{"id":558,"date":"2015-11-27T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2015-11-27T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:15:00","slug":"15-top-7-facts-of-traditional-publishing-companies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/15-top-7-facts-of-traditional-publishing-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"15.  Top 7 Facts of Traditional Publishing Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read these facts to understand why niche-market books need to be self-published, that is,\u00a0if you want to have any hope of getting your book ideas into print.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>THE TOP 7 SECRETS OF TRADITIONAL PUBLISHERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Traditional publishers lose money on over 85% of the books they publish, so they only accept 2% of those that are submitted.<\/li>\n<li>They typically accept manuscripts only from established authors who have demonstrated a proven track record.<\/li>\n<li>Authors lose all control of their content during the editing process.<\/li>\n<li>Authors must still invest an enormous amount of time, energy, and money promoting a traditionally-published book.<\/li>\n<li>Authors typically receive 5-10% royalty on the wholesale price of the book, and from that have to give 15-25% to their agent. Do the math.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of books published by old-fashioned publishers go out of print within 3 years. Many books that are stocked on book shelves remain stocked for as little as five weeks before being returned, unsold, to the publisher.<\/li>\n<li>Old-fashioned publishers acquire all rights to your book and keep them, even when the book goes out of print or the publisher goes out of business!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read these facts to understand why niche-market books need to be self-published, that is,\u00a0if you want to have any hope of getting your book ideas into print. THE TOP 7 SECRETS OF TRADITIONAL PUBLISHERS Traditional publishers lose money on over 85% of the books they publish, so they only accept 2% of those that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/15-top-7-facts-of-traditional-publishing-companies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">15.  Top 7 Facts of Traditional Publishing Companies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}