Sentences with phrase «of trad authors»

It seems that in most trad publishing arrangements there is an agent involved, and 15 % less in the pockets of trad authors is a pretty big shift in the figures you calculate.

With author Alexandra Lynwood in faithful pursuit, however, even the engaged and engaging Zacharius seems to run up on yet another interesting silence: The Silence of the Trad Authors.

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.

Not exact matches

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

We are in a flood of authors and books, and it doesn't matter if you are a Trad - Author or Indie Author we all float the same and we're on our own.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

And I think the (near) future holds a lot of surprises and new turns that indie authors will be able to capitalise on (better than trad.

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents and publishers think they want to read.

This year I received responses from a total of 227 authors, representing 2,594 indie titles of which 1928 were frontlist indie titles and 666 were backlist (trad - pubbed, now indie) titles, assuming no duplicates (see above).

The top news of the week touched upon waning ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.

Are poets not authors, because books of poetry typically have low sales, whether self - published or trad - published?

Now trad publishers are scrambling to sign some of the authors they turned away because they have proven that readers want to have more of a selection.

The poor trad - published Official Koslowski Authors must be so sad having to share their Goodreads shelf space with the absolute scum of the Earth.

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.

I outsell 50 % of the authors on Amazon, both trad and indie, but because some editor didn't validate me I'm not deserving of the title «real author»?

LK — A lot of agents and publishers are making trad pubbed authors do this stuff.

When you think about it, it makes sense: back when trad pub limited us to one book a year per author, there were still plenty of people who became fans of Terry Prachett, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Briggs and David Weber.

And you're also correct that trad - pubbed authors earn only a fraction of the net revenue for each book sold.

Many of my author friends are trad published, and I always saw that as a grass - is - greener issue.

Some of the biggest indie authors first got their start in trad pub, while others never sent out a single query letter before hitting it big.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

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.

We actually talk to authors - you see a few blog posts and articles and believe we are at war but the reality is many of us know trad published authors - some are happy, some are becoming unhappy, some are in the middle of lawsuits, some are no longer writing because they couldn't afford to sue and gave up.

You are not one of the big 5 and many of us commenting on Joes blog have trad author friends.

Most authors who go with them from Trad Pub speak very highly of them.

Manufacturer of raw goods (authors)- > Supplier of finished goods (trads)- > Amazon - > Final customer (reader) Then there is Amazon.

I am friends with several authors who came out of trads because of rigidity and low returns.

Considering how poorly trained the volunteers were — most of whom are readers and have zero idea of author politics or the indie / trad battle of bruised egos — I'm not surprised if a) one or two volunteers got the designation wrong and / or b) the overheard conversations had zero to do with the book signing and were instead «why does your name badge say that / what do you write / do you have a book out?»

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

I know of very few trad pub authors who made six figures on their first novels.

For most trad pub authors, you are on your own to do most of the same promotion you'd do as an indie.

Then I read the new trad pubbed books of long - time favorite authors.

For every Brandon, there are thousands of trad pub authors that came and went.

[NOTE: of course, there are authors who do some combination of the above, some books indie, some trad - pub, etc..

It's also worth noting that the author of the AE report, Hugh Howey, admitted in comments on Chuck Wendig's blog (fourth down) that actually he earned more from trad pub last year that he did from Amazon.

Author of #historical fiction, ex costume designer, history, art and nature fan (currently both trad and indie published).

Nice little round - up of blogs authors of all stripes, indie and trad alike, should be following.

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

And since the onus of marketing is vastly on me and my coauthor (something else many self - publishing authors don't realize — they'll have to do the majority of book promotion themselves regardless of how they publish), there hasn't been a real advantage to going the trad route.

And one of the biggest negative effects we've now created as indie authors is denigrating the value of ebooks — specifically indie ebooks, as you'll find the trad pubs don't do much, if any, free promo — in the eyes of the audience that buys them.

The other thing is that I think over the next decade or so, we're going to see a lot of independent authors do as well or better on their own, compared to how they would've done with trad publishers.

I'll answer by repeating Shawn's point, that a surprising proportion of readers wouldn't know a trad - pub from a self - pub author.

Once again, Kozlowski's argument is to infantilize the reader and whine that they need to be «protected» from the scourge of indie authors, as if the average reader can't tell a poorly written, sloppy book from the crisp and beautiful books produced by trad publishers.

More than that, the trad authors are afraid of being pushed out, which they should be.

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

Because this is just what trad - pubbed authors probably thought about Amazon's launch of KDP.

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 publAuthor 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 publauthor in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie publauthor's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

Asserting that self - publishers take away seven times more than trad published authors may appeal to his audience, but ignores the fact that Amazon pays just 35 % much of the time.