Sentences with phrase «reason traditional book publishers»

There's a reason traditional book publishers take an average of two to three years to take a book from rough manuscript to hard copy.

Not exact matches

Here are my top 5 reasons for choosing to publish your own books versus selling your books to a traditional publisher:

Traditional publishers, especially the large ones, would probably simply reject these books and authors, even though they have completely valid reasons to publish a book, and come with a built in audience and platform.

The real reasons publishers reject books and quality misconceptions about self - publishing vs. traditional publishing

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

I mean, what's so wrong with everybody putting a book out, in any form by any means — it's their choice, and nobody else, no other writer has the right to look upon others as second rate, just because they haven't managed or do not desire, for whatever reason, to not go with an old fashioned traditional publisher.

Obviously, you will have better access to your book description if you are self - publishing, but if you're working with a traditional publisher, there is no reason you can't deliver a keyword - packed 5,000 character description to them along with your manuscript.

Author Polly Courtney actually cited her book covers as one of the reasons she returned to self - publishing, admitting that her traditional book covers that had been created by the publisher's marketing team were «embarrassing.»

There is a real reason traditional publishers make all books from a bestseller look pretty much the same from book to book.

Reason # 3... I can get my books out to far, far, far more places and into more stores and more countries around the world as an indie publisher than I ever could through a traditional publisher.

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With so much discussion in the industry about reasons for authors to choose indie publishing over traditional, many authors and readers alike tend to overlook the fact that the end result of a traditional publishing deal only comes about after a publisher has signed the author's book.

For these and other reasons, you may be wise to try your luck submitting your manuscript or proposal to traditional publishers, who will handle the physical aspects of book production and distribution for you.

The reasons many look to self - publish can range from authors who had their books rejected by traditional publishers, prohibitive costs for getting published, wanting to maintain full control and full publishing rights of their books, or even curiosity to see what benefits it brings.

Seems to me the only reasons a person will «Self publish» is if she is in a great hurry to get a book «out there» in the hands of readers, or if the book is not worth reading (i.e., not good enough for traditional publishers).

That is the only reason that I might want their imprint on my books (and I do expect to publish more with the same imprint, and they will be ours), if I get recognized by a traditional publisher who wants a contract and I can agree to their terms then fine, let them put their imprint on there.

A big reason for this is the quality control that goes into a book being published with a traditional publisher.

There are many good reasons to self - publish a book, in the end, and authors who depend on traditional publishers to market their books for them, as I've said in other blogs.

If you're hoping to land a book deal with a traditional publisher, you don't want to give an editor a reason to turn your book away.

A great book might not sell to a traditional publisher for many reasons.

I call it artisanal publishing because self - publishing and vanity publishing have the negative connotation that the only reason someone published a book herself is because it wasn't good enough for a traditional publisher.