Self-publishing has become the most powerful and effective device for test marketing your book around.
No wonder self-publishing has seen triple digit growth over the last five years!
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Here are some of the current e-options that have sprung up around traditional publishing and self-publishing.
"My experience self-publishing with KDP has been nothing short of amazing, " said Matthew Mather.
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Authors are beginning to turn their backs on traditional publishers in favor of self-publishing.
One of the themes of 2012 has without a doubt been the rise of self-publishing.
Armentrout and her agent knew almost nothing about self-publishing but they knew people who did, other authors.
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E-books on the iPad may help give the world of self-publishing a boost, authors and consultants say.
And a flurry of tech-focused startups now offers self-publishing services, including Smashwords, FastPencil Inc. and Lulu Enterprises Inc.
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Many other self-publishing books, and I must own at least a dozen, tend to be dry, formulaic in approach.
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The self-publishing era has put a premium on quality content development and distribution.
Bowker also reiterated results from a 2011 study which revealed the four major players in the self-publishing services market.
Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old paranormal romance writer from Austin, Minnesota, has reportedly become a millionaire by self-publishing on Kindle.
And, just like blogging, self-publishing will eventually become just part of the furniture.
Traditional book-industry players and tech companies are jumping on the digital self-publishing bandwagon.
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They take 12 to 18 months to publish a book -- an anachronism in today's world of instant self-publishing.
The all-important access to distribution -- once exclusively controlled by publishers -- is now available to all self-publishing authors.
The Internet and new digital technologies have already opened up the self-publishing industry.
Currently, we all look at only three options: traditional publishing, self-publishing or crowdsourcing.
Self-publishing can live symbiotically with traditional publishing, with both models supporting each other.
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When given the choice between self-publishing and working with a traditional publisher, why do authors choose one or the other?
She plans to acquire electronic rights to backlists, sign up new authors (with fifty-per-cent profit-sharing), and form a self-publishing division.
For a lot of authors, self-publishing is going from the option of last resort to the option of first resort.
You can play traditional publishers off various forms of electronic and self-publishing and keep more of the total book spend.
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But that the self-publishing world creates this niche which should be occupied by someone seems to me to be obvious.
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The best of self-publishing can compete on equal terms with the best of traditional publishing, as Sepinwell so ably demonstrates.
Authors will gain a greater depth and breadth of service, from traditional frontlist publishing to innovative self-publishing, on a global basis.
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What self-publishing can do for authors is to document the sales potential of a concept that traditional publishers may have missed.
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Like a baseball farm team, though, in-house self-publishing divisions provide a new pool of talent from which a publisher can draw.
There was a lot of stigma associated with self-publishing four years ago and very little stigma associated with traditional publishing.
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