Sentences with phrase «trad pubs do»

Their move smacks as yet more anti-indie bias as many of the big trad pubs don't participate in KU.

And one of the biggest negative effects we've now created as indie authors is denigrating the value of ebooks — specifically indie ebooks, as you'll find the trad pubs don't do much, if any, free promo — in the eyes of the audience that buys them.

If so, that's a leg up, because it presumes the trad pub did some diligence and the person's at least marginally competent.

Not exact matches

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.

I make my living from writing, actually, with a mix of indie and trad pub stuff, but there are people who are far more skilled than me who don't, and people who stink who make a lot more.

Others aren't entirely satisfied with their trad - pub experience, but they feel it's preferable to setting out on their own and having to do everything from editing to cover design to promotion on their own.

LK — A lot of agents and publishers are making trad pubbed authors do this stuff.

Books 2 and 3 in that «City of God» series are selling well and earning much better than they did in their first editions as trad - pubbed novels.

At this point, I consider myself exclusively indie, but I do still get royalty statements for my two trad - pubbed nonfiction books.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

Trad pub authors also used to make it very clear that they didn't consider ebooks «real books».

My trad pubbed ones aren't and likely won't be (they don't relinquish the rights, but they never use them, as you're saying).

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

With that goes risk — a DIY setup doing a trad - pub style 10k hardback print run is a huge risk in terms of warehousing, returns etc..

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

And the Ilona Andrews self pub book has done well, but likely has not made as much as advances on Ilona Andrews trad published books.

Don't get me wrong, guys — I'm not down on trad pub, and I'm not one of the folks saying that «traditional publishing is doomed».

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.

If they have good product, many first time indie novelists can and do make trad pub advance numbers.

One con to the trad pub method is that publishers don't mirror the wants of the actual market.

The promotion the trad pubs take care of is the catalog and sales force to get your books into the brick and mortar distribution channel, which indies don't worry about.

But you don't mention the large trad pub author graveyard.

For most trad pub authors, you are on your own to do most of the same promotion you'd do as an indie.

[NOTE: of course, there are authors who do some combination of the above, some books indie, some trad - pub, etc..

but you really have to do all that marketing stuff or nobody buys your books — trad pubbed or indie.

It's also worth noting that the author of the AE report, Hugh Howey, admitted in comments on Chuck Wendig's blog (fourth down) that actually he earned more from trad pub last year that he did from Amazon.

My latest idea: (1) query agents because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching agents & writing a synopsis, query letter, book proposal THEN (2) if I don't get any takers at trad - pub within a reasonable period, I self - pub because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching book bloggers & reviewers, building two websites, making or editing videos & writing tweets, Facebook posts, blogs.

My work doesn't qualify for any awards; mystery conventions are all about the trad pubbed authors (whose work I love), but shut out the indies.

It doesn't exist in Indie publishing,, and it doesn't exist in Trad Pub.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

I have a friend doing very very well in trad pub.

I get that I'm supposed to be more upset about this paid review service, but what Locke did doesn't look different to me than Kirkus Reviews (and, as you point out, other favor trades from trad pubbing that are entrenched and go unremarked.)

I'd rather stay low and not even try to compete with trad pub, because I don't need to.

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.

I have zero interest in being Trad - pubbed (especially in the current environment) but I don't want to see them go away.

I have my fav trad pubbed authors as do you, but I am not paying above 4.99 for an ebook.

That's true, T.A. I don't know what the Trad Pub terms are.

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?

Joe's initiative is great, but if we could inform our readers that the money they spend on taxes going to libraries is practically only devoted to trad pub books and ebooks, and that this doesn't reflect EXACTLY, for instance the indie market share of the first retailer in the world, maybe things would advance a little bit in the right direction.

But that being said, please, if any new writers * do * go through trad - pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.

Sometimes they» l fuss about the trad pub prices, but don't seem to realize why there is a price different in my series.

:) I've dropped out of my trad - pub email loops (which, in retrospect, is a pity because that's an interesting perspective I've lost) so I don't know how widespread this practice is at Penguin / RH, but I'm guessing it's getting pretty darn prevalent.

She wrote for trad pubs for years and I got the sense from her that not being in the block buster category (though doing quite well by most standards!)

Or do hybrid authors appear to be doing better than trad pub authors because the former outnumbers the latter (this is basic multiplication)...

I do know that you've been on the trad - pub path, and I think your women's fiction / romance books are the kind that will do well there.

Those books started as trad - pub too, but now I'm so many years into self - pubbing it that I don't give it a second thought.

I have the same caliber of people doing my editing and cover design as any trad - pubbed writer.

Did these authors» books change from when they were self - pubbed to when they became trads?

Serials aren't new (Charles Dickens was doing them back in the day), but they are seeing a resurgence due to the ease / low - cost of ebook publishing (in both self - pub and trad - pub; see John Scalzi's Human Division, Rashelle Workman's Blood and Snow, and Platt & Wright's Yesterday's Gone).

If it's not what it's cracked up to be, I don't have to go trad - pubbed the next time.