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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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If we exclude authors who own the publisher or who don't do everything by themself, then of course we will never find a big author who self-publishes in this strict sense. As long as print is important and big authors get good conditions for their contracts, hybrid is all we will see.