Sentences with phrase «trad publishers»

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.

But the best part is, we're already making inroads; what do we need trad publishers for?

Many of the digital - first imprints of trad publishers are the one who gave digital - first publishers the reputation for poor contracts.

My traditional - published experiences have been largely positive — working with Clive and the people at G.P. Putnam's was a great experience, and I've had about ten of my books bought by trad publishers in other countries, so that's exciting.

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.

While self - publishers face an equally difficult set of challenges as trad publishers, this post focuses on the advantages, not the difficulties, of self - publishing.

It's not clear whether Amazon pays trad publishers out of the KDP Select Fund, but I can't imagine that could possibly be the case as they're not even enrolled for KDP Select, so I'm excluding trad firms from the following figures, and assuming that the Kindle Unlimited / KOLL payouts are applicable only to indies.

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

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.

Trad publishers put out more than their share of excrement too, which readers also get to embrace or reject.

if the large trad publishers cease to advance, the market for indie books improves.

It adds that the shift in market share from Big 5 to indies has steepened since the return of agency ebook pricing last year which saw trad publishers making big hikes to their ebook prices.

If trad publishers start competing with the Indie Option, then that's good for authors.

This is a digital - only deal and many trad publishers offer 50 % royalties on this basis.

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.

When trad publishers announce a release date 6 months in advance, they've probably had the finished manuscript in hand for months before that.

(Unlike trad publishers, though, you're rather committed to accepting any books that come out of your dedicated on - staff writer — you can't simply turn down a book and go to the slush pile.

And that's particularly true for self - pubbed writers who gain enough celebrity to make trad publishers pay attention.

October, 2015 closed on a sad note when former go - to ebook promo site The Midlist sold out to trad publisher HarperCollins and closed its doors to self - pubbers.

High prices also drive customers to less expensive books, so trad publishers are creating a market for self - published works.

So, to summarize — we are traditional publishers, by strict definition, and trad publishers come in small, medium and big sizes, and some are young, and others are very old.

We get that there is an unspoken allegiance between trad publishers and the people who cover their books (talk about collusion!)

Jack London was rejected over 600 times Trad publishers do not sift the wheat from the chaff, they pick what can sell at any particular moment, under any of the 50 shades of bad writing

One thing trad publishers are now doing is exploiting rights reversions clauses by using ebooks.

It's put me off trad publishers further!

Trad publishers spend their days looking for the next King or Patterson or Rowling, discarding any less marketable and profitable candidates with no more care than we'd give used plastic forks.

You seem to be ignoring (like the article), the many small and middling trad publishers, many of whom do it for the love, and helping authors, because they wouldn't be making the pittance for the work otherwise.

Indie presses, which is defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates, do everything trad publishers do, but on a smaller scale.

Whether trad publishers are currently likely to be interested in series that were previously self published

Most proofreading from UK and Irish trad publishers is now done online in India, adding another layer of complexity.

To the second point, trad publishers release tens of thousands of new titles each year.

Hugh behoves us to understand that we don't have a choice about getting published by Random House and all those other nasty trad publishers, but last time we looked none of the Amazon imprints had an open door either.

Whereas trad publishers have by their very nature had humans read and vet their books through the editting process, the sheer number of self - pubs mean that there had to be some kind of automation or you'd have a logjam.

Yes, that's the most common argument I've heard that trad publishers absorb all the costs and risks.

So after 4 years of banging my knuckles on every agent and publisher I thought might be interested I went indie to knock these books out with a plan to get with trad publishers once my sales on indies got high enough and when I put one out they couldn't resist.

No need to exclude trad publishers from the rolls, but the focus would be on the independent.

Trad publishers remove all illustration suggestions that the author inserts and choose the illustrator who is most likely to create what no one else would imagine from the words, and the author and illustrator will have no contact.

The same would be true of the opposite extreme... but there really isn't a major Trad publisher pushing that line.