Sentences with phrase «only trad»

(If only trad publishers had anything like that assurance when putting out a new book.)

And that the readers who are burned by a bad self published book (despite resources like reviews & Goodreads)-- and suddenly seek out only trad pubbed books — are so few as to be negligible.

Not exact matches

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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.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

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.

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.

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

The only people who really make a noise about trad - vs self - publishing are those with a vested interest, and those opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.

My first traditionally published novel, Transgression, only sold about 6,000 copies in its trad - pubbed edition.

Somehow only for trad pubbed books and not the same series for my self - pubbed titles?

A trad - pubbed author gets an advance, and often this is the only money they ever get for the book.

She only has one indie book out, while all the rest are trad... and when she didn't get a book out for two years (three since the last one in that series), she still had fairly good sales, as many of her fans were happy to read anything she'd put out.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

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

When the bad old days of trad - only were, ah, ten years ago?

I have people writing to me on Facebook and in email and talking to me in person about how much they love my books, and here I am envying the awards and the accolades, certain that a trad pub deal was the only way I could get them.

Because if we use a trad publisher * only for those reasons (of offloading the workload) *, then we're paying too much (from our royalties) for the service.

Trad publishing has standardized length in the last few decades, but The Great Gatsby is only about 50K words.

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.

Trad publishers only go in one direction.

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.

But when I think about the NA I'd have missed covering if I only covered the trad - pubbed stuff, I'd have missed all but one of my five - star titles.

Not only can you cut it at a trad pubbed house, you can cut it with dead legends.

I only roll my eyes at trad pub and its hand - maidens when they automatically turn up their noses at indie as the great unwashed.

I think there's going to be a different blend of indie and trad publishing, and only the publishers that adapt to this are going to last.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

Your trad - pubbed book may only make $ 1000 - $ 3000, but it can be a «loss leader» like those indies» perma - frees.

Many go indie in the hopes that their book will be discovered by traditional publishers, only to find that after doing all the work it makes no sense to go trad.

Why should she only read trad authors?

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?

But you may be an indie - only reviewer, so you wouldn't be interested in a trad - pub book in any case.

Joe's initiative is great, but if we could inform our readers that the money they spend on taxes going to libraries is practically only devoted to trad pub books and ebooks, and that this doesn't reflect EXACTLY, for instance the indie market share of the first retailer in the world, maybe things would advance a little bit in the right direction.

So not only were my self - published books not included in my bio, the original trad - published book in the series (from Midnight Ink) wasn't, either.

The trad publishers can only do so much in a world of ebooks.

Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited, which enables customers to pay $ 10 a month and borrow as many books as they like — with the caveat that only some titles are in the program, which pays $ 1.33 for a borrow instead of the royalty an author would normally see (except for Amazon imprints and trad pubs, which see their full royalty on a borrow); a windfall for those writing 10K short stories or serials, but not so great for those with novels, hence limited participation.

Ch1.2 Trad - Pub, Small - Pub, Digital Only, or Indie First?

If self - pubbing is going to become the AAA farm team for trad pubbing, then, like in baseball, only the stars, who fit the team's needs at that moment, are going to get called up.

Out of my ginormous TBR list, I've read only two trad - pubbed books this year: one, a book by Darcie Chan, who had been an indie author; and two, David Levithan's marvelous YA novel, Two Boys Kissing, which I picked up at BEA and couldn't stop reading.

Not so very long ago trad pub was the only game in town.

And no, it doesn't only mean that the quick and easy way is gone — unless you consider that trad pub titles having a baked in the cake advantage with the algorithms is meaningless.

But fact is, Amazon is the only game in town for most right now, and until that starts to change, a modification of the algorithms favoring trad pub like that just made is ominous, and will carry immediate business consequences for most.

It's like the trad - pub midlist, only the indie midlist author (typically) makes more money.

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

Trad pubbers insist that New York is still the only road to brick - and - mortar stores, which lend brick - and - mortar credibility.

are not self - published), KU is only opening the gap wider between trad and self publishing.

Which is, really, the only credential in trad too.

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.

When you have only about five to ten years to create a «writing career,» you have to get it done faster than the trad - pub route moves.

Oh, and it would give the Trads even more reason to price their backlog ridiculously, since I can't be the only one who's considered it for the really old e-books they're selling for four to six bucks — so you'd be, in the long run, shrinking your share of the pot by making it so that people mostly try the really expensive books and don't even try sanely priced books, thus never getting exposed to your writing and it not leading to them buying your books outside the program.