Traditonal Publishing v. Self-Publishing

Writer Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy which as he puts it, he ended up self-publishing, has a post over at Good Experience called Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known.

I found the post through Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 blog in an article called: An Author Shares His Secrets. It’s worth reading both. Mark is horribly unhappy with traditional publishing, and he spells out his reasons clearly. He’s also got some book marketing tips.

While Joe doesn’t exactly say that Mark is wrong, in fact he points to places Mark is right, Joe is far more comfortable with traditional publishing than many. He makes valid points.

Between the two posts you’ll get a good overview of the differences, pluses and minuses of both working with a traditional publisher and self-publishing.

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