As an indie author, you can also make edits to your book cover, your price, and other important details based on reader feedback before you move to a final version, and this is not
something traditional deals typically allow.
Not exact matches
Offering only numbers is
something that
traditional brokerage firms do, and a lot of time is leads to
deals that end up falling through the floor, because the amount of money a business needs often has little to do with why they need it or the reasons their current financial situation is the way it is.
IK: It is perhaps safe to say that disruption in all
traditional industries in general, and in procurement, in particular, is not just inevitable and
something to be
dealt with, but even desirable.
This is, of course, assuming that you still want to get a
traditional book
deal —
something that in this economy, what with shrinking advances and royalties, you may end up reconsidering.
This was a process that took more than two years and netted perhaps the same return a
traditional deal would have produced... and that's
something that smart startups in the publishing world are fighting against.
The character is at once
dealing with a very specific situation — being a first - generation immigrant, negotiating the tricky divide between
traditional family ways and the life of an American teenager — and
something very universal, the need for teenagers to find their own identity and place in the world.
So
traditional publishers taking so long is just not
something I want to
deal with anymore at my age.
Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate
something that not many in the industry know: a
traditional publishing
deal might actually do more harm than good for an author.
Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate
something that not many in the industry know: a
traditional publishing
deal might actually do more... [Read more...]
As you blog your book, you can do
something more meaningful than build a foundation of avid fans and readers for your finished product or even land a
traditional book
deal.
There is a vocal camp that have now sworn off
traditional publishing forever but I think most indies are still interested in a publishing
deal, if it offers
something they can't do or don't want to do themselves.
Something we've heard a lot of lately is that publishers have to diversify the way they
deal with copyright, a large part of which is selling or acquiring rights outside the
traditional publishing channels of book fairs and trade shows.
I don't see the way that
traditional publishers are
dealing with authors as
something I like or completely trust.
Patrice: You have a
traditional print publishing
deal with Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and Random House in the U.K., as well as publishing arrangements in twenty -
something other countries for translated versions.
Traditional markets are fairly efficient — there's
something called efficient market hypothesis; you're not gonna build incredible wealth in the stock market, and you're gonna have to
deal with the volatility.
The model behind it... that
traditional medicine, evidence based, medicine is outstanding at addressing acute diseases, but alternative and more ancient models of medicine has
something to offer with chronic diseases, makes a great
deal of sense.
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something more
traditional for those of you who like to keep things old - school.
At that time, the gurus with
something for sale seemed concerned with more
traditional (but risky and / or difficult) investment strategies like no money down
deals, tax auctions, short sales, ect...
This is not
something I experienced when
dealing with many
traditional agents when I was getting started.