Not exact matches
The second post
of discussion was getting S&S support for Kindle Unlimited and contributing their backlist and
midlist titles to help legitimize the new platform.
From misguided agents to cruel or absent editors to the callous slashing
of midlist authors and backlist
titles, the longer a writer is in the publishing world, the more chance
of encountering at least one
of these major (and sometimes career - freezing) hurdles.
«We've seen the popularity
of both frontlist and
midlist titles soar in the library, building a loyal following not only through the volume
of impressions, but also in conjunction with targeted publisher campaigns and the various social and readers» advisory features included in the library websites.»
One
of the key problems that has arisen under US lending and subscription models is that publishers who are willing to take the risk on an experimental lending model have rightly been cautious about participating, often resorting to testing the waters with their backlist or a few
midlist titles.
«The WIN Catalog will take hundreds
of thousands
of early,
midlist, and backlist eBook
titles that are virtually invisible to library customers and present them for discovery.
Amazon is mainly launching with smaller presses, but most
of the big five all support the smaller companies with their backlist and
midlist titles.
What is more, regardless
of publisher, the
midlist title will acquire roughly the same number
of sales.
If you have bought backlist /
midlist titles before from bookstores, you know what it is like to leave home and hunt down specific
titles of your great interest.
In terms
of authors» yearly earnings in different brackets ranging from $ 10,000 to $ 1M, despite releasing fewer
titles to the market, indie authors significantly make money even among
midlist group who earns $ 10K p.a..
When you add in the cost
of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory POD has becomes the optimal choice for more
midlist titles.
We discovered that the «honeymoon period»
of a new book is longer for
midlist titles.
Librarian Nancy Pearl announces her list
of summer reading
titles on NPR, picking six
midlist under - the - radar novels.
In the event that a
midlist title was lucky enough to see 24 circulations, pulling the plug ran the risk that the money would be used not to repurchase that
title, but to secure another copy
of a current bestseller.
Many librarians have pointed out to me that tying up so much
of the budget on high - priced bestsellers has limited their opportunity to purchase
midlist titles, even from the publisher involved.
It succeeded in transferring 69 %
of the
titles and went on to adopt the use
of the enki platform for
midlist titles from about 200 publishers and several thousand self - published
titles from Smashwords.