Another side to it, as a reader - I recently bought a self-published novel that had made it to a small, independent bookstore near me. Honestly, I wish I hadn't. Since he hadn't gone through a publisher, it was up to him to edit/proof-read the book. And he didn't, at all. So now he's created a reader who will stick to mass-published books simply to ensure that a spell-check and at least basic grammar-check has been run.
Having never published something, I certainly don't know what the process is like from either side. But as a reader, a publisher is the way to go.
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Date: 2009-11-22 03:16 pm (UTC)Having never published something, I certainly don't know what the process is like from either side. But as a reader, a publisher is the way to go.