Be honest, you're anonymous, do you consider self-publishing to be REAL publishing?
my local indie bookstore has a self published shelf, it has been in the exact same untouched state since at least 2011 when i first went there, so yeah if you yelled the words of your book out the car window youd reach like 20 more people than self publishing ever would
No.
>>8045950
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" changed the world.
>>8045950
It's
>Easy
>Cheap
>Fast
so no
>>8045958
But why not mix the self-published book with the rest? Obviously people will avoid them, but probably won't mind it if they're among the other "normal" books.
I dunno, do you consider real publishing to be real publishing?
look at the garbage that gets published.
>>8045950
Yeah, it is real publishing. But is it effective or ideal? Certainly not. But you have to start somewhere I guess.
>>8045950
It's good if you can churn out shitty genre books every three months.
>>8046293
>But is it effective or ideal? Certainly not
That depends. If you have a blog or Facebook page with thousands of followers (and that’s not that hard to achieve, if you invest a little money on it once and twice) you can promote and market your book there and end up selling a lot of volumes on demand.
Daily reminder that Sterne self-published the first edition of Tristram Shandy
>>8045958
>so yeah if you yelled the words of your book out the car window youd reach like 20 more people than self publishing ever would
>>8046386
can i interest you in any lottery tickets friendo?
>>8046428
I don’t think that this proves that Stern was lucky. Other author have self-published, among them Proust, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Blake, Shaw, Shelley, and many others.
The real problem is that the great majority of self-published books are really bad; actually the majority of all books published or self-published at any given moment are bad. The self-publishing thing just makes it much easier for trash to come out.
