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Seth Godin, whom many consider the premiere social media guru, uttered a word of caution to traditional book publishers at the recent Digital Book World conference:

Not exact matches

And remember that traditional publishers will treat your book like produce, if they notice they bought it at all.

I looked at traditional publishers who might be a good fit for my book and read every blog post I could find about other author's experiences.

And another key factor, at VP and HS, the books are available for wide distribution via traditional sales outlets just like a traditional publisher.

Again, I suggest you look at books in your genre by traditional publishers and see what they do.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

Had traditional publishers taken early risks in digital publishing, it could have resulted in traditional publishers being the leaders in the publishing revolution — rather, they have been placed at the mercy of (e) book vendors.

Knowing that there are other options to book publishing beyond throwing my books at a traditional publisher gave me some hope.

Projects like Hugh Howey's Author Earnings are already maximizing on the available information to help authors make sound decisions concerning publishing route, ebook pricing, and more, but traditional publishers are also slowly coming along in terms of looking at all the possible pieces of information surrounding a book or author, and using that information to drive consumer engagement.

-- Some publishers ask you to chip in for editing, your book cover, or for marketing / publicity (traditional publishers provide these things as part of the publication process, at their expense, not yours).

Today, her self - published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more than 2.5 million ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

And you can see this in the comments and actions of traditional book publishers, who are holding back e-book versions of books in order to avoid cannibalizing hardback or softcover sales at the bookstores.

What I find interesting and what nobody really talks about is that Amazon has made data related to books more transparent yet they are being demonized when traditional publishers have kept their stats under wraps for decades while continuing to be far from forthcoming at all.

Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are niche and at times more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.

Does your book's retail price at least come close to what the traditional book publishers are asking for their books?

But just as if you don't need a buggy whip to start your car, you don't need an agent to sell a book, or a traditional publisher to make a living at fiction writing.

Technically, an indie can put a book out without spending a dime (though hiring an editor, at the least, is recommended), meaning that even 99 - cent ebooks can result in tidy profits, whereas traditional publishers must put a lot more money into the process and can't afford price points like that, at least not in the long run.

Barnes & Noble may be attempting to charge publishers not only for traditional co-op (which usually means display on the New Releases table, Mother's Day table, etc.), but also for giving books any shelf space at all, including spine out.

January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self publishing route at all.

Even better news for American publishers was that all sales were up, even traditional paper books, although at a much smaller rate.

My understanding is that few bookstores will carry a POD book because most PODs (including Lulu, if I understand correctly) do not offer the same terms for returns (if they're allowed at all) as a traditional publisher offers.

I have no idea whether the separate rooms at the Book Fair was an intentional slight to Indie authors, an attempt at keeping their accounting fluid, plain old poor planning / stupidity or the pressure applied by Traditional publishers to keep their stars away from the riffraff, nor do I care.

You still want to make sure you're compensated at the rate that traditional publishers have valued books like yours, but if you can decrease the price by a small margin, it may help influence the consumer's purchase.

5... Watch what the traditional publishers are doing for electronic books in your genre at least once per year and stay just below them.

If you are fortunate enough to have your book acquired and published by a traditional publisher, you will probably be required to assign your rights to the publisher for at least 35 years.

With the Internet and today's technology, traditional publishers are being turned on their heads, self and independent publishers have morphed into new critters — ranging from «Wow — look at these books, they are amazing» to «Wow — these like they were done with Elmer's Glue at the kitchen table.»

How to Secure a Traditional Book Deal by Self - Publishing (Jane Friedman at Writer Unboxed): «It's not any easier to interest an agent or publisher when you're self - published, and since new authors are more likely to put out a low - quality effort (they rush, they don't sufficiently invest, they don't know their audience), chances are even lower their book will get picked up.&raBook Deal by Self - Publishing (Jane Friedman at Writer Unboxed): «It's not any easier to interest an agent or publisher when you're self - published, and since new authors are more likely to put out a low - quality effort (they rush, they don't sufficiently invest, they don't know their audience), chances are even lower their book will get picked up.&rabook will get picked up.»

