Not exact matches
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.
Especially with the limited qualifiers you added; being successful enough to traditionally
publish on your own terms (which indie
publishing might * get * you to) or just wanting the traditional cred in itself are the
only good reasons to take the
trad route.
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.
The
only people who really make a noise about
trad - vs self -
publishing are those with a vested interest, and those opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.
My first traditionally
published novel, Transgression,
only sold about 6,000 copies in its
trad - pubbed edition.
Trad publishing has standardized length in the last few decades, but The Great Gatsby is
only about 50K words.
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.
I think there's going to be a different blend of indie and
trad publishing, and
only the publishers that adapt to this are going to last.
Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big
publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more
trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become
only self -
published authors?
So not
only were my self -
published books not included in my bio, the original
trad -
published book in the series (from Midnight Ink) wasn't, either.
are not self -
published), KU is
only opening the gap wider between
trad and self
publishing.
Without big publishers entering the game (
only around 3 % of the titles on KU are not self -
published), KU is
only opening the gap wider between
trad and self
publishing.
We've seen a few traditionally
published authors condemning their counterparts, not
only those who have never been traditionally
published but also those who have chosen to go the hybrid route of both indie and
trad publishing.
The
only reason
trad published authors don't is that most
trad publishers do NOT push the e-book and they price it so high that people see more «value» in the printed version, especially the hardcover.
In 2011, 92 % of the best - selling ebooks
published by non-Big-Five
trad publishers used ISBNs, but in 2014,
only 70 % of the best - selling ebooks by non-Big-Five traditional publishers used ISBNs.
It found that Kindle ebook sales in 2014 by the AAP's 1,200 reporting publishers made up less than 45 % of all Kindle books bought in the US and
trad -
published ebooks as a whole
only made up 55 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US in 2014.
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.