Sentences with phrase «world as an indie publisher»

Reason # 3... I can get my books out to far, far, far more places and into more stores and more countries around the world as an indie publisher than I ever could through a traditional publisher.

Not exact matches

So I like «traditional» as a term for major publishers since this new world has given writers choices between being an indie publisher or selling to a traditional publisher.

But as an indie publisher, with no real track record yet, (and a world that is expanding into electronic publishing faster than most people can keep up with) how is it possible to make any real projections of sales?

As an indie publisher, knowing the nuances of the world's largest marketplace will increase your ability to get your book in front of thousands of potential customers.

«After only a month KDP Select has dramatically changed things — finally indie publishers are playing as equals with the big publishing houses in the world's biggest eBook marketplace,» said Serhiy Grabarchuk, Co-Founder of the Grabarchuk Puzzles company.

The elimination of the NEA could have a severe trickle - down effect in the small press world, as many indie publishers depend on funding from the organization to stay afloat.

Established, recognized literary awards in independent publishing include, but are not limited to, the Ben Franklin Book Awards (Independent Publishing Association); the Colorado Book Awards (Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book); the EVVY Award (Colorado Independent Publishers Association / CIPA); Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year / Indie Fab Awards; Global Ebooks Award; Historical Novels Society Awards; International Book Awards (USA Book News); IPPY Awards (Independent Publisher Book Awards); Midwest Book Awards (MIPA): National Book Awards; Next Generation «Indie» Book Awards; Indie Excellence Award (National); Pen Center USA Literary Awards; WILLA Literary Awards; Writer's Digest Self - Published Book Awards; USA Book Awards / Book News Awards; and genre specific awards such as the RITA (Romance Writers of America and the HUGO (World Science Fiction Society / Worldcon).

Through our ongoing «Open Up To Indie Authors» Campaign and other guides, campaigns and associations, ALLi is helping to facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships between authors and the publishing industry and book trade — publishers, bookstores, libraries, book clubs, festivals, literary events, as well as reading agencies all over the world.

«Therefore, even while Defendant Author Solutions prominently markets itself on its website as «[t] he leading indie publishing company in the world,» authors often discover, once it is too late, that Author Solutions it is not an «indie publisher» at all.

However, with traditional publishers scaling back and trying to catch up with the digital world, many new traditionally published authors are faced with similar self - promoting challanges as those who indie publish.

«Finally indie publishers are playing as equals with the big publishing houses in the world's biggest eBook marketplace,» co-founder Serhiy Grabarchuk said enthusiastically in today's press release from Amazon.

Yet in the broader indie world there's sometimes a tendency to use reports of any and all ills in the corporate publishing sector as proof that self - publishing is the better way, (indeed, for some, the only way), and that all authors should leave their agents and publishers behind and embrace entrepreneurship.

Ms. Miller, like the traditional publishing world from which she hails, disdains the new indie world just as surely as the publishers have for years discounted the readers who will nurture the indie world, fertilize it and make it grow.

In a splendid irony, in my day job as an editor and publishing consultant, I help small publishers and indie authors get their books out into the world and achieve their dreams, cheering them on, helping them overcome obstacles, feeling excited for them when the successes come etc etc... and yet my own personal manuscripts suffer a different fate.

From my short time in the Indie world as I prepare to release my book, there seems to be a deep sense of comradary, whereas the feeling I had while under a traditional publisher was competition with authors of the same genre, fighting for the attention of the publisher.

As a global publisher, the Versus Evil team is strategically placed around the world with presences in California, Texas, Maryland, New York, and London and works with indie studios in North America, South America, and Europe.

This is important (to my mind, as IGF Chairman) because there's been plenty of indie titles identified with the IGF and other indie game festivals - but rarely is there such direct causation in the game world between a public showing of an unreleased game, and a bigger publisher / distribution mechanism picking it up.