Sentences with phrase «pie than the publisher»

People are publishing books on their own because they choose to — because they see opportunities in the market and want a bigger share of the pie than publishers offer; because they want full control of their book; for some, because they just want a relic of their work to share with friends and family.

Not exact matches

This was a reducibly foolish argument: publishers are paying less for books, therefore the agent deserves a bigger piece of the smaller pie than the author of the book.

Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.

And because I believe the pie is one hell of a lot bigger than traditional publishers or agents think it is, I will support and encourage you or anyone else who wants to give it a go and not sneer at them because they weren't traditionally published.

In other words, the pie is a lot large than publishers think, because they are only measuring some of it.

And though Author Earnings shows that in terms of gross dollars made off ebooks, Big Five publishers do better than self - published authors, the site also shows that as a group, self - published authors are taking home more of the pie than those who publish with the Big Five.

They help you market and they take a slice of the royalty pie, but far less than any legacy publisher.