Are you ready to be your own publisher? by Rachel Hauck, @RachelHauck A few weeks ago I sat down to dinner with nine authors at various publishing levels and experience. Two …
Going Through The Publishing Door (More Indie Talk)
A few weeks ago I spent time with several successful authors and booksellers. The discussion at our luncheon was the publishing world and how authors survive. It seems at the …
Thoughts On Going Indie
It’s out there. Independent Publishing. It’s both a beast and teddy bear. Publishing, in any form, can gobble you up and spit you out. Nothing is equitable or necessarily fair, …
To Go Indie or Not To Go Indie
The world of publishing is in an upheaval.
Amazon, the “book” web site we all used to peruse for our books is doing all they can to command the publishing world.
They say they believe books are to be affordable. They claim to care about both the reader and the writer. But not much at all for the publisher.
So there’s been price wars between the Big 5 and Amazon. With Barnes & Noble somewhere in the middle.
Word is traditional publishers are trying to preserve literary excellence. And trying to uphold the hardback.
Of which they’ve been trying to do since 1939 when the paperback started taking over publishing.
So it’s price v quality again. The aristocracy – the hardback v. commoner – the paperback.
Publishers are being swallowed up like minnows by big fish Hachette, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House and Macmillan.
While they are trying to hold onto the old way of doing things — or so it seems — Amazon continues to innovate.
Recently, they came up with Kindle Unlimited. For $9 a month, you can borrow all kinds of books. But the Big 5 have been excluded from this feature.
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