Sentences with phrase «than a traditional publishing house»

Self - publishing is truly great but I have a feeling it's going to be another one of those things in modern life where just because you can do it yourself doesn't mean you will be happy with the result or that the end product will be on the same level of craftsmanship than a traditional publishing house.

And online producer - retailer like Amazon turns over a far better royalty rate of return to authors than the traditional publishing houses have done — and is capable of displaying a writer's work before an almost incomprehensibly large audience of potential readers.

Not exact matches

Determine whether a traditional publishing house will be better equipped to reach your readers than you are.

«In terms of quality, it's the same or better than publishing with a traditional publishing house, because it's the same pool of talent.

Both companies offer similar services, although IUniverse was much closer to traditional publishing than Author House.

Traditional publishing even with a small publishing house affords many benefits different than Indie publishing.

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

Prunkl has edited more than [40] books, including several for Granville Island Publishing, which is not a traditional house, in that its authors pay to be published.

With Greenleaf, authors have access to full in - house services, retain the rights to their work, and earn higher royalties than with traditional publishing.

If you've tried publishing the traditional way you know what we mean... Over 750,000 manuscripts are written each year, yet less than 3 percent ever see the light of day at a traditional publishing house.

I also know another thing: that it's approximately 1000 copies more than I ever would have sold if my friends Jeff and Nathaniel had not been insistent that I not just stop when the traditional Big 6 (5) publishing houses and every literary agent of note turned me down.

There are now more self and independent published books than those produced by the traditional NY houses — and too, too many have minimal, if any, editing.

If your book makes it through the traditional publication process as you wrote it (meaning you're the most brilliant author there ever was), you'll still be seeing less of the compensation from sales than the publishing house.

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

Questions about being picked up by a major traditional publishing house, leaving those professionals without their royalties, have been raised, along with veiled concerns that this is nothing more than a carefully screened list of names that the author must still hire up front.

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

Possibly due to the fear spread in the industry by the loss of the Border's chain, traditional publishing houses have worked harder than ever before to make the shift to digital.

BUT — I also find better discounts in print than ebook, so ebook is NOT always the best value when it comes from a traditional publishing house.

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.

Discounted prices on ISBNs along with the advantage of a publishing house's seal, while maintaining more control of your work than you would have with a traditional publ...

Amazon would give her 30 % of all royalties for the 99 - cent books, rising to 70 % for the $ 2.99 editions — a much greater proportion than the traditional 10 or 15 % that publishing houses award their authors.

Our authors bring their passion to the table, and we fill in the gaps to ensure that their books are better than the books coming out of the big, traditional publishing houses.

While many authors feel they don't get enough publicity and marketing support from their publishers, the real fact is that simply being published by [a traditional] house means the author is taken more seriously by stores, by some readers, and by the media than if they are self - published.

A: After having more than 20 books published through traditional, commercial publishing houses, I decided to take the self - publishing route with my newest project, a picture book titled The Sound in the Basement, about a young boy who tries to overcome his fear of going into the basement alone.

Discounted prices on ISBNs along with the advantage of a publishing house's seal, while maintaining more control of your work than you would have with a traditional publisher.

To submit to most traditional publishers, you have to do more than send your manuscript to the publishing house and wait for them to get back to you.

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.

Largely value - priced and non-competitive with traditional trade houses, these Barnes & Noble published books likely have greater profit margins than the books they buy from other publishing houses.

While many legacy publishers may not like to think about how large the self - publishing movement is (Smashwords alone, has announced that writers have self - published more than 250,000 books on its platform), it appears that making money off self - publishing authors is just fine by the traditional houses.

When you are going through a publishing house and promoting your book the traditional way, chances are that your book won't be shelved for longer than 18 months.

As an independent publisher who has more than 30 years in this business, both with traditional houses and independents, I have to say that many aspiring authors and self - published authors particularly, tend to tar all publishers with the same brush.

It is also remarkable that while the share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.

Today in some ways you can do it better outside of the traditional publishing house than inside.

I'm not saying that ghostwriters who have done only self - published books aren't qualified — some of them are — but traditional publishing houses have standards that are typically much higher than those of self - publishing authors and companies that offer those services.

Since the percentage of books actually published with a traditional publishing house is less than 3 %, that makes it difficult for 97 % of authors to get their work published unless they go the self - published route.

Traditional publishing houses send each book to at least 3 editors, and each editor usually looks at it more than once.

As I understand it, what Amazon offer with KPD is as bad as, if not worse than, any of the worst kind of «restrictive» contracts traditional publishing houses might hand out.

He firmly believes that he can hire better editors, copy editors, book jacket designers, publicists, etc, than he would get through a traditional publishing house.