We will also analyze the results of a recent Digital Book World and Writer's Digest survey
of hybrid authors.
(In another post, I'll address the phenomenon
of hybrid authors, or those who both indie and traditionally publish.)
Most
of the hybrid authors I know who sell in huge quantities have self - pubbed books priced $ 2.99 - $ 4.99.
Writers Digest community leader Phil Sexton will reveal exclusive results from an all new deep - dive survey into the wants, needs and plans
of hybrid authors — those who have both published with a traditional publisher and self - published books.
Fluidity between traditional and self - publishing continued last year as a growing number
of hybrid authors explored their options in both areas.
However,
each of these hybrid authors continues to maintain a presence in the traditional market as well.
Our agency has a number
of hybrid authors.
I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers,
some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).
Looking at the graph below, you'll notice that there was a much higher prevalence
of Hybrid Authors among 100kers than Emerging Authors (28 % vs 17 % respectively), which means a lot of the 100kers have signed a publishing contract for at least one of their books.
Another self - publishing frontrunner, Hugh Howey, who breaks his silence after a survey done by Digital Book World shows how self - publishers earn comparing how 1.8 % of them only made $ 100,000 with 8.8 % of traditionally published authors and 13.2 %
of hybrid authors.
While 92 % of traditionally published authors say they want their next book published that way, 71 %
of hybrid authors say they are interested in publishing their next book with a conventional house.
And finally, asked why they self - published, 41.3 %
of hybrid authors say «creative control,» and 33 % say «ease of the publishing process.»
I followed a link over here from Jane Friedman's post on The Smart Set, and enjoyed your views on the topic
of hybrid authors.
I am more aware of thriller authors, since this is the genre I read and write in, but perhaps you have other examples
of hybrid authors — or perhaps you are one.
Today a world
of hybrid authors and immersive multi-media is being driven by passionate, spiritual, collaborative people looking to create a lifestyle that formerly didn't exist.
As we consider the story
of hybrid authors, let's take a look at the elements of traditional publishing and indie publishing side by side.
Amazingly, only 2 % of traditionally published authors earn $ 100,000 or more per year, while 8 %
of hybrid authors make that income.
57 %
of hybrid authors make $ 1000 or more per year.
I'm one
of those hybrid authors who has been traditionally published and have taken the Indie route as well.
We feel stronger and are excited about continuing to explore the fusion possibilities
of hybrid authors.»
Ditto with 5 %
of the hybrid authors.
That makes him a great example
of a hybrid author.
One of the hot new buzzwords mentioned at DBW this year was the concept
of the hybrid author, and data was presented that showed that hybrid authors may be arguably some of the most successful and most satisfied authors in the publishing industry.
It made me realize that I'm aiming towards the path
of an hybrid author.
I love the idea
of a hybrid author!
A recent example
of a hybrid author exploring a hybrid publishing route might interest you, since it did involve the author's agent most significantly.
Does all of that spell the death
of the hybrid author approach?
And yes, a few self - pubs are able to get that on their own and many
of my hybrid author friends can handle the business matters just fine and God bless them.
Not exact matches
Martin Ross, another
of the paper's
authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that
hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.
In the article, the
authors described the emergence
of a
hybrid marketing and technology role, given the increasing importance
of technology to modern marketing.
No other president has shared the
hybrid faith that Obama displays, says Diana Butler Bass, a historian and
author of «Christianity after Religion.»
By arguing that the Bible's first «
author» was a woman, Bloom has breathed a kind
of new life into the dusty old Yahwist, that
hybrid creation
of rationalism, historicism and romanticism usually associated with the name
of Julius Wellhausen (1844 - 1918).
Francis Collins, former director
of the National Human Genome Research Institute and
author of The Language
of God, is something
of a
hybrid apologist.
Betsy Brown Braun, best selling
author of Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents (HarperCollins) and You're Not The Boss Of Me: Bratproofing Your Four To Twelve Year Old (HarperCollins), Best Hybrid Bikes Under 500 is a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, multiple birth parenting consultant, and founder of Parenting Pathways ®, Inc
of Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents (HarperCollins) and You're Not The Boss
Of Me: Bratproofing Your Four To Twelve Year Old (HarperCollins), Best Hybrid Bikes Under 500 is a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, multiple birth parenting consultant, and founder of Parenting Pathways ®, Inc
Of Me: Bratproofing Your Four To Twelve Year Old (HarperCollins), Best
Hybrid Bikes Under 500 is a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, multiple birth parenting consultant, and founder
of Parenting Pathways ®, Inc
of Parenting Pathways ®, Inc..
Cai, along with Jinrong Wu, a visiting professor from Sichuan University, China, and senior
author David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor
of Physics and Applied Physics, developed a
hybrid rubber with both covalent and reversible bonds.
The reason for the low juvenile
hybrid survivability, the
authors say, may lie in the lack
of aggressiveness and ability to compete with purebred males for denning sites and in winning territorial battles.
In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal
hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against
hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition
of the journal Evolution, the
authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a
hybrid zone in southern California.
Jackson, the
author of the BEST report, issued a similar warning in March under the auspices
of the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable, an unusual
hybrid body staffed by the U.S. National Academies.
Dr. Kit Macleod, catchment scientist at the James Hutton Institute and one
of the
authors of the paper, said: «
Hybrid grasses
of this type show potential for reducing the likelihood
of flood generation, whilst providing pasture for food production under conditions
of changing climate.
«
Hybrid 3D printing integrates the best aspects
of two or more imaging modalities, which can potentially enhance diagnosis, as well as interventional and surgical planning,» said Jordan Gosnell, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital cardiac sonographer, and lead
author of the study.
Our results suggest that in addition to «pure» species and populations,
hybrids between protected animals and non-protected ones may deserve protection,» said Robert Wayne, a biologist at University
of California Los Angeles and senior
author of the study.
«It remains to be seen whether the HLB tolerance in some scion / rootstock combinations permit reasonable production
of fruit
of commercial quality,» the
authors said, «but it is promising that several mandarin
hybrid / rootstock combinations displayed markedly greater growth and cropping compared with sweet orange / rootstock and grapefruit / rootstock combinations under very high HLB pressure.»
(The company already has 300 open access journals; 1300 others operate on a «
hybrid model,» charging subscription fees but offering
authors the option
of paying $ 2000 to make a paper accessible immediately.)
First
author of the study Carina Zittra has now succeeded in identifying a
hybrid of these two forms.
«Coal plants and gas plants are the marginal units that we considered for charging the plug - in
hybrid batteries,» says PNNL staff scientist Michael Kintner - Meyer, lead
author of the forthcoming report.
«This paper shows the simple synthesis
of a new porous
hybrid material, obtained by using low cost and by - product materials,» says the lead
author, Dr. Elza Bontempi from the University
of Brescia, Italy.
«This work demonstrates the unique capability
of micro-to-nanoscale topographies
of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation
of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first
author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold
Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.
«While
hybrid plant species are very common,
hybrid species among vertebrates are exceedingly rare,» says Associate Professor Jason Weir, senior
author of the research.
In the recent issue
of Nature Communications, the
authors describe how the guide molecule which, until now has been based on an RNA backbone, can in fact be made from a
hybrid molecule incorporating DNA nucleotides.
Authors think that it might be a
hybrid of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.