Re: Why Is Indie OK For Musicians And Filmmakers - But Not For Writers?

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:29 AM, joseph harris <[email protected]>wrote:

> [Good question. Also worth noting the increasing infrastructure for
> independent publishing.]
>
> Why Is Indie OK For Musicians And Filmmakers - But Not For
> Writers?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Self-published books deserve more attention from readers and retailers
> http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/29423
>
> http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/09/why-is-indie-ok-for-musicians-and-filmmakers-but-not-for-writers/


It's a good question, but I don't think this service is necessarily the
answer. As I noted on TeleRead, it's largely a PR piece advertising the
author's pay-in-advance-for-placement e-publishing site, and I'm always a
bit suspicious of that sort of thing—it smells like "vanity press" to me.

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