More reasons why internet publishing is better (for authors) If you ask most busy authors, they will agree on one thing. They want to get published. They want a publisher. 'The publisher' will get the book to the public and the author will get rich.One, the publisher doesn't select 'the best'.
To do that, he would have to read all the submissions. No publisher has the time - or the inclination - to plough through a pile of manuscripts, many of which, let's face it, may be pretty dire, or even unreadable. So, if he has any money or history in the trade, the publisher will hire a bevy of young people, many straight from University, to take the uncongenial task of scrutinising submissions. Faced by a mountain of modern murder mysteries and chick lit romance, they won't have any standards to work by. They might assess your submission in terms of George Elliot, Joseph Conrad or - even - Martin Amis, but they will have no idea what people these days really enjoy reading.In the first place, this means agents.Other agents will tell them about people they don't have the time to take on. People who work in the agency will have cousins and old pals from college who have written novels. That's easily a big enough pool to find new books from.Then all the agent has to do is ring his pal at the publishers. The publisher is happy because he has someone telling him that the selection process has been done (elsewhere) and a great new book was selected. The publisher tends to say yes. Bingo, a new author.Every author who has every tried to sell a book will be able to tell you stories about the one publisher who said a book was 'too long' and the next publisher who said it was 'too short'. About the one agent who said the manuscript 'didn't have enough description' and the next one who said it was 'too flowery, overflowing with adjectives'. Which would cure the problem? It's like that with publishers. If the guy still turns it down, you've now got a manuscript with stripped down dialogue but overflowing language. You go to http://www.Lulu.com/ and load your manuscript onto their computer. It is a real book. You can carry on hawking your wares around publishers and agents if you choose, but meanwhile there's a definitive version - the one you like, without tinkering and other people's amendments - available to readers, direct from the internet, (and you can pay to have the thing put into the Amazon list, so people can order it through an on-line bookshop, just like it was a real book). It is a real book.Meanwhile, as an aspiring author, you can carry on your struggle - like we all do. At the same time, you're a published author. You're being interviewed on local radio and picked up by your local newspaper. Then some guys saw what they were doing and wondered if they themselves could go out and find new books, arrange the printing and even distribution to bookshops. For two hundred years they've dominated the world of books and dictated to the public what they can and can't read. A new generation of authors are soon going to appreciate that they don't need these dinosaurs. They can publish their own books and make them available on the internet. They will be writers but they'll also be publishers.Publishers of their own work, of course. It will be a better world, for authors. Authors will finally come to their senses and realise that hocking their future to people who merely arrange printing and distribution is not a good bargain. Authors tend to think that 'all they need' is to get a publisher.
And if the next book they write doesn't sell well, they will be dropped, almost as fast as they were signed up. Then they become an author with a past, someone who has been published, but not been successful.
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To do that, he would have to read all the submissions. No publisher has the time - or the inclination - to plough through a pile of manuscripts, many of which, let's face it, may be pretty dire, or even unreadable. So, if he has any money or history in the trade, the publisher will hire a bevy of young people, many straight from University, to take the uncongenial task of scrutinising submissions. Faced by a mountain of modern murder mysteries and chick lit romance, they won't have any standards to work by. They might assess your submission in terms of George Elliot, Joseph Conrad or - even - Martin Amis, but they will have no idea what people these days really enjoy reading.In the first place, this means agents.Other agents will tell them about people they don't have the time to take on. People who work in the agency will have cousins and old pals from college who have written novels. That's easily a big enough pool to find new books from.Then all the agent has to do is ring his pal at the publishers. The publisher is happy because he has someone telling him that the selection process has been done (elsewhere) and a great new book was selected. The publisher tends to say yes. Bingo, a new author.Every author who has every tried to sell a book will be able to tell you stories about the one publisher who said a book was 'too long' and the next publisher who said it was 'too short'. About the one agent who said the manuscript 'didn't have enough description' and the next one who said it was 'too flowery, overflowing with adjectives'. Which would cure the problem? It's like that with publishers. If the guy still turns it down, you've now got a manuscript with stripped down dialogue but overflowing language. You go to http://www.Lulu.com/ and load your manuscript onto their computer. It is a real book. You can carry on hawking your wares around publishers and agents if you choose, but meanwhile there's a definitive version - the one you like, without tinkering and other people's amendments - available to readers, direct from the internet, (and you can pay to have the thing put into the Amazon list, so people can order it through an on-line bookshop, just like it was a real book). It is a real book.Meanwhile, as an aspiring author, you can carry on your struggle - like we all do. At the same time, you're a published author. You're being interviewed on local radio and picked up by your local newspaper. Then some guys saw what they were doing and wondered if they themselves could go out and find new books, arrange the printing and even distribution to bookshops. For two hundred years they've dominated the world of books and dictated to the public what they can and can't read. A new generation of authors are soon going to appreciate that they don't need these dinosaurs. They can publish their own books and make them available on the internet. They will be writers but they'll also be publishers.Publishers of their own work, of course. It will be a better world, for authors. Authors will finally come to their senses and realise that hocking their future to people who merely arrange printing and distribution is not a good bargain. Authors tend to think that 'all they need' is to get a publisher.
And if the next book they write doesn't sell well, they will be dropped, almost as fast as they were signed up. Then they become an author with a past, someone who has been published, but not been successful.
Source by ezinearticles.com
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