Bloggers Are Self-Publishers

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Bloggers Are Self-Publishers

Technically, if you write something and give it to someone else, you've published.

So, many folks are published who don't even think they are…

Back in February, I wrote a post called, Blogging ~ Can It Really Fulfill The Writer's Dictum: "Write Every Day!"?.

[ The post pointed out the Maverick Punctuation in its title and I just got to add to it :-) ]

Today, I read a post by Joel Friedlander called, What's the Same about Self-Publishing and Blogging?.

So far, in this post, I've brought together writing-every-day, blogging, and self-publishing.

Maybe I should stop and let you read those posts and ponder………?

Naw, it's only fair to add a couple quotes from Joel's post for the folks who never click-through on links:

"Publishing a book without intermediaries has a long and erratic tradition in the United States."

Considering Traditional Publishing, he says: "The author is at the mercy of the contract she has signed, the scruples of the publisher she has signed with, and the vagaries of the marketplace, about which she may know nothing, since the entire structure and mechanism of publishing keeps writers isolated from both their readers and the ways that publishers actually work."

On blogging: "The interactive nature of blogging, and then of other social media innovations, is changing many aspects of our life. But blogging itself has continued to grow and adapt to widely different contexts and means of delivering information, entertainment and opinion to interested readers."

I've often featured posts by Joel here and, if you're serious about publishing–books or blogs–you would do very well indeed to study Joel's blog and absorb all you can…

Are you self-published?

Do you want to be?

Do you blog?

Do you want to?

Did you know that a blog is the Hub of promotion for many self-published authors?

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