Sentences with phrase «trad pub likes»

But fact is, Amazon is the only game in town for most right now, and until that starts to change, a modification of the algorithms favoring trad pub like that just made is ominous, and will carry immediate business consequences for most.

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.

Not exact matches

This blog is mainly for newer writers, not bestselling trad pubbed authors like you.

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.

I rarely comment on posts like this — I know very little about the trad - pubbed world:).

Also — Buying a loaf of bread from the supermarket is like buying a trad pub book from B&N.

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

And that the readers who are burned by a bad self published book (despite resources like reviews & Goodreads)-- and suddenly seek out only trad pubbed books — are so few as to be negligible.

Your trad - pubbed book may only make $ 1000 - $ 3000, but it can be a «loss leader» like those indies» perma - frees.

Why aren't any of the trad - pub houses going in for a royalty - cut of the sales deal like we get online?

So many blogs these days really run trad - pub into the ground and I like and admire your balanced approach.

People like Mike Shatzkin who defend trad pub often use it.

Nothing like telling trad pubbed authors just how much bank they're losing due to their contracts.

Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited, which enables customers to pay $ 10 a month and borrow as many books as they like — with the caveat that only some titles are in the program, which pays $ 1.33 for a borrow instead of the royalty an author would normally see (except for Amazon imprints and trad pubs, which see their full royalty on a borrow); a windfall for those writing 10K short stories or serials, but not so great for those with novels, hence limited participation.

I also believe that they offer different terms to trad pub on Select, like not having to be exclusive, so if you believe that the playing field isn't already slanted, look no further than that.

If self - pubbing is going to become the AAA farm team for trad pubbing, then, like in baseball, only the stars, who fit the team's needs at that moment, are going to get called up.

The likes of which we will never see again, because circumstances will never be the same — the combination of emerging technology, purchasing habits of early adopters of that technology, novelty of cheap content, fascination with the concept of not having to wait to be traditionally published... and Amazon's tough, adversarial stance with the trad pub giants all conspired to create that wondrous era.

I've read three trad - pubbed women's fiction books in as many weeks that are much like Brevity and Illusion, so I believe my next novel will fit firmly in that category too.

It's like the trad - pub midlist, only the indie midlist author (typically) makes more money.

I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.

It sounds like she is one of those «trad pub or no pub» at all types.

My point was that Amazon just tipped its hand, and the strategy looks like beat trad pub into submission, and once it is pliant, then continue with business as usual.

I think this kind of freedom is what I love most about self - publishing, and it's equally open to trad - pub authors like Kate above (assuming you don't have a non-compete clause in your contract) as it is to self - published authors.

This is why groups like the Elevensies (trad - pub), the Apocalypsies (small and large pub), and the Indelibles (self - pub, official launch coming soon) are so important.

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).

Damian has been frantically kissing up to try and get himself in with one of the trad pubs — probably Tor or the like, in my opinion.

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.»

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 post.

Amazon's Scout program makes it easy for newbies to give the whole trad - pub contract thing a whirl and has a far - higher conversion and success rates than others, like the now - defunct Harper Collins Authonomy.

He also tried to market an ebook like a trad - pubbed book (# 7).

Heather, the thing you are overlooking in trad pubbed VS self pubbed are the indies like me who hire a professional team and follow the good parts about the NY model.