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I assume that Jessica chose to be "traditionally published" (or legitimately published, as I call it) because self-publishing doesn't bring you respect or an audience. She's far too talented for that sort of thing. And yes, I'm a bit of a snob in this matter. I'm aware that my preconceived notions of self-publishing having no quality control or cultural relevance may not be as accurate nowadays, but my experiences with self and vanity publishing has been incredibly bad. I can't help but still see "traditional" publishing as the only real publishing, honestly-- otherwise there's no difference between having a book and a story on fanfiction.net, and whenever there's a truly great self-published book, it will be snapped up and rereleased by a real publisher.
An interesting statement, Elias, considering most of your "legitimately" published authors also publish some of their books "illegitimately". They hire their own cover artists and editors, the same as their publisher would do. Many other authors who only self-publish do the same. They have to in order to compete. And as for audience, that's simply not true either. Recent stats suggest there are more "illegitimately-published" authors making 6 figures than legitimately published ones, though that's up for debate because so many authors do both now.
This makes a good topic for discussion! Honestly speaking, self-publishing is the first ever publishing in the world. Socrates, Dante, Avicena, they all pour their thoughts and research on their own books, self-published.
This is what makes books are super rare and only wealthy countries had them. There are wars over books and knowledge too.
So isn't self-publishing the most traditional publishing in the world? :P
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I assume that Jessica chose to be "traditionally published" (or legitimately published, as I call it) because self-publishing doesn't bring you respect or an audience. She's far too talented for that sort of thing. And yes, I'm a bit of a snob in this matter. I'm aware that my preconceived notions of self-publishing having no quality control or cultural relevance may not be as accurate nowadays, but my experiences with self and vanity publishing has been incredibly bad. I can't help but still see "traditional" publishing as the only real publishing, honestly-- otherwise there's no difference between having a book and a story on fanfiction.net, and whenever there's a truly great self-published book, it will be snapped up and rereleased by a real publisher.
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An interesting statement, Elias, considering most of your "legitimately" published authors also publish some of their books "illegitimately". They hire their own cover artists and editors, the same as their publisher would do. Many other authors who only self-publish do the same. They have to in order to compete. And as for audience, that's simply not true either. Recent stats suggest there are more "illegitimately-published" authors making 6 figures than legitimately published ones, though that's up for debate because so many authors do both now.
This makes a good topic for discussion! Honestly speaking, self-publishing is the first ever publishing in the world. Socrates, Dante, Avicena, they all pour their thoughts and research on their own books, self-published.This is what makes books are super rare and only wealthy countries had them. There are wars over books and knowledge too.
So isn't self-publishing the most traditional publishing in the world? :P
