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Originally Posted by moonshot
It's easy for any budding author to publish their writing to Amazon or Kobo in the form of an eBook.
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Indeed.
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But, how do we determine what is a 'proper book' by a professional author?
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In that case, you must first determine what a "proper book" is. Does it have to have at least 200 pages? Must it be published by one of the big five? Must it have an official ISBN number? Does it have to be available in print as well as digital?
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To me unless an author has had their book published in hardback they are not authors, they are people who have written a book.
Am I being fair?
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You're being unfair.
Writing makes you an author. Even this post makes *me* an author.
Wikipedia says this:
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An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work and can also be described as a writer.
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Anybody who creates anything, is an author.
If they are a good/great author or not, is a completely different matter. That *you* only see someone as an author if he or she is published in hardcover by one of the big publishers, is your very own problem.
By the way: there are many authors/writers who have never, written a book, ever. They write short stories, poems, news posts, blog posts, scientific articles.... on and on and on.