Going it alone: Why there has never been a better time to be a self-published author | The Bookseller

Very simply, people publish because they can. Anyone can. Prices have come down and digital retail outlets have expanded. It%u2019s a golden era for self-publishing: the quality and cost of digital printing has improved so dramatically that these books can genuinely compete with traditionally published products. And the digitisation of the publishing process means that books' metadata can also be globally distributed and amended at short notice.