(For one thing, a self - published author is able to reject covers they don't like, which is rarely an option
when working with traditional publishers.)
If you don't mind sharing, what were your biggest points of disillusionment
when working with traditional publishers?
In this new world, my gut sense (meaning a wild guess) is that writers will be taking control over more and more aspects of sales, rights, and publishing of their work as they learn how to do it themselves, even
when working with traditional publishers.
Foreign publishers are and will be skeptical, but there are some and some more who are looking to find new voices and hoping to discover the gems for less money compared to
when working with a traditional publisher.
That's just not the kind of freedom one gets
when working with a traditional publisher.
When working with a traditional publisher, the writer is typically working on Book 2 in the time between Book 1 being accepted and it being published.
Not exact matches
All data collected
when students
work with eContent brings completely new opportunities not available for
traditional paper - based textbook
publishers.
Emily Victorson, co-founder and
publisher of Allium Press of Chicago, will talk about how publishing
with a small press differs from self - publishing,
when it makes sense to pursue
traditional publishing, the advantages of
working with a small press, how to identify small presses that might be interested in your
work, how to pitch to a small press, and how being published by a small press can be a valuable first step in your publishing career.
A final major benefit of
traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that,
with a
publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review,
when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who
work together
with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.
These writers care about producing something of high quality in keeping
with the standards of the golden era of
traditional publishing: that bygone age
when publishers invested time and money (often paying advances directly to authors) to help writers develop and polish their
work prior to publication.
One could make the case that
when working with someone pursuing
traditional publishing the focus could be more on how to best market it for
publishers.
With traditional books, since
publishers own the rights to them, they can decide
when your
work has «outlived» its sales potential.
If you
work with a
traditional publisher, they will set a date for you because your
publisher or your editor will give you a deadline for
when you need to turn in your manuscript.
Just like any
traditional publisher,
when you sign a publishing contract
with FFF Digital, you sign over certain rights so that we can legally distribute and sell the copyrighted
work in your name.
When I read a book from a
traditional publisher, I know up front a long of things about the book: 1) a team of editors decided something about the book is good, 2) the book has an editor who
worked with the author on content, 3) it has a copy editor who
worked on grammar and consistency and 4) it has marketers and publicists who, yes, will probably convince the author not to send a blogger who gives them a negative review hate mail.
«
When I started writing, there was really only one way to get published — you
worked with a
traditional publisher.»