Sentences with phrase «rather than traditional publishing»

As informed, wise, and purpose - driven authors who have made the decision to employ the indie route rather than the traditional publishing route for your book, you're ahead of the curve.

I have decided, for now at least, that I'm going to pursue the self / indie - publishing route rather than traditional publishing.

My new client, Lysa, is about to start a series of blog posts explaining her decision to opt for self - publishing rather than traditional publishing.

Not exact matches

The study, published in Nature, suggests that the random introduction of errors into proteins, rather than traditional natural selection, may have boosted the evolution of biological complexity.

In recent articles, we have put these mistaken notions to rest by showing the extensive scientific literature on the benefits of cod liver oil and vitamin A, as well as on the synergistic - rather than antagonistic - relationship of vitamins A and D. To bolster our premise that vitamin A is not toxic and that vitamin D can be obtained from food sources, we have published many articles on traditional diets, showing the high levels of vitamins A and D in traditional foods.

What I liked and got most out of the interview was that now agents are paying attention to books that are now being published as e-books online rather than traditional agent queries and rejections.

The premise was that BookScan shows traditional publishing is doing much better than it had and that just proves indie publishing is eventually, and sooner rather than later, going to fall by the wayside.

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.

Relieved of the wasteful economics that can accompany the traditional publishing trade - such as overprinting, warehousing, remaindering, returns, etc. - the POD - based book industry of the new millennium will be more efficient, more responsive to the specific interests and needs of readers, greener and more focused on creativity rather than commercial factors alone.»

Organizations like the Author's Guild have recently been questioned as their interests lie in furthering the traditional publishing industry, rather than the acceptance of all writers.

Finally, an author can make 70 % on their work, rather than the traditional 3 % offered by publishing houses.

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.

Ever since I got the crazy, half - baked idea in my head that I wanted the «control, speed, and cost - effectiveness of self - publishing» rather than the traditional way to do it, I've been through the ringer with pretty much all of the well - known «indie» - book creation shops.

Made me more than ever want to self - publish rather than keep waiting for traditional publishers to decide.

The reason people are making a living without being household names while the names are not is because traditional publishing has to a large extent come to treat writers as fodder for the mill, something to be profited from, rather than partners.

However, I have also found some articles suggesting that it is becoming easier to make a living self - publishing rather than going the traditional route.

You obviously have more experience than I do, but from my limited experience, I would lay out the options for someone rather than necessarily pushing traditional publishing hard.

I think maybe the fact that self - published authors need to spend more time on the stories rather than market is perhaps to balance out the fact that under traditional publishing, there'd be a team of editor / copyeditor / agent / etc helping with the writing bit, but self - published authors, unless they outsource, are on their own for all of that.

Graves added that, «we can now have access to any print format or digital product in seconds rather than weeks, this gives us the ability to challenge the traditional route to market, if we choose we can publish our content digitally first then re-flow into hardback or paperback book formats for any English - speaking market in seconds.»

Why would you want to self - publish rather than trying to sell via traditional means?

More recently, news from The Bookseller's Charlotte Eyre in London is that British children's author Jeff Norton has launched a novel, Star Pressed, on Wattpad «rather than going down the traditional publishing route.»

The rest of this article is really three discussions: Why self - publish rather than use a traditional publisher, why entrepreneurs and others who seek to stand out for career or creatuve purposes should self - publish, and finally, HOW does one go about self - publishing.

Tennicut - I've noticed that a lot of agents are now recommending their authors self publish rather than go through traditional publishing houses.

Despite the advances, traditional publishing will probably always exist and, rather than changing, some people still look down upon any book that is not published by a traditional publisher.

Otherwise, rather than hearing about self - published authors who «make it» by landing a traditional deal, we'll be hearing about other writers who decide to take a similar route to Eisler's and go it alone.

Rather than committing exclusively to self - publication or going through a traditional publishing house, authors choose the best method for their work, depending on type of book, sales market, or target audience.

Ever since I got the crazy, half - baked idea in my head that I wanted the «control, speed, and cost - effectiveness of self - publishing» rather than the traditional way -LSB-...]

How and why did you do that, rather than going through traditional publishing?

After following people like Johanna Basford and hearing about what they're doing, the fact that the traditional publishing industry is still following this and is going to publish her book in August, rather than rushing another one out, because I feel like they're rushed out last one and the third one quite quickly.

Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces oPublishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces opublishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.

The Authors Guild also estimate that author income from ebooks will be 300 % higher under this deal than under traditional publishing contracts — 60 % -63 % of retail price rather than 25 % of net receipts.

The benefit of working with a traditional publisher, rather than with an author who's self - published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.

Somebody took the Puppy Kickers advice to heart and with DragonCon, came up with awards that returned the emphasis to fans and readers rather than a small clique of people dependent on the fading traditional publishing and the poor stuff that they had been putting up for awards.

Ferriss has opined on the state of the publishing industry before, often defending his choice to work within the traditional publishing industry, but he's a savvy thinker, investor and self promoter, so I wasn't surprised to discover that he courted Amazon rather than vice versa.

Their major crime seems to be that they do so impartially and honestly rather than resorting to deceptive contracts and business practices such as I've heard are common with some traditional publishing houses.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

Self - publishing is a great option, but rather than seeing the decision of how to publish as either - or, most authors would be better served by realizing that there are a spectrum of options ranging from traditional publishing on one end to do - it - yourself (DIY) publishing on the other.

Rather than trying to hold back the tide with agency pricing and draconian DRM policies, traditional publishers need to figure out how to survive and thrive in a publishing world which is changing just as dramatically and even more rapidly.

So, you're saying that you might actually make more self - publishing a book rather than going with a traditional (paper) publisher like Tuttle?

-LSB-[4]-RSB--- especially as more readers buy online and buy digital rather than visiting physical bookstores, that dwindling haven of traditional publishing profits?

I expect as this process of digital change continues publishers and authors (some of them self publishers, some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value web I discus here).

But if you are going to publish your book with a traditional publisher rather than self - publishing, your publisher would probably object to the actual content of your book being online.

Seth Godin showed up in a Level 2 way by starting the Domino Project rather than waiting on the traditional publishing industry to figure out a better option for getting great ideas out to the public.

Coverage is reserved for reportage of self - to - traditional publishing deals rather than reviews.

Other authors are, however, dispatching more direct challenges to the traditional publishing industry model by signing deals directly with e-book retailers, rather than through their publishers.

PublishAmerica identified itself as «traditional» to distinguish itself from vanity presses, which — historically — charged authors for the privilege of seeing their work in print, rather than paying authors for the privilege of publishing it.

those however, fall under the purview of still being games created under the traditional publishing system rather than crowdfunding.

Rather than the traditional approach requiring the author to grant all rights in the work to the journal, this language has the author granting only what the journal needs to publish, and keeping all other rights for the creator of the work.