Sentences with phrase «tried trad»

where indie authors who tried trad publishing are migrating back to indie publishing because indie publishing suits the author's economic and personal interests better (Here's a link again to my interview with Jamie).

I'm an indy - author since trying the trad - publishing route in 2005 - 06 with my first two books (historical novels, which several agents looked at, and said regretfully that they were very good... but just not marketable.)

Oh, I'll also hedge my bets and try the trad route too — but not with one of the Big 5 and not with an agent who would probably fight me tooth and nail on my choice of where to send my work and then happily take their 15 % or more of what I might make.

Wouldn't it profit a «new» author to try trad publishing first, just to get her / his name out there?

In an effort to help make this decision easier, I've listed some important considerations when contemplating whether you should go indie or try the trad route.

Not exact matches

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

You're doing the exact same thing to Hugh that you claim he's trying to do to trad.

If going trad, decide if you are going to try for publishers where you need an agent or if you are going to a publisher that has open submissions.

Unless you were able to leverage Hugh Howey - levels of ebook sales (in which case I'm guessing Amazon would try to snap you up), I doubt a trad pub would want print rights only.

As for the other 99 %, I agree trad publishing should be trying something different, because they're absolutely failing to make those assets pay off like they could.

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

I look at indie publishing as a way to show the trad publishing industry just what an author has and what they can do for themselves, kind of like a «try before you buy» with little risk to them and, actually, little risk — even financially — to the authors.

Even the trad pubbed books are pricing some at a lower price as they try to attract those readers shopping at a lower price point.

Given the big difference between trad's payment percentages and indy's, there should be enough money there to fund the service house AND tempt the orphaned mid-lister into trying.

Naturally this means the lion's share goes to the author, and with all the publishers trying so hard to be competitive they're doing that on a slim percentage, with well over half (increasing with sales) of the money coming to the author it's a great time and reason to stick to Trad.

Many of these books will be marginal or won't have withstood the test of time, but supply will increase even more as trad pubs try to duke it out for dwindling reader dollars.

(http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.co.uk/) Mr. Allen very kindly advised that I should give a go for a year to go the trad - pub route, which involved trying to attract the interest of an agency — and then, if nothing came of it, going indy.

I tried going the trad pub way at first.

I'm trying to serve a market that the trads won't serve, and so far, it seems I'm doing fairly well with that.

I wanted to thank you, not just for this article but for all your articles that try to understand the «big picture» of trad and digital publishing, and the evolving landscape for indie authors.

You should definitely be covering the issue, though I confess that I gave up on trying to sell my occasional sf novel through a trad publisher.

Oh, and it would give the Trads even more reason to price their backlog ridiculously, since I can't be the only one who's considered it for the really old e-books they're selling for four to six bucks — so you'd be, in the long run, shrinking your share of the pot by making it so that people mostly try the really expensive books and don't even try sanely priced books, thus never getting exposed to your writing and it not leading to them buying your books outside the program.

I was pointing up the differences and I think that's a point where they differ (self - pub authors generally aren't trying to get into bookstores)-- and it struck me in Saundra's article (also Elana's later) that there was as much emphasis on pitching directly to booksellers for trad - pub authors.

Damian has been frantically kissing up to try and get himself in with one of the trad pubs — probably Tor or the like, in my opinion.

Prior to Amazon I spent years trying to make my way into the trad world and now looking at their standard contract practices I'm glad I never made it and never will try again.

For example, they offered me their services as an agent to try to get my book picked up by a trad publisher.

I'm still going to try and trad pub my trilogy of novels.

He also tried to market an ebook like a trad - pubbed book (# 7).

Joanne Phillips made the observation in her post that indie authors trying to do the work of a whole publishing house's publicity department is never going to work, and we had to realise that indie publishing is completely different from trad.

I think what he is trying to say is before self publish authors defend Amazon so much and blame trad publish, they should understand what would happen in the future when Amazon has destroyed their competitors.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is: trad.

I come from an entrepreneurial business background and I had been writing probably for on and off just to amuse myself for the last 15, 20 years but I never really submitted anything or considered trying to go the trad route.