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I have run into quite a few self-pub ebooks that give the name of the self-publishing company as the name of the publisher. There are so many self-pub companies and so many small traditional-type publishers now, that I often have to check the web to try to determine if each one is a traditional-type publisher or not.
Again, I didn't know that Amazon had a self-publishing division (but why shouldn't they--they have "everything from A to Z, right?"). Hard lesson learned. I'll ignore all of the ADS books from now on.
I am a friend of a gentleman who is a 4-time-published, first-rate academic author. He tried the major publisher route on his first two books, but on the last two books he went the self-pub route. Why did he change? Basically the major publishers had charged so many fees, etc. that there was just about no money left for him! So, if he is any indication, there are some very good authors who are self-pubs.
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