[stylist] Self publishing- Weeding out the crap

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

I wouldn't say traditional publishing weeds out all the crap as we have
seen with 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight, smirky grin.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
another world."
C. S. Lewis

Message: 10
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:51:49 -0600
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Self-publishing
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I think the advent of ebooks has changed the entire landscape of the 
publishing world.  I don't think I would ever go the route of self 
publishing exclusively print books.  Ebooks are truly changing how we 
read.  I've read so many accounts of self published authors being 
successful with books.  Yes, some of those were the wildly famous, but 
most aren't.  they are average people making a few thousand dollars a 
year through books.  I guess that's what I want.  I don't aspire to be 
the next Steven King or E. L. James.  I'd just like to sell enough books

to make writing worth the time I've invested.

I think traditional publishing does one thing that self publishing 
doesn't and that is to weed out the crap.  I think though that 
traditional publishers throw out a lot of good stuff with the crap 
because there isn't a big enough market for it.  The cool thing with 
ebooks is that you have a global market and you can cater to the niche 
audience, still making enough to keep going.