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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Check the comments in the article; self-pub does come up. With a sobering counter.
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Among the sobering counters is that somehow people have to learn about your self-published book. Sort of like trying to point out a particular star in the Milky Way these days.
I wonder if the truth is that Amazon/etc. provide writers with a more effective way to sell books to their friends. Great if you've got thousands of close personal friends, not so great if you've got 20 or 30. I love the tantalizing stories about break-out self-publishing success. But most writers are literary versions of those kids endlessly bouncing basketballs in the rec center lot. Almost nobody ends up in the NBA. You can dream, but you ought to have some waking-life scenarios that allow you to define your likely outcomes as more-or-less successful.