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Very creative, I will give this a try. However, I do think editors/publishers provide value in that they at separate the wheat from the chaff.
by aet 13y ago
Very creative, I will give this a try. However, I do think editors/publishers provide value in that they at separate the wheat from the chaff.
- DanBC 13y agoI was thinking about this. I don't know if there's such a thing as "freelance editors" or "freelance typesetters" - but there's a need for these kind of services for self-published authors. Some of the books I've read were okay, but could have been good with an editor and with nicer spell / grammar checking. I don't know how that business could work? Authors sometimes collaborate. Perhaps something like a author's co-op? They could pull in designers / artists for the covers and do cross-promotion too.
- pessimizer 13y agoSounds like a job for a matchmaking Web 2.0 CRUD app. I bet it'd make money.
- bstpierre 13y agoThere are indeed freelance editors -- both at the copyedit level and at a higher level. Self-pubbed authors often hire freelance artists for cover design. And there are freelance book designers for both dead-tree and e-books. There are also services that provide "canned" book design service -- i.e. you pick from a template. To me it seems that the hardest part of the whole equation for an indy author is promotion. There are so many books published daily that it's really hard to get readers for your work.