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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
So are you saying that just putting your book, sorry widget, on Amazon and Smashwords and maybe having a website, does not in your eyes constitute enough work to make someone an indie author? What else would they have to do to qualify?
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If you simply write some text and upload somewhere on the Internet, without further attention to the detail of trying to actually get someone to read it, then I would say you are an author (just as I am the author of this text), but I don't think you really qualify as an "indie author".
The "indie" part of "indie author" I read as meaning "Independently published author", or perhaps more succinctly a "self-published author", either of which implies that you are attempting to do for your book what a publisher would normally do (even if they outsource some of it). Just uploading it doesn't qualify. (All in my most humble of opinions, of course.
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