DIY — Do - it - yourself bespoke services ASP — Author Solutions Services (Packages)-- May also include Partnership publishing programs PUB — Also offers Mainstream Contracts or is a service
imprint of a traditional publishing house PRT — Printer (primarily a printer with some additional but limited services) FULL — Fulfilment Services provided for distribution logistics, warehousing of stock (including supply to wholesaler and retailers) CRW — Crowdsource
Two years down the line I could arrive at a draft that finally satisfied me from within before I Self Published it on Kindle Platform (Honestly, I was not left with much courage to tap the
doors of traditional publishing houses after all what I went through two years before).
Writers hoping to catch the
interest of a traditional publishing house were being advised by agents and editors and critique - group chatterboxes that a gigantic social media platform was an absolute necessity for success!
We came
out of traditional publishing houses where we thought there was only going to be a greater drive to reduce fixed costs and an ever increasing need to rely on the diaspora of freelance specialist talent.
I was broke and writing fiction throughout the sad decades during the
monopolization of traditional publishing houses, when we writers had no other publishing alternatives (besides paying for offset printing and then driving our books around the country in the trunks of our cars).
It was great to have them along, a chance to congratulate them on what Sanderson was careful to note is, in many cases, content «well edited, professionally presented and written with a flair equal to anything you might find on the
list of a traditional publishing house.»
This has its advantages: Amazon's imprints rarely if ever have to worry about the kinds of things that occupy the
time of a traditional publishing houses: everything from standard publicity efforts to author events and major reviews are off the table.
But in the old days when print was the only way to read, when submitting to the
terms of traditional publishing houses and B&M stores was the only way to get a book to market, when you had to buy a book as soon as you saw it or risk never seeing it again... Well, those dsys are gone.
Most recently, the news coming out of Spreecast is that it has managed to attract the
attention of traditional publishing houses» PR departments and the authors they work with in order to connect authors and readers of even bestselling books.
It is also remarkable that while the
share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.
And if having a book published by one
of the traditional publishing houses is a goal, then stay true to your dream until you achieve it.
Hocking doesn't see herself as enemy # 1
of traditional publishing houses, which have brought her the work of most of her favorite writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, and Jane Austen.
Make sure that their formatting looks professional, that their books look like something you'd see from one
of the traditional publishing houses.
How about
any of the traditional publishing houses... do you visit their pages?
But the activities of the aristocracy throw a smokescreen in front of the true revolution: self - publishing and innovative small publishers outside
of the traditional publishing houses.