Sentences with phrase «with trad published»

Occasionally one of these authors is even invited to speak or be on a panel with trad published authors.

It doesn't matter that I've made as much on several of my books as I would with a trad publishing contract.

With trad publishing, you can wait a really long time to get published even after the contract is signed.

One of the biggest problems with trad publishing is definitely the timing.

Especially those of us who have been with trad publishing for a while, where the decisions about this stuff were made by other people.

It contrasts with the trad publishing / big bookstore business model, where a book is a short - lived «event», sometimes lasting no more than three months.

Individually some won't make it, collectively I think we will — just as was always the case even with trad publishing.

35 % (or 10 %) of something is still better than the zero you got 99.9 % of the time with trad publishing.

I lived from book deal to book deal for 20 years with trad publishing.

Looking at the share of daily ebooks sold, the survey reveals the market share of indie self - published titles has grown substantially since the September 2015 report, with trad publishing's market share falling and indie books now accounting for over 42 % of all ebook purchases each day on Amazon.com.

Romance superstar Marie Force has made the NYT bestseller list 6 times with indie titles, and Brenna Aubrey, who turned down a six figure deal with trad publishing last year has had phenomenal success this year.

Not exact matches

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

Personally, I prefer to avoid self - publishing and stick with a trad publisher.

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

Especially with the limited qualifiers you added; being successful enough to traditionally publish on your own terms (which indie publishing might * get * you to) or just wanting the traditional cred in itself are the only good reasons to take the trad route.

The only people who really make a noise about trad - vs self - publishing are those with a vested interest, and those opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.

The poor trad - published Official Koslowski Authors must be so sad having to share their Goodreads shelf space with the absolute scum of the Earth.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wTrad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wtrad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

But in the writing community, those trad publishing credits are absolutely necessary for any kind of credibility * with other writers *.

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

As I've continued on my self - publishing path, though, I've felt more frustration with what happens with my trad - pubbed books.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

Yes, on balance, there are probably more trad published books that are better than indie books but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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.)

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

Because I view all of that as found money, and because it highlights that even if you're not madly pursuing a trad deal, good agents still have a valuable role they can play in the mix, even with indie published books.

The difference in income between successful traditionally published authors and successful self - published authors is getting narrower each day, with many self - published authors now making much, much more than their trad pub counterparts.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

Since we're making outlandish, provocative (and unsubstantiated) claims, I'll concur with the response that trad published authors are lazy because they don't want to put in the time and effort to produce or market their books.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

Even him, who was trad published and successful, got very poor results with this.

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

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.

Although I got into the SF top * 5 * with one of my trad published novels, and it sure didn't earn $ 18,000 that month.

I'm thankful I have another option than trad publishing, otherwise I'd be sitting here with zero books published.

It will be both interesting and instructive to see what happens next — and yes, with so many trad - published books to your hard - working credit, you will remain a hybrid author for as long as it can matter.

I went on a book tour with a group of trad - published authors.

With what I know now of the publishing industry (thanks to the great blogs mentioned above, as well as the fantastic explanations offered by The Passive Voice and Rusch on the minefield of rights» grabs that are traditional publishing contracts), I would be cautious if I were ever approached for a trad deal.

The first need dies away as all errata are weeded out (and there are plenty of trad published books with errata that can't be bothered to clean up — I want my books to be better than that).

Even with authors who have books that are both trad and indie published.

It's all those ostriches and lemmings in trad publishing, at least with the Big 5 and their ilk.

The likes of which we will never see again, because circumstances will never be the same — the combination of emerging technology, purchasing habits of early adopters of that technology, novelty of cheap content, fascination with the concept of not having to wait to be traditionally published... and Amazon's tough, adversarial stance with the trad pub giants all conspired to create that wondrous era.

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

Anyway — thanks again for writing such a good article, it's certainly food for thought; and has made me even more glad that I decided to stick with the self - publishing instead of chasing the trad pub dream, ha ha!

Second, with self - publishing, authors tend to price their e-books lower than the trad - publishers and those low prices tend to earn much more money.

But, when I see one policy change after another, all of which are implemented with ruthless inefficiency and all of which seem to impact indie authors more than trad - published authors, my spidey - senses start to tingle.

Trad publishing doesn't do novellas well (with certain exceptions) because the cost v. price differential is too great, and because browsing readers look at the smaller trim size and resist it.