Sentences with phrase «number of trad»

A growing number of trad - pub new books sell less than 1,000 copies in their first year (which usually means in their lifetime, since print books make most of their sales on the first couple of months since release).

An increasing number of trad published authors are reporting little or no promotional help... basically the publisher requires the author already have a proven following before even signing them up... and then hands them a to - do list that basically is things for the author, rather than the publisher, to do.

In particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launch.

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

Not exact matches

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

But the reality is that an enormous number of writers are doing both — and choose to spend their limited internet time promoting their work rather than promoting their business decisions, so their business models are usually overlooked in the «trad - v - indie» internet debate.

Whereas trad publishers have by their very nature had humans read and vet their books through the editting process, the sheer number of self - pubs mean that there had to be some kind of automation or you'd have a logjam.

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

Plus, there is the fact that indies reach that magic number quicker than trad published authors do because we don't have agents and publishers taking their share of the money out before it finally trickles down to us.

Those are some impressive numbers, and Hugh and his partner have done a great job of normalizing between indie and trad by looking at the top 7000 best sellers.

Every author, depending on popularity, needs a different number of titles to make and maintain a living doing this, whether they are trad pubbed or indie.

One recent call for reviewers (of a trad pub novel that shall remain nameless) required me to apply for a limited number of paper arcs, and a slightly less limited number of eARCs, with a small essay explaining why my blog was worthy of «winning» an arc for review (when I know very well the eARCs involve no cost whatsoever).

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

If there hadn't been intention to segregate via self vs trad publishing, the segregation could have legitimately and fairly done via any number of means that didn't send the message «those indie guys vs those trad folks»:

Especially considering that in trad pub you'll work with professionals who do that for a living and have likely done it for a number of years.

Those charts need to be re-wickered and research needs to be done that includes time to market, numbers of books to market by time per author, cost of production (indie vs trad), author * time * spent on promotions, author * funds * spent on promotion and inclusion of all books that make up the top 50 or 75K of books in Amazon (not BS lists because some are hard to get on, others not so much).

Trad publishing gets a look - in at number eight with Brad Thor's Act of Way from Simon and Schuster, number nine is filled by Invisible by James Patterson and David Ellis published by Hachette, and Harper Collins comes in at No 10 with The Heist by David Silva.