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Originally Posted by dickloraine
That's why I said "kind of". It depends what we would call self-publishing. She is traditionally published in print but self-published in ebooks. Kind of the best of two worlds at this point in time. And handling the ebook business herself is self-publishing. Allowing the publisher to do it, is not. That is how I would define self-publishing.
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The thread started by defining self publish as someone who doesn't have a traditional publisher at all. It seems to me that is what most people mean by self publish. Keeping the ebooks, audio or movie rights to a book doesn't really really count, IMPO. In the this particular case, the publisher did all the heavy lifting first, (i.e. editing, artwork, publicity etc...) She didn't release the ebook until 2011, The first Harry Potter book came out in 1997 and the last one came out 10 years latter in 2007. If you want to count keeping ebook rights, audio book rights and movie rights, then a large number of big name authors are self published, especially older authors, Roger Zelazny for example. If you define self publish in that manner, the whole point of the thread "why aren't big name authors self publishing" becomes less of a question since by that definition, quite a few are.