My hope is that
publishing goes the same way that music did, we we find both a common filetype and lose the DRM.
Not exact matches
If the author has a possible best seller or at least a great novel, and can obtain a stellar agent, all while continuing to produce more of the
same quality writing (Pubs love an investment); Traditional
publishing is the
way to
go.
If you attempt to pursue getting your work
published the
same way writers did ten or more years ago (querying agents and publishers), then you're almost certainly
going to be frustrated and find it an exercise in futility.
During that time Amazon
Publishing went from being a notion floating around in Jeff Bezos» head to being the worst nightmare of the big publishing houses — the same publishing houses that wouldn't give me the time of day three years ago, b
Publishing went from being a notion floating around in Jeff Bezos» head to being the worst nightmare of the big
publishing houses — the same publishing houses that wouldn't give me the time of day three years ago, b
publishing houses — the
same publishing houses that wouldn't give me the time of day three years ago, b
publishing houses that wouldn't give me the time of day three years ago, by the
way.
Just as I was beginning to accept the death of the printed book
publishing industry, I now learn that ebooks will also
go the
same way!
Using someone else's platform and, in essence, tapping into someone else's audience is an imperfect solution, but it is a solution... in the
same way that print - on - demand
publishing isn't quite
going to eclipse getting a
publishing contract from Penguin, although it can come close.
If you know your genre and audience well and know how to reach your reader (because you're scouring the
same places), then self -
publishing an ebook might be the
way to
go.
«While the publishers see the digital imprints as a
way to
publish new authors as well as to bring back once popular titles that have
gone out of print, they insisted that they are
publishing titles in the digital imprints with the
same energy as titles in traditional imprints.
I'm in the
same boat as you, I wrote a ~ 450 fantasy / satire that I first
published on Kindle and am now
publishing through LSI,
going about it basically the
same way as you.
If the editor has done all this work, and he thinks your book needs three pages of sex, and the only
way he's
going to get paid is percentage, then you just put yourself in the
same position as with traditional
publishing, where you have to take the chance this editor hit the vision just right and will make it better and not truncate it or castrate it.
There's a long
way left to
go, but in under two years I've sold tens of thousands of those
same books the trad
publishing world didn't want.
I wish more reviewers would consider self -
published works, but at the
same time sympathize with reviewers like Wist who is tired of dealing with unpolished writers and writing.Sometimes, a well - targeted, friendly email
goes a long
way.
The answers to these questions may well be «yes», and if so,
publish away, just be aware that what is exciting or interesting in real - time, doesn't always translate the
same way in writing... and people won't hang around a blog for long if they have to
go searching for the good bits — the good bits need to jump out and grab them.
They still pay the
same to market and
publish the game as they always did, but the developer side of the cost equation has
gone way up.
With Amazon Kindle, e-books, blogging and other formats disrupting the traditional
publishing model, I expect the book format to
go the
same way as the phone app i.e. free or dirt cheap for the vast majority.