Self Pubishing is Still Publishing
When I was in college, my required humanities course included some study of the works of Henry David Thoreau. While researching his life, I found out that he paid to have his first book published. He had 1,000 printed and four years later he found himself the not so proud owner of 706 copies. He is rumored to have carried them home on his back.
An optimist would say that he sold 294 books and that some of those readers may have ended up as longtime readers and benefactors. I would like to point out there weren’t that many potential readers back then compared to today. I often here about authors being too cautious with their first printing and actually selling exponentially more copies than they had anticipated. The book Skinny Bitch that I blogged about earlier was one of these. this might be the only post in the blogosphere that mentions Henry David Thoreau and Kim Barnouin in the same sentence.
Self Publishing is a great option for an author that wants to establish themselves and it has become an easier process as a result of the internet. I don’t think Thoreau would have been the same person had he been possessed of broadband. AuthorHouse.com is a full service site for self published authors. It includes great features like a personal Author Center that you can use to track publishing progress and then sales.
