A good number of indie authors have at some point been
offered traditional book deals, but they decided to do their own publishing.
Some small presses, in addition to
offering traditional book deals that work on a traditional model, also have a separate plan where authors have to pay.
Not exact matches
In fact, several of our EAP graduates have been
offered traditional deals on subsequent
books.
«My agent had gotten me an
offer for a
traditional deal, and they wanted two
books.
My method of publication: Writer wants a career in writing publishes
books independently and hopes to attract enough sales or fans so a
traditional publisher shows interest and
offers a
deal.
A good few indy - authors that I know of have since gotten
traditional publishing
deals based on their success with indy - published
books, but unless I were
offered an insanely large advance, I don't think I would go for it.
And most significantly, if you can achieve a threshold of sales, say from 5 - 10K copies on your own, a
traditional publisher may
offer you a
deal to take over the
book for their list.
Since PW isn't
offering that
deal to
traditional publishers, whose
books are considered for review without a $ 149 fee, I'm somehow not excited about the
book promotion opportunity that PW is
offering self publishers.
And yet, it's also a strong case for at least trying the
traditional path first — she was willing to take the time to put a
book out on submission and was therefore able to get a
deal on the table and actually see the numbers they were
offering (plus clauses and timeline) before turning it down.
As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his
books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also
offered to sell them at a lower price than the
traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his
deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.
The ISBN identifies your
book in distribution catalogues; buyers use it to order your book; online retailers use your ISBN to create product pages; and tracking services like Book Scan use your ISBN to track sales numbers and locations (If you hope to snag a traditional publishing deal, this is important: the house is likely to check previous sales before making an off
book in distribution catalogues; buyers use it to order your
book; online retailers use your ISBN to create product pages; and tracking services like Book Scan use your ISBN to track sales numbers and locations (If you hope to snag a traditional publishing deal, this is important: the house is likely to check previous sales before making an off
book; online retailers use your ISBN to create product pages; and tracking services like
Book Scan use your ISBN to track sales numbers and locations (If you hope to snag a traditional publishing deal, this is important: the house is likely to check previous sales before making an off
Book Scan use your ISBN to track sales numbers and locations (If you hope to snag a
traditional publishing
deal, this is important: the house is likely to check previous sales before making an
offer.)
In this contract, an unsuspecting author is
offered a «
traditional publishing
deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and
offers industry - standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's
book.
Last week, Barry turned down a $ 500,000
book deal with a major trade publisher for his next two
books and declared his intention to self - publish, while Amanda accepted a $ 2,000,000
offer from a
traditional publisher to publish four new novels.
But sadly there are still some influential people who believe that, first, self - published authors sell a lot of
books because they are cheap (Kill Me Again is currently in the Kindle UK top 20 and only one
book in the chart is more expensive) and, second, that if the writing was good, the author would be
offered a
traditional deal.