Sentences with phrase «pub book»

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.

The one $ 5.99 self - pub book in my top 100 chart above has been on the bestseller lists for a while, but just recently shifted to $ 5.99.

You'd have to know about trade - pub book distribution in each of these countries, about the way book stores decide to buy their stock, the way they deal with books they don't sell, etcetera.

I'm getting ready to self - pub a book and have been totally conflicted about self - promotion.

If you self - pub a book, and it does really well, they may invite you to re-publish as an «Amazon Encore» publication.

I just attended a crowdfunding panel at the Self Pub Book Expo in NYC last Saturday and they were very specific about that.

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

My main self - pub book is a travel guide, called Northern California Travel: The Best Options.

I have recently come out with the 2016 version of my self - pub book An Author's Perspective on Independent Publishing: Why Self - Publishing May Be Your Best Option.

Ideally, before you self - pub a book, you should send it to a professional editor.

The Self - Pub Book Expo is a trade show for self - published authors, or writers considering self - publishing.

For the fifth year, Smith Publicity exhibited at the Self - Pub Book Expo in New York City, led by Director of Sales Corinne Liccketto and other Smith team members.

I'm getting ready to self - pub a book that was previously published under a pen name.

When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

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.

The fees are too high if all you're trying to do is market a self - pub book to your potential audience, but reasonable if Hamilton can deliver the publishers.

Also — Buying a loaf of bread from the supermarket is like buying a trad pub book from B&N.

I have also had a self pub book that was picked up by a publishing house.

That's not bad money for a self - pub book, for low to typical sales.

Mine haven't self - pubbed a book about me, but I've been gone after myself.

I guess this shows how often I'm looking at trad pubbed books over there!

Some of the challenges faced by self - published authors include an unspoken stigma attached to self - pubbed books, getting reviews and publicity, and ultimately, distribution.

But given many of the realities and disadvantages of self - publishing, wouldn't it be nice if there were more rewards for creating a quality self pubbed book?

Not that I wouldn't love to see more high - quality self - pubbed books.

I don't think they are * that * rare and if IR were to be successful and actually keep the quality of the books presented on the site up, then there would be a large group of self pubbed books that didn't suck all in one place.

As a reader I can tell the difference between self or Indy pub books that have been professionally edited and those that have not.

I'm also completely unaware of any pentup demand in the consumer market for self - pubbed books - even in my tiny niche subgenre of m / m, people just aren't interested in self - pubs even though the books certainly exist, * unless * the author already has an audience (which they often do through things like fanfiction.)

I see IR as doing something similar to this for self - pubbed books in an online setting.

For every person who insists upon judging all self - pubbed books as dung because of bad experiences, Howie's data makes a compelling argument that there's another who is delighted with the offerings, either because of lower price, or perceived originality, or any of a host of possible reasons.

A self - pubbed book should be indistinguishable from trad.

As for small publishers, however, their margins are already so slender that they consider your self - pubbed book «over with.»

Just hopping over there to look at the top 100 (overall, not category) Nookbooks, they're all traditionally pubbed books.

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.

The point is, the market is self - adjusting and dynamic, and plenty of self - pubbed offerings are hitting the lists, indicating that those who paint all self - pubbed books as garbage aren't hurting many self - pubbed authors» chances.

One of the things that struck me, and probably many others, about his report and its conclusions, is that self - pubbed titles tend to average higher review ratings than trad - pubbed books.

I make a nice extra income from all my self pubbed books and my friend got snapped up last year as her book sales were attracting the attention of a well know UK agent.

Since big publishers won their lawsuit and jacked eBook prices way up, I don't buy big pub books anymore.

Could mentoring put the brakes on poorly - written self - pubbed books?

There are far more bad self - pubbed books, obviously, but most of them just never get seen.

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

Unless I have had high recommendations from a few friends, I won't buy a self - pubbed book without have looked at a decent preview.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

Paula, without exception, every librarian or book reviewer I've ever heard discuss this says that the self - pubbed books they DID look at were so overwhelmingly bad that they just couldn't spend the time anymore.

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

KU and cheap big - name Trad pubbed books have stopped sales dead for most of us.

Librarians have said the same thing — the reasons libraries don't look at self - pubbed books is that it takes too much time to wade through the muck to find the good stuff.

I still do read self - published books and find some of them good, and I give honest criticisms of both self, indie and self - pub books, some good and some bad regardless of the category they fall in.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

Frankly, I pass over over most self - pubbed books because the ones I've read have been disappointing.

I'd also love to explore foreign markets with the trad pubbed books.