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Self publishing
Jan. 15th, 2011 02:23 pmAnyone else seen this post on Warren Ellis's blog about how to sell one's 'e' stuff without having to go through iAnything?
I admire the self assurance of the suggestion while wondering how successful it would be. I'm assuming that quite a lot of the ebook/comic reading public, like me, equate 'selfpublished' with 'too crappy to get accepted by a legitimate epublisher'. Of course there are huge exceptions to this rule - Stephen King, for a start - and I have read some excellent self published books and follow some amazing online comics. But - all the same - there's a stigma attached to self publishing just as there used to be to ebooks.
This has broken down amongst lots of the younger or more tech savvy people I know but most of my contempories and elders still sneer a bit when I mention my ereader and how much I'm enjoying it. "Oh I couldn't give up 'proper' books" they say, as though ebooks are written in crayon on very wide lined paper.>:(
I don't see why I shouldn't have both - fiction on my ereader and nice solid hardback works of reference with wide margins to make notes in and pages that I can fill with multicoloured post-it notes.
Anyhow, that's not the point. Self-published works, of whatever quality, still need to be marketed and I think that's where the success or lack of it would lie. Ellis suggests that someone needs to try it for six months and prove it's feasible. Volunteers? How about Stephen King?
I admire the self assurance of the suggestion while wondering how successful it would be. I'm assuming that quite a lot of the ebook/comic reading public, like me, equate 'selfpublished' with 'too crappy to get accepted by a legitimate epublisher'. Of course there are huge exceptions to this rule - Stephen King, for a start - and I have read some excellent self published books and follow some amazing online comics. But - all the same - there's a stigma attached to self publishing just as there used to be to ebooks.
This has broken down amongst lots of the younger or more tech savvy people I know but most of my contempories and elders still sneer a bit when I mention my ereader and how much I'm enjoying it. "Oh I couldn't give up 'proper' books" they say, as though ebooks are written in crayon on very wide lined paper.>:(
I don't see why I shouldn't have both - fiction on my ereader and nice solid hardback works of reference with wide margins to make notes in and pages that I can fill with multicoloured post-it notes.
Anyhow, that's not the point. Self-published works, of whatever quality, still need to be marketed and I think that's where the success or lack of it would lie. Ellis suggests that someone needs to try it for six months and prove it's feasible. Volunteers? How about Stephen King?