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Readers: New Agents of the ePublishing Revolution

There are probably as many reasons to self-publish as there are not to.  Today, however, the stigma surrounding self-publishing is far less than it was a few years ago—that's when Amazon made it very easy for authors to publish their own work in the Kindle store.

There is a joke in publishing circles that says that Kindle is Amazon's slush-pile, and it's not that far from the truth.  To understand what this means, you need to know what a slush-pile is.  Imagine all of the submitted...