The traditional publishing industry has a significant institutional interest in maintaining the perception that self-publishing is a second-tier option, the route taken by authors who could not get...
The traditional publishing industry has a significant institutional interest in maintaining the perception that self-publishing is a second-tier option, the route taken by authors who could not get...
The internet is full of cheap publishing platforms. Upload your manuscript, click publish, your book is available on Amazon in 48 hours. Free or very close to it....
Most authors think of publishing as a single step, the moment a book becomes available for sale. It is not a single step. It is a sequence of...
Authors who treat their book cover as a personal preference, a question of which colour they prefer, which image they find most evocative, which design they feel best...
Every reader who picks up a book they have never heard of before makes a rapid, largely subconscious assessment of whether the book is worth their time before...
The bookshop is the most powerful visibility context a book can occupy. Not because most books sell their highest volume in physical bookshops, they don’t, in an era...
Pick up two books on the same subject, one professionally published, one self-published without professional support, and set them side by side on a table. You will know...
The self-publishing industry has a failure rate that nobody who profits from it is in a hurry to publicise. The majority of self-published books sell fewer than one...
Every article comparing self-publishing and traditional publishing has an agenda. The traditional publishing advocates want you to believe that a book without a major imprint behind it is...
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