Sentences with phrase «of midlisters»

You claim publishers would make up for ebook price caps at the expense of the midlisters or new authors, but I've personally already seen plenty of unknown authors with ebooks priced quite high, which I would argue hurt both their immediate sales and their career trajectory.

So they get rid of midlisters, because that will will ave money.

Believe me, a bunch of midlisters are having my exact results.

For 90 % of midlisters that's 5 - 10K.

(Here's the website listing Hachette's authors, highlighting bestsellers, of course, but like most publishers they have a mob of midlisters.)

Not exact matches

But there seem to be fewer of the good guys all the time — probably for the reasons you say: publishers force them to screw their midlisters to pay more to their superstars.

When that's not available, what is the likelihood of that debut author or midlister walking away from a traditional book deal over eRoyalties when the current percentage of sales done electronically is not even 1 % of the total book sales overall?

The argument that they are concerned about the midlisters doesn't fly when you consider statements like this from the head of Penguin Random House Canada, Brad Martin:

In fact, as I will now attempt to prove in terms of that other obviously agricultural matter which obviously isn't well known in NYC publishing circles, logic — in terms of talent, on average, agent - selected, traditionally published authors are... third class bestsellers, and quite possibly of less value than even midlisters, or largely indistinguishable from those.

Given the degree of support that the Big Five dahling had, the average Indy midlister would eat their lunch.

For every superstar there are a plethora of the «midlisters» in ebook land gaining readers and supplementing their incomes.

Now, I am honest enough to know there are undoubtedly better writers than me, and many of them didn't win the top 10 % lottery (the top 10 % of writers submitting are all fairly good, any one of them could be an adequate midlister.

Plus he's a ridiculously nice guy, still a regular on the Kindle Boards, sharing with other indie authors all the ins and outs of his crazy awesome success, and advocating to the media how the real indie success stories are midlisters who make a living off their writing, not just mega-successful authors like him.

Published or unpublished, traditional or indie, bestseller or midlister — at the beginning of every day we are moving forward with our writing.

I'm sure it does get muddier when it comes to traditionally published authors, although it's disingenuous to claim or even to imply that midlisters or new authors are impacted the same as bestselling authors by these sorts of fights.