The web is making self-publishing easier. Photograph: Toby Talbot/APFrom The Guardian:
There are now dozens of websites to help budding authors to publish their novels, poems and pictures and, perhaps, even make a profit from it.
If you want to realise a dream by publishing your own book, there are lots of companies willing to extract upwards of $500 from you for the privilege. At the other end of the spectrum is Amazon's digital text platform, which allows you to upload your pre-prepared files to its Kindle reader and then set your own price.
The catch? Amazon takes 65% of the income from sales. Ouch. Fortunately, there are lots of other options – of which more later – for budding authors. What you get out of them is subject only to the limits of your imagination.
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