Not exact matches
Even the most print -
focused traditional publishers are mulling their metadata, starting to realize that however their
books are distributed and sold, digital entry, accuracy, profiles, and tracking simply are essential.
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.
A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent
Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital dis
Publishers Association, serving thousands of
publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital dis
publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-
Books solve serious problems in
traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping
books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing
focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold
books are all eliminated by digital distribution.
Traditional publishers will
focus their publicity around a
book's launch date, within a three - month or six - month window, which is the result of the bookstore retail model.
Focused on the future of the children's
book publishing business, the event examines how
traditional publishers and new and emerging digital content providers can reach and teach kids of all ages through new media, devices, and technology.
These points are valid enough, but honestly, when it comes to promotion, most
traditional large
publishers focus their time only on a handful of
books that they think will go big (or have started that way and will go bigger).
«By the early 1990s, we were doing ghostwriting, editing and such directly for authors, but the
focus was still getting the
book ready for a
traditional publisher.
«Theres not a lot of
traditional material for kids being produced in Australia,» says Sophie Masson, one of the co-founders of Christmas Press, a new boutique picture
book publisher with a
focus on folktales and
traditional stories.
Retailers prefer to
focus their resources on
books that are more likely to perform well — and so
traditional publishers tend to
focus on bestselling authors.
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.