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Originally Posted by issybird
LOL! Wasn't really trying to get anyone; just pull them in. I thought it interesting and fun that Fenimore Cooper's publishing travails were not dissimilar to those of self-published authors today. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose and all that.
And I think any writer would benefit from reading the Twain piece and that any reader would enjoy it.
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Self-publishing goes back to be beginning of "published" works. It is not a new phenomenon. Some of Twain's works were self-published and sold on subscription as were John James Audubon's original edition of
Birds of North America.
"Chap books" began as a way for either a self-publisher or small publisher to print each chapter as a separate book using the profits from the sales of chapter 1 to pay for publishing chapter 2, and so forth. This type of publishing goes back at least to the early days of the printing press, and perhaps further.