Sentences with phrase «read trad pub»

Not exact matches

She got so much buzz about her decision to turn down a trad pub contract to go indie, that everyone wanted to read or at least look at the book.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

Then I read the new trad pubbed books of long - time favorite authors.

I can honestly say that 98 % of what I read (all indie) is better than that of trad pub'd books.

There I read reviews, compare the wonderfully low price of ebook (or not if it is inflated by trad pub).

Whereas trad publishers have by their very nature had humans read and vet their books through the editting process, the sheer number of self - pubs mean that there had to be some kind of automation or you'd have a logjam.

But that being said, please, if any new writers * do * go through trad - pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.

In other words, the above graph should not be ostensibly read as whether trad pub or other markets are more profitable to the author, or whether trad pub is an altogether losing deal, but as which economic model — trad pub or otherwise — makes the most business sense.

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The more I read about trad - pub, and the more unsatisfactory new releases I read from that system, the less I question its value.

Out of my ginormous TBR list, I've read only two trad - pubbed books this year: one, a book by Darcie Chan, who had been an indie author; and two, David Levithan's marvelous YA novel, Two Boys Kissing, which I picked up at BEA and couldn't stop reading.

I've read three trad - pubbed women's fiction books in as many weeks that are much like Brevity and Illusion, so I believe my next novel will fit firmly in that category too.

I do that because I want to brand myself as a quality read, and also because that's still a bargain compared to my trad pub peers.

That's what has me shaking my head at most trad pub news I read.

I read it with interest as a self - pubbed author recently agented and in discussions with some trads.

Whether that's good or bad depends on whether you're Amazon, a trad pubbed author who doesn't participate, or an indie who is hoping that folks conditioned to read free content will decide they're worth paying for.

It's not just having to arrange for your own editing via the trad publishing route — when I read arguments against self - pubbing, I always hear about how hard it is to market your books and find your readers.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

The last three out of the four trad - pub releases I've read were «just OK.»

I believe I have read that indies are less likely to use DRM than Big 5 / trad pubs as a means of protecting IP and preventing piracy (which is a joke).