Self-publishing overtaking traditional publishing

Admin Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK

"...the bibliographic information company Bowker released statistics
showing that last year, for the first time, more books were released by
on-demand publishers than by traditional ones."

Read this article in the Washington Post to find out more:

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That's because there are so many self publishers and vanity publishers. They win by volume.

Admin Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK

They do indeed!

Lot of food for thought in the Post story. It provided a big boost for Lulu.
Shelagh, on my website yesterday Forever Friends had the second highest number of viewers. Can't say why.

Admin Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK

Dick, I did a google search on "forever friends short stories" and your website was fifth on the first page of 16,900,000 pages!

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Cool, one of my posts made the list.

Malcolm

Does that mean I'm one in a million?
But I see Shelagh and Malcolm sneaked in ahead of me. And like they say at every Indy car race, "Nobody remembers who finishes second."

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You're one in a billion!

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