Sentences with phrase «trad pub»

There are too many benefits to self - publishing for trad pub authors to ignore forever.

To praise the (so - called) glories of trad pubs in an article so rife with technical mistakes is hubris at its worst.

Assisted self - pub: This is for the folks who are interested in trad pub because of the cover design, editing, and formatting.

If the work had merit they would coordinate setting the author up with all those necessary functions normally expected from trad pub like cover development, final copy edit, marketing and promotion, adding the polish to take a book indie with better chance of success.

That means that indies can't compete with trad pub titles for visibility, as they don't have the same tools — they can't set a list price, and they can't price their books over $ 9.99 (unless they want 35 % commission, which would be daft).

The reviews that take the place of those earned by trad pubbed authors from the trades?

Their move smacks as yet more anti-indie bias as many of the big trad pubs don't participate in KU.

I guess this shows how often I'm looking at trad pubbed books over there!

Some will see fairer trad pub contracts, too.

«I've been grumbling about trad pub fiction because more and more of it has typos, pagination flaws, isn't edited beyond Spell - Check,»

So it sounds like what trad pubs offer is their publishing house's name, cover design and * some * distribution.

Most of these writers don't waste a thought on trad pubs.

:) Punny is what trad pub likes.

Jim and Bryan's ho - ho - holiday episode of SMBS touched upon the popular podcast Serial, the big boost adults buying YA gave the industry, Macmillan's deal with Amazon, Konrath dropping out of KU, and what trad pubs learned in 2014.

I know many, many trad pubbed writers going this route.

I think trad pubbed books are about 10 - 15 % royalties.

I agree on the permission thing — I really couldn't believe how many trad pub authors said things like «my agent won't let me do that,» or «my publisher wants me to write something different.»

If trad pub authors contest those figures, I hope they will lead serious and transparent, open - sourced research on these matters.

It's understandable that many SP titles out - sell trad pub titles by a big margin, but when unit - revenue is included, the picture is likely to appear very different.

I'm actually at the top of the indie author price curve, in nosebleed territory for indies, kissing trad pub pricing, so this isn't the case of «People will try anything if it's only.99» that we saw a few years ago.

I will say that there may come a time when I may not really need the push that trad pub gives me... and then I'll go totally solo.

I'm actually more concerned over the change to the calculations which now appear to favor higher priced (read trad pub) books.

The Reformation of Trad Pub into a fairer and more author - friendly industry is looking like an increasingly inevitable consequence for those that will survive.

If they have good product, many first time indie novelists can and do make trad pub advance numbers.

I personally never see this endless din of publicity by hack self - pubbed authors (nor do I see it much by trad pub ones) becasue I simply block that stuff for the most part.

Readers are seemingly becoming averse to these higher - priced books and, as a result, are buying trad pubbed books less often.

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

These days, I have the feeling that the people that will endlessly pursue the elusive perfection of craft will simply be the people who want to do this, the same as always regardless of the path they take, whether trad pub or self pub or something in between.

I don't know if it's the norm (I have heard other trad pub author friends where this isn't the case), but I think it should be!

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

Surprise, surprise, it's all big name trad pubbed titles — but there's a reason these big names got to be so big — it's because they are available everywhere.

Sarah Hoyt, Dave Freer, and Margaret Ball on this site alone, started Trad Pub.

I bring this up because there are still book reviewers and editors who exclusively review trad pub books.

Additionally, they're all competing with each other, and with hundreds of thousands of new trad pub offerings per year, as well as millions of backlist titles.

What trad pub paid you to write their propaganda?

And yes, if both Baen and I die eat trad pub for lunch, market - share-wise, I count that as a win.