Sentences with phrase «not against traditional publishing»

I'm not against traditional publishing, I just want to make money, and they really stand in the way of that in most cases.

I'm not against traditional publishing in any way, shape or form, but at the moment this has been working for me.

Not exact matches

I am concerned that this fear is not at all dissimilar to the fear held by authors against traditional publishing in the time before the indy revolution.

For some of us (and / or for some of our stories), our work isn't a good match for traditional publishing, and I think wishing for traditional publishing to change in that regard is asking for knock - our - head - against - the - wall frustration.

It's not that I am against traditional publishing.

I don't mean for it to be, and I hope I will never come off as an author who rails against the evils of traditional publishing.

If responsible indie authors want to put themselves out there in a smart way, I think in this day and age, it's not fighting against traditional publishing so much as making our own paths to personal success.

This does not mean I hold a grudge against the traditional publishing houses or the best - selling books or authors propped up by these.

We do not license exclusive rights to publish your book from you, nor do we give you an advance against royalties like a traditional publisher.

Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll see more and more big - name authors go indie.

I don't know if this is what was going on in this case, but a traditional scam perpetrated against writers is to put out a call for submissions, and then contact the author saying the submission isn't good enough to be published, but «for X dollars, we can edit the work for you, and then publish it.»

Last year's GoH was Kris Rusch and there are panels every year on the virtues of self - publishing, so it's not like the con is against the idea and only filled with traditional proselytizers.

The reason traditionally published authors & the traditional publishing side has such disdain for self - publishing is not because anyone & everyone CAN do it, but because MOST of the ones who DO IT have self - published either unpublishable garbage OR have taken a manuscript with great potential & published it without decent editing & revision (both of which seriously hinder the enjoyment of the reading audience - not an issue if you're a hobby writer who just wants to entertain family & friends, but a serious issue for anyone who thinks that that sort of thing can hold its own against carefully revised & edited work).

Now, this second point does not militate against self - publishing per se — rather, it suggests a new kind of service - bureau / publisher that provides services to authors that sit somewhere between self - publishing and traditional publishing.

I don't have the view that you might have and that some of your listeners might have, which is that there's something completely corrupt about traditional publishing or that it's somehow stacked against all this talent out there that's just waiting to be discovered.

I don't have anything against those that do, or traditional publishing in general, but my current path took a different direction.