“Bookselling This Week just reported that brick and mortar booksellers are making it easier for self-published authors to garner coveted shelf space in their stores. With indies crossing into this and other territory usually staked out by the traditionally published, the battle between self-published and traditionally pubbed authors has heated up. Rumor has it, one big-name author even resorted to rallying fans, fuming about the deleterious effect eBooks have had on her income. Another traditionally published author went so far as to refer to self-publishing as “literary karaoke.”
The lines, it seems, have been drawn.
The “literary karaoke” slur notwithstanding, the stakes are less about the quality of indie books and more about the money indies are grabbing from their traditionally pubbed brethren. From the outcry, you’d think self-publishers were stealing and eating their babies—and, in a way, maybe they are.”
- Terri Giuliano Long | HuffingtonPost.com | 5/16/12
Read the very full article here for more on:
- The squeeze on traditional authors as publishers focus on high-margin hardbacks
- Self-publishing as a path to traditional publishing
- Where readers stand on self-pubbed books
