Sentences with phrase «then trad books»

2) e-books are NOT currently cheaper then trad books, or at least, not initially; you have to buy a lot of new hardcovers to cover your $ 360 Kindle 2.0 purchase.

Not exact matches

The difference is, trad publishing houses will print books, sell them to bookstores, then buy them back and pulp them if they don't sell (something you probably can't afford to do yourself).

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

Then I read the new trad pubbed books of long - time favorite authors.

My latest idea: (1) query agents because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching agents & writing a synopsis, query letter, book proposal THEN (2) if I don't get any takers at trad - pub within a reasonable period, I self - pub because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching book bloggers & reviewers, building two websites, making or editing videos & writing tweets, Facebook posts, blogs.

Then in November of 2012, Hugh Howey negotiated a deal whereby he kept the digital rights, and in February of last year Colleen Hoover negotiated a deal to sell just the print rights to one book, without signing one of the indentured servitude contracts the trads are so fond of.

After all, it's painful enough taking the trad's lousy royalty rates, then losing ten percent to the agent, and then having to cut your book down / push it up to a certain word count, etc..

My first book was self published and then picked up by a trad.

If validation from gatekeepers, or seeing their book, however briefly, in book stores, is their thing, then trad.

Someone who has the attention of the reader and a trad publisher of the usual bad kind is only making ten or five percent royalties or less than five percent royalties on «discounted books», and then is paying twenty percent of that to his agent.

Yesterday, I saw all my trad friends posting photos of themselves at ALA and I had a moment, I was like, I wan na poster, I wan na booth, I wan na be there signing books with millions of ready made fans — all milestones I wanted to achieve, before I self published that now (in this moment) feel millions of miles of impossibility away... and then I was like, why do I care?

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pthen I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pthen perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pTHEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pthen I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pthen I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog pthen along comes this blog post.

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.