Anxious to share her lifestyle, Barbara used a portion of her savings to self-publish the book.
So, Armentrout huddled with her agent and they decided to self-publish the book.
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"The idea was to have enough capital to self-publish it or sell it on good terms" to a big publisher, says Lewis.
When you or I or anybody can self-publish with equivalent-quality paper and printing and distribute through Amazon, what, exactly, does a professional publisher offer?
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It has also started to compete against traditional book publishers, offering leading authors a far-better payout on sales if they self-publish under an Amazon imprint.
Mr. Howey continued to write and self-publish new books, including a zombie novel and prequels to "Wool" that explore how and why the silos were built.
Of course, there are the stories of the writers who self-publish and magic happens and they sell millions of books, but those are the rare exceptions.
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Yet as tens of thousands of authors self-publish their work, publishers' control continues to weaken over how titles are distributed and which books are offered for sale.
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Some self-publish, and learn hard lessons about marketing and distribution.
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Middling authors are left to small imprints or to self-publish.
Sure, someone might self-publish the next 50 Shades of Grey.
Or write a short manual and self-publish on Amazon.
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The publishing industry is changing and authors are becoming empowered, not just because of their ability to self-publish, but also because of the free flow of information and easier networking, Penn said.
Over the past two years, FORBES has built a distributed set of tools that makes it incredibly simple for our editors and 1, 000 reporters and writers to self-publish text, photos, video and more.
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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And, the subsidiary will develop platforms for users to share, collaborate and publish self-made content.
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As part of our ongoing commitment to Open Government, the United States Government will publish a Self-Assessment Report this spring, that outlines our significant progress to date and highlights areas where there is more work to be done.
Finally, given the seriousness of the Committee's inquiry and its conclusions about me, it is disappointing to have to note the highly unusual spectacle that a Committee member has seen fit to publish a self-proclaimed controversial book in advance of the Report where he and a co-author prejudge that I and others at News International misled Parliament.
Its Encore program has begun to publish books by self-published authors whose work attracts good reviews on Amazon.com.
In an opinion piece, The Drum's US editor Noel Young said "decisions not to publish, despite the self-evident news value, are always bad decisions".
On Wednesday evening they appeared on Scottish media and marketing website, the Drum, alongside an opinion piece from the editor saying "decisions not to publish, despite the self-evident news value, are always bad decisions".
Since researchers, administrators and grant-awarding bodies all take note of which work has got through this filtering mechanism, the competition to publish in the best journals is intense, and the system becomes self-reinforcing, increasing the value of those journals still further.
The company's plan to reinvigorate same-store sales by pushing harder into self-publishing--a recent trend that allows customers to come in and publish their own books on-site for sale in the local store--seems speculative at best.
They take 12 to 18 months to publish a book -- an anachronism in today's world of instant self-publishing.
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