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All Tomorrow's Parties by Koren Shadmi
13 hours ago
Monday, April 4, 2011
Prithee, Inform Me: E-Self-Publishing
Following hot on the heels of Nathan's Author Monetization Week—and if you haven't read these posts, go read them right now—is yet another poll (o joy! O rapture!) to gauge just how many of you are considering electronically self-publishing your titles over taking the traditional route to publication.
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And on Wednesday: Better Know A(nother) Conference!
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And on Wednesday: Better Know A(nother) Conference!
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I picked other. I might do it. At first I was avidly against it but I think Amazon especially has changed the rules of the game.
ReplyDeleteIt's a self-publishing Monday. I blogged about it. A few other people did as well. Some changes are coming down the pike at my company that are making me begin to consider self-publishing in a way I never did previously.
ReplyDeleteOops, I'm using an IE8 browser and don't see the poll, even after I click on the PHP voting icon.
ReplyDeleteI just published out an anthology I edited and a novel I authored in the past couple of weeks. The novel is cross-genre, so not marketable by industry standards (although it did make it to pub board meetings twice). Given the additional metatagging opportunities in epublishing, I think that will be a big reason why some folk will decide to self-epub -- it's a good vehicle for those works that don't comfortably fit convention or nicely on a single bookstore shelf.
Even so, I'm still pursuing traditional/legacy publishing for my more mainstream works.
I'm actually in the process of self-publishing my book as we speak. I think it's a great option for writers and I'm so glad these kinds of opportunities have opened up for us.
ReplyDeleteWith self and traditional publishing now both viable options, readers will have no end of amazing literature!
I just self published a MG in the past month. Following Nathan's posts. I guess I got sick of the query letter blues. So far with networking through facebook, twitter, and blogging I have been able to sell a few copies outside of my family and friend base. If anything it is exciting.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I'm not seeing a poll at all.
ReplyDeleteI chose "Other".
ReplyDeleteI want to take the traditional route, but may consider self-publishing if I can't get anywhere the traditional way. I do see it being a lot of work, though. And I'd much rather write!
I don't get a poll, either. I've got books "traditionally" published, but I'm also self-publishing my back list, and am seriously considering taking book 4 in one of my series and bypassing the traditional route, because it wouldn't come out until 2013 at the earliest.
ReplyDeleteI'm also requesting rights back to my other series; they're not making me any money with the publisher. If I'm going to have to do all my own promotion, I might as well make most of the money.
Yeah, I can't see the poll either.
ReplyDeleteI think Joseph's right. I have a Monday post on self-pubbing too. Weird, that.
I answered other. I'd like to go the traditional route. However, if I'm unable to do that, I'm not averse to hiring an editor and cover artist and going the independent route. I would stress, though, that I'd never put my work out without having had it professionally edited. Indie or traditional, the quality of the work matters.
ReplyDeleteI will only do it as a last resort. If I try to get an agent for an, as yet undecided length of time, and reach a point where I feel I will have no success, then I will e-publish.
ReplyDeleteBut for now I am hoping to find and agent and publish traditionally.
I chose other -- already doing it. :) I have five short stories out, and the novel is coming in May.
ReplyDeleteI have a book published by Penguin ("Writers Gone Wild") this past December, and next month will self-publish an annotated version of "Whose Body?" by Dorothy L. Sayers. I'm hoping to publish a follow-up book with Penguin, and continue to self-publish as well. Best of both worlds.
ReplyDeleteI've self published a collection of short stories via kindle, partly becasue the magazines they were in have gone bust, but also to see how easy/difficult it was.
ReplyDeleteIt was easier than I thought, despite a few bugs, but the same problem still remains. Advertising it.
I've done four blog posts on the process recently and will continue to do updates on the progress.
I picked "other" because I honestly don't know what's the right thing. It's all a bit overwhelming, since I'll be publishing my first novel, rather than already have an established list.
ReplyDeleteI've been giving my poems away (for free) for over a decade, and I self-pubbed my first novel 12 months ago. When I finish writing/editing my second novel it, too, will be self-pubbed (via lulu, smashwords and kindle).
ReplyDeleteIt's the freedom to make my own mistakes that I love, the anarchy of it all. Money? Who needs money when there's gardens and allotments to plunder for food?
The poll is intermittently disappearing for me, too—I think it's an error on Blogpoll's end. I'll try and get to the bottom of it.
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