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.
The trad publishing world, though, is wrapped around counting sales on release day.
There's a long way left to go, but in under two years I've sold tens of thousands of those same books
the trad publishing world didn't want.
Not exact matches
Yes, there are poor work in the
trad pub
world, particularly due to «rush
publishing» and also when certain poorly skilled entrepreneurs create micro-
publishing companies.
And, like it or not, as indies, we operate in a
world where our readers understand, on the whole, that we don't have the overhead
trad published titles have.
The fact that the traditional
publishing world in general (and
trad SF in particular) clearly believe it to be correct is the reason why their market is collapsing.
In the best of all possibly
worlds in
trad publishing, I'd be on novel # 2, maybe # 3.
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.
Well, in his little
world of
trad publishing, he's right.
4) Indie
publishing (small press or self -
publishing) can be a dead - end in the traditional
world if you don't have spectacular sales, so be wary of using self -
publishing as a way of «getting noticed» by the
trads.