Sentences with phrase «trad published books»

But the big trad published books quote from mixed reviews all the time.

You're right — although we strive to make our manuscripts as clean as possible, it's common for the occasional error to slip through (even in trad published books).

It's like people don't look at trad published books before putting theirs together.

Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?

The worse trad published books are, the less likely it is anybody will be all that bothered by the typos and bad grammar in mine, the more likely they will just take them as a matter of course, something you'll now find in everything.

The first need dies away as all errata are weeded out (and there are plenty of trad published books with errata that can't be bothered to clean up — I want my books to be better than that).

On the other hand, you have trad published books being reviewed by trad media because the publishers — via ad dollars — support them.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

But we can use our trad published books to push sales for our indie books or vice versa.

Yes, on balance, there are probably more trad published books that are better than indie books but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

And the Ilona Andrews self pub book has done well, but likely has not made as much as advances on Ilona Andrews trad published books.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

There are plenty of trad published books that are more boring than watching paint dry or more vapid than a sparkly vampire.

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.

Another complaint I have is that they do have the «other readers who purchased this also bought this» feature (it is not as extensive as the Amazon one), but they only offer that feature on Trad published books.

1) Can you explain to me the definition of a trad published book?

This column caused me to go check on my first trad published book — one that I got a very good advance for 11 years ago and pretty much figure I'll never see another penny from.

Not exact matches

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

It doesn't matter that I've made as much on several of my books as I would with a trad publishing contract.

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).

(Besides fewer dollars per sale, a traditional book has a literal shelf life; once your publisher wants to give that shelf space to their next writer, most of your book's trad - published benefits are * dead * unless you get famous enough to re-impress them, and / or you understand how to get your rights back.

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.

Are poets not authors, because books of poetry typically have low sales, whether self - published or trad - published?

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

But I will say, last year, out of the books I read a higher percentage of the «good» ones (generally) were self - published... NOT trad.

This is how I sold my first several books and how many of my trad - pubbed friends broke in to publishing and I have long believed it's the best way to make contacts.

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.

As I've continued on my self - publishing path, though, I've felt more frustration with what happens with my trad - pubbed books.

Building a solid author brand is the key to getting discovered and selling books for a self - published author (and even trad - published books).

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

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).

After the initial promotional push is over for trad pubbed books, advertising dollars go to the publishing house's next new books.

The trilogy was trad published, but this book he released indy.

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.

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

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.

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

I'm an indy - author since trying the trad - publishing route in 2005 - 06 with my first two books (historical novels, which several agents looked at, and said regretfully that they were very good... but just not marketable.)

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

And since the onus of marketing is vastly on me and my coauthor (something else many self - publishing authors don't realize — they'll have to do the majority of book promotion themselves regardless of how they publish), there hasn't been a real advantage to going the trad route.

Because I view all of that as found money, and because it highlights that even if you're not madly pursuing a trad deal, good agents still have a valuable role they can play in the mix, even with indie published books.

Yes, there is a great deal of dreck in self - published books, but have you taken a really good look at trad pubbed books lately?

Most trad published e-books are priced so high (often as high if not more than the printed book) that they are pricing themselves out of the competition.

It dramatically helps trad authors to buy their books in the first week, and I want my favorite authors to keep publishing.

Since we're making outlandish, provocative (and unsubstantiated) claims, I'll concur with the response that trad published authors are lazy because they don't want to put in the time and effort to produce or market their books.

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

Marketing sells books and publishers aren't providing marketing, so authors trad and self - published alike must bear that huge cost of the business.

Frankly, my self - published book prices look amazing next to my trad - published book prices on my Amazon author page.