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Originally Posted by dickloraine
But keeping rights is not publishing. If he wants a movie, he has to find a movie publisher (or more likely a studio asks him for the rights). Maybe there is somewhere an author who actually produced a movie himself, but I don't know of one. Same regarding audio-books. The author could produce it himself or let his publisher handle it. One is self-publishing, the other isn't.
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Michael Crichton use to produce and direct the movie versions of his books. It's pretty unusual, I will admit.
I can think of a few authors who produce their own audio books.
If you really want to be technical, Pottermore is the publisher of the Harry Potter ebooks, Pottermore is a limited liability privately held company that started as a partnership between Rowlings and Sony. So Rowling has a publisher for the ebooks, she just happens to be the owner of that particular company. I'm pretty sure that she had people who did all the work of publishing the ebooks. That's quite likely the case in most big name/big money authors who "self publish". They set up a limited corporation and hire people to do the work.