Originally Posted by sufue
I think that most of us know and understand the rules of this thread about self-pub, and usually a tiny bit of investigation on the part of the challenger could resolve the issue without the need for a challenge. It only takes a couple of clicks to click on the "paperback" or "hardcover" tabs on Amazon to show an original publisher, or to look at SYKM, which is pretty picky about what books they list.
And, as Dr. Drib mentions above, it is not uncommon for the rights to older backlist titles to have reverted, and then been republished by the author themselves, so the absence of a publisher in Amazon is FAR from definitive.
Although it may not matter, since I'm not a moderator, I'd much prefer to have this be a friendly thread where it is assumed that posters know and abide by the rules, so there is some responsibility to do at least some basic checking before challenging, rather than the opposite.
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