Sentences with phrase «than traditional publishers»

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

Traditional publishers also have editors that will work on your book, but the whole idea of professional self - publishing is to do a better job than the traditional publishers.

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

But the per - unit revenue is often lower than traditional publisher offerings.

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

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

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

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

Actually, they've been more responsive than some traditional publishers.

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

Because many indie authors publish quicker than traditional publishers, three months in advance is probably the ideal window.

Actually, even much less, since I am much better at selling foreign rights than traditional publishers are.

They were working just as hard, moving much faster than the traditional publishers could, and keeping more of the profits.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

I've been reading up on this and Commercial Publisher seems to be a more accurate term than Traditional Publisher — apparently this term was dreamed up by someone over at Publish America.

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.

But as time wore on in that first early stage, and it looked like ebooks were here to stay and were growing in percentage of all books sold, many of us started realizing that we could price our books higher, but still lower than traditional publishers and make a ton of money and still give readers good deals.

Indie Author covers also more closely describe the story than traditional publisher covers, particularly in Romance, Thrillers, and Suspense.

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.

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

In Sepinwall's case, an author with a built - in platform (a popular column and webite, over 50,000 Twitter followers), was able to publish a book that was more immediate than a traditional publisher's schedule would have allowed.

By default, they immediately become a major player in the markets they enter, and because publishing is likely to be a minor revenue stream feeding the Amazon Ocean for the foreseeable future, they're undoubtedly going to be more aggressive in making deals than a traditional publisher can be.

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.

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.

Donna, based on my unscientific and incomplete survey above, I'd guess we're more skewed to fiction and women than traditional publishers.

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

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.

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

He's betting that his ability to attract new readers by offering a lower price point than his traditional publisher and the higher per - copy royalty for self - pubbed e-books will offset the loss of existing readers.

The biggest advantage to self - publishing is guerrilla pricing — you get to publish for free, or 99cents — which means tons more downloads and sales than the traditional publishers.

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.

This is much more than traditional publishers pay, a fact that Amazon frequently points out.

I do create print versions for all of my full - length self - published novels and I do sell a few copies of each book every month, which, because of the short «shelf life» of books in stores, is generally more than my traditional publisher sells in bookstores.

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