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Old 10-23-2015, 12:40 AM   #69
Nancy Fulda
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
Maybe in the future there will be a way for you to publish your manuscript without an agent or publisher and yet still reach a huge market. Perhaps through some electronic form of book and even an electronic bookstore of some sort.

Oh, wait....
Lol! Yes, I've thought about it. My conclusions run along the following lines:

(a) Self-pub is a lot of work (I've done it with short fiction collections). It turns out that I love cover design, market placement, and strategic marketing via blog tours. On the flip side, I despise proofreading, formatting, and error-checking. Novels have a lot of the latter.

(b) Trad publishing brings in an additional vetting process. If I can convince an acquisitions editor, a marketing department, and a final decision-maker to hop on board with this project, that's pretty good evidence that I'm not delusional.

(c) Independent and unbiased (but hopefully enthusiastic) editor.

(d) Legitimacy. Self-pub authors can and have produced spectacular books, but in terms of pure statistics a self-published author has a harder time getting bookstore placement, promo opportunities, and general street credit than a trad-pub author who can leverage the reputation of her publisher.

(e) Someone else pays for review copies?

Obviously, most of those arguments only apply to big-name publishers with a solid track record. By the time you get down to the small press, it pretty much turns into a toss-up.
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