Sentences with phrase «via traditional book publishing»

One of my goals is breaking into print via traditional book publishing.

Not exact matches

Other recent developments in the POD / self - publishing space include Amazon's merger of Booksurge and CreateSpace; Lulu's adding 200,000 eBooks from traditional publishers to their platform; and Andrew Sullivan is self - publishing a book via Blurb.

The publishing industry appears thusfar to believe that it can contain Wattpad merely by skimming off its most popular writers (easily identified via the site stats) and offer them some sort of «traditional» book publishing contract.

Yes, if they offered their ideas, their manuscripts to the traditional publishing community via their agents, the odds were extremely high that they would receive a hefty offer to publish the new book.

Lawrence (from Alaska) asks via email: I am a retired guy who has a number of books published by traditional companies and self - published on Kindle and other platforms.

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

All traditional publishers, suppliers, publishing professionals, and self - publishers are welcome to enter their books via the New York Book Show website,

I've had some absolute car crashes in traditional publishing, including instances where I'm certain I could have sold more copies of the book myself than via a traditional publisher.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

«It's very important for us to do this because if an original publisher comes along and says, «We would like to publish the book, after all,» then we're able to cancel our publishing contract» with the author «and go ahead with publication via the traditional publisher.

It is vital that you decide whether you want to publish your book via a traditional publishing house or if you'd rather go for self - publishing (or POD).

But I've found that if you're going to self - pub, and if you want to be taken as seriously as people who professionally publish via the traditional routes, then you're going to have to work as hard as the traditional publishers do to make a book present itself well to potential buyers.

As for myself — I've had one children's book published via a traditional house, but it was a reprint of a story that originally appeared in their «sister» magazine, so I didn't have to jump through any of the normal book publishing hoops to get there.

With 18 books published via traditional NY publishers, she learned to her dismay, that two disappeared — owing her thousands of dollars; that books were orphaned three different times with editors who were fired or quit in the middle of production and no one was there to support her dream — meaning the book was dead; that a publisher actually sold rights to a book after all rights had reverted to her — never giving her a dime.

Two things: book trailers rarely generate new sales, and publishing via traditional means hasn't gotten any quicker.

I want to sell more of my novels via my own publishing than I would if a traditional, big time publisher were putting the books out there.

I've published six indie books and one via a traditional publisher.

Articles on how to publish a book from both the self - publishing (Indie) route or the more traditional publishing via Publishers.

To secure reviews for an indie book, authors had just a few options last year: paid review services (offered by outlets such as Kirkus, IndieReader, BlueInk Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional media.