traditional publishers

“I realized that as soon as a publisher owned that ebook, right, they were going to jack up the price to protect their other ebooks. And this is something a lot of authors don't think about your competition for them. Like the people that own your book competes …”

“Most of these services are one-time costs like editorial cover art, the pagination, the layout of the words on the page. They do that once. And then they keep more for every sale than I get as the writer.”

“Usually we would leave a book on the shelf for three to six months before we would take it off, send it back and put something else on the shelf. So if you spend years writing a novel and you think like, this is my one shot and you go to the publisher, you're …”

“If it's your first go-round as an author and you don't know what you're doing, the likelihood that you'll step on a landmine that hurts your book during the self-publishing process is even higher than if you're working with a traditional publisher.”