Authors who can keep that sort of pace will be in high demand in the
new publishing era, and will be rewarded with more success.
At present, the book publishing industry has now entered the
digital publishing era, and thus offers great opportunities for self - publishing.
Fast forward to the independent authors in the
digital publishing era, social media and other online virtual presence promptly translate to keeping your loyal readers coming back to you.
Those of us around during the beginning of the
web publishing era remember the fights we got into trying to convince print publishers to publishing on the web, how conservative the establishing thinking was concerning digital publishing.
By paying by either a subscriptions to submit a larger catalog of titles or by paying individually to submit one book, rights» holders have the option to put their titles into reviewers» hands prior to publication without suffering through the printing and shipping process of a
bygone publishing era.
Anyhow, it's interesting because it talks about some of the problems of the traditional publishing model, and some of those cost infrastructure problems are true even of publishers that are at the tail end of the
traditional publishing era, as EC is.
We're still at the beginning of the beginning of a new
Publishing Era where people will enjoy more content in more ways, and where content will freely flow in even more ways.
(It is surprising how many global events become recognised in the
prime publishing eras of authors, another dynamic event).
We don't have a clue what the self - published tail looks like in Year 35, because we're really only in Year 3 or 4 of the self -
publishing era, and that's been coupled with the growth of digital publishing, too.
That said, given the new
publishing era we live in, publishing your own book has never been easier!!!
What Authors Want: A Comprehensive Survey of Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self -
Publishing Era is reported to have been conducted with a survey pool of nearly 5,000 authors — self - publishing, traditionally publishing, want - to - be-publishing, and «hybrids.»
Erica Verrillo presents What Authors Want posted at Publishing... And Other Forms of Insanity, saying, «Digital Book World and Writer's Digest recently conducted a survey of 5,000 authors — «What Authors Want: A Survey of Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self -
Publishing Era.»
Partly, it's because the new Self -
Publishing Era (SPE?)