Sentences with phrase «trad publishing»

Authors who get a traditional publishing deal but have no control over their own pricing, promotions, Amazon page, and thus can't really do any effective marketing (I know lots of trad published authors who chose to go indie because they could earn much more).

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).

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).

He is forgetting, as so many in trad publishing do, that there is a flourishing indie and small press world out there with authors who are writing books people want to read.

Occasionally one of these authors is even invited to speak or be on a panel with trad published authors.

My limit (except for Baen E-Arcs) seems to be $ 10 even for trad published authors that I have bought for years.

A solid SP book will get trad published a lot faster than average, and the percentage of success is far higher than the miniscule number of titles sold by agents, and available after a few years to the lucky lottery winners.

As per contract terms, the payout from trad publishing houses dictates that one half of the total advance be delivered to the author upon signing.

Each of the speakers will outline over 30 minutes, their take on the what's required for success in either the self publishing or trad publishing worlds.

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.

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

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

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

Since the basic premise of the assumption about trad published works is wrong, well, that makes it all the more difficult to swallow those sorts of reviews.

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.

I could not help but see the comparisons between Trad Publishing, represented by the Preston Petition, and Indie Publishing, represented by the Indie Petition.

I am happy to see when unknowns become known, and the only reason I can see going back into trad publishing would be the advertising bucks behind the product.

I continually find typos and grammatical idiocy in trad published work, so that part just makes me roll my eyes, too.

I don't know if trad publishing is the brass ring or not, but I know that I was always too frightened to self - pub before because I was given to understand it would ruin my chances at a «real» publishing contract.

It was one of my previously trad published novels from my back list, so professionally edited by my publisher.

The result is that some authors, previously trad published, are jumping ship, leaving their publishers to become self - published.

If someone from a big trad publishing house came knocking on my door (metaphorically - speaking) offering a generous contract for one of my books... I would turn it down.

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

I know KR and DWS are very down on agents, but they were already established authors who had built reputations through trad publishing before they went indie.

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.

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

So, really, the most successful trad published writers did a lot of promo (unless they'd written some sort of blockbuster) so that they would get their contracts extended.

THERE ARE FAR MORE SELF - PUBLISHERS (the number of writers jumped from 5,000 to 30,000 in one period and most of those were self) THAN TRAD PUBLISHED SO OF COURSE THERE ARE MORE BAD ONES in that group.

We actually talk to authors - you see a few blog posts and articles and believe we are at war but the reality is many of us know trad published authors - some are happy, some are becoming unhappy, some are in the middle of lawsuits, some are no longer writing because they couldn't afford to sue and gave up.

I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.

I hope that the market forces you're talking about really do push trad publishing into being good guys.

As a formerly trad published writer turned indie publisher, I would like to do some short stories to serve as prefaces to upcoming books, introduce the characters, etc..

Wouldn't it profit a «new» author to try trad publishing first, just to get her / his name out there?

Businessman, yes: handling a budget, trying to write to market (not necessarily chase fads, though; indies can make a living catering to niches trad publishing considers too small), and learn from past mistakes.

And I've picked up a few trad published pieces that had WORSE EDITING, and were much worse stories.

FYI I was fooling around and asked Amazon for anything by Author William D Koller, and low and behold they had two of my books Trad Published back in 1980 still listed!

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.

Those who left trad publishing only to put all their eggs in the KDP basket will find themselves right back in the same position.

Trad publishing made its only entry in third place with Penguin's Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, getting a sales boost from the release of the film of the book.

Ebooks sales have fallen for high - priced trad published books, not reasonably priced indie books.

So they aren't doing trad publishing anymore?