Partnership Publishing
Main Characteristics:
- Partner provides marketing and industry expertise.
- No upfront fee is needed, but advance is unlikely.
- Author must go through a selection process with specific criteria and may be rejected.
- Author is a partner with an agent, publisher, and/or other author collective.
- All revenue and risk is shared.
Positives:
- Author can focus more on writing and less on the business end (marketing, obtaining services, etc.).
- Lower risk than self-publishing.
- Better royalties than traditional publishing.
- Benefit of experienced and knowledgeable partner in publishing industry.
Negatives:
- Contracts may vary widely, and you may need to hire an agent/attorney to read and review contracts.
- Some partners only offer distribution and administration services.
- May be hard to determine if partner is doing enough to earn their share of revenue.
Which would you recommend? Great to see the options. They are all have their downsides and big benefits x
This is such valuable information! I self published the very year it came out and wish I had waited. It was such a new thing back then but now it is more the norm. I am glad to see this updated information on the options in case I want to publish again!
For me, I’d rather go for the publisher option as I’m not really sure what I would be doing if I did it myself. Al they help with the marketing and distribution and I could do with the extra help there.
I’ve actually considered writing a book and hadn’t thought of all these options for when it is finally finished. Thankyou for sharing this!