No, the one thing that's always defeated self -
publishers going up against big publishers is lack of distribution.
Not exact matches
But finally they just wore down the moderates on the board, and they ended
up with a standard to replace that old, bad strength - and - weaknesses one that been used
against evolution with a phrase that is still
going to be used to beat
up the
publishers, still
going to be used to try to get evolution taught as bad science in the state of Texas.
I mean, picking a fight with a book
publisher is one thing, but
going up against the Mouse?
The five
publishers already made a consumer settlement for a total of $ 164 million, leaving Apple to
go up against the DOJ alone.
The new offering, which will allow users to buy and read books from a number of different
publishers will
go up directly
against Amazon's Kindle offering, however the iPad offers the full interactivity of a colour screen, video support and more.
That said, the traffic from self - published author to traditionally published author (or Amazon published) is still broadly
going in one direction, suggesting that even successful indie writers are faced with the same worries traditional
publishers have come
up against.
Sooner or later we are
going to see
Publishers start to team
up against it much more obviously.
Open world games are ridiculously expensive to produce, and when
going up against publishers like Ubisoft, who've turned making open world games into a factory assembly line, and Rockstar Games, whose Grand Theft Auto V has sold more than 70 million copies since its release in 2013, it's a tough sell.
Of course, I think a large
publisher would be interested in this book, but in a way doesn't that
go slightly
against the philosophy you're espousing of not looking
up to others?
Established
publishers go against start -
ups.