Sentences with phrase «of trad pubs»

Damian has been frantically kissing up to try and get himself in with one of the trad pubs — probably Tor or the like, in my opinion.

That's an observation that the playing field is now tilted in favor of trad pubs.

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

There's also a lot of trad pubbed crap out there.

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

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

My hunch is this was written at the suggestion of a Trad Pub house.

I can honestly say that 98 % of what I read (all indie) is better than that of trad pub'd books.

I'm not annoyed or surprised — I predicted that once Amazon had its way with the big 5, once indies had served their purpose as a stick with which to threaten trad pubs, it would go back to business as usual, where the lion's share of sales went to trad pubs and Amazon imprints (a variation of trad pub), and indies had to generate far more content and work far harder for a much smaller slice of the pie.

But when you look at the «prizes,» it gives one pause: enough of an advance to last maybe three or four months, and a contract that exemplifies the worst of trad pub practices.

I review all of my trad pub royalty statements when they come in, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for beyond checking that the various royalty rates are as they should be and running the math (cost of book x royalty rate x no.

Show us how many indies who debuted in the past ten years without the benefit of a trad pub background or an Amazon imprint deal are earning these figures and the comparison will be meaningful.

What's more likely is that they focus on their own Thomas and Mercer brand, making it successful, and push the offerings of the trad pub world, because they make more, and because those are likely higher quality than most of the indie stuff.

From most of the conversations I've seen (with a few exceptions, including this article and discussion), the two sides seem to be: «The Dinosaur of Trad Pub is Going Down!

As the value of trad pub services continues to deteriorate the rationale for staying with a house over going indie continues to weaken.

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.

The other is that since Amazon got lower prices from trad publishers, the price of trad pubbed books is through the floor.

Some of the best writers in the world chose to leave the confines of trad pub and take their careers in their own hands.

Publishing Perspectives reported that the Guadalajara Rights Center — a meeting place for publishers to exchange foreign - language rights — had sold out its 125 tables several months in advance, a sure sign of trad pub's growing interest in the global Spanish book market.

Not exact matches

More profit for trad pubs, better odds of some readers finding mine a bargain.

I agree completely with Jackie Barbosa above in that the real takeaway from this snippet of data is the unconscionably huge portion of earnings that the trad pubs get from each ebook they sell.

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).

Additionally, they're all competing with each other, and with hundreds of thousands of new trad pub offerings per year, as well as millions of backlist titles.

While it looks as though a few people MAY have listed the same books as indie - only titles (which I described as frontlist, never - traditionally - pubbed books) and backlist titles (previously trad - pubbed, now indie), I can't be certain of that, so I've counted them separately.

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.

One of the things that struck me, and probably many others, about his report and its conclusions, is that self - pubbed titles tend to average higher review ratings than trad - pubbed books.

Trad pubs earn a larger portion of their revenue off paperbacks because they've got the book stores locked down and are losing marketshare to indy ebooks.

I make my living from writing, actually, with a mix of indie and trad pub stuff, but there are people who are far more skilled than me who don't, and people who stink who make a lot more.

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

Books 2 and 3 in that «City of God» series are selling well and earning much better than they did in their first editions as trad - pubbed novels.

For example, if you are dead - set on going trad - pub, the chances of you making enough money in the beginning is fairly remote.

This is how I sold my first several books and how many of my trad - pubbed friends broke in to publishing and I have long believed it's the best way to make contacts.

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

KU and cheap big - name Trad pubbed books have stopped sales dead for most of us.

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.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

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.

Here's my answer to the inevitable discussion of how Trad Pub is «the one true path» and if you aren't Trad Pub'd, you aren't a real writer:

Indies and trad pubs alike will shell out hundreds to thousands of dollars to pull in 2,000 - 3,000 sales or 20,000 - 30,000 free downloads in a single day.

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).

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I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

With that goes risk — a DIY setup doing a trad - pub style 10k hardback print run is a huge risk in terms of warehousing, returns etc..

With trad pubbing, you give up much of this control.

Unless you were able to leverage Hugh Howey - levels of ebook sales (in which case I'm guessing Amazon would try to snap you up), I doubt a trad pub would want print rights only.