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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
@rhadin: I can just see getting a medical book from those guys at $70-150 a pop and finding tons of mistakes. Their budget may have been tight, but why did they need their project done so fast? For a medical text, I would think you would want quality work.
@Justin Nemo: If you're the one taking full responsibility for your writing project and you're the one responsible for all the costs (monetary and moral)... you're an Indie. Smashwords and Amazon are your distributor, but you're the one coming up with the words, the images, and the marketing. You're your own publisher - it's not like the big publishing houses go out and open their own stores all over the place to sell their stuff. No, they distribute through various companies, including Amazon.
@speakingtohe: Just because I got approached to write for a press, doesn't mean I lose my Indie status if I take them up on the opportunity. I see being Indie as me taking control of my writing - whether it makes it or fails dismally. I just think that people get so bogged down by labeling things. So if someone offered you a ton of money to contract out your current or next works, when you control what ends up in your contract and what rights are going to be shared, you're still independent because you're controlling what you agree to.
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Er... I thought that was I said. Oh well.
Helen