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Think you should self-publish? Think again.
by, Jill Swenson
July 2, 2011

Authors and Publishers and Agents mash it up in new ways as the book business gets remade. The reallocation of risks and rewards happens as self-publishing, e-books, and the current economies of scale with new digital technologies encroaches on the crumbling financial houses of traditional publishing. Agents without advances these days from trade publishers now retool to manage and administrate the self-publishing initiatives of authors…. [Read More]

Filed Under: agents, Authors, book prospectus, business plan, Capital investment, copyright royalties, Economic Risk, production expenses, profit margins, Publishers, return on investment, self-publishing, Writers, writing
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