Sentences with phrase «published by mainstream publishers»

Up until now I've been published by mainstream publishers.

Not exact matches

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

In other words, anyone who downloads their free textbooks will have a more accurate textbook than one published by the mainstream commercial publishers - and the process of updating the textbooks took only one day!

75 % of the stuff published by so called mainstream publishers and the establishment is not worth reading and disappears down the cracks.

Self - publishing is being brought into the mainstream against the belief that this segment generally caters to those whose works have been rejected by the traditional publishers.

Although the overall price paid for e-books was said to have fallen by around 1 % in 2015, self - published titles were still thought to be, on average, roughly half the price of mainstream publishers» e-book titles.

Yes, these were really the bad old days when self publishing was associated with authors who were deemed unworthy by mainstream publishers.

Like many other authors who are discarded or ignored by mainstream publishers for one reason or another, I had found a voice in the writing community and had discovered the confidence to self - publish, which up until that point, would have found it difficult to do so.

«My previous books have been published by large, mainstream publishers.

We strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBT authors.

In reality, self - publishing offers anyone with a manuscript and a credit card the opportunity to publish, and the success rate is less than one percent... Self - published books have yet to offer the quality and originality sometimes lacking in books produced by mainstream publishers.

As Victoria has pointed out - this is a changing business - almost by the month, and tagging on labels to mainstream publishers or publishing services of any kind is very easy and convenient, but, at times, wide of the mark.

Author by: Bob Feigel Languange Used: en Release Date: 1996 Publisher by: Mainstream Publishing Company

This is exactly how mainstream publishers zero in on commercially successful books from the self - publishing platform; Juggernaut is attempting to concentrate the activity on its platform by «building a community of readers and writers».

My book is doing a lot better than most new releases by debut authors of mainstream publishers, so in the end I think no matter how you publish, readers will ultimately decide what they want.»

Mainstream publishers are also taking advantage of these new channels, notably Tor.com, the science - fiction imprint of MacMillan, and Penguin eSpecials, both publishing low - cost short - form works by their existing authors in the form of excerpts, reprints and original new pieces.

-- that, at times, book promotion success can be greatly enhanced by having the right mainstream publishing company (and the perfect imprint of that mainstream publisher) behind the book.

For years I have fought against self - publishing on the basis that if I was good enough I would be picked up by a mainstream publisher.

Historical fiction writer Janet MacLeod Trotter, turned to self publishing after being let go by her mainstream publisher.

Self - publishing has become the tsunami, the 9.6 earthquake, the paradigm shift of the literary world, overwhelming book publishing with more titles published by authors than by mainstream publishers in the year 2010.

Although I'd published two novels with Simon and Schuster, and am represented by one of London's top agents, my memoir had been turned down by mainstream publishers.

Like other self - publishers, Christian self - publishing companies offer print - on - demand services, a nonexclusive contract, a 100 % royalty rate, e-books and many other services provided by mainstream publishers.

Numerous Golden Heart winners have gone on to get repped by good literary agents, and in turn, published by mainstream romance publishers — likely with better contract terms than S&S's boilerplate contract, which is currently riddled with rights grabs.

Battered by rejection letters from well - known publishers (often because the book is not ready for publication), the author may abandon mainstream or small press publishing to respond to a magazine advertisement or an enticing email that promises editing help, distribution, even submissions to film producers.

Rita Rosenkranz, among the first literary agents to work with indie authors, says that in the past «because of the stigma of self - publishing very good stuff was locked out by mainstream publishers.»

Books by female authors published by «traditional» (i.e. mainstream) publishers were found to command 45 % of the price of male authors» on average.

But the reality is that I am still staggered by the amount of debut authors being published every week by large mainstream publishers from the tiny percentage of submitted manuscripts which see the light of day.

In the old days of vanity publishing, those publishers had few mechanisms for book distribution, and even fewer chances of having their vanity publications taken seriously by any of the mainstream book reviewers.

I also learned that many small publishers were being wiped out by the «self - publishing revolution,» a movement that's not so unlike the «citizen journalism» or bloggers» revolt of recent years that's had a major impact on mainstream media, including this publication.

As for where I'm getting my information, I am acquainted with many mainstream - published and self - published authors and have myself just signed over one of my self - pubbed books to be republished in an updated and revised edition by a large, mainstream publisher.

Several self - published authors have found success with e-book publishing alone and even when they were picked up by one of the mainstream publishers, continued to hold onto their e-book rights.

In the NPR interview, Eisler — several of whose books have become New York Times (s nyt) bestsellers after being marketed and published by traditional agencies — says he has come to the conclusion that mainstream publishers simply aren't as efficient or as useful to authors as they used to be, now that there are other options:

«With the average price paid for these Amazon / self - published ebooks still around half the price of ebooks from «mainstream» publishers in all main categories, the overall price paid for ebooks fell by 1 percent in 2015.

I could go on and on, but I'll close by mentioning the many, many mainstream - published authors who have, or are currently, self - publishing their back catalogs (which the publisher no longer keeps in print), their more experimental work, and their manuscripts that have been rejected by their publishers for whatever reason.

Certainly not every indie published book will be a critical or retail success; but that's true of books published by the most mainstream of traditional publishers.

It's hard for a self - published book, not pushed by a mainstream publisher with deep pockets, to get noticed.

The future may be a world where authors prove themselves in the self - published world before they are snapped up by mainstream publishers.

If you've been involved with publishing very long, you know (even if you have a physical book printed by one of the prominent, mainstream publishers) you are responsible for promoting it if you want to see any real sales.