Traditional! Publishing! Indie! OUCH! OUCH!
Comment from Allen on “How Traditional Publishers SUCK On eBooks.”
I was researching your agent when I came across your blog. Doesn’t your agent make certain that you receive the proper royalties? Do you regret going the traditional route? And, finally, are you happy with your agent? Any help will be appreciated.
Allen
Allen, as it happens, I’m on a panel at ThrillerFest in New York City, next week that addresses the issue of indie versus traditional. We’ll probably need to address those issues.
The quick answer: agents do their best, but they are not accountants.
And the relationship with a publisher quickly begins to end the moment you challenge royalty statements no matter how logical your question might be.
Traditional publishing can be good or bad.
It has been both a blessing and a disaster for me over the years. But the old model is broken and publishers don’t have a new one in place.
Amazon’s model is not perfect but is far more author friendly which is why I’ll stay indie until traditional publishers adjust to the 21st century.
FYI, I wish iBooks and Barnes & Noble would move to something more similar to Amazon’s flexible system for promotion, payment and accounting.
