Sentences with phrase «on trad published»

Another complaint I have is that they do have the «other readers who purchased this also bought this» feature (it is not as extensive as the Amazon one), but they only offer that feature on Trad published books.

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.

Thanks for this advice and information on trad publishing.

Not exact matches

Just has a different perspective on the publishing industry from many indies, and is more used to people having the goal of a trad deal.

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).

It doesn't matter that I've made as much on several of my books as I would with a trad publishing contract.

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

Especially with the limited qualifiers you added; being successful enough to traditionally publish on your own terms (which indie publishing might * get * you to) or just wanting the traditional cred in itself are the only good reasons to take the trad route.

You put out samples, you sell your work yourself, people like it, talk about it — the movers & shakers in the trad publishing industry aren't just sitting on their thumbs when they aren't reading; they're scanning the «net and seeing what people are saying about writers like you.

I know KR and DWS are very down on agents, but they were already established authors who had built reputations through trad publishing before they went indie.

As I've continued on my self - publishing path, though, I've felt more frustration with what happens with my trad - pubbed books.

Each of the speakers will outline over 30 minutes, their take on the what's required for success in either the self publishing or trad publishing worlds.

While self - publishers face an equally difficult set of challenges as trad publishers, this post focuses on the advantages, not the difficulties, of self - publishing.

And the Ilona Andrews self pub book has done well, but likely has not made as much as advances on Ilona Andrews trad published books.

Don't get me wrong, guys — I'm not down on trad pub, and I'm not one of the folks saying that «traditional publishing is doomed».

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

Trad publishing also has some great things going for it, but there are also drawbacks that an author has to weigh before signing on the dotted line.

Yes, on balance, there are probably more trad published books that are better than indie books but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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.

Indie publishing forces you to rely on your own instincts in that it allows you to write stuff that a trad publisher wouldn't look at — not because it's bad, but because it's different.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

I've been trad published, and the last contract I saw was so much worse than the first from the same publisher — not on money but on everything else — that it's crazy.

This column caused me to go check on my first trad published book — one that I got a very good advance for 11 years ago and pretty much figure I'll never see another penny from.

Frankly, my self - published book prices look amazing next to my trad - published book prices on my Amazon author page.

On the other hand, you have trad published books being reviewed by trad media because the publishers — via ad dollars — support them.

I think that writers who are interested in being a hybrid for * non * financial reasons (validation, because Mom dreamed of seeing our book on a shelf at B&N), will obviously find plenty of good reasons to choose trad publishing.

I went on a book tour with a group of trad - published authors.

With what I know now of the publishing industry (thanks to the great blogs mentioned above, as well as the fantastic explanations offered by The Passive Voice and Rusch on the minefield of rights» grabs that are traditional publishing contracts), I would be cautious if I were ever approached for a trad deal.

And on the quality issue, it's just a TINY bit unfair to go on and on about how bad most self published books are when just as many authors on the trad train suck just as much.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

That said, I'm going to have to start a new series / brand targeted to a traditional publisher, and maybe later I will be able to either afford to publish my self - pubbed series on my own, or hope that if I do find a trad pub later that they might consider my previous works.

Well, no, probably not, but author platform building is the same process for indies as it is for trad published, and most of it is done on the internet.

Detractors of ebooks and self - publishing focus on the downside of publishing anything you want, but authors (both self - pub and trad - pub) are just beginning to explore the upside of publishing anything you want.

And, like it or not, as indies, we operate in a world where our readers understand, on the whole, that we don't have the overhead trad published titles have.

While many authors have focused on indie publishing the novels that were originally trad - pub bound, we're just beginning to move into the era where works are being created solely, from conception to completion, for publication as ebooks.

Occasionally one of these authors is even invited to speak or be on a panel with trad published authors.

Without big publishers entering the game (only around 3 % of the titles on KU are not self - published), KU is only opening the gap wider between trad and self publishing.

I'm also curious as to why Amazon Publishing isn't counted in on the trad pub side in many of these conclusions.

One last thing that I should be clear on: Some authors are not entrepreneurs and will do better by trad - publishing.

And on the other side are our «trad scribes,» the traditionally published authors who say that Hachette's writers and readers are innocent victims of Amazonian strong - arm tactics.

Bookended with more info on writing in general and tips for planning for trad or self publishing, I think it could be a marvelous resource.

There is no reason for trad - published authors and self - pubbers to look down on each other.

If all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consider.

If someone from a big trad publishing house came knocking on my door (metaphorically - speaking) offering a generous contract for one of my books... I would turn it down.

The trad publishing world, though, is wrapped around counting sales on release day.

What happens to trad publishing depends on how that sector reacts to the changing culture and technology.

But in the case of publishing, while trad publishers may not all come out on top, the changes that are occuring are better for readers, and I think for writers too.

And of course, there people at all points along the scale from A to B. I'm not sure if TWUC's standards are workable, but at least they're working on it — and they're willing to admit that not all the good authors are going through the trad - publishing gate these days.