Sentences with phrase «trad publishing considers»
Not exact matches
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.
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At some point, I hope you'll take up what might be considered the downside to self - publishing, vis a vis those who continue to seek a trad publishing arrangement.
As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.
That said, I'm going to have to start a new series / brand targeted to a traditional publisher, and maybe later I will be able to either afford to publish my self - pubbed series on my own, or hope that if I do find a trad pub later that they might consider my previous works.
Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?
If you can wade through the tone of it, there are some decent points, but they also apply to traditional publishing, especially considering how the trad publishers — not Baen — have started pushing editing and marketing off to the authors and their agents.
If all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consider.
I haven't had a chance to look at the contract yet but I get the feeling that this is one of those contract Kris Rusch and TPV warn authors about and is a prime example of why every author even considering signing a trad publishing contract needs to have an IP attorney vet it first.