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"As authors are becoming more established, they get followings, just like mainstream authors, so the self-published market is becoming more like the traditionally published market," he said.
But few of even the most popular teen authors are ready to make the leap into the exposed format of the traditionally published book.
Instead, the traditionally published author said, it boils down to a difference in values, because she fundamentally believes that publishers should invest in authors, and that authors should not invest in themselves.
And while there may be many titles to choose from in the traditionally published book section, we think you'll find that there are some frighteningly great indie titles as well.
If independent authors want to write books that will be taken seriously, they need to present themselves with the same marked quality as the traditionally published books out there.
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Hastings was covering the 2008 campaign for Newsweek, reporting for the election post-mortem the magazine traditionally published in November.
Of the 16 traditionally published books, 10 had links to the author's website, and all 16 had links to the publisher's website.
The bestselling traditionally published authors already know how to write a super-awesome book.
The Comparatist has traditionally published comparative work involving literary and cultural movements, literature and the arts, relations between European and non-European literatures, and inter-American literary exchanges.
I'm considered a hybrid author--I self-published a novel before starting to publish fiction with Penguin Random House--so I have novelist friends who fall into both the indie and traditionally published camps.
And yet instead of coming up with a list of quality measures for books generally--like a catchy opening few pages, a fabulous cover, a book that meets the standards of a traditionally published book--the industry has instead chosen the lazy (and yes, discriminatory) path of measuring a book's worth by whether or not the author has paid to publish.
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