Sentences with phrase «than traditional publisher offerings»

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

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

Not exact matches

That royalty rate is definitely better than most traditional publishers offer.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

The best hybrid publishers are those that conduct some level of gatekeeping or curation (i.e., not everyone who knocks on the door is accepted as an author), offer some value that authors would have a hard time securing on their own (such as brick - and - mortar distribution), and pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.

To summarize: The best hybrid publishers conduct some level of gatekeeping, offer value that the author would have a hard time securing on her own, and should also pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.

I was just listening to a Joanna Penn podcast with Jane Friedman in which they said contracts traditional publishers are offering first - time authors are worse than ever.

Royalty rates given to Amazon Publishing authors differ, but they tend to be far closer to the 70 % royalty given to those who self - publish on Amazon than those offered by traditional publishers.

There are already more thrillers being cranked out by traditional presses than most people have time to read, and if those titles were all the same price as their self - published brethren, there would be much less incentive to try out the offerings from self - publishers.

They may not pay much of an advance, but they may also offer somewhat higher royalties than a traditional large publisher.

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.

Publishing Scam Artists: Spotting the Sharks Rather than carefully selecting and investing in books in exchange for a percentage of profits as do traditional publishers, or offering self - publishing services such as editing or design for a fee and letting authors keep their royalties, vanity presses take a cut from both pieces of the pie.

The move promises to raise the already high anxiety level among publishers about the economics of digital publishing and could offer authors a way to earn more profits from their works than they do under the traditional system.

But given everything (including the abysmal offer I got from a traditional, midsize publisher for my first book), I think I've made more money self - publishing than I would have with a traditional publisher.

The traditional publishers also have an advantage in generally offering larger advances than Amazon, Masello said.

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.

(Perhaps more importantly: a publisher on the private Reading2.0 mailing list has said, to effect: there is no traditional publisher in the world right now that can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better than what she's currently getting, right now on the Kindle store, all on her own.)

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

Traditional services like concept vetting, editing, and distribution are still important, but there may be no greater offering to the individual Author than the Publisher's profile building experience.