Sentences with phrase «than the traditional publisher»

Self and Independent publishing can get your book to the market three times faster than the traditional publisher.

Ultimately, I realized that I could do an equal or better job publishing my book than any traditional publisher.

Agents are slipping faster than traditional publishers and will take a ton of writers» money with them when they go down.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

-- Because after a short time, I can make more money with a backlist novel indie publishing it than any traditional publisher ever could.

If you ask me, this is nothing more than the traditional publisher's attempt at cashing in on the rise of the indie writer.

Productivity — do you write more books per year than a traditional publisher can handle?

That includes upselling in digital formats, control over pricing and having a great reach than traditional publishers.

I can write an entire novel faster than any traditional publisher can cut a check.

The technological advance that is most useful for self - publishers, more than traditional publishers, are online systems that enable the self - publishers to directly upload word processed documents, which are converted into an epublishable form.

Most of that fluff and blather is coming from new intermediaries who take a smaller cut than traditional publishers, while putting your eBook on a virtual shelf where no one who doesn't already know it exists will ever find it.

Amazon royalty rates are better than the traditional publishers, at least when it comes to e-books.

Not only that, but the self - publishing world arguably demands more of writers than any traditional publisher, requiring them to become their own editors, marketers and agents, among other things.

That is quite a few less than a traditional publisher, BUT (and this is a big one) there are some MAJOR benefits Amazon works in compared to a traditional publisher.

Self - publishers can race their books to market much faster than traditional publishers can, particularly if they're producing ebook and print - on - demand books only.

At Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much better royalty rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail price).

35 percent is still a lot more than traditional publishers offer anyone these days.

There is the fact that, if you pick a reputable and cost - effective publisher, you will get higher royalty checks than a traditional publisher.

It's a price one pays to present a top - notch product and do it much faster than the traditional publisher can.

Just like I have the potential of making more money this way, an E-Publisher needs to sell fewer books than a traditional publisher to recoup its expenses and start making a profit.

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

Third, because of advances in printing, they can bring books to market more quickly than traditional publishers.

Independent publishers also generally pay higher average royalty percentages than traditional publishers.

According to the report, indie authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more ebooks daily than all traditional publishers put together.

Some self - publishing companies turn out better looking books than traditional publishers.

Independent authors — without agents, publishing deals, or marketing dollars — face radically different pricing concerns than traditional publishers and publishing startups like Byliner and The Domino Project.

Bowker (the entity that dispenses ISBN numbers) released statistics this past June indicating that ten times more titles are being published by independent publishers than traditional publishers.

And because I believe the pie is one hell of a lot bigger than traditional publishers or agents think it is, I will support and encourage you or anyone else who wants to give it a go and not sneer at them because they weren't traditionally published.

What I am saying is that indies operate in a different and more dynamic publishing environment than traditional publishers.

In this new role as a partner rather than a traditional publisher, however, I became more engaged with the lives of the businesses and organisations I've worked with, and over the course of the last year came a quiet revelation: to stretch the astronomical metaphor to its limits, the book is not a lone star but the centre of a solar system.

and honestly the prestige was very tempting — but because I want to handle this series differently than a traditional publisher would, and it's easier for me to do that if I self - publish.

Self - publishers can make this reader connection — and oftentimes do it even better than traditional publishers can do on an author's behalf.

New, lower pricing models driven largely by startups — Even if your competitor's content isn't free it's still often much lower - priced than traditional publishers are comfortable with.

I agree that indie authors are better at getting into nontraditional venues than traditional publishers.

Others will be sufficiently seduced by the prospect of earning «100 % of net» rather than the traditional publisher offer of «15 % of net.»

Another huge advantage of indie authors is that they are far more agile than traditional publishers.

If indies are selling more genre ebooks than traditional publishers in early 2014, unless traditionally - published ebooks somehow make a massive turnaround in ways they haven't before, indie dominance is likely to grow.

I wanted to do a better job than the traditional publishers would would have done, in every way.

As indies have smaller budgets than traditional publishers, does this endanger the quality of cover art and illustration we're going to see in the future?

Philosophically, I believe people should be free to choose their own paths, but to me, the indie path seems to offer so much more to the author than traditional publishers do.

A lot of people are self - publishing because they feel they can do a better job of reaching their audience than traditional publishers can.

I would argue that it is Amazon by a landslide, thanks to the Kindle platform and related features — many of which provide writers with a far greater share of the proceeds from their work than any traditional publisher has ever dreamed of paying.

Bowker reported in 2008 that more titles were published through self - publishing than traditional publishers.

Academic presses can be more discerning about the rigor of your work than traditional publishers.

Now, in the indie world, you have the ability to move that schedule up because you can publish faster than a traditional publisher can.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Sortable takes a 15 - % cut of gross revenue, but Reid says publishers end up netting 30 % more than they do through the traditional system because it's simpler and there are fewer moving parts to feed.

Traditional publishers claim support in promotion, but every hybrid writer knows that a publisher does no promotion anymore for anyone other than mega-bestsellers.

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

We are a royalty - paying non-subsidy publisher and our royalties are significantly higher than those of traditional publishers.