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Originally Posted by stonetools
Why is he doing this book self pub? Well, it could be:
1. His editors at Tor told him this book was not up to par and he decided to that they were wrong and to put it out himself.
2. He just wanted a one off experiment.
3. This is the first step in a campaign to gradually move away from traditional publishers' "plantations" into the bracing freedom of "self publishing".
Personally, I think (1) most likely, although many folks here like (3).
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Probably #2 for me. Possibly #3 out of self-interest rather than for Libertarian reasons.
For #1 for example, I'm sure Tor would love to publish another Sword of Truth book. (And honestly, some of the books in the series were crap, and were still published by Tor.) And Goodkind got the opportunity to branch out into a different milieu with Law of Nines.