Archive | 08. Feb, 2010
Authors Can Be Stupid: A Brief Note on Self-publishing

Authors Can Be Stupid: A Brief Note on Self-publishing

It strikes me that in long essays, certain facts get lost. I wish to break them out here. 1) The purpose of writing for commercial distribution (electronic or print) is to make a profit. This means you have more money coming to you than you have flowing away from you. As with any business, you […]

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Authors Can Be Stupid: The Self-publishing Stigma

Authors Can Be Stupid: The Self-publishing Stigma

There’s a stigma to self-publishing, and we all know it. Why? Because, in the past, self-published books have sucked. A lot of self-published work today sucks. And when I use that word, it’s a technical term. Face it, most self-published books are a pig-in-a-poke. Looks good, but you can’t be sure. If it’s a physical […]

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