This totaly removes the need for publishing companies such as Penguin etc!?
These are strange times.
Cryptocurrencies removing banks
Steemit replacing corporate social media
Self publishing.
Are we entering an age of people power and self rule?
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Well, not necessarily. What you get with a traditional publisher is use of their platform/audience and marketing.
As a self-publisher, you have to be your own platform and marketing team.
However, self-publishing allows pretty much ANYONE to become a published author. It also allows authors who have been rejected by traditional publishers to get their work out there. I've even read about traditionally-published authors retaining digital rights to their work and self-publishing the ebook on their own or publishing titles that have been rejected by traditional publishers.
Self-publishing isn't new. Print on demand has been around for years, but Amazon really put it in the hands of anyone with their Kindle Direct Publishing platform in 2010-ish.
Since then, other platforms have come out and you can use various services to get your work out on Barnes & Noble, Google Play Books, bookstores, libraries, and more!
It's quite liberating. =)
Liberating. That's the word.
Thanks for the explanation.
Sure thing, my friend.