The same is true for indie authors (and tons
of traditional authors too: many traditional publishers make the author pay for their own marketing).
Sadly, they're mistaken, it's
traditional authors who are restricted by the time constraints of corporate publishing.
Authors of cook books have an advantage
over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.
68 % of self published authors want to publish their next book with traditional publisher and 92 % of
traditional authors want this.
Do they offer insight into self - publishing, or are they geared more
toward traditional authors or those who hope to become traditionally published?
Traditional authors treat publishers as their customers, because that's who pays them for manuscripts, rather than focusing on the reader, who wants to pay for the book.
When you read surveys
of traditional authors and how frustrated they can be with their publishers, this type of success might even be all the more attractive.
For traditional authors, it's worth considering working with a literary consultancy which focuses on the editorial side of things.
I notice more and
more traditional authors are self publishing as well, especially books that traditional publishers don't feel are big enough to hit the sale numbers they want.
The difference, though, is that indie authors also set their prices and budgets, where
as traditional authors can do nothing to grow or shrink the publisher's marketing budget and profit margin.
(I also think the reason you don't see many
traditional authors behave the way some self pubs do is because they didn't make it through the system.
The overstatement of
new traditional author earnings may arise from differences in the decay rates between the BookBub promotion and Amazon's sales rank.
The problem is indeed that
traditional authors expect to have their book published, get a big advance, and if it doesnâ $ ™ t earn out hard luck for the publisher - they have to take risks.
He engages his readers on so many social media platforms that it is hard to imagine he has any time to write his bestselling novels, and yet he has sold nearly 1 million copies of his books and recently achieved a feat
few traditional authors have...
And indie authors continued to rise marginally over
traditional author sales, but it had slowed way down from the heyday in 2009 - 2014.
I don't understand
why traditional authors who couldn't sell, turn to agent - assisted publishing, which isn't really self publishing, because the agent, even if they are taking the financial risk of editing / cover design, are taking their percentage of profit... forever.
Wikipedia's policy itself
excludes traditional authors and forbids original research and prefers only that which is «verifiable» in outside sources, according to Wikipedia.