self-publishing

As almost an afterthought, they came up with the idea of self-publishing a short book Evan had written as part of his application for the dog.

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What I was trying to do is to make clear what I think the problems inherent with self-publishing physical - books - are, if part of what you feel you need is bookstore placement.

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What I am saying is that until there's a better alternative than the three listed above (spending years or decades trying to get traditionally published, self-publishing with no hope of distribution, not trying at all), then it's going to be very hard to talk people out of self-publishing.

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However, there comes a point where there's not much practical difference between being against self-publishing full stop and warning people away from it for practical reasons, especially when the non-practical reasons for wanting to go that route are strong enough to overpower any practical reason someone would avoid self-publishing.

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That's not the case, as a new barrier - economics - will become the issue should self-publishing/vanity presses prevail.

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There are one or two things I've considered self-publishing, just to have or to give as gifts.

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Let me again say: I have no objections to self-publishing at all.

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This is not to say that I don't think that there are flaws in the publishing industry as it is now, or that there isn't a place for self-publishing and vanity presses, but I * do* disagree with the claim to democritization.

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But seriously I wonder why anybody has the idea that "self-publishing" is a useful way to spend their time.

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The one person I know who took a serious foray into self-publishing did a very good job of it, but she really worked hard to get news of the books out there.

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