Sentences with phrase «publishers than traditional publishers»

Bowker (the entity that dispenses ISBN numbers) released statistics this past June indicating that ten times more titles are being published by independent publishers than traditional publishers.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Sortable takes a 15 - % cut of gross revenue, but Reid says publishers end up netting 30 % more than they do through the traditional system because it's simpler and there are fewer moving parts to feed.

Self and Independent publishing can get your book to the market three times faster than the traditional publisher.

Traditional publishers claim support in promotion, but every hybrid writer knows that a publisher does no promotion anymore for anyone other than mega-bestsellers.

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

Ultimately, I realized that I could do an equal or better job publishing my book than any traditional publisher.

We are a royalty - paying non-subsidy publisher and our royalties are significantly higher than those of traditional publishers.

Because writers have the tools and the readership, they're relying less on traditional publishers — and they can make much more money than they ever could have through traditional publishers.

Many people who read e-books will not pay more than $ 9.99 for an e-book and that means they don't buy an e-book from a traditional publisher when the e-book and hard cover are first released.

Had this seemingly groundbreaking movement begun with traditional publishers ten years ago, right when the digital book revolution was just barely beginning to stir, traditional publishers could have OWNED this industry rather than simply reacting to it.

Agents are slipping faster than traditional publishers and will take a ton of writers» money with them when they go down.

I have professionally produced books for digital and print platforms that look as good or better than many I see from traditional publishers.

To be honest, I've earned more in the last year selling my books directly than I would have received as an advance from a traditional publisher.

Yes the royalties are higher than one would expect to earn from a traditional publisher but it hardly offsets the amount of money spent by the author getting their book to press through one of these publishers.

Find an Agent — Most traditional publishers would rather deal with a community of trusted agents who know the publishing industry than wade through mountains of submissions, themselves.

You can make upwards of 70 percent more per book than you would through a traditional or independent publisher.

Traditional publishers E-book sales are down but indie sales are up by more than that decline.

And I don't see where you get the idea that it is easier to make money going indie than it is traditional, -LCB- to join these organizations you have to earn «x» amount of money over a single calendar year, where the specified amount for indie publishers is a * multiple * of the requirement for traditionally - published authors minimum income, because it is easier to make money by going indie, -RCB- because it is actually harder.

They also didn't want to fool around with printed copies and have far more marketing ability than I do or a traditional print publisher has.

Traditional publishers were more than willing to publish «If I Did It» by O.J. Simpson until the public outcry became too overwhelming.

In an interesting aside, even traditional publishers are looking for the multi-book author, as it's becoming more lucrative to build an author's brand with readers than to sell a stand alone title.

If you are calling out Random House Penguin, than that should be made clear, but by clumping all traditional publishers together your argument falls apart.

This simple fact scares traditional publishers more than anything, which is why this myth has grown and grown and they keep using it as a reason a writer should sign their shitty contracts.

He decided that self - publishing was an easier route than the time - consuming search for a traditional publisher.

More than half of authors who already were self - published, as well as hybrid authors, were hoping to publish with traditional publishers, at 53.5 percent and 57.8 percent, respectively.

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

To what I have heard, they are more preferable than contacting a traditional publisher directly.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are niche and at times more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.

-- Because after a short time, I can make more money with a backlist novel indie publishing it than any traditional publisher ever could.

If you ask me, this is nothing more than the traditional publisher's attempt at cashing in on the rise of the indie writer.

And although I more than earned out my advance from the traditional publisher (as well as selling numerous foreign rights), would I characterize my experience with the traditional publisher as good overall?

Almost all publishers only accept submissions through agents, so they are essential gatekeepers for anyone trying to sell a book in the traditional market rather than self - publishing.

Stephanie Bond: «If I had any qualms about leaving traditional publishing, they were settled last fall: the royalty check I received from my publisher representing six months of sales for over 40 projects was less than I'd made the previous day in KDP royalties for about 12 books.»

Productivity — do you write more books per year than a traditional publisher can handle?

That includes upselling in digital formats, control over pricing and having a great reach than traditional publishers.

When an author goes the traditional publishing route the publisher presumes to be the authority and knows better than the writer and assumes creative control of the writers intellectual property.

But, back to the traditional route, last summer I attended the World Fantasy Convention, and publishers on more than one panel expressed the desire for more genre - crossing material to come across their desks, citing techno - thrillers as an example.

That royalty rate is definitely better than most traditional publishers offer.

But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much lower than that of printed books; from both traditional and self publishers.

More and more, the indie author market is giving traditional publishers a run for their money and the big New York houses are going to have to innovate even more than they have in the past.

Indie publishers spend far less time getting their story into readers hands than a writer working the traditional system.

Trautmann: I'm not sure it's «especially» suited to «Frost,» honestly, other than our «book» is not something that traditional comics publishers would pick up.

These 12 manuscripts from among all the submissions represents a much larger «statistical likelihood» than an unsolicited manuscript finding success with being sent to a traditional publisher or agent.

But don't blog any more than a paragraph or two if your book is unpublished and you hope to get a traditional publisher some day.

You followed up with an analogy of ballroom dancing (focusing on the self publisher's motivations etc, not my article), and now you are scoping wider than my article about technological change and how traditional publishers must adapt (still not directly addressing my article).