Show Notes
These are exciting times for self-publishers which has really come in from the cold.
People have always self-published, Beatrix Potter and the Bronte sisters did versions of it In the digital world you can create demand and fulfill it entirely online. Print on demand (POD) explained. Ebooks, still dominated by Amazon and Kindle, are devoured by readers, especially romance and crime genres. Now is the time for self publishing to have its moment. The advantages for readers as well as author. The democratisation of the publishing process. Publishers and bookshops are a closed world to the non-traditionally published. They are the gatekeepers, but self publishing changes all that. Example: Lisa Genova’s Still Alice was originally self published.
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