It's optional but it does give you a couple of marketing advantages
over authors who choose not to join.
If we can get our books into the major libraries around the world, it'll give out authors a long term
advantage over authors who aren't in libraries.
They are the same people who have run
over authors in the past and only changed their ways because author's organizations demanded it so.
Only authors who have the option to price their books that low can see this
gain over authors whose titles are priced by the publisher.
You are welcome to submit to the magazines work that meets the above conditions, but will not be given
preference over authors from the general submission pool.
Doing these things not only on your author website About Page, but
consistently over your author platform, will entice others to find out more about you and follow you.
Also, big publishers hold
royalties over their authors and this can cut into the possible additional income of the authors and they may want to become indie publishers instead because of it.
The developmental editor's job to be helpful and supportive, make specific suggestions which the writer is free to accept or reject, and never put their own
ego over the author's.
Penguin Group is
taking over Author Solutions Inc., marking the first major acquisition of a large - scale self - publishing company by a traditional book producer.
But if $ 3.99 for six months is the price of getting Baen eBooks into the Kindle store and improving the royalties paid by the only semi-traditional publisher in the world that isn't totally and completely devoted, day and night, to finding new ways to
screw over the authors who write for them?
The publisher made the statement that Weiss was invaluable during the transition time when Penguin took
over Author Solutions, but that he would be moving on.
By choosing Facebook
over an author website, you are investing time and energy in a platform that might vanish away over the next few years.
BRC reviewer personal comments: It took me a few pages to
get over the author's mantra of «women have the power in the relationship» because it was sinking in in regards to what the author meant.
Philip Pullman has joined in the
debate over author earnings, saying they could soon be extinct if publishers fail to deliver on fairer terms...
Philip Pullman has joined in the debate
over author earnings, saying writers could soon be «an endangered species» if publishers fail to deliver on fairer terms.
I recieved this book from the publisher and while I'll be
skipping over the author's nutritional recommendations, the recipes look really tasty to me; it's also beautifully photographed and I am a sucker for pretty cookbooks.
Just as Amazon gives authors quite a bit of control
over their Author Page, they also give authors the opportunity to edit much of the information that appears on their book's Product Detail Page including the Product Description, About the Author, From the Author, From the Inside Flap, From the Back Cover, and Reviews.
Hachette has made it publicly known they want a return to no - discount agency and $ 15 ebook prices despite all the evidence that it will result in a three - player market controlled by Amazon, Apple, and Google because, like the rest of the conspirators, their primary interest is maximizing reader - spend and crippling the ebook marketplace to protect their print - based
power over authors.
Nonexclusive Contract - A contract in which the publisher does not contain the exclusive
rights over an author's published material.
If you
read over this author's previous posts, you will clearly see the bias and, I suspect, you will come to the same conclusion that I have — that this author has zero credibility and has some alternative motivation for his hyperbolic and misleading articles.
Time and again, we've seen examples of authors publishing both a print and eBook version of their works and going on to sell more than double the amount of total
copies over authors who only sell one or the other.
The huge sickle that the Big 6 used to
wield over authors and publishing is now just a butter knife.
Traditional publishers are deluding themselves if they think they hold the whip -
hand over authors.
Third party vendors using online storefronts have sprung up on various retail sites that sell authors» print editions at an astounding
markup over the authors» own sales» pages, sometimes listing CreateSpace paperback editions for as much as $ 40 or more.
Unfortunately, in this climate of political angsts and «keyboard commandos,» the list of banned and challenged books is growing, not due to their content but due to public
outcry over the author.
While some of that rests on the shoulders of consumers who were not sure they were going to get the value of paying a flat - fee for the ability to read books, it was also the publishers who were wary of
turning over their authors» works without a clear understanding of how this was going to be profitable for them and for their authors.
Kindle Unlimited certainly seems to still be geared towards the
consumer over the author, but some have still find it beneficial.
That's why it's a smart idea to hire an expert web designer to
watch over your author portal to keep it safe, protected, and search engine optimized in the fairest, most organic way.
Especially the «Agency pricing» and «control»
quotation over authors reminds me of a desperate king trying to enforce his waning power.
At the Society of Authors» site in the UK, you'll see «The Tide is Turning,» an update on that nation's
controversy over author compensation and exclusivity clauses on author appearances.
Yes, traditional publishers will send out a few review copies and provide bookmarks for you to hand out, and they'll push the book (along with their entire catalogue of books) to their list of booksellers and reviewers, so that's a definite advantage
over the author going it on his / her own.
We will not be told how authors B, C... N actually exercised any intellectual or editorial
discipline over author A.
By voluntarily posting on a site like Slaw wouldn't that be, in essence, granting a non-exclusive
licence over authored works?
Another bit of news that caught my eye serves as confirmation of some of my concerns when I heard that Penguin was
taking over Author Solutions.
In the meantime, Amazon is trying to
win over authors to their side by offering 100 % royalties to Hachette authors.