Seriously?
Tell that to these folks:
http://www.simonteakettle.com/famousauthors.htm
Quote:
Deepak Chopra
Gertrude Stein
Zane Grey
Upton Sinclair
Carl Sandburg
Ezra Pound
Mark Twain
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stephen Crane
Bernard Shaw
Anais Nin
Thomas Paine
Virginia Wolff
e.e. Cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
Rudyard Kipling
Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
Alexandre Dumas
William E.B. DuBois
Beatrix Potter
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Quote:
Remembrance of things Past, by Marcel Proust
Ulysses, by James Joyce
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
The Wealthy Barber, by David Chilton
The Bridges of Madison County
What Color is Your Parachute
In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (and his student E. B. White)
The Joy of Cooking
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Life’s Little Instruction Book
Robert’s Rules of Order
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John Grisham famously used a vanity press and ran around the country from bookstore to bookstore with boxes of his book trying (successfully) to get them into stores.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://w...hcaj_wlFgC-AMA
A book is a book whether published on papyrus, dead tree pulp, or digital and an author is an author regardless of how the book is published. And for most of history books have been published by their authors. It is only in recent centuries that printers took control of the process away from the creator, an aberration that looks to be ending.
Like it or not, the indie publishing revolution is first and foremost about authors retaining control of their creation. Denigrating the books or the creators isn't going to stop that from happening.