... Cory Doctorow’s books (who is also running a similar experiment in self-publishing), you will probably like Sundman’s as well. But at the very least: think about what he’s doing. This isn’t vanity publishing. ... of people who are willing to feed someone’s vanity. But that’s what the mainstream publishing industry is, except instead of vanity, it feeds on raw ...

... . Currently the longest discussion about it available that I can find, not counting Twitter, is here. So why would a profitable mainstream publishing house risk diluting its brand and reputation by contracting ... offices at some point directly prior to the germination of this controversial publishing move: (Disclaimer: We don't actually think the editors for Harlequin's traditional and ...

... see it, I reassured them. PR is also about managing people and that will always be important. The mainstream media isn’t about to disappear, and the majority of the population probably couldn’ ... any conflict of interest. At a simple level, blogging can be seen as simply another way of publishing information on the Internet. It’s useful because it is so fast and it’s easy to ...

... web-presence manager to busy independent creatives, and PR guy for PS Publishing, the UK's foremost boutique genre press. He's ... feels ones contribution is valued individually. That will probably never be entirely respected by those to whom it doesn't apply, but so what? If mainstream respect comes only at the cost of distancing me from the mechanics of the system that produces the art ...

... way, from What Color is My Parachute to A Time to Kill. But, for the most part, self-publishing still gets a bum rap. And, truthfully, much of it is deserved. Especially now. Because technology has made it so ... replicating the kind of vetting process that publishers do. The primary focus in mainstream publishing is not so much on the quality of a book or the information it offers but rather on ...

... who has had the discipline to sit down and produce an entire novel, memoir, or piece of nonfiction who has not managed to get it published by a mainstream publisher if that's what they wanted, because mainstream publishing is that desperate. (I will admit that one of those people was Laura Albert, and I do not recommend her strategy.) I ...