Comments on: There Is More Than One Way To Publish Your Work

By: Maximum Persuasion

Maximum Persuasion — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:38:49 +0000

I’m self-published via Booksurge Publishing and through my own websites via clickbank etc.

Know what? I don’t regret it nor do I feel ‘lesser’ than regular published authors. After all, I’ve achieved two goals: hit a massive readership base and gotten well compensated for my efforts!

Can every author who got published the normal route lay claim to that?

By: kirkb

kirkb — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:40:38 +0000

Mark – I suppose you could argue that any form of publishing is cruel. Finding an audience isn’t easy, even when a more traditional publisher is supporting your work.

“Vanity publishing” is an insult that has almost no meaning in a Long Tail world.

By: ktwice

ktwice — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:32:31 +0000

As the article noted, there is an element of vanity publishing to some of these. But there is also a growing market for self-published works along these lines. I think it’s really important for authors to take a look at the wide range of possibilities open to them — I would never advocate uninformed decisions to go the self-publishing route; that is how dreams are shattered.

But I’ve also seen far too many self-publishing success stories to discount that avenue of distribution. As long as you know what you’re getting yourself into, it can be a viable avenue.

By: Mark Hodson

Mark Hodson — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:12:46 +0000

It seems rather cruel raising people’s hopes when this is surely little more than vanity publishing. For writers to make a living they need to be massively outnumbered by readers. If everybody’s is writing, who’s reading, and who’s paying?