Combine that with the thinking that a traditional publisher takes the bulk of your earnings, your say - so in the book design process etc., and still expects you to take on the lion share of the promotional effort, it seemed to make sense to me to just go at it alone.

In traditional publishing, publishers need to recoup at least $ 10,000 to $ 50,000 in investment and overhead before they make money, depending on the type of book.

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

As one of the most active rights fairs for English language in the world (the U.S Commercial services reports 80 «success stories» in each of the past three years), TIBE presents an opportunity for publishers to sell Traditional Chinese rights (different from the Simplified Rights sold at the Beijing Book Fair), as well as English rights, plus any other possibilities made available from the near 60 countries in attendance.

You see, although I was technically a book agent at the time, I was really just an aspiring author who'd gone «undercover» as a publishing agent to learn everything I could to get my own books picked up by a traditional publisher.

Bryant noted that book promotion was key in China and though books typically sold at a price equivalency of $ 5 to $ 8 per title, he encouraged publishers to price their books at their traditional home market rate and then offer discounts.

However, again, most books fail — and traditional publishers are not great at book marketing.

At Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much better royalty rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail priceAt Page Two we feel strongly that if you're funding your book, a hybrid publisher should give you full royalties, or at least much better royalty rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail priceat least much better royalty rates than a traditional publisher would pay (i.e. better than 10 - 15 % of the retail price).

Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish other material «for fun» in different genres, or at different lengths and with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill in the gaps between big books with their traditional house.

At a recent writers» workshop we attended, a participant told us that she suspected traditional publishers had funded this blog post besmirching renowned self - publishing authors for purchasing Amazon reviews of their books.

In preparing a book on Northern Arizona my traditional publisher would not allow me to include a section on Route 66 which I have witnessed over and over how many people come from all over the world to drive on Route 66, eat at the old cafes and stay in the old motels.

However, if libraries don't find a way to distribute eBooks in a reasonable manner (which the Overdrive model fails to do) and provide a comprehensive collection of books from traditional publishers (which, of course, neither Amazon nor libraries offers at present), then libraries will become marginalized and, ultimately, fade from the scene (IMHO).

Interview (begins at 14:21)-- Seth Godin in an interview recorded on February 25, 2011, talks about his recently released book, Poke the Box, traditional publishers, Amazon's culture, the Domino Project, and lots more.

I think that the days of traditional publishers with print books, where sales had to be made right at / immediately after release in order to make best - seller lists, aren't the case with small press and indie publishing.

IngramSpark helps close the gap between independent publishing and traditional publishing by allowing authors and publishers access to the same global book distribution and quality enjoyed by traditional publishers at prices self - publishers can afford.

Mark went on to mention «If an author can earn the same or greater income selling lower cost books, yet reach significantly more readers, then, drum roll please, it means the authors who are selling higher priced books through traditional publishers are at an extreme disadvantage to indie authors in terms of long term platform building.

That book has now received such acclaim and support that its first and second volumes are combined into a far more industry standard version released by a traditional publisher; it's even more economical now, as it's no longer being produced in - house at the request of people who didn't want to make dietary decisions for their allergy - stricken kids by booting up the computer and trying to connect to the internet via dial - up modem.

If business is being conducted as it usually is, then traditional publishers sell their books to Amazon at the discount they use for all of the other big accounts (Wal - Mart, Costco, and so on).

In regards to the «I'll review yours if you review mine», the one traditional publisher i had actually wrote that into the contract: you have to review at least book per quarter that was not in your genre.

Cheryl Tardif, self - published author and publisher at traditional publishing house, Imajin Books

Traditional publishers take a book and look at how fast it can return its costs of production so they can forget it, toss it away.

According to my royalty statements, 80 - 90 % of the books I'm selling through my traditional publishers are at deep discount.