Sentences with phrase «think trad»

I think trad publishers sit in a group around a table for days to create good cover copy.

I honestly don't think these trad pub heavyweights can «engage» in the way you want them to.

I think the trad pubs now get that, and with the DOJ causing grief, have to play nice.

Over time I think trad publishers will be part of that process because «self - publishing» will replace the function of the slush pile — if not also the brokering / sifting functions of agents.

I would think trad - pub houses would be less likely to do this than first - time indie authors, because the pub - houses have been around the block a few times, but that's not true!

Alex — I think trad publishers still see 80K words as the sweet spot (more for fantasy) because that seems the «right size» for a paper book.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

So my love for them is deeper, but I've never thought trad pubs were anything but large dominant players in a business where my goals ran toward setting up a nice cottage industry in the cracks they missed.

When I first started back to writing, I thought trad publishing was all there was (except for vanity presses and such).

To be fair, I think some forward thinking trad - pubs are rethinking this old paradigm as well (along with encouraging their authors to write faster, like indies, and publish side material, also like indies).

I think the trads should go for their high $ 14.99 prices.

Not exact matches

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We keep thinking of the Z4 in a trad Germanic dark silver, with red leather interior and some kick arse 20 ″ BBS wheels and think these minor issues can be overcome.

And I think the (near) future holds a lot of surprises and new turns that indie authors will be able to capitalise on (better than trad.

Among the 13 (out of 125 total) of them reporting incomes of $ 30,000 or more, 7 listed 2 or more trad published titles... so I'm thinking maybe they didn't understand the question as I did.

There are still a lot of people who think going trad makes your work legitimate somehow.

The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents and publishers think they want to read.

You are right in that there are a lot of bad indie books out there, but I also think there are a lot of bad trad books out there... some of which are indie publishers that got picked up by trad publishers because readers loved the books.

I can't stress enough not to self pub just because you think it takes too long to be trad published.

Anyway regardless of your thoughts on libraries, indie bookshops or even big bookshops, I hope this helps explain to trad and self - pubbers alike why they may not see their book on our shelves, ever.

I like how you present well - thought arguments on the trad vs indie debate.

Joel — True and I think a lot of trad published writers mistakenly thought that they could let the publisher handle things.

When you think about it, it makes sense: back when trad pub limited us to one book a year per author, there were still plenty of people who became fans of Terry Prachett, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Briggs and David Weber.

You know, when the term Stockholm Syndrome started to get applied to trad pubbed authors I thought it was a bit much.

I think there are a lot of indie and trad.

The problem is I think the same amount of work and effort needs to go into a self - pubbed book as a trad - pubbed one.

I think that many books — self or indie or trad published — skate very near the edge of what is acceptable or not.

I've been indie from the beginning, and never thought about a Trad deal, but I see the logic of what you're considering.

But when I think about the NA I'd have missed covering if I only covered the trad - pubbed stuff, I'd have missed all but one of my five - star titles.

I'm trading the indie ebook market (which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub ebook market

That will change, but for right now, I think starting with a trad career makes sense.

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

I think there's going to be a different blend of indie and trad publishing, and only the publishers that adapt to this are going to last.

Think how many trad published authors discover typos, story errors, description errors and could NOT fix it.

The other thing is that I think over the next decade or so, we're going to see a lot of independent authors do as well or better on their own, compared to how they would've done with trad publishers.

I think when the first AE report came out, July 2014, showing the sales shares of indie vs trad pub genre books, was the moment I realized that the Tra Pubs were in deep, deep, pre-processed grass and oats.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

Because this is just what trad - pubbed authors probably thought about Amazon's launch of KDP.

What makes you think indie authors lay awake at night whining that they don't have a horrible trad contract or some bauble from a committe?

I truly thinks it benefits us all to learn about self - pub and trad - pub methods.

If terms could be better for writers, then I think many of us would feel better about going with trad pub / indie pub.

Anne — I think it was incredibly helpful for me to start out trad... because I really don't think I could have successfully self - published at the time.

I do know that you've been on the trad - pub path, and I think your women's fiction / romance books are the kind that will do well there.

I think that writers who are interested in being a hybrid for * non * financial reasons (validation, because Mom dreamed of seeing our book on a shelf at B&N), will obviously find plenty of good reasons to choose trad publishing.

Those books started as trad - pub too, but now I'm so many years into self - pubbing it that I don't give it a second thought.

I thought 3 years ago, trad authors would have that realization, but they are starting to now.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

Wishful thinking... I wonder how that's going to fare if folk start putting out their research in the indie world rather than the trad textbook world.

Because when I really looked at what I wanted and what I «thought» was there for me on the trad path, the goal became empty and meaningless.

And I should also clarify that I don't think everyone who chooses to go down the trad path is «drinking Kool Aid.»