Why Traditional Publishers Should Surrender To Self Publishing

Standard

A fascinating perspective, and some useful facts, about an issue facing every writer.

Eoin Purcell's Blog

I had a fascinating conversation with Porter Anderson as part of The Booksellers #PorterMeets on Twitter on Monday. The topic was Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings project (after they released the original 7,000 report but before they released the 50,000 report) which has been raising hackles and causing ruckus in publishing the last few weeks. The conversation fired up loads of thoughts about self publishing and I wanted, following that discussion, to write a post that encapsulates the discussion and the reality of self publishing now.

The problem has been presented as an oppositional one, almost a battle between self publishing and traditional publishing. I think looking at it that way is useful in many ways but also obscures other issues too. Even so, in order to make sense of the current situation I’m going to explore self publishing from three perspectives in sequence, first authors, then publishers and finally readers.

 Authors

View original post 2,382 more words

Advertisements

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

w

Connecting to %s
https://allanament.com/2014/02/23/why-traditional-publishers-should-surrender-to-self-publishing/
allanament.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-17
52062
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:ARV65MWF3S5U44OR6OL5RHIZKYXTMDVB
<urn:uuid:3b873164-e549-4c69-90ab-2a40c4a4b933>
2018-04-26T21:05:43Z
192.0.78.24
text/html
sha1:RKPC5GRT3CMRZW6ZLURZAJNX2TA5ABTA
<urn:uuid:00005595-4356-4bd6-8353-5bb2b6522927>
https://allanament.com/2014/02/23/why-traditional-publishers-should-surrender-to-self-publishing/
length
response
<urn:uuid:a4e6a191-ba6c-4b0e-982c-0e05e418091d>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-7-222-90.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf