Shepherd Mead Estate Decides To Self-Publish Backlist eBooks
Author Shepherd Mead’s backlist titles are coming to your digital reader, but not through a traditional publisher. The author’s estate decided to forego publishing eBook versions of his popular backlist titles with Simon & Schuster and publish them directly through Amazon and Smashwords, and soon through Nook.
Grant Turck, the Mead Estate’s Literary Manager at Velocity Management, said that it took too long to sign the deal with a traditional publisher. He stated: “Ultimately, the longer Simon & Schuster delays in reaching a fair deal with my client the more expensive it will become for them since the Estate is already actualizing the value of their Without Really Trying brand.”
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