 | But there are inherent paradoxes attached which inevitably make the whole
process problematic. |
| An expensive waste of time. |
| I am a writer not a publisher. |
| It's not the publishing - that's just a process - it's the Marketing. That
what sells the book. |
| There are just to many crooks out there. |
| They are just stealing yet another small corner of the market |
| I think it is for people who are vain enough to think their work is good,
even when told it isn’t. |
| Inappropriate for the serious writer. We must have the opportunity, as
painful as it sometimes is, to have someone in the field pass judgement on a
work's readiness for public circulation. |
| I was always led to believe that self publishing was the last resort of
the untalented - and the quality of the self-published manuscripts I've seen
to date bears this out! |
| A well written manuscript can always find a home with one of the many
print and e-book publishing houses in the world. |
| I would not consider self-publishing for my genre. My area is crime and
thrillers. |
| Self-publishing to a serious writer is an admission that his work did not
meet the needs or standards of legitimate publishers. That's hard to swallow
but must be faced as there are too few publishers and too many writers.
Secondly, self-publishing entails self-promoting, anathema to the serious
writer. Perhaps the next generation of writers and readers will accept
self-publishing the way this generation has begun to accept cell phones. |
| Perhaps if they could change the image of self-publishing being 'the last
resort' etc, it would help. |
| I do fear that it could lead to all new writers having to go this route. |
| Breaking into publishing, a world of tightly closed doors, is a daunting
task. |
| Some competitions require entrants to submit an autobiography, together
with date of birth and photograph - fairly obviously to weed out anybody
winning who is over 30, lacking a degree in media or philosophy, and not
marketably photogenic. |
| Could improve its credibility. |
| It'll mop up all the suckers. |
| lowers the bar while raising the competition |
| Amazon and Macmillan will not lift the credibility of self-publishing. The
quality of most self-published books is poor and that's why they were rejected
by publishing houses. |
| I don't know about Macmillan, but Amazon's costs are steep (for self-
publishers). |
| Perhaps once these publishers enter the fray, "Predatory Publishing" would
be a more fitting moniker. Why, in fact, should they absorb all the production
costs when a hungry new writer will foot a good portion of the bill? |
| It will also have a detrimental affect on the number of smaller book
shops. |
| Amazon is great but there's always the age old problem of making people
aware of the product and that's as big a problem as ever. |
| Self-publishing, if done properly, is a serious business and anything that
helps is a good thing. |
| The larger they are, the more interested they seem to be in only
successful and best-selling authors. I worry about the fine authors who cannot
afford to self-publish, yet who deserve to be successful. |
| They give it a kind of respectability … I can't see it ever becoming
mainstream, |
| good news |
| It gives unpublished writers a chance to get into the market where nobody
seems to take on new authors at the moment. |
| I think it is a tremendous boost. |
