You might get anything from low four figures for a
niche publication
with a small
publisher, or up to six figures from a big
publisher who thinks your book has major commercial potential.
Thus Matter is a great example of how small - scale
publishers can provide a
niche audience
with the best possible content in the formats they want.
Any
publisher with scale and breadth of output will find itself having to manage multiple new processes alongside their existing business — and those who avoid that challenge by electing to specialise in particular
niches may find their market smaller and returns diminishing.
Rita works
with major publishing houses, as well as regional
publishers that handle a variety of
niche markets.
For a long time,
niche publishers and
publishers of specialist books have had a particularly hard time coping
with the problem of constantly declining print runs alongside escalating (printing) costs.
Before,
niche romance and erotica authors had to conform to their
publishers» desired subject matter to get that coveted paperback on a bookstore's shelves — now, readers can barely keep up
with the ever - increasing «girl - on - centaur» and «boy - on - merman» creations going on sale daily.
«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.»
And I think some authors are maybe just very comfortable in the
niche that they have and of course just staying
with the
publisher that you have reduces the amount of your own outlay of effort and energy and so on.
A bit frustrated because knowing that the story wasn't going to fit into the
niche the
publisher had put me in, I'd written the entire 135,000 word book uncontracted, I suggested they tell the booksellers to shelve it
with the good books.
Sadly I suspect the
publishers and
niche device vendors are not securing their future but hastening their demise as they force people to find better solutions to either create, distribute or purchase books — for instance like Robin Sloan is doing
with his new novel http://bit.ly/4bKSBv
Rita works
with major publishing houses, as well as regional
publishers that handle
niche markets.
I wholeheartedly agree
with Mike that
publishers need to get
niche and embrace the communities that sustain those
niches.
Even worse than that: «In Japan, Sony actually seems to be embracing Long Tail to a greater extent than Nintendo, loading the service up
with niche games from small
publishers... But in the US, they have added one (1) third - party game despite the fact that third - party games were inarguably the primary reason to own a PSone in the first place.»
With an insatiable demand for high quality, often
niche focused content,
publishers need content from contributing authorities.