Sentences with phrase «publishing crappy books»

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Of course there are crappy self - published books; there are also crappy traditionally published books.

And go after the thousands of talentless hacks who have tarnished your reputation over the last twenty years or so, by self - publishing a mountain of crappy, inept books, both in print and / or digitally (Amazon is nothing but a newer, bigger iUniverse).

Smashwords is well known in the publishing community for their crappy books, the vast majority of them have never even been read.

Had I been able to self - publish so easily, and had so many people been telling me what a great idea it was to skip the commercial publishers and go straight to e-publishing... well, it would mean I had some crappy books out there with my name on them, and that thought makes me cringe.

Often, the simple publishing package of $ 2K or so * might * be reasonable, but since they're farming out the book design, most of these hybrid publishers will give you crappy book design (which is the MOST important thing to get right!).

For every crappy book traditionally published, there are at least 100 times that number that were rejected and therefore never inflicted on the public.

How many crappy books have you read in the past decade that were not self - published?

Self - publishing has been overwhelmingly bad for writers and readers: crappy books are being purchased for $ 1 or $ 2 because readers look at price first — according to Writer's Market and http://authorearnings.com/.

There are crappy books published on the traditional side as well, so you'll be competing with «crappy books» just by putting your pen to paper and writing, editing and attempting to publish.

Presumably, so long as I avoid certain pitfalls of self - publishing (improper editing, crappy cover design, and lazy marketing), the only big disadvantages of going indie would be visibility: hurdles to jump to get brick - and - mortar locations to stock the title, and to get Amazon and other online retailers to stick the book cover somewhere noticeable (Hugh Howey is a very convincing pseudo-advocate for self - publishing).