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10 Reasons You Should Skip the Traditional Publishers and Self-Publish Ebooks Instead
by Robert Bidinotto (posted May 29th, 2012)
Why it’s noteworthy
The article starts out with the following news: Wool—a wildly popular, dystopian sci-fi novel—was purchased for feature-film development by director Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox, after a fierce Hollywood bidding war.
Robert Bidnotto goes on to list his arguments for self-publishing, each with a set of supporting links.
The 10 reasons
- Nobody can stop you from publishing your book.
- You’ll make a lot more money.
- You’ll get paid much faster.
- You’ll keep all the your rights to your work.
- You can publish your book incredibly fast.
- You can publish at your own pace.
- You’ll have total control.
- You’ll have complete creative freedom.
- You’ll have time to find your audience.
- Finally, you’ll be on the right side of history.
In my 10 Reasons I’m Self Publishing My First Novel the overlapping reasons are 5 (speed to publish), 7 (control), and 8 (freedom, primarily of genre in my case).