Shout outs to 100% bootstrapped indie authors? I launched Her Mother’s Name completely on my own and cracked the top 5,000 in Amazon my first week! Currently at 22,000 but have a few upcoming promotions that should get me back in top 5,000 by end of month. The bottom line is if you write a book people want to read you can do all the marketing on your own and have similar success as a mid-level traditionally published author! There’s never been a better time to self publish.
This is brilliant! I love it when curious minds take it upon themselves to wrap their arms around complex information, particularly when it's spread across multiple sources, and make it much more navigable for the masses. Looking forward to following this project.
This is fascinating, thank you. I sometimes look up small press books on WorldCat.org to see how they are doing in libraries, since I don't have BookScan. Happy to see my publisher, Lanternfish Press, on the list (not surprised it's for Carmilla!).
This is a stroke of goddamn genius. Thank you so much for proactively using your hard-won institutional knowledge and boots on the ground energies at AWP to build something truly necessary. I would subscribe but am locked at 5K. You've been bumped to the top of the list once I do my weekly bot purge. Again, this is wonderful. I will shout it from the rooftops.
Amazing work Jim! If I can revive a data term from the aughts, it's revealing to see what's inside the long tail without the noise of the big fishes. I'd love to see this model adapted for streaming film.
Oh this is excellent, congrats Jim. Keep it coming!!! (I remember back in 2010 writing for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s blog I observed there was no such thing as the publishing industry. It’s more an agglomeration of those subsets of products and service offerings from STEM, universities, entertainment, food, travel etc. that involve printing and binding something. That, and that they go to the Frankfurt Book Fair every year. But, as a lover of REM Koolhaas’s Delirious New York, I prefer your definition!!)
Would love to know how you're defining small press. Is it anything outside the Big 5? I would think FSG, which is an imprint of Macmillan, wouldn't quite meet the definition. What about Bloomsbury or Scholastic?
A bit of a work in progress and feedback like this will help me refine. I'm using a number of signals, including some association memberships and presence at select book fairs. FSG is in, at the moment, because they are in the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses online directory, though that is the most frequent question I get. Some of Bloomsbury's imprints are in. Scholastic isn't in because I do not intend to track Childen's or YA. Selection criteria will be a topic in my May 26 newseltter.
Shout outs to 100% bootstrapped indie authors? I launched Her Mother’s Name completely on my own and cracked the top 5,000 in Amazon my first week! Currently at 22,000 but have a few upcoming promotions that should get me back in top 5,000 by end of month. The bottom line is if you write a book people want to read you can do all the marketing on your own and have similar success as a mid-level traditionally published author! There’s never been a better time to self publish.
This is brilliant! I love it when curious minds take it upon themselves to wrap their arms around complex information, particularly when it's spread across multiple sources, and make it much more navigable for the masses. Looking forward to following this project.
This is fascinating, thank you. I sometimes look up small press books on WorldCat.org to see how they are doing in libraries, since I don't have BookScan. Happy to see my publisher, Lanternfish Press, on the list (not surprised it's for Carmilla!).
Great to hear. "Since I don't have BookScan" might be a good tagline.
Haha.
So interesting, thank you
As a bookseller this is SO useful. Thank you! Following!
That is great to hear, that it's useful to you as a bookseller. You already know your stuff.
This is a stroke of goddamn genius. Thank you so much for proactively using your hard-won institutional knowledge and boots on the ground energies at AWP to build something truly necessary. I would subscribe but am locked at 5K. You've been bumped to the top of the list once I do my weekly bot purge. Again, this is wonderful. I will shout it from the rooftops.
All good things, keep on and godspeed -
LC.
Thanks!
Amazing work Jim! If I can revive a data term from the aughts, it's revealing to see what's inside the long tail without the noise of the big fishes. I'd love to see this model adapted for streaming film.
Ah, yes, the long tail. How did we think that was going to make us rich? Or famous? I can't even remember.
Jeepers creepers! This looks astonishing… I’m excited to dig in.
Oh this is excellent, congrats Jim. Keep it coming!!! (I remember back in 2010 writing for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s blog I observed there was no such thing as the publishing industry. It’s more an agglomeration of those subsets of products and service offerings from STEM, universities, entertainment, food, travel etc. that involve printing and binding something. That, and that they go to the Frankfurt Book Fair every year. But, as a lover of REM Koolhaas’s Delirious New York, I prefer your definition!!)
Sherpa is a Himalayan ethnic group, not a job description.
Would love to know how you're defining small press. Is it anything outside the Big 5? I would think FSG, which is an imprint of Macmillan, wouldn't quite meet the definition. What about Bloomsbury or Scholastic?
A bit of a work in progress and feedback like this will help me refine. I'm using a number of signals, including some association memberships and presence at select book fairs. FSG is in, at the moment, because they are in the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses online directory, though that is the most frequent question I get. Some of Bloomsbury's imprints are in. Scholastic isn't in because I do not intend to track Childen's or YA. Selection criteria will be a topic in my May 26 newseltter.