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If you're asking whether customers are going to be directed to indie over NY when they're not looking for a specific book, I think that's another question entirely. I would think that a good bookstore employee would direct customers to books they think the customers would enjoy. That doesn't mean that's what happens in the real world, especially if the big publishers are paying stores to push certain books. |
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B&N on the other hand... I wouldn't call them indie friendly. They don't want to say no but they have lots of subtle ways of shoving indie authors over to the side. |
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This is Stackpole 100%. A "real" author who also supports digital publishing... we like it! (ETA: One of many such authors to be found, especially here on MR!)
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I think Mike Stackpole's made a great point - but it only really works for authors who've been previously published commercially and are putting either their backlist or new works up for sale electronically. It works for them because people already know who they are.
I've been reading Mike Stackpole's books for almost 25 years - I've got four of them in this room alone. Directing me to the nearest eBookstore works because he can sell me books on the strength of his name alone. It's not the indie author trying to fight past commercial advertising because I'm not looking for something new to read in this scenario - I'm looking for a new book by Mike Stackpole - and that only works if I know who the author is and already want to read their books. |
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I'm actually all for seeing the power that the Big Houses wield start to wane a bit. They don't have to die, they just have to learn to accept a new role (one that's going to be forced on them eventually, anyway) in the industry. |
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Nothing wrong with being an indie author - but it's hard to get lots of sales without name recognition and the commercial publishers are better at creating that initial name recognition than the vast majority of indie authors.
That's why people like Stackpole and Konrath are benefiting the most from this situation: they're leveraging the benefits of indie publication to serve an existing audience. Authors without an existing audience have to create their audience before they can serve it. It's simply easier for those authors who only have to do one thing rather than two. Both indie and commercial publication have benefits - but the greatest rewards are always going to come to those authors who can leverage the advantages of both. |
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Yes, his posts are geared toward established authors embracing the idea of self-publishing, but that doesn't change the plight of the unknown indie author in any way. I guess I just don't get your point. Yes, the new climate will benefit established authors more than it will indie authors... but the old climate did too. |
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![]() But this also points to something suggested by many of the "established" and "mainstream" authors writing on the subject--that indie writers should think about banding together, at the very least for the purposes of cross-promoting their work. Hypothetical example: I'm a writer, and I know a few other writers that are also going the indie self-pub route. We all have work that's going to release about the same time, or a few folks have already released work. We've vetted each other's work, and most of it is stuff that we'd read ordinarily. So, we start adding sample chapters of someone else's work to the end of our ebooks, as a way to help promote the work of our writing friends and colleagues. In exchange, sample chapters of my work appear at the end of the books of these same people. Do it yourself cross promotion helps each of us gather more sales. |
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