We have not yet decided whether to use a traditional publisher or self-publisher.
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As a self-publisher, though, the idea of Amazon running a secondhand ebook market fills me with the fear.
Being a self-publisher means you are a content producer and distributor.
But at least, as a self-publisher with sales at a nano scale, I have the option of withdrawing completely from Amazon without any real loss of income.
According to Belinda Budge, publishing director of Thorsons, Britain's biggest self-help publisher and part of Harper Collins, sales of books about yoga and reiki, an Oriental healing system, have exploded in the past 18 months.
There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.
When given the choice between self-publishing and working with a traditional publisher, why do authors choose one or the other?
Perhaps Mr Kennedy and his publisher thought its truth to be self-evident.
So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
That said, the cachet that comes with having a book put out by a respectable publisher remains huge, no matter what the self-publishing mavens say.
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Few authors who manage to find an agent and then a publisher or, lacking that, the funds to self-publish, find book sales a source of income substantial enough to provide for a single person, let alone two.
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"Nothing could be less content-neutral than doing self-help law, " says Stephen Elias, associate publisher at Nolo Press, a privately held Berkeley, Calif. book and software company that publishes WillMaker, Small Business Legal Pro and other self-help guides.
Self-publishing offers the possibility to explore content that a mainstream publisher would balk at, and also removes the necessity for market-driven console ports.
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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.
"The idea was to have enough capital to self-publish it or sell it on good terms" to a big publisher, says Lewis.
You may take that as some sort of reconciliation of opposites or, more simply, as Mr Self's acquittal of the author's task set him by a very imaginative publisher.
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