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To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish

At the Guardian, Ros Barber explains why she believes self-publishing is not a valid alternative to traditional routes:Traditional publishing is the only way to go for someone who writes literary...

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Reading the Fine Print

Traditional publishers provide many services for authors, including fact-checking and obtaining permission for intellectual property. Self-publishing platforms don’t provide these services, and because...

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Amazon Unintentionally Rewards Scammers

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited product offers readers an all-you-can-eat model for book subscriptions. The books are mainly self-published titles (and Amazon pays authors by the number of pages read). The...

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Self-Publishing Leads to Plagiarism

Self-publishing has never been easier, and that means plagiarism has never been easier. Thieves are using self-publishing services like Amazon to republish back catalog or out-of-print books to sell...

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Self-Publishing Vs. Traditional Publishing

Who hasn’t felt that awkward moment between laughing and crying when the question, “do writers make money?” pops up? Unlike movie-makers and musicians, exact figures for authors’ earnings have always...

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Publishing

At Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel talks about the “taboo” topic of book sales, and offers some advice for writers:Writers should absolutely write with an eye toward art, not markets. Thinking...

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Profitable Poetry

Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, has sold almost half a million copies since its publication by Andrews McMeel Publishing last year, according to Anisse Gross in Publishers Weekly. While...

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Are cheetahs sprinting toward extinction? Chinese-American writer Ken Liu brings “silkpunk” to science fiction. Self-publishing coaches—the new sexy in a Fifty Shades world. Under Italian mountains,...

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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin

The title appears in gold on a giant fountain pen: Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Floating around the pen on the pale green cover are a swath of handwritten names—Cheryl...

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We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen

It could be said Elizabeth Ellen is a literary godmother in the indie lit scene. As the deputy editor of Hobart Pulp, she has published countless emerging writers, generously giving of her time to...

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