Not exact matches
Numerous Traditional Authors have left traditional
houses because they get tired of being jerked
around and only getting a
small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self
publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they
publish through an indie
house.
Since Ernest Hemingway got his break when the enlightened owner of a
small book shop
published his first work, the concept of independent writing as opposed to the preferred method of the large
publishing houses the (contract or book deal) has always been with us, as has self -
publishing which has been
around forever.
Not surprisingly,
around the same time that e-reader sales were taking off, we were seeing a real increase in Canadian e-book content ---- from
small publishers to some large
publishing houses ---- and not just in terms of new titles of bestsellers and genre fiction that are very popular with the format.
Many large and some
smaller publishing houses offer work experience placements, which usually last
around two weeks.