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Indie Publishing

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This is a group for authors who want to be in total control of their writing career and publishers who help them. This is not for or about P.O.D.

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Latest Activity: Aug 2, 2023

Indie Publishing Success

The indie movement for musicians began immediately after the internet began to be widely used. David Nevue, a leader in this movement, created his first website in 1995 and has been promoting his music online ever since. These musicians take full responsibility for their careers. They pay for all the recording costs and then all the manufacturing costs. It is not uncommon for an initial run of CDs to be 1000-5000 copies. Indie musicians are also quite adept at "grassroots" marketing. Most indie musicians never become a household name but there are thousands and thousands of them that make a full-time living pursuing the craft they love.

While print on demand is useful for an author to get a book in print at nominal costs it is a terrible way to go for someone who wants to make a living as an author. It is just not cost effective and books that are printed that way are not competitively priced when compared to those printed by the big publishers.

It's time for more authors to take their dream of making a living as an author more seriously by committing the funds necessary to print their books in bulk and take the responsibility to promote them. This route provides a much higher profit potential in addition to being able to offer your book at more affordable prices.

I absolutely believe in the ability of independent authors to make a full-time living if that is their dream.

Please share any successes you have had promoting your own book.

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Comment by Carolyn Davis on April 29, 2009 at 2:23pm: I'm all for being indie. You get published faster. All we have to do is master marketing and we're golden.

Comment by Cathleen Hulbert on April 17, 2009 at 4:53pm: P.S. It's interesting that the traditional world still gets its collective blood pressure up when independents are discussed. I actually went the indie route on the advice of a highly respected literary agent who liked my book but didn't think I would get anywhere with the publishers she was dealing with. She said they are presently burned by poor-selling books and risk-adversive. She told me to create a website, publish my book, sell, sell, sell and get back to her when/if I had made a success of myself. It was interesting.

Comment by Cathleen Hulbert on April 17, 2009 at 4:49pm: I published with BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com and they were FANTASTIC. My rep was a man named Daniel Braddock and he rocked, as did the whole (very young and very competent) team.
Cathleen Hulbert/author
"The First Lamp"

Comment by Will Glenn on March 31, 2009 at 12:32pm: Hi All,

I'm happy to be a part of this group. I'm all for becoming my own publisher. I'm searching out areas where I can raise the capital to publish my second book. My first book was published with PublishAmerica and I'm not too happy with them. The only good thing they did was publish my book. Any ideas will be appreciated. Thank you